Attention, editors and bloggers: Hawaii is NOT a country
In a short story from The Huffington Post about celebrities surprising troops for the holidays, a reporter slipped up and called the state a nation.
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“A previous version of this article referred incorrectly to Hawaii as an independent country.”
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