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President Joe Biden planned to discuss the contentious, just-passed budget deal in a speech to the nation Friday night, ready to sign the agreement averting the country’s first-ever government default, which would have sent shock waves through the U.S. and global economies.

Gov. Josh Green signed two new gun measures into law on Friday.

Hawaii will get a cut of a national $102.5 million settlement with the drug company Indivior Inc., Attorney General Anne Lopez announced.

A 49-year-old man has died after being pulled from waters off Electric Beach in Nanakuli Thursday morning, officials said.

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With a new Scripps National Spelling Bee champion crowned, Ashley Nagaoka and Mark Carpenter try to spell these tough words.