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In this Monday, July 22, 2019, photo provided by the State of Hawaii, Mauna Kea law enforcement personnel interact with protesters blocking a road to the summit of Mauna Kea, a site considered sacred in Hawaii. Scientists want to build a telescope atop Mauna Kea because it is one of the best sites in the world for viewing the skies. The observatory would join 13 other telescopes already at the summit, though five are due to be decommissioned in a concession to telescope opponents. The Hawaii Supreme Court upheld the permit in 2018. (Dan Dennison/State of Hawaii via AP)

Hawaii Mauna Kea telescope protests rage on as court refuses to block project

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This undated file illustration provided by Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) shows the proposed giant telescope on Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island. Construction on giant telescope to start again in the third week of July 2019, after court battles over Hawaii site that some consider sacred. (TMT via AP, File)

Hawaii activists get ready for start of work on telescope

By Caleb Jones and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 15, 2017, file photo, shows public Pilaa Beach, center, below hillside and ridge top land owned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, near Kilauea on the north shore of Kauai in Hawaii. A Hawaii Senate committee is scheduled to hear a bill that would force landowners into mediation before they are allowed to file lawsuits to acquire small parcels initially awarded to Hawaiian commoners during mid-19th century land reforms. The bill was introduced after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in late 2016 filed, lawsuits to identify owners of 14 parcels interspersed within a 700-acre oceanfront estate he owns on Kauai. (Ron Kosen/photospectrumkauai.com via AP, File)

Panel supports bill to help Hawaiians keep ancestral land

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

This photo provided by Sony Pictures Entertainment shows Bradley Cooper, left, and Rachel McAdams in a scene from Columbia Pictures' &quot;Aloha.&quot; The movie releases in U.S. theaters on May 29, 2015. (Neal Preston/Sony Pictures Entertainment via AP)

Some Native Hawaiians disapprove of ‘Aloha’ movie title

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher - Associated Press