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Uilani (left) and Keeamoku Kapu run the Na 'Aikane o Maui Cultural and Research Center which was burned to the ground in the wildfires so they set up this grassroots community distribution center in Lahaina. They are on the phone here taking a call from Oprah about supplies she will be delivering.

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Priceless connections to Hawaii's ancient past were lost when cultural center burned

As people grapple with more than 100 people who died in the Lahaina fire on Maui, they're still trying to understand the loss of priceless artifacts and their connections to the island's ancient past.

August 18, 2023
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  • Jonaki Mehta

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  • Book Reviews

Isabel Cañas' 'Vampires of El Norte' elegantly navigates a multiplicity of genres

In many ways — setting, historical elements, the mix of romance and horror, the use of Spanish — Vampires of El Norte is the spiritual sister of The Hacienda, and a perfect example of genre mixing.

August 18, 2023
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  • Gabino Iglesias
Ella Toone of England celebrates after scoring her team's first goal in the FIFA Women's World Cup semifinal against Australia in Sydney. England turned away a late challenge to win, 3-1.

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England breaks Australia's heart, will play Spain in World Cup final

England dispatched the hosts, 3-1, bossing the Matildas and mounting counterattacks that stunned the host country's fans. They'll play Spain this weekend.

August 18, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Visitors play chess at The World Chess Club Berlin in Germany on May 9. The German Chess Federation described the new international policies for transgender chess players as discriminatory.

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World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men

The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

August 18, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
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'Reservation Dogs' co-creator says the show gives audiences permission to laugh

Sterlin Harjo says society has a tendency to be "very precious with Native people." The third and final season of the irreverent series dropped recently. Originally broadcast Sept. 19, 2022.

August 18, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Lawyers say they expect former President Donald Trump to wade into commentary, and personal attacks, on people involved in bringing him to justice across four separate criminal indictments in four different jurisdictions.

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  • Politics

Trump tests the tolerance of judges and even his own lawyers

Former President Donald Trump's rhetoric could be setting him up for an ugly clash with judges overseeing the criminal cases against him.

August 18, 2023
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  • Carrie Johnson
Workers install solar panels on a rooftop at AltaSea's research and development facility at the Port of Los Angeles on April 21, 2023.

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The U.S. imports most of its solar panels. A new ruling may make that more expensive

The Commerce Department says solar panel makers in four Southeast Asian countries are evading U.S. duties on Chinese solar components. The finding could raise costs in the United States.

August 18, 2023
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  • Eric McDaniel
Carolina Panthers' Michael Oher speaks to the media during their NFL football offseason conditioning program in Charlotte, N.C., on April 20, 2015. Oher, the former NFL tackle known for the movie <em>The Blind Side</em>, filed a petition Monday accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him by having him sign papers making them his conservators, not his adoptive parents, in 2004.

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  • Sports

Michael Oher of 'The Blind Side' says he wasn't adopted, but put in a conservatorship

Oher alleged Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy presented him with a document establishing a conservatorship shortly after he moved in with him, and said it was "for all intents and purposes, an adoption."

August 18, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Members of the Tuohy family are speaking out after former NFL player Michael Oher alleged that they earned millions from pushing a false narrative that they adopted him. Here, Oher poses for a photograph with the Tuohy family at Radio City Music Hall for the 2009 NFL Draft on April 25, 2009 in New York City.

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  • National

Tuohy family responds to Michael Oher's allegations of his false adoption

In court documents filed in a Tennessee probate court, Oher alleged that the Tuohys convinced him to sign documents that agreed to a conservatorship in 2004.

August 18, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, pictured in 2013, said Oher's claims against them in a petition filed in a Tennessee court Monday are essentially a "shakedown effort."

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Tuohy family calls Michael Oher's petition 'hurtful' and an attempt at a 'shakedown'

The family says that Oher's claims against them in the petition filed Monday are essentially a "shakedown effort" in order to get nearly $15 million from them.

August 18, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, meet on Fri, Aug. 18, 2023, at Camp David.

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  • Politics

How Biden is using Camp David to elevate a summit with Japan and South Korea

For 80 years, presidents have used the rustic mountain retreat at Camp David to host foreign leaders. President Biden is hoping to tap into that history for talks with Japan and South Korea on Friday.

August 18, 2023
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  • Franco Ordoñez
Michael Oher of the Carolina Panthers celebrates with his family after the NFC Championship Game against the Arizona Cardinals at Bank Of America Stadium on January 24, 2016 in Charlotte, N.C.

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  • Analysis

'The Blind Side' drama just proves the cheap, meaningless hope of white savior films

The true story behind the hit Oscar-winner has only gotten ickier — and Hollywood is complicit.

August 18, 2023
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  • Aisha Harris
Volunteers helping those who lost homes in Lahaina stop to pray on a hillside. The town is surrounded by dry, invasive grasses which are highly flammable.

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  • Climate

3 strategies Maui can adopt from other states to help prevent dangerous wildfires

In preparing for future fires, Maui doesn't have to look far. States like California have passed wildfire policies to reduce the risk that a community will be destroyed.

August 18, 2023
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  • Lauren Sommer
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the Des Moines International Airport after a visit to the Iowa State Fair on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.

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  • Elections

Trump lawyers ask to push back federal election subversion trial to April 2026

The suggested April 2026 date is a counterproposal to the Justice Department's recommendation last week that the trial should begin Jan. 2, 2024.

August 18, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Luz Vargas, 45, lost her son Kenyero Fuentes in the fire in Lahaina, Maui, on Aug. 8. He was found in the remnants of their burned home. His 15th birthday would have been this Sunday.

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  • National

A mother raced to save her son from the Maui fires. She couldn't reach him

When everyone was trying to escape the flames in Lahaina, Luz Vargas ran toward them: Her son was home alone. Days later she found his body. Sunday would have been his 15th birthday.

August 18, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
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