Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
The estimated cost of the damages is about $3.3 million, according to the Hawaiʻi Agricultural Foundation, which oversees about 800 acres of farm land in the Kunia area of Oʻahu. Most of that comes from the value of destroyed specialty crops like breadfruit, mango and banana.
President Trump announced that the man who authorities say shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk has been arrested. Investigators identified him as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson.