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The legislation has been a year in the making, with tense negotiations leading to a narrower spending package that focuses on climate investments and health care costs.
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President Joe Biden has bestowed the nation’s highest military honor to four Army soldiers, including two from Hawaiʻi, for heroism that he says went above and beyond the call of duty during the Vietnam War.
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President Biden was in South Korea on Friday starting his first trip to Asia as president. He’ll also travel to Japan and meet with other members of the “Quad” — leaders of Australia, India and Japan. One topic will be a new regional economic plan. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in this Asia Minute.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in Hawaiʻi to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang began the year with a series of missile tests.
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This past weekend, the Senate confirmed the appointment of American ambassadors to more than forty countries. South Korea was not on that list—and that’s a point of rising annoyance in Seoul. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Southeast Asia this week. He’s taking the long way home after attending the Group of Seven Foreign Ministers meeting in Liverpool — and before he returns to Washington he’ll also stop in Hawaiʻi. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more.
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President Biden spent several hours earlier this week in a video meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. There are a series of other U.S. government talks underway this week in the region—although none of them involve China. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more.
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Some Native Hawaiians are objecting to President Joe Biden’s choice for U.S. attorney in the 50th state, saying Clare Connors treated dozens of elders like criminals when her office prosecuted them for blocking a road while protesting the construction of a telescope in Hawaiʻi.
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President Joe Biden is nominating nine lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the country. It's a diverse group of candidates in the latest round of picks for the top law enforcement positions. The nominees include Clare Connors, who has served as the attorney general in Hawaiʻi since 2019.
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First lady Jill Biden visited a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Waipahu, Hawaiʻi, on Sunday to encourage unvaccinated residents to get their shots as the delta variant surges through much of the U.S.