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Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
This fun-loving pooch could be your next furry friend
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Meet Liko: KHON2's highlighted pooch for Wags 'n' Whiskers Wednesday. The 25-pound, year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix was rescued by a community member and turned over to the Hawaiian Human Society after he was found wandering around an ʻEwa Beach neighborhood. 4-year-old Ralphie looks for fur-ever ʻohana Liko is an active and adventurous pup who can't wait to find the perfect ʻohana to explore the world with him. He enjoys hiking on mountain trails and long walks along the beach, delighting in the symphony of sights and scents the island has to offer. The Humane Society describes Liko's grin as an 'irresistibly goofy smile that will melt yours in return.' The pup is a recipient of the Reid Krucky Memorial Fund, meaning his adoption fee is completely waived and he will come with a bundle of supplies to help him settle into his new hale. Potential moms and dads can meet Liko at the Humane Society's Kosasa Family Campus at Hoʻopili everyday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
NBC Sports
21-05-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Close vote on tush-push ban suggests it will be back on the agenda
As Black Bart once said, 'OK, Ralphie. You win this time, but we'll be back.' The anti-tush push forces inevitably will return with another effort to remove the Eagles' signature play from the rulebook. Wednesday's effort failed, by only two votes. With 24 required, the final tally was 22-10. Multiple reports indicated that the Ravens, Patriots, Jets, and Lions were among the 10 'nay' votes. We're told that the Titans, Jaguars, and Browns also were opposed to the proposal. Throw in the Eagles, and that's eight of the 10. The vote ends the matter for 2025. It undoubtedly will be back, as soon as next March. Especially if/when the anti-tush push forces can bring evidence to the table tangible evidence (real or imagined) of a safety risk. Until the play is eliminated, all teams other than the Eagles have two ways of dealing with the situation: (1) figure out how to stop it; and/or (2) figure out how to run it. The third strategy is to create the kind of spectacle that results in the same ugliness that happened in the NFC Championship — and which seemed to light the fuse for the league's failed effort to dump the play.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump's latest tariff agenda: Make movies crap again
Each day of Donald Trump's second presidential administration has felt like the scene in 'A Christmas Story,' where Ralphie speeds to the bathroom to use his 'Little Orphan Annie' decoder ring to spell out a gravely important, super-secret message. After some considerable suspense, Ralphie, of course, finds out that he's been duped by the hand of Big Advertising. Despite feeling like life-or-death in the moment, the message piped to him over the airwaves is ultimately meaningless bull. That's precisely what it's like to wake up, check your phone and find out that Trump has once again spouted off some new, seemingly horrific policy that, in reality, has zero actionable planning to enforce it. One of the latest and most confounding of Trump's plans is an addendum to his crippling tariffs. As part of ongoing trade wars, the Trump administration placed a 10% baseline tariff on all imports into the United States, with China, Mexico and Canada hit with additional tariffs, all of which have fluctuated since Trump postponed his initial proposal. These levies on goods and materials are obnoxious and have the consumer paying the price, but at least they had an identifiable (if petty) reason for existing. Trump's newest proposed tariff, however, is a real head-scratcher. The president took to his Truth Social platform last week to scream into the void that the 'movie industry in America is dying a very fast death' due to international tax credits encouraging filmmakers and production companies to shoot their movies overseas. 'This is a concerted effort by other nations, and, therefore, a National Security threat,' Trump wrote. He sees international film production as a form of propaganda, saying, 'WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!' To stimulate that dying industry, the president said he'd immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on 'any and all movies coming into our country that are produced on foreign lands.' Both Hollywood executives and everyday, average film lovers were sent into a spiral. How would a 100% tariff on something like a film even work, and how would it affect film production? Would the tariff trickle down to the moviegoer's ticket price, like tolls placed on goods such as clothing coming into the United States from international distributors? As is the case with most of his haphazard policy-making, even Trump himself doesn't have a clear answer to these questions. It turns out that this proposed tariff has a good