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President Donald Trump’s new immigration policy is partially back in force as of late Monday, but only until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit can decide the case’s merits.

President Donald Trump departed on Friday for a 10-day trip to Asia, where he will visit China, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam.

Despite China’s demands to deny her entry, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen made a scheduled stopover in Hawaii on Saturday, en route to the Pacific Islands. During her visit, she promised to boost Taiwan’s defense spending, prompting the outraged Chinese Communist Party organ Global Times to condemn her transit of U.S. territory as “deplorable.”

China wants the U.S. government to block Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen from traveling through American territory, specifically Hawaii and Guam, during her upcoming trip to visit allies in the Pacific.

The number of people going hungry in the U.S. is at its lowest level since 2007, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Hawaii’s emergency management agency is rolling out a public information campaign to deal with a potential North Korean missile attack.

Breitbart News Senior Legal Editor Ken Klukowski joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, discussing the Supreme Court’s handing President Donald Trump a partial victory in its latest ruling in the ongoing legal battle over his immigration security order, Executive Order 13780 (EO).

Just hours after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied its most recent challenge to the Trump travel ban, the state of Hawaii filed yet another motion challenging it in federal court:

Titan Lacaden is a quarterback who plays football in Hawaii, and just received a D1 scholarship to go to the University of Hawaii. He’s also eleven years old.

A North Korean website has published a propaganda video that shows an American aircraft carrier and Washington D.C. targeted with crosshairs and then exploding in balls of fire.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “a racist and a liar” on Sunday, repeating discredited “fake news” accusations.

SAN DIEGO — Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, Attorney General Sessions, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) concluded a visit to the border on Friday with a tough message for “sanctuary city” jurisdictions, including California.

Friday in an interview with CNN, Attorney General Jeff Sessions addressed remarks he made earlier this week on Mark Levin’s nationally syndicated radio show questioning how a judge on an island in Hawaii can thwart executive actions taken by President

Sessions was right: on immigration issues, Hawaii is an island in every sense, with different challenges than the rest of the United States.

Lawmakers in Hawaii have asked state officials to update contingency plans and provide extra funding in anticipation of an attack from North Korea, amid escalating tensions between America and the communist state.

President Donald Trump fumed against a federal judge in Hawaii who blocked his second Executive Order limiting immigration into the United States from six Middle Eastern countries.

Four Democrat-led states are currently suing President Donald Trump over Executive Order 13780, temporarily restricting immigration from seven terror-prone nations, and that number of states will likely grow in the next few days. At least one of these legal challenges appears headed for the Supreme Court.

Wind turbines are killing off an endangered species of bat at a much faster pace than expected, according to a study from the University of California.

Hawaii lawmakers are considering a bill that would decriminalize prostitution in the state.

Taxpayers footed the bill for $96 million in mostly personal travel expenses for President Obama and his family over the eight years Obama has occupied the White House, according to a new report from Judicial Watch announced Thursday.

Donald Trump is at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach Florida, while Barack Obama is enjoying his final vacation as president in Hawaii.

Americans across the country are commemorating the December 7, 1941 attack on the military base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii today – an attack that sunk 12 battleships, obliterated hundreds of aircrafts, killed thousands, and forced the United States into World War II.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that he will visit Pearl Harbor later this month with U.S. President Obama, becoming Japan’s first leader to travel to the site of the Japanese attack that pulled the United States into World War II 75 years ago.

“I was pretty confident about where I was born, I think people were as well,” Barack Obama says. “And my hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious things than that.”

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to fundraise in the San Diego area on Wednesday afternoon. The same evening, Vice President Joe Biden will promote President Barack Obama in Barrio Logan, give an ESPY award in Los Angeles and head for Hawaii.

“If you met me when I was 10 the first thing you would think is, ‘He’s fat,’” Barack Obama said. “I was husky and I was kind of a smart alecky kid.”

Reuters reports that the Chinese navy will send five ships to participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), a massive international maritime drill held every two years in Hawaii.

A lesbian couple from Los Angeles has been awarded $80,000 by the City of Honolulu to settle a dispute after the two were arrested in a local grocery store following public displays of affection.

Actor Woody Harrelson has been denied a license to sell medical marijuana in Hawaii.

Pilots had to turn a plane around that was heading from Honolulu to Japan after a man who wanted to perform yoga, instead of sitting in his seat, began attacking fellow passengers.

Hawaii’s governor David Ige declared a state of emergency for mosquito-borne illnesses on Sunday, including Zika and dengue fever. The latter has been an especially urgent concern, with over 250 confirmed cases of dengue reported during the current outbreak.

The Marine Corps relived the commander of the helicopter squadron involved in the deadly crash off the coast of Hawaii three days prior to the tragedy, report various news outlets.

The 12 Marines who went missing after their two CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters apparently crashed off the coast of Hawaii during a nighttime training mission last Thursday evening have officially been declared dead.

California ranks second in the nation among states where its citizens are forced to live paycheck-to-paycheck, according to GoBankingRates.com.

Search-and-rescue operations are under way off the coast of Hawaii after two Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters on a nighttime training mission collided, with six people aboard each aircraft.

The tension between two tectonic plates near the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska could cause a quake big enough to send a giant tsunami directly at California, experts say.