For the last year, reporter Rob Perez has been investigating Native land dispossession in Hawaii. His story starts long before in Guam, where his family had its own brush with land takings.

It's been six years. Time to get a new hobby.

More than 8 in 10 people charged by state troopers since they began helping Austin police have been people of color. In Southeast Austin, a neighborhood president calls it “outright racial profiling.”

When a north-central Wisconsin news site reported that a businessman had uttered a homophobic slur, he sued, claiming defamation. The legal bills are piling up.

The Guardian has identified a trainee nurse and reported US air force reservist called Bailey Ross as the proprietor of a white nationalist publisher in South Dakota. Ross was also a paid-up member of a white nationalist organization that marched at Charlottesville while enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. Ross’s company, Agartha Publishing, is part of a wave of extremist publishers using mainstream e-commerce platforms such as Amazon to sell lavishly repackaged fascist and anti-communist books. The Guardian contacted Bailey Ross via email and a person who lives at the same address via text message to ask for comment, but received no immediate response. After the request was sent, however, Agartha’s account on the X platform, formerly Twitter, blocked this reporter’s account and was set to private, meaning only existing followers could see its tweets.

Democrats are touting economic recovery heading into the 2024 elections, and liberal pundits are claiming that “Bidenomics” is working and those who disagree are disillusioned or ruthlessly partisan. But the country’s impressive economic growth betrays the reality on the ground: Millions of Americans are being left behind. Yes, those White House press releases and Treasury Department fact sheets are right: Broad economic indicators like gross domestic product and unemployment have markedly improved. Inflation is generally coming down, too. “‘Bidenomics’ is working,” Biden said earlier this summer. “When I took office, the pandemic was raging and our economy was reeling, supply chains were broken, millions of people unemployed, hundreds of thousands of small businesses on the verge of closing after so many had already closed. Today, the U.S. has had the highest economic growth rate, leading the world economies since the pandemic.” But data released late last month show food insecurity at its highest level since Biden took office, and average financial hardship in 2023 is worse than it was over the last three years. In other words, “Bidenomics,” the president’s economic plan to grow the economy “from the middle out and the bottom up,” has been accompanied by a humanitarian crisis. This is a disaster of Democrats’ own making. Aid measures had previously softened the blow of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Democrats vowed to make much of that aid permanent by enacting a robust social agenda. That agenda never materialized, and the government instead cut off the temporary aid programs — leaving many millions of Americans struggling to stay afloat.

Nichole Maks, the woman suspected of killing her 79-year-old roommate, allegedly tried to pour diet Mountain Dew soda all over her body in attempt to erase DNA evidence, according to an arrest affidavit.

An academic study has revealed a troubling trend: 3 million Texas workers paid less than minimum wage, and $99 million in judgments from the Texas Workforce Commission that are essentially being ignored by employers. For Texas to attract the workforce it needs, those numbers must improve. A study by Rutgers University’s Workplace Justice Lab@RU, in partnership with the Workers Defense Project, revealed that wage theft — the practice of withholding wages already earned — has cost Texas workers at least $12 billion over the past 14 years. Most disheartening, even workers whose complaints are upheld by the Texas Workforce Commission don’t always get what they earned. When the agency verifies a case of stolen wages, its judgment is called “ordered wages.” More than 39,000 cases of ordered wages haven’t been paid, the study found. The problem is almost certainly bigger than those numbers depict. Many workers are reluctant to file claims, preferring to avoid scrutiny or possible retaliation. Those who do can’t always navigate the red tape or prove their case. What’s clearly broken is the low collection rate even for those cases where wage theft is verified. According to the report, 80% of wages ordered by the Texas Workforce Commission between 2010 and 2020 have gone uncollected.

Promoted accounts are one of the oldest ad formats offered on the platform. The ads appear as text-based posts within the X timeline and include a "Follow" button for the account promoting them. But follower ads, while easy to sell, are static. They don't leverage any of the multi-media tools, like video, that X is trying to lean into. (SCOOP: WORLD’S DUMBEST MAN PIVOTING TO VIDEO IN 2023)

*sad trombone noise*

Supply alone will not solve a problem that large sections of the population don’t want to fix

The latest in District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

Former NFL player Michael Oher, whose life story was portrayed in the Oscar-winning movie “The Blind Side,” has filed a petition in a Tennessee court to end Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy’s conservatorship over him.

Still, in interviews, Florida Republicans described an aloof governor who believed in “sticks and no carrots,” according to a senior Florida official, and whose idea of negotiating was “my way or the highway,” in the words of another. An insular governor who infrequently talked to some senior members in his own Cabinet, including his top law enforcement officials, or other leading Republicans. A congressman who seemed to avoid any opportunity to make friends with others in the delegation. A politician who rarely tried to connect with donors and supporters and seemed to not enjoy being around crowds or attending events. A governor who sometimes declined to participate in a lot of the customary niceties in politics, such as thank you notes and calls to donors.

The mysterious attacks began on July 11. “Strange beings,” locals said, visiting an isolated Indigenous community in rural Peru at night, harassing its inhabitants and attempting to kidnap a 15-year-old girl. “These gentlemen are aliens. They seem armored like the green goblin from Spider Man. I have shot one twice and it didn’t fall. Instead, it elevated and disappeared,” Jairo Reátegui Ávila, a local leader of the Indigenous Ikitu group living in the northwestern Maynas province, told Peruvian radio station RPP Noticias on August 1. “We’re frightened by what is happening in the community.” “Their color is silver, their shoes are round in shape and with those, they rise up. They float one meter high and have a red light on their heel,” said Ávila. “Their heads are long, their mask is long, and their eyes are sort of yellowish.”

After a June gathering in Fort Worth sponsored by a new company, Influenceable, social media leaders began backing the suspended Texas attorney general and a controversial human trafficking film. Those who favor transparency in political advocacy are concerned.

Eventually, two and a half hours after the pain started, the expectant mother said she was allowed to leave the Middleton Unit. As quickly as the pain would allow her, Issa drove to a nearby hospital, where doctors rushed her into emergency surgery after being unable to find a fetal heartbeat. The baby was delivered stillborn. If Issa had gotten to the hospital sooner, medical personnel told her, the baby would have survived, the lawsuit claims.

Rutgers’ time in the Big Ten, college football's most lucrative conference, has been a competitive and financial nightmare.

A fighter jet performing at an air show near Willow Run Airport crashed on Sunday, just seconds after two pilots ejected from the aircraft.

Scientists also unearthed body of medieval woman at the site last year who was also buried with a padlock attached to foot