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DNA evidence frees Hawaii man after 30 years in prison

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he always maintained he had nothing to do with was his mother’s Hawaii gravesite. In a videoconference interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Cordeiro reflected on his first day of freedom after new DNA evidence led to the overturning of his conviction in the 1994 shooting of Timothy Blaisdell on the island of Maui. Paulette Cordeiro died in September 1994, and her son was arrested the following month. “Thanks for looking ...

Employees are in the DOGE house

WASHINGTON (AP) — Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. The pushback from appointees of President Donald Trump marked a new level of chaos and confusion within the beleaguered federal workforce, just a month after Trump returned to the White House and quickly began fulfilling campaign promises to shrink the government. Administration officials scrambled ...

Infamous Elon vs. the good billionaires

On the PBS show “Washington Week with The Atlantic” on Feb. 7, host Jeffrey Goldberg began: “Elon Musk, the unelected, unconfirmed, unofficial, but extremely powerful prime minister of the United States, is carrying out his plan to purge thousands of employees from the federal government.” A few minutes later, NPR reporter Asma Khalid talked about Musk “increasing starvation rates.” Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum wondered, “are Americans willing to accept a high level of cruelty and death just, you know, on the president’s whim, on Elon Musk’s whim?” There ...

Doubling down on kindness

Every interaction you have creates a ripple, whether you intend it to or not. The kind of ripple you create is up to you. Mindy Corporon wants it to be one of kindness. How she came to this resolve after a white supremacist opened fire and killed her son and her father in the parking lot of the Kansas Jewish Community Center in April 2014 is why I wanted to talk to her. Corporon’s father and her son were victims of a hate crime. Reat Underwood, Corporon’s 14-year-old son, was at the community center to audition for a singing competition that could win him a scholarship. His ...

Left against our responsible leadership

The left is screaming that President Donald Trump is on some kind of ideological crusade. Some recent headlines: “Trump and Musk’s Purge Isn’t Cost Cutting — It’s a Coup”; “Doge is About Ideology and Mindless Budget Cutting”; “Elon Musk’s Indiscriminate Carnage”; “Dems Must Stand Up Against the Bully in the White House.” It’s like labeling a company CEO ideological because he is driven to keep his company profitable and competitive. One column in The Guardian says Trump is “lacerating the structures of U.S. democracy.” In other words, protecting ...

States green-lighting migrant crime

New York is already getting sued by the Trump administration for prioritizing illegal aliens over the safety of Americans. Get ready for New York City to be slammed with similar suits. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul blusters that the legal action is a “worthless, publicity-driven lawsuit” that will “be a total failure.” Hochul insists “New York is not backing not down.” She’s dead wrong about the merits of the lawsuit. It’s a slam dunk. The state and its top Democrats are being sued over the Green Light Law, a brainchild of New York Attorney General Letitia James and ...