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Two Native Hawaiian brothers who were convicted in the 1991 killing of a woman visiting Hawaiʻi allege in a federal lawsuit that local police framed them under pressure to solve a high-profile murder.

State court Judge Shanlyn Park and federal prosecutor Micah Smith advanced out of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. They await confirmation by the full Senate.

Hawai’i will be the first state to challenge President Trump’s revised travel ban in federal court next week. The announcement was made today at a news…