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Endangered Hawaiian monk seal deaths investigated as crimes May 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail HONOLULU (AP) Federal and state officials in Hawaii are investigating the suspicious deaths of two endangered monk seals on the island of Molokai. The seals were found dead on April 27 on the west side of Molokai, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday. Examinations revealed that both died as a result of human-inflicted trauma, wildlife officials said. There have been seven suspicious monk seal deaths on Molokai since 2009. Both seals found dead last month had been observed in good health in previous days and neither had any diseases, according to the officials. ....
Hawaii Business Magazine May 12, 2021 If you bought a single bitcoin for $1,000 in February 2017 and sold it four years later, you’d pocket around $50,000. But, if you lived in Hawai‘i, you probably didn’t buy Bitcoin after February 2017. That month, the digital currency exchange Coinbase ceased operations in Hawai‘i, blaming over-regulation. Local residents were given 30 days to transfer or sell their digital currency and close their accounts. Since then, digital currency exchanges have struggled to operate in Hawai‘i, but a pilot program started in 2020 opened the door for their return. The Digital Currency Innovation Lab, a joint project of the Hawai‘i Division of Financial Institutions and the Hawaii Technology Development Corp., is a novel approach to regulation. It’s a “regulatory sandbox,” with state regulators working closely with a select group of companies and gathering data to inform decisions about how to regulate the industry moving f ....
Abortions are legal in Guam, but women have no access to them because of a lack of local providers and rules requiring in-person consultations for the procedures. ....
Women’s work, ‘Curated Cocktails,’ Met Gala: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: The state has temporarily paused giving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine out of an “abundance of caution” while federal officials investigate reports of rare blood clots, the state health officer announced Tuesday. Dr. Scott Harris cautioned people to remember those were just six incidents out of 6.8 million doses of the J&J vaccine that have been given across the nation. “COVID-19 vaccine safety is a top priority for Alabama. It is important to know that the adverse effects potentially stemming from the Johnson & Johnson shot have been extremely rare in the country, but out of an abundance of caution, Alabama is temporarily pausing these shots until we know more,” Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement. Some vaccine appointments were likely canceled this week, Harris said. But he said the J& ....
Hawaii law previously said only physicians could perform early, in-clinic abortions. But because of a doctor shortage, several smaller islands lack abortion providers which forces residents of those islands to fly to Honolulu if they need the procedure. ....