South Dakota to send National Guard troops to Texas - ABC News

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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she will join a growing list of Republican governors sending law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press

June 29, 2021, 9:02 PM

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that she will join a growing list of Republican governors sending law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico.

Noem's announcement that she will send up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to Texas comes as the GOP ramps up a political fight with President Joe Biden over border security. The issue has drawn a host of prominent GOP figures: former President Donald Trump was expected to travel to the border this week and Republican governors from Florida, Nebraska and Iowa have all committed to sending law enforcement officers for border security.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this month announced plans to build more barriers along the border.

Abbott's new push has been criticized as political theater, but he has defended the plan, saying the number of border crossers remains high. The governor said he will use $250 million in state money and crowdsourced financing for the barriers, although the timeline and cost for the push are unclear. It also faces potential court challenges from the federal government.

Large numbers of migrants have been showing up at the U.S. border with Mexico, with many turning themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol agents in seeking legal asylum status. But the numbers of families and children traveling without their parents crossing into the U.S. have dropped sharply since March and April, while the encounters with single adults have remained high.

A private donation will fund the cost of sending the South Dakota National Guard troops, Noem said. The deployment is expected to last from 30 to 60 days, while the other states involved are sending law enforcement officers for roughly two-week stints.

Noem, who is seen as a potential presidential contender, drew a distinction between her decision to send the National Guard and other governors who are sending state police officers.

“The border is a national security crisis that requires the kind of sustained response only the National Guard can provide,” she said in a statement. “We should not be making our own communities less safe by sending our police or Highway Patrol to fix a long-term problem President Biden’s Administration seems unable or unwilling to solve.”

The governor's spokesman Ian Fury said the donation for the deployment came from Willis and Reba Johnson’s Foundation. Willis Johnson, a Tennessee-based founder of an online used car auction called Copart, regularly makes large contributions to Republicans, including $200,000 to the Trump Victory Committee last year.

Fury said “the governor welcomes any such donations to help alleviate the cost to South Dakota taxpayers,” but declined to provide estimates on the cost of the deployment, citing “security reasons.”

However, Democratic state Sen. Reynold Nesiba said the fact Noem was using a donor to pay for the deployment showed it was not a “ real priority” for the state, but instead gave her “political cover.” He said he was looking into whether using a private donation to fund the deployment is legal.

“This could set a dangerous precedent to allow anonymous political donors to call the governor and dispatch the Guard whenever they want,” he said.

Meanwhile, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he has declined a request from Texas to provide state troopers. Hutchinson said sending National Guard troops was still an option and has asked the adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard to evaluate that possibility.

“Because of the public safety needs we have here in Arkansas and because of the important work they’re doing here, I will not be sending the Arkansas State Police to the border,” he told reporters.

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Hallmark now lets you send real cards from your phone in your own handwriting. Here’s how to try it for free. - KTLA

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Ahead of Trump border visit, Republicans mobilize effort to send law enforcement relief to Texas, Arizona - Fox News

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EXCLUSIVE: The largest conservative caucus in the House is calling on their state governors to send National Guard troops or law enforcement personnel to the southern border ahead of former President Donald Trump's trip to Texas on Wednesday.

The Republican Study Committee (RSC) on Tuesday fired off a dozen letters to their respective home state governors pressuring them to answer the call of Texas and Arizona to send extra law enforcement resources to the border to combat the immigration influx. 

In one such example, Wisconsin GOP Reps. Tom Tiffany, Glenn Grothman and Scott Fitzgerald sent a letter to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers urging him to send personnel immediately to stem the "crisis at America's southern border."

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"Wisconsin should help where we can because every state is now a border state," Tiffany said in a statement. "Having traveled to our southern border multiple times I have seen [President] Biden’s Border Crisis firsthand, it is past time to end this unprecedented invasion."

The letter campaign comes as a couple dozen members of the RSC are en route to Texas where they'll join Trump to tour the border and draw attention to what they say are failures of President Biden's immigration policies. There's been a massive surge of migrants coming to the border in recent months – with more than 180,000 encounters in May alone.

"Since the Biden administration won’t act, it’s up to Republicans and state leaders to secure our border and keep our nation safe," said RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who is coordinating the border trip and state pressure campaign.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey earlier this month penned a joint letter to 48 other governors asking for help during the border crisis, which they called a "disaster" and an "emergency." The Republicans urged their fellow governors to "send all available law enforcement resources to the border in defense of our sovereignty and territorial integrity."

