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After wildfires, Hawaii vows to protect Maui landowners from pressure to sell

By Bobby Caina Calvan, Jennifer Kelleher, Christopher Weber, Associated Press

Gov. Josh Green said Wednesday that he instructed the state attorney general to work toward a moratorium on land transactions in Lahaina, even as he acknowledged the move would likely face legal challenges.

Native Hawaiian discusses cultural landmarks, art and artifacts destroyed by Maui wildfire

By Geoff Bennett, Courtney Norris, Dorothy Hastings, Eliot Barnhart

As disaster recovery efforts ramp up on Maui, so too has the arduous search operation. The confirmed death toll now stands at 106 people and with most of those victims still unidentified, families and friends of the missing are left…

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Women’s professional football players on the successes and challenges facing the sport

By Leah Clapman

Boston is known as a sports-loving city, but there’s one team many might not know about. The Boston Renegades are a pro women’s tackle football team that has come to dominate their league. This story was produced as part of…

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This new Oklahoma executive order narrowly defines ‘woman’

By Adam Kemp

The order, which along with government agencies applies to schools and state institutions, stipulates definitions for certain terms, like “man,” "boy," "woman," "girl," "father" and "mother.”…

Kansas prosecutor says material seized in police raid of Marion County newspaper should be returned

By John Hanna, Associated Press

Even without computers, cellphones and other equipment taken in the raid, the new edition of the Marion County Record made it to newsstands Wednesday after a frenzied scramble.

North Korea says U.S. soldier Travis King who crossed border was disillusioned with American inequality

By Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press

The soldier's family said his mother is appealing to North Korea to treat her son humanely.

Maui wildfire death toll rises to 106 as teams search to find and identify the dead

By Clare Rush, Associated Press / Report for America, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Christopher Weber, Associated Press

With the death toll already at 106, a mobile morgue with coroners, pathologists and technicians arrived in Hawaii on Tuesday to help with the grim task of sorting through remains.

Videos of downed power lines before deadly Maui wildfire raise questions about how it started

By Michael Biesecker, Bernard Condon, Jennifer McDermott, Associated Press

Hawaiian Electric Co. faces criticism for not shutting off the power amid high wind warnings and keeping it on even as dozens of poles began to topple.

Colorado River water cuts will ease in 2024, despite long-term challenges

By Suman Naishadham, Associated Press

Years of overuse by farms and cities, and the effects of drought worsened by climate change has meant much less water flows today through the Colorado River than in previous decades.