Wyatt Olson
Asia Correspondent at Stars and Stripes
Asia correspondent with Stars and Stripes newspaper, Hawaii bureau
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Plaintiffs’ attorney Kristina Baehr speaks with reporters outside U.S. District Court in Honolulu, May 13, 2024, following the conclusion of the trial phase of Feindt vs. United States. (Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes) A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday awarded nearly $600,000 to 17 plaintiffs who sued the U.S. government after being sickened by jet fuel-contaminated water on Oahu in late 2021 — a fraction of the $7 million they had sought.
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Adm. Samuel Paparo, head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, speaks with Papua New Guinea Defense Minister Billy Joseph at the National Disaster Center in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, July 15, 2024. (Shannon M. Smith/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Defense Department is funding a $400 million fuel storage facility in Papua New Guinea as part of the growing military ties under a 2023 defense agreement between the two countries.
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An aerial view of the USS Arizona Memorial taken March 30, 2014, shows the pair of white quays that anchored the battleship on the day of the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack and are now being restored by the National Park Service.
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Sgt. Korbein Schultz, shown here in an Army video screenshot from Aug. 30, 2021, was sentenced to seven years on April 23, 2025, for selling classified military information to an individual believed to be working for the Chinese government.
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A soldier with the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division loads a machine gun at the Pohakuloa Training Area in Hawaii, Feb. 28, 2025. (Charles Clark/U.S. Army) The Army’s plan to renew a lease for almost 20,000 acres of state land on Hawaii’s Big Island carries significant harmful effects on biological resources, cultural practices and environmental justice, according to the final environmental impact statement released Friday.
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"Republicans on the House Rules Committee moved again to block a vote on rolling back Donald Trump’s tariffs Monday in their latest effort to protect the president’s authority over global trade." -Politico
The lawlessness continues. "Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication." https://t.co/XIhFetgknL
"Schultz and his Chinese contact had attempted to expand their espionage ring by recruiting one of Schultz’s friends, an Army intelligence analyst assigned to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command ..." https://t.co/rr3V8znhgC