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NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about a ruling by a federal judge that a gender-discrimination lawsuit against the giant Wal-Mart retail chain could move forward as a class action suit. The decision makes this the largest civil-rights action case ever brought against a private employer in the United States, and could involve more than 1.6 million current and former employees.

The state Council on Revenues says Hawaiʻi’s economy is picking up speed. It's raising its growth forecast for the fiscal year 2023 from 5% to 6.5%.

President Bush proposes adding up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border to curb illegal immigration, as well as creating a temporary or "guest" worker program. The president delivered a speech on immigration in a live address Monday.

May 6 is the last day for Hawaiʻi public school employees to sign up for free Hawaiian language courses this summer.

"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.

Updated 7/30/20, 5:20 p.m.WASHINGTON — With aid expiring, the White House offered a short-term extension Thursday of a $600 weekly unemployment benefit…

RICHMOND, Virginia — Governors and state labor department officials were scrambling Monday to determine whether they could implement President Donald…

Wahiaw? in Central O‘ahu is home to about 18 thousand people, plus over 15 thousand soldiers at Schofield Barracks. Over the last ten years, a change has…

WASHINGTON — On Day One of extraordinary public impeachment hearings, the top American diplomat in Ukraine revealed new evidence that President Donald…

Morris, who died Nov. 20, transitioned to female in 1972 when she was 46. She later reflected on gender in her memoir, Conundrum. Originally broadcast in 1989.