bit of legal and practical red tape holding it back. But if Trump can successfully enact the 100% film tariff in the coming months, he stands to cripple the American film industry much faster and far more severely than any international production ever could. The tariff isn't just an attempt to curb non-domestic film production, it's a deceptive way to hinder filmmaking that doesn't align with his agenda. But first: deep breath. What the president is proposing in his erratically capitalized rant isn't something that can be immediately enacted like an executive order, at least in most cases. Historically, Congress had the power to oversee and implement tariffs. Over the decades, some of that power was diverted to the president, especially in trade cases designated threats to national security. That would explain why Trump specifically called internationally produced films an affront to our domestic security, despite a total lack of sound reasoning or defense to that point. However, quick action is often legally untested and could conceivably result in a lawsuit from within the film industry to make the 100% tariff a judicial matter, meaning it would be out of Trump's control. That might explain why, when pressed about his film tariff, Trump dodged a firm answer about what the fees were specifically intended to do and how they would be enforced. 'Other nations have been stealing the movie-making capabilities from the United States,' he yelled to CNN as an Air Force One chopper revved behind him. 'Hollywood is being destroyed. Now, you have a grossly incompetent governor [Gavin Newsom] who allowed that to happen. So I'm not just blaming other nations . . . If they're not willing to make a movie inside the United States, then we should have a tariff on movies that come in. And not only that, governments are actually giving big money. They're supporting them financially. That's sort of a threat to our country in a sense.' Squeezed by reporters, Trump said that he would do research and personally ask Hollywood studios if they agree to his tariff proposal. 'I want to make sure that they're happy with it, because we're all about jobs,' Trump told reporters. What looked like it might spell trouble for an already-flailing industry quickly turned out to be little more than big talk, at least for now. The World Trade Organization has a moratorium on digital goods until 2026, and films would presumably fall into that category. Whether Trump could use the law citing reasons of national security to implement a tariff on films is another question entirely, given that the full text of that specific written law excludes films, publications and that some of the fear-mongering dust has settled, Trump's likelier intentions are in clearer view. The president and his designated team of Hollywood 'special ambassadors' Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone are seeking ways to bolster the American film industry after a major and swift economic downturn over the first half of the decade. COVID lockdowns at the top of the 2020s buckled the film industry and sent more domestic productions overseas. Recent tentpole blockbusters like 'Wicked' and 'Deadpool & Wolverine' were shot internationally, and many major American studios have production hubs in cities like London and Vancouver. Countries outside the United States have found that introducing a wealth of production incentives for American films can attract filmmakers looking to cut costs while bolstering the local film and television production sectors. Put simply, international production benefits other countries as much as it benefits American filmmakers, and figures show that the number of incentivized productions overseas is way up. It's not exactly inconceivable that Trump would want to keep productions local if he is, as he says, 'all about jobs.' But this isn't just about jobs, it's about the right kinds of jobs — and therefore, the right kinds of films. Trump has had a bee in his incontinence diapers ever since Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' won the Oscar for best picture in 2020. Trump criticized the win at the time, saying, 'What the hell was that all about? We've got enough problems with South Korea with trade, on top of it they give it the best movie of the year? Let's get 'Gone with the Wind' back, please.' Notably, Trump cited international trade while he spoke about 'Parasite,' as both media and trade have been converging objects of the president's skewed, sickening affection for some time. Now, Trump is grasping at straws to do what he can to hinder the current state of American filmmaking. Trump and his special Hollywood ambassadors could develop a national tax incentive program of their own to encourage economic stimulus in the domestic filmmaking sector, but that seems like a less likely option than the president's continued focus on what he already sees as an assault on American security. If Trump successfully implements his proposed 100% tariff, it would effectively bludgeon the international sales market for small and mid-budget titles at festivals like Cannes, where the industry is convening this week. If these movies can't sell to American distributors due to a massive tariff, an equally colossal section of the potential money-spending audience is removed from the equation. In that case, even internationally shot, American-made movies without a large enough budget to recoup the cost of a tariff would not get made at all. We'd quickly see the American film industry become completely reliant on big-budget blockbusters. In a time when small-to-mid-budget films are already struggling, that incredibly important section of filmmaking — the kind that typically produces the most interesting, intriguing, important art — would be the first to go. But the proposed tariff isn't just a boneheaded move that would destroy small-budget filmmaking, it's a covert way for Trump to keep undermining and disabling state funding for progressive noncommercial filmmaking and art. Early in May, the Trump administration terminated dozens of publicly funded arts grants that were due to be paid out, citing that the recipients 'did not align' with the president's priorities. Many fear the National Endowment for the Arts, the federal agency that funds and supports independent artists and filmmakers, could be next. Given that Trump is going after PBS, which has a long history of airing 'controversial' and 'blasphemous' NEA-sponsored art like Marlon Riggs' 1989 video essay 'Tongues Untied,' the pipeline is easy to follow. Those trying to make culturally significant, noncommercial art with public grants are having their funding yanked away in favor of work that 'celebrates America's greatness.' They have no chance to become commercial filmmakers like those awarded public grants in other countries. And with no domestic incentive for international filmmakers to produce work in the United States, no publicly funded grants for up-and-coming artists, and a potential tariff lopping off internationally produced American films, the artistic side of filmmaking dies. All that's left would be shoddy, state-sponsored movies promoting conservative values and monotonous, crash-bang-boom blockbusters. I don't know about you, but I'd say that's a far more bleak state of filmmaking than some American productions scoring a tax break for filming in Italy. Trump's latest move might not have the fate of the planet hanging in the balance — as Ralphie briefly thought in 'A Christmas Story' — but the fate of movie-making very well might.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Nearly 100 days later: Belle needs a home
HONOLULU (KHON2) — It's been almost 100 days since Belle has had a loving home of her own. Is your ohana the purr-fect fit for her? Belle is KHON2's Wags 'n Whiskers Wednesday feature and was brought to the shelter after she was found wandering near the Waiʻanae Public Library. 4-year-old Ralphie looks for fur-ever ʻohana This pup is an 83-pound, two-year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix and the Hawaiian Humane Society said she 'is every bit as beautiful as her name implies.' Since arriving at the Hawaiian Humane Society, Belle has stolen the hearts of staff and volunteers with her big smile, warm heart, soulful brown eyes, speckled ears and playful a long day at work? No problem! Belle will be right there when you get home, showing her excitement with a tail wag and happy paw taps. Officials said her favorite place to be, however, is cuddled up in your lap, getting as many cuddles as possible. As a Reid Krucky Memorial Fund recipient, the lucky family that gets to take Belle home will have her adoption fee waived and will be given some goodies to help her settle with her new ohana. Check out more news from around Hawaii If you're ready to take the next step and introduce Belle to your ohana, visit the Hawaiian Humane Society's Kosasa Family Campus at Hoopili daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
4-year-old Ralphie looks for fur-ever ʻohana
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A gentle pup is waiting for his fur-ever home at the Hawaiian Humane Society. Ralphie is KHON2's feature for Wags 'n Whiskers Wednesday. He is a 45-pound, four-year-old Terrier mix brought to the shelter in mid-January. Miracle: The pup who defied all odds According to HHS, Ralphie was brought in by a Good Samaritan who found him wandering around her neighborhood. Upon his arrival, it didn't take long for him to win over the hearts of HHS volunteers and staff. And the best way to win over his heart? Treats! Download the free KHON2 app for iOS or Android to stay informed on the latest news 'He's proud to show off his 'sit' skills and is eager to keep learning and add to his repertoire,' HHS said. Officials said Ralphie finds the most joy in going for walks and exploring the world around him, and when the day is over, he loves cuddling with his favorite human on the couch. Check out more news from around Hawaii If you would like to meet Ralphie, visit him at the Hawaiian Humane Society's Mōʻiliʻili Campus from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KHON2.