SOUTH DAKOTA GOV. KRISTI NOEM SENDS 50 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO TEXAS TO HELP TACKLE BORDER CRISIS

Both states have sued over the Biden administration’s policies, arguing that border states are hurt the most by the relaxing of Trump-era border and enforcement measures.

Some states already answered the call and sent National Guard troops or law enforcement to the border, including Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. 

Migrant women carry children in the rain at an intake area after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, late Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. The U.S. government continues to report large numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with an increase in adult crossers. But families and unaccompanied children are still arriving in dramatic numbers despite the weather changing in the Rio Grande Valley registering hotter days and nights. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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The RSC sent letters of thanks to governors who have already stepped up but issued pleas to other states that have yet to answer the call, including to the governors of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. 

"Our home state of Michigan has a responsibility to respond and support states that have not received the necessary federal resources to deal with the crisis," six GOP reps wrote in one letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. 

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Trump is scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexico border with Abbott Wednesday as the governor has pledged to continue building a border wall with Mexico.

Fox News' Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

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England beat Germany as Sterling and Kane send them to Euro 2020 last eight - The Guardian

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For England, it was always going to be about finding the moment, the one to blow apart a tight game, to cut through so much negative tournament history – particularly at the hands of Germany. And for long spells, as the tension rose to near unbearable levels at a raucous and emotional Wembley, the home crowd wondered whether it would come.

Gareth Southgate had reverted to a 3-4-3, ignoring the clamour for greater fantasy and more creative players. It was the England manager sticking bravely to his principles, seeking security, the platform for the moment, and a part of the equation was patience, which was not in abundant supply inside the stadium.

Germany had shown their quality in the first half, particularly early on, yet England came to match them physically and tactically. The longer the second half wore on, the greater the assurance of those in white shirts. Could they find the incision, the note of clarity?

Southgate had called for a hero, somebody to score a goal that will live for ever, and with 15 minutes to go he found one. Yet again, it was Raheem Sterling. After his match-winners in the group stage against Croatia and the Czech Republic, Sterling bristled with confidence and hard running. The qualities were stamped all over the goal that ignited English dreams.

Southgate had introduced Jack Grealish from the bench and the midfielder was involved in the move, taking a pass from Harry Kane and ushering in the overlapping Luke Shaw on the left. But it was Sterling who started the move and it was he who finished it, driving into the box to guide home Shaw’s low delivery. Sterling has scored 15 times in his past 20 England appearances.

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The abiding image of the occasion from a German point of view would come shortly after. It was of Thomas Müller, his face contorted in despair. It was always going to be about moments and Germany’s came on 81 minutes when the veteran was sent clean through by Kai Havertz.

A few minutes earlier, Müller had blasted a free-kick into the wall from the edge of the area. Now he had to find the equaliser. Wembley fretted. Yet the finish was dragged low past Jordan Pickford’s right post. There was relief for Sterling, who had left a back-pass short for John Stones, sparking the opening.

England sensed only their second knockout phase victory at a European Championship – the first had been against Spain on penalties in 1996 – and also an end to the crushing sequence of German dominance over them. Germany had won the past four meetings in the knockout rounds of major finals.

It fell to Kane to make sure and, after his struggles in front of goal, it felt impossibly sweet for him and everybody with England in their hearts when he stooped to nod home a Grealish cross. It had followed another thrust by Shaw and was the prompt for the mother and father of all parties to break out in the stands.

For Southgate, there was personal atonement for his infamous penalty miss here against Germany in the Euro 96 semi-final but, more broadly, the sense that England had located the ignition key. The hard truth is the nation is not noted for an ability to beat established teams in the knockout rounds of major finals. Since the World Cup triumph of 1966, the only serious scalp has been that of Spain.

Now the sense of possibility cannot be ignored, particularly with the draw to the final having opened up. Pickford has come to radiate assurance behind a miserly defence and the statistics show it is four clean sheets out of four; the last time that happened for England at a tournament, Bobby Moore ended up lifting the Jules Rimet trophy.

Southgate’s players had to suffer, with Germany subjecting them to a harrowing opening 10 minutes, pressing high and running at the England backline. Rice was booked for a foul – Havertz wasted the free-kick on the edge of the area – but how the young midfielder managed the game thereafter. Alongside Kalvin Phillips, he was excellent. They were not alone.

England dug out a foothold, with Bukayo Saka showing a couple of flashes on the right, even if there was the worry in the first half about whether they could retain possession or show the needed precision with it.

Sterling extended Manuel Neuer with a shot from distance on 16 minutes and Harry Maguire headed high from a Kieran Trippier cross. Kane fed off scraps – again – although he almost found one in first-half stoppage time. Sterling burst into the area and, when the ball broke kindly for the captain, he looked favoured to score. Mats Hummels nicked the ball away from him.

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Germany had regrets before the interval, the biggest coming after Havertz released Timo Werner. The angle was tight but Werner still had plenty of goal at which to aim. Pickford made a vital block. The goalkeeper would continue to excel after the interval, tipping over a Havertz rocket.

Southgate had wanted to mirror Germany’s formation, to contain the threat of Joshua Kimmich and Robin Gosens in the wing-back positions, which was achieved. And he got the timing of Grealish’s introduction just right. Grealish contributed fully, although not as much as the irrepressible Sterling. England have glory in their sights.

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Russian Olympic Committee to send 335 athletes to Tokyo - Reuters

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MOSCOW, June 29 (Reuters) - Russia's Olympic Committee will send 335 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics next month, its president said on Tuesday, where they will compete without their national flag and anthem due to doping sanctions.

Russian athletes are barred from competing at major international events, including the Olympics, with their flag and anthem until 2022. The country will compete in Tokyo under the name "ROC", an acronym for the Russian Olympic Committee.

"The Russian Olympic Committee has just approved the team for the Tokyo Olympics," president Stanislav Pozdnyakov told reporters. "There are 335 athletes on the list."

Volleyball player Maksim Mikhaylov and sabre fencer Sofya Velikaya are ROC's designated flag bearers, he said. They will use the Russian Olympic Committee's flag.

The ban is aimed at punishing Moscow for providing global anti-doping authorities with doctored laboratory data that could have helped identify drug cheats.

Instead of having their anthem played on the podium, Russian gold medal winners in Tokyo this year and at the 2022 Beijing Games will hear music by composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Many Russian athletes were sidelined from the past two Olympics, and the country's flag was banned at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games as punishment for state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Russia has in the past acknowledged some shortcomings in its implementation of anti-doping policies, but it denies running a state-sponsored doping programme.

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Lawmakers send bill blocking school COVID-19 vaccine mandates to governor - Ohio Capital Journal

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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).

After midnight on the last legislative day before summer break, Republican lawmakers passed legislation blocking public schools and colleges from mandating vaccination against COVID-19.

The bill, if signed into law, would prohibit public schools and colleges from requiring vaccines that are available under emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. All three COVID-19 vaccines fall into this category.

It also forbids schools and colleges from requiring unvaccinated people to adhere to different protocols like masks or social distancing than vaccinated people.

Gov. Mike DeWine said through a spokesman last week he would veto a similar proposal as passed by the House.

Sen. Andrew Brenner, R-Powell, introduced the amendment Monday afternoon into a largely unrelated bill regarding education for children with parents in the military.

In a floor speech, he emphasized that most fatalities from COVID-19 occurred among the elderly. He also cited a study from an unspecified source claiming there’s “no clear benefit” to vaccination when measured against the COVID-19 death rate. He said the decision is between students, their parents, and their physician.

“This is about personal rights, and it’s also about making sure our students are protected,” he said.

Study after study from the CDC and other public health agencies have documented a plummeting COVID-19 death rate among populations with robust vaccination coverage. The Associated Press reported last week that nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are now occurring among unvaccinated people.

In a 1 a.m. press conference after the House floor session, House Speaker Bob Cupp, R-Lima, said immunizations are decisions for parents.

“I think there is a concern that there might be a movement toward requiring vaccination when it’s not really clear that that is necessary in order for those age groups to prevent the spread of disease,” he said.

Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima, said at a press conference earlier in the day that the legislation won’t undermine public confidence in vaccines. He said he didn’t want to see a “hodgepodge” of different decisions when school starts in the fall.

“At least one large, urban district indicated that all students will be required to have the COVID-19 vaccine,” he said. “It reminds people that the vaccine is still experimental and has not been approved like other vaccines.”

COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘experimental.’ To obtain emergency use authorization, manufacturers had to offer to regulators in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical trial data from tens of thousands of recipients on safety and efficacy of the vaccines when measured against a control group. They are also under ongoing safety monitoring from the FDA and CDC.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Cincinnati Public Schools is considering requiring COVID-19 vaccination for students this fall.

The amendment passed over the objections of Democrats, who argued the amendment leaves private schools able to require vaccination as they wish, unlike public schools.

Rep. Allison Russo, D-Upper Arlington, described the amendment as an “attack on our vaccination efforts here in Ohio.” She said the legislation undermines faith in vaccination efforts.

After the vote, the Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom, an anti-vaccination advocacy group, called the vote a “small and temporary win” but doubled down on its support for a broader, more controversial anti-vaccination bill, House Bill 248.

Ohio public schools and colleges have for decades required students to be vaccinated (or in some cases, naturally immune after infection) against a spread of infectious diseases. However, state law requires them to recognize, along with medical exemptions, religious or philosophical exemptions.

The Senate’s version differs from what the House passed last week as it specifies the legislation does not apply to hospitals or health care facilities operated by universities. A DeWine spokesman said last week the governor would veto the House’s idea.

“The governor has made clear his position on bills that discourage vaccination or would affect the right of an employer to keep their employees and customers safe and healthy,” he said.

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Alaska House votes to avert government shutdown, send budget to Gov. Dunleavy - Anchorage Daily News

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JUNEAU — The Alaska House of Representatives has approved a state budget that will avert a government shutdown, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy said he will sign it.

In a 28-10 vote on Monday, the House approved the “effective date clause,” which allows the budget to take effect July 1, the start of the state’s fiscal year.

“Once I receive the budget, and review individual items, I will make a decision on possible line item vetoes and prepare the budget for implementation on July 1,” Dunleavy said in a brief written statement. “This action will avert a government shutdown.”

The vote ended almost two weeks of uncertainty caused when House Republicans voted against the clause.

Other legislators urged Dunleavy to sign the budget without the start date, but Dunleavy said doing so would be unconstitutional. The Alaska Department of Law said that without the clause, Alaska would have no budget until September. That would have caused a government shutdown starting July 1. Thousands of state workers would have been laid off, many state services would have been suspended and many state-paid contractors would have been forced to stop work.

“We’ve got a lot of Alaskans that are probably jumping for joy about now thinking that their paychecks are going to continue on coming,” said Speaker of the House Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak.

The House and Senate adjourned an ongoing special session immediately after the House approved the effective date clause.

That clause required two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate to agree. Fully funding the budget as written requires three-quarters of the 40-member House and three-quarters of the 20-member Senate. Neither the House nor Senate have passed the budget by the needed margin.

As a result, the Permanent Fund dividend in the budget is cut to $525, and there will not be enough money for programs that subsidize the cost of rural home electricity and pay college scholarships to Alaska high school students. Some construction projects in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are also defunded.

But lawmakers believe those issues will be resolved later this summer or in the fall, during an upcoming special session of the Legislature. Dunleavy could intensify the need for a fix by vetoing affected items.

Those problems have been secondary to the prospect of a total government shutdown.

“We’ve been so focused on not shutting down this state that I haven’t taken that next step,” Stutes said.

Speaker of the House Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, watches as lawmakers consider a vote on Alaska's state budget Monday, June 28, 2021 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (James Brooks / ADN)

Alaska’s House of Representatives is divided between an 18-member Republican minority and a 21-member majority coalition that includes Democrats, Republicans and independents. Rep. Sara Rasmussen, R-Anchorage, is not a member of either group.

For weeks, members of the minority have asked for action on a long-term state fiscal plan. The specific requests have varied. Kenai Republican Rep. Ron Gillham asked for a lengthy list of things including changes to the state’s constitutional spending cap and “a 15% cut across the board from all departments.”

One of his requests — and one repeated by many minority Republicans — is a constitutional amendment proposed by Dunleavy. That amendment would increase the dividend to about $2,350 per person if approved by voters next year.

But the proposal has been opposed by legislators in the House and Senate who say it is unaffordable without major new taxes. The Dunleavy administration’s projections call for $500 million in new taxes or spending cuts, plus spending from the Permanent Fund beyond a limit set by the Legislature in 2018.

Republicans sought to use the vote on the effective date — and the vote on fully funding the budget — as levers to move the majority, but neither side was willing to budge.

That led the state to the brink of a shutdown.

Members of the majority suggested Dunleavy could sign the budget without the effective date clause, but the governor said he believes that would be an unconstitutional act.

Attorney General Treg Taylor has sued a legislative agency in an attempt to force a legal decision on the matter.

Taylor said Monday that he intends to continue with the lawsuit. Courtroom arguments are scheduled for Tuesday, with an initial verdict afterward.

In addition to the legal maneuvering, the House majority and minority had been talking behind closed doors for days about a deal to end the deadlock in the House.

The details of that deal were revealed Monday: The House and Senate will create a “bicameral nonpartisan working group” that will try to create a comprehensive state fiscal plan before the Legislature’s next special session. The Republican minority will appoint its own members to the working group, as will the House’s coalition majority, the Senate’s Republican majority and the Senate’s Democratic minority.

Members of the Alaska House of Representatives' Republican minority caucus discuss a vote on the state's budget Monday, June 28, 2021 at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (James Brooks / ADN)

After a weekend of offers and counteroffers, Stutes and Tilton had one final meeting about the deal Monday morning. Because of miscommunications, Stutes said she left that meeting thinking the minority was unwilling to make a deal. Tilton said she believed negotiations were continuing and that a tentative schedule was in place.

“There was definitely some communication challenges there,” Tilton said.

Despite believing there was no deal, Stutes called for a vote anyway.

”I felt it was time that people knew where they stood, whether there was an effective date or there wasn’t,” Stutes said.

Three votes, each requiring approval from 27 House members, were necessary.

After two of the three votes, members of the minority asked for a break in order to vote on a “sense of the House,” a nonbinding statement that called for the creation of the budget working group.

The House took an extended break to finalize the wording of that document, allow legislators to read it, then vote upon it.

”It was a very, very heated discussion on how we were going to move forward,” Tilton said.

After legislators approved the creation of the working group, they voted to avert the shutdown.

Republican Reps. James Kaufman of Anchorage, Ken McCarty of Eagle River, Tom McKay of Anchorage, Laddie Shaw of Anchorage and Cathy Tilton of Wasilla switched and voted in favor of the effective date clause and against the shutdown.

Also voting yes was Rep. Sara Rasmussen, R-Anchorage, who was absent from the first vote and is not a member of either the majority or minority. All members of the majority voted in favor of the clause.

Voting no were Republican Reps. Ben Carpenter of Nikiski; Mike Cronk of Tok; David Eastman of Wasilla; Ron Gillham of Kenai; DeLena Johnson of Palmer; Christopher Kurka of Wasilla; Kevin McCabe of Big Lake; Mike Prax of North Pole; George Rauscher of Sutton; and Sarah Vance of Homer.

Excused absent from the votes were Reps. Tiffany Zulkosky, D-Bethel, and David Nelson, R-Anchorage. Nelson said he was at National Guard training that had been postponed from April. Zulkosky did not respond to a text message asking why she was absent.

Tilton said she isn’t completely satisfied with the outcome, though she voted against the shutdown. Members of the minority disagree with the idea of funding the dividend and some Mat-Su construction projects from special accounts, and that didn’t change in the final budget.

They also didn’t get a firm commitment on fiscal action in the next special session.

Two years ago, the House and Senate created a similar working group to advise the Legislature on the future of the Permanent Fund. That group’s recommendations were never implemented.

”That is a cause for concern,” Tilton said, “and especially — I think our members have said it on record — what does it take to make change happen?”

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U.K. wants to send asylum seekers to offshore centers after Denmark passes similar law - The Washington Post

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With Britain’s exit from the European Union, Westminster is no longer part of the bloc’s Dublin regulation, through which it could transfer some asylum seekers to other European countries, where their applications would be processed. Johnson had been a critic of the law, and his government has called for negotiating another pact.

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Biden administration to send COVID vaccines to Peru and Pakistan - Reuters

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WASHINGTON June 28 (Reuters) - The Biden administration is shipping 2 million doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine to Peru and 1.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to Pakistan, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday.

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Hallmark Reinvents the Way to Send Greeting Cards with All-New Sign & Send™ Technology - PRNewswire

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Sign & Send is an option for thousands of cards available on Hallmark.com. After a user enters the Sign & Send experience and selects their card, they can add their own handwritten message to the card by writing the message on a sheet of paper, snapping a photo, and uploading the photo to the website. After they enter the address, Hallmark will stamp the card and send it to the recipient at no extra cost.

"This is a personalized and seamless way for consumers to shop, choose, purchase and send greeting cards," says Roy. "This new offering brings together the digital and physical by offering the exact same Hallmark cards that you find in stores at the same price but signed and sent directly from a phone. As a way to celebrate this exciting launch, we are offering customers their first card sent using Sign & Send for free."

Hallmark recognizes the importance of giving consumers options when it comes to buying products. As shopping behaviors continue to shift, Sign & Send gives customers more choices in how and where they purchase Hallmark greeting cards. Whether a person is shopping in a store and needs a card for a friend's birthday or remembers late at night that they need to send a card to their mom, Hallmark makes it easy for people to connect with their loved ones.

Sign & Send is the latest innovation to come from Hallmark which reimagines what it means for people to shop and send cards. For more than 100 years, Hallmark has been an industry gamechanger from inventing modern decorative gift wrap in 1917; to developing greeting card displays in 1935 still in use today; to creating the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1951 that ultimately led to Hallmark Channel; to introducing Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments in 1971 that people continue to collect every year. Hallmark remains committed to helping people live more caring and connected lives filled with meaningful moments.

About Hallmark 
For more than 100 years, family-owned Hallmark Cards, Inc. has been dedicated to creating a more emotionally connected world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri and employing 27,000 worldwide, the approximately $3.5 billion company operates a diversified portfolio of businesses. The Hallmark Global business sells greeting cards, gift wrap and related products in more than 30 languages with distribution in more than 100 countries and 100,000 rooftops worldwide, including a network of company-owned and independently-owned Hallmark Gold Crown stores in five countries. Crayola® offers a wide range of art materials and creative play toys designed to spark children's creativity around the globe. Crown Media Family Networks operates three cable channels – Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama – in addition to Hallmark Publishing, a leading publisher of uplifting eBooks, audiobooks, and print editions, and Hallmark Movies Now, a subscription-based streaming service. Crown Center is a real estate development company that manages the 85-acre hotel, office, entertainment and residential campus surrounding Hallmark's headquarters. For more information, visit Hallmark.com. Connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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Biden's airstrikes send a clear message amid Iran deal talks — but are unlikely to derail them, analysts say - CNBC

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The U.S. launched airstrikes into parts of Iraq and Syria overnight, targeting Iranian-backed militias there in response to what the Biden administration says were drone attacks against American personnel in Iraq.  

The strikes targeted operational and weapons storage facilities in two locations in Syria and one in Iraq, though it is not immediately clear if anyone was killed or injured. The strikes are the second round ordered by President Joe Biden against Iranian-backed militias since he began his term in office.

The strikes took place against the backdrop of ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and six world powers, including the U.S., to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. Also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Obama administration-era deal lifted economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits to its nuclear program. 

Returning to the JCPOA — which the Trump administration abandoned in 2018 — is a major foreign policy priority for the Biden White House. Could the new strikes derail the talks, or rather send a message that good faith attempts at diplomacy won't preclude military action where the administration deems it necessary? 

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For Sanam Vakil, an Iran expert and deputy head of the Middle East North Africa program at Chatham House, it's the latter.

"The strikes send a clear message that regional issues with Iran will not be ignored at the expense of the Vienna JCPOA negotiations," Vakil told CNBC on Monday. "This is also intended to reassure the U.S.'s regional partners that a U.S. reentry into the deal won't result in a carte blanche to Iran."

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Still, the current negotiations — where the U.S. and Iran are not talking directly, but rather via intermediaries — are expected to survive the recent military strikes. Aniseh Tabrizi, senior research fellow at London's Royal United Services Institute, noted that Biden ordered airstrikes against Iranian-backed militia targets in Syria in February and talks still took place.

But Iran earlier this month elected a new president, Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner with a vocally anti-Western stance. While outgoing President Hassan Rouhani supported outreach to Western counterparts and even spoke on the phone with former President Barack Obama — the first such contact between leaders of the two countries in more than three decades — Raisi has flatly rejected any prospect of meeting with Biden.

With this in mind, Tabrizi doesn't see the attacks from Iranian-backed militia in the region cooling down. 

"In fact, there is a chance they could even intensify," she said.

'Only countries making bombs'

Despite Raisi's track record as a hard-liner, he has expressed support for rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal. Reentering the deal and having the crippling Trump-era sanctions lifted is essential to preventing Iran's