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  • Fashion Designer Nakeʻu Awai Reinvented at 85 by Aupuni Space
    Nakeʻu Awai's fashion shows are always theatrical events. He's been doing them since the 1980s. This year, a new team of stylists took hold of the 85-year-old designer's work and kicked it all up a notch. HPR's Noe Tanigawa reports Awai brings a wealth of local flavor to his fashion line.
  • A house under foreclosure in Las Vegas displays a sign on Oct. 15, 2010, saying that it's now bank-owned. Sen. Sherrod Brown has vowed increased scrutiny of Wall Street banks, in part after a surge in foreclosures in his hometown in Ohio over a decade ago.
    Why Democrats Are Angry At Wall Street
    Big banks are facing a new reality in Washington: Democrats control all levers of power and they are not shy about their intentions to ratchet up pressure on the sector.
  • The Fed announces stricter rules on trading for policymakers and senior staff
    The rules follow controversies surrounding trades by the presidents of two regional Fed banks. Critics say the rules don't go far enough.
  • President Biden has signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill
    President Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill into law Monday, surrounded by members of both parties. But some of the Republicans backing the bill face death threats.
  • As Biden's signature spending bill stalls, Democrats are forced to regroup
    President Biden acknowledged in a statement Thursday night that his spending agenda will be delayed well beyond a hoped-for Christmas vote in the Senate and now may take "days and weeks" to complete.
  • Christine Lagarde is the first woman to hold the position of director of the IMF.
    Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Women Of The World
    The Newsweek editor looks at how women helped bring about peace in Liberia; how they're changing the state of marriage throughout Asia; and the rise of Christine Lagarde to the top of that notoriously male-dominated institution, the International Monetary Fund.
  • In this image made from online video, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks during an online press conference in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong Province, Saturday, May 28, 2022.
    U.N. human rights chief asks China to rethink Uyghur policies
    The top U.N. human rights official said Saturday that she raised concerns with Chinese officials about the impact of measures on the rights of Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region.
  • For England and Portugal, a Contrast in Styles
    Portugal's Luiz Felipe Scolari and England's Sven-Goran Eriksson are top international soccer coaches. The resemblance pretty much ends there. The World Cup paths of Scolari, a hot-blooded, mustachioed South American, and Eriksson, a cool, fair-haired Scandinavian, cross in the World Cup quarterfinals Saturday.
  • Police Trainer Reflects on His Year in Iraq
    Mike Heidingsfield spent 13 months in Iraq as the top civilian commander in charge of training Iraqi police. He tells Linda Werteimer that Iraqi police are now a more visible presence, but that makes them targets for insurgents, too.
  • Secret CIA Prisons Raise Human Rights Concerns
    The CIA is holding top al Qaeda suspects in secret prison compounds in Eastern Europe as part of a string of so-called "black sites" set up after the Sept. 11 attacks, The Washington Post reported this week. Linda Wertheimer talks with Post reporter Dana Priest about the detention centers and the human rights concerns they have raised in Europe.
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