It comes after the Trump administration fired Coast Guard commandant Adm. Linda Fagan, the armed forces' first female service chief who had served since 2022.

The Senate is poised to make “an absolute life-or-death decision” in confirming Kennedy as HHS secretary, warned Gov. Josh Green, who is also a physician.

The deployment was ordered after the Trump administration signaled its intent to rename the Gulf of Mexico and moved quickly to fire the Coast Guard commandant.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, an emergency room physician, visited Samoa in 2019 to care for those sick with measles and to vaccinate people.

WASHINGTON >> Even as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with top Senate committee leaders,

In the first session of the 119th Congress, Edward Case, U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district, reintroduced legislation aimed at eliminating “discriminatory and exclusionary shipping practices faced by residents and businesses in the non-contiguous areas of our country.”

Jan. 20, is the United States Presidential Inauguration. Set months after the election, it originally was meant to give states and Congress enough time to count votes and for the president

A Princess Cruises trip on the Ruby Princess from San Francisco to Hawaii offers a festive 16-day winter escape with activities, Hawaiian cultural experiences and exciting port stops.

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The Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa shall, commencing with the first Tuesday following the first Monday of Nov­ember 1977, be popularly elected and serve in accordance with the laws of American Samoa. In order to be eligible for the ...

The US Coast Guard is taking President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant mandate seriously, announcing this week it will step up patrols in migrant-prone crossings.

Members of two Senate committees will have a lot of ground to cover at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to be Health and Human Services secretary (which has yet to be scheduled ). They should devote most of their time probing how his long history of anti-vaccine advocacy will impact infectious disease control.