By Kono Tasina Friday, August 31, 2018 A disturbing photo and a leaky can of pepper spray ruined this flight to Hawaii Passengers boarded the flight Friday morning from Oakland International Airport to Maui's Kahului Airport. The plane was supposed to tak...
By Kono Tasina 10:35 PM Trump's summer from hell Imagine how it felt for the Trump administration. Last month, we documented how the White House and President Donald Trump's Cabinet h...
By Kono Tasina 9:50 PM Kim Jong Nam murder: Malaysian police looking for 2 witnesses to testify at trial Police identified the two women as 24-year-old Raisa Rinda Salma and 33-year-old Dessy Meyrisinta. Their last known address was given as t...
By Kono Tasina 8:35 PM Puerto Rico says nearly 3,000 people died in Hurricane Maria. So why have officials produced only 57 names? Puerto Rican officials admitted this week that the death toll from Hurricane Maria, which hit the US territory last September, is 46 times...
By Kono Tasina 7:47 PM UNC is looking into a new spot for the Silent Sam Confederate monument, school chancellor says A group of about 250 protesters knocked over the monument August 20 after months of students and faculty calling for the statue's remov...
By Kono Tasina 7:47 PM Mississipi Department of Corrections asks FBI to help investigate 15 inmate deaths Pelicia E. Hall, MDOC commissioner, said in a statement Friday that she has been in contact with the FBI and the Mississippi Department of P...
By Kono Tasina 7:35 PM DeVos: I won't take action over schools buying guns with federal funds In a letter to Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, DeVos wrote, "Le...
By Kono Tasina 7:06 PM Myanmar's LGBT community find freedom at spirit festival Every summer, this part of central Myanmar hosts the cross between a traditional religious gathering and gay pride festival, which has becom...
By Kono Tasina 6:52 PM Documents: Kavanaugh saw 'some constitutional problems' in campaign contribution limits Contribution limits -- currently set at $2,700 per individual per election -- were upheld in a 1976 Supreme Court case called Buckley v. V...
By Kono Tasina 6:25 PM New Mexico compound suspects in federal custody, accused of firearms charges Jany Leveille, 35, is accused of being in the United States illegally and is alleged to have had firearms and ammunition, a statement from t...
By Kono Tasina 5:35 PM A homeless man gave a stranded motorist $20. Now she's been ordered to turn over money raised for him But the feel-good viral story recently devolved into a feud over how much money Bobbitt had yet to see. The case went to a New Jersey court...
By Kono Tasina 5:35 PM Rudy Giuliani lectures another country on ethics Romanians have been fighting what may be a losing battle to uproot corruption in their country. The tens of thousands who have taken to the...
By Kono Tasina 5:20 PM Yellowstone's first grizzly bear hunting season in decades was blocked by a federal judge US District Judge Dana Christensen granted a temporary restraining order Thursday to halt the open licensed hunt of Yellowstone grizzly bea...