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6 KILLED, 80 WOUNDED IN INTENSE RUSSIAN AIR ATTACKS ON UKRAINE * By Tom Balmforth, Max Hunder, Gleb Garanich, Anastasiia Malenko and Trevor Hunnicutt / Reuters * Today * Last updated 1:47


p.m. * 3 The attacks followed a warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin, conveyed via President Donald Trump, that the Kremlin would hit back after Ukrainian drones destroyed several


strategic bomber aircraft in attacks deep inside Russia. Read more RAINBOW BASKETBALL TEAM LANDS 6-10 SETON HALL TRANSFER Finalizing a French connection, the University of Hawaii basketball


has added Yacine Toumi, a 6-foot-10, 215-pound transfer from Seton Hall who previously starred at Evansville. Read more SUPREME COURT ALLOWS DOGE BROAD ACCESS TO SOCIAL SECURITY DATA * By


John Kruzel / Reuters * Today * Last updated 11:14 a.m. * 46 The court’s brief, unsigned order did not provide a rationale for siding with DOGE. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority.


Its three liberal justices dissented from the order. Read more HONOLULU POLICE OFFICERS INJURED IN MAKIKI ASSAULT Officers responded to a 911 call reporting a man “acting erratically” near


Piikoi and S. King streets, according to an HPD social media post. Officers saw the 25-year-old man armed with a knife. Read more MISTAKENLY DEPORTED MAN ABREGO GARCIA RETURNING TO FACE U.S.


CHARGES * By Ryan Patrick Jones and Luc Cohen / Reuters * Today * Last updated 10:09 a.m. * 121 Abrego Garcia will face charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the


U.S., ABC reported earlier. The report said the charges had been filed under seal in Tennessee last month, well after Abrego Garcia’s March 15 deportation. Read more WHOOPING COUGH IS


SURGING. DO YOU NEED ANOTHER SHOT? There have been more than 10,000 whooping cough cases in the United States so far this year, an unusually high number even by prepandemic standards, said


Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a vaccine expert at Vanderbilt University who has studied whooping cough, also called pertussis, for decades. Read more DON'T MISS OUT ON WHAT'S HAPPENING!


Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It's FREE! TRUMP REFUSES TO SPEAK WITH MUSK AMID TAX BILL FEUD * By Nandita Bose / Reuters * Today *


Last updated 8:46 a.m. * 49 The White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said no phone call between Trump and the Tesla CEO was planned for the day. Earlier, a different


White House official had said the two were going to talk. Read more TESLA MOVES TO BLOCK RELEASE OF AUSTIN ROBOTAXI DOCUMENTS * By Chris Kirkham / Reuters * Today * Last updated 8:17 a.m. *


4 The news agency in February requested communications between Tesla and Austin officials over the previous two years. Read more U.S. JOB GROWTH SLOWS AS TARIFFS, LABOR FORCE DROP STIR


CONCERN * By Lucia Mutikani / Reuters * Today * Last updated 7:57 a.m. * 9 The ebbing labor market momentum reported by the Labor Department today was underscored by sharp downward revisions


that showed 95,000 fewer jobs were added in March and April than previously estimated over the two-month period. Read more TRUMP ASKS SUPREME COURT TO LET HIM DISMANTLE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT


* By John Kruzel / Reuters * Today * Last updated 7:33 a.m. * 40 The Justice Department asked the court to halt Boston-based U.S. District Judge Myong Joun’s May 22 ruling that ordered the


administration to reinstate employees terminated in a mass layoff and end further actions to shutter the department. Read more MOTORCYCLIST DIES AFTER EARLY-MORNING CRASH ON PALI HIGHWAY *


By Star-Advertiser staff * Today * Last updated 7:12 a.m. * 25 The crash marks Oahu’s 31st traffic fatality of the year — more than double the 14 recorded at the same time in 2024. Read more


JAPAN EASES DEMAND FOR U.S. AUTO TARIFF REPEAL * By Tim Kelly / Reuters * Today * Last updated 6 a.m. * 6 Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, is in Washington for a fifth round


of talks with U.S. officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Read more JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP BAN ON ENTRY OF INTERNATIONAL HARVARD STUDENTS *


By Nate Raymond and Steve Gorman and Daniel Wiessner / Reuters * June 5, 2025 * 15 The judge ruled that Trump’s directive prohibiting foreign nationals from entering the United States to


study at Harvard for the next six months would cause “immediate and irreparable injury” before the courts have a chance to review the case. Read more COLORADO FIRE-BOMB SUSPECT FACES 28


ATTEMPTED MURDER COUNTS * By Brad Brooks and Joseph Ax / Reuters * June 5, 2025 * 1 Soliman also faces federal hate crimes charges that carry a life sentence if he is convicted. He is


scheduled to appear in federal court on Friday. Read more U.S. TRAVEL BAN WILL NOT HINDER L.A. OLYMPICS, LA28 CEO SAYS * By Rory Carroll / Reuters * June 5, 2025 * 2 Trump signed the


proclamation on Wednesday as part of an immigration crackdown he said was needed to protect against “foreign terrorists” and other security threats. Read more SCHOFIELD SOLDIER SENTENCED TO


23 YEARS FOR KILLING PREGNANT WIFE * By Star-Advertiser staff * June 5, 2025 * 42 The plea deal allowed the presiding judge, Col. Rebecca Farrell, to sentence him to between 18 and 23 years.


Read more CONFLICTING COVID GUIDANCE SPARKS INSURER, DOCTOR CONFUSION * By Julie Steenhuysen and Amina Niasse / Reuters * June 5, 2025 * 12 Insurers will wait to make coverage decisions


until after ACIP makes a recommendation at its upcoming meeting scheduled for June 25-27, according to Robert Popovian, founder of healthcare consultancy Conquest Advisors. Read more SUPREME


COURT MAKES ‘REVERSE’ DISCRIMINATION SUITS EASIER * By Andrew Chung / Reuters * June 5, 2025 * 9 The justices, in a 9-0 ruling authored by liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, threw out a


lower court’s decision rejecting a civil rights lawsuit by the plaintiff, Marlean Ames, against her employer, Ohio’s Department of Youth Services. Read more