Audi defends decision to stand by Trump on $4B U.S. factory in Georgia

PERRY, Georgia/BERLIN >> The head of German automaker Audi defended on Sunday the company’s planned $4 billion investment in a new U.S. plant, announced by President Donald Trump as he campaigns for the November midterm elections.

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO >> Brazilians voted on Sunday in a tight runoff vote that could move Latin America’s largest nation sharply rightward, bringing it closer to the United States as part of a broader conservative shift across…

Saudi Arabia said its main airport resumed operations at two terminals on Sunday even as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis vowed to keep striking the facility, which they called a “military target”.

A 37-year-old man from Kihei died Friday night after a collision with another vehicle on Piilani Highway near the intersection of Kaonoulu Street.

Honolulu police are investigating a second-degree attempted murder of a boy in the Waianae area Saturday night.

DETROIT >>President Donald Trump at a Sunday campaign rally ratcheted up his push to link U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to Muslim extremists, comparing him to the 9/11 attackers while saying Democrats would let violent anti-American…

TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. >> In a clearing amid the dense Adirondack forest, a giant wooden troll lifts a maple-tree sapling toward the early autumn sky. Hundreds of boulders are splayed out around him, and children jump from rock to rock, their…

DEKALB, ILL. —When the University of Hawaii football team wins a road game, tradition calls for the coaches and administrators to give their first-class seats to the players on the return chartered flight to Honolulu.