Kokua Line: Are Social Security survivor benefits automatic?

A 33-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder early this morning after she allegedly poured a “boiling liquid” onto her 25-year-old husband during a fight, according to the Honolulu Police Department.

WASHINGTON >> Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who investigated Donald Trump, appeared before lawmakers today to defend his decision to indict Trump twice after he left office in 2021. It was Smith’s first and perhaps only chance…

MINNEAPOLIS >> Federal agents have arrested three Minnesota protesters who took part in a demonstration inside a church against a pastor they say has a leadership role with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency…

MITOYO, Japan >> In striking illusion, a local train seems to run across the open ocean less than a minute after departing from a station in Tadotsu, Kagawa prefecture.

Well, better latish than never. It’s good to see Hawaii’s attorney general finally opening an investigation into an allegation that an “influential state legislator” accepted $35,000 in a paper bag in 2022. The…

Denmark has been a loyal friend and ally of the United States since its inception. We have had friendly diplomatic relations with Denmark since 1801. They have been loyal NATO allies since its formation after WWII. After 9/11, per our…

Donald Trump’s determination to take Greenland is reportedly grounded in the Scandinavians’ refusal to award him the Nobel Peace Prize (“Trump links Greenland push to Nobel snub,” Star-Advertiser, Jan. 20). Another…

How long will America be the land of the free and the home of the brave? The federal jack-booted thugs that Republicans used to warn about are brutally attacking, even killing, ordinary people in Minneapolis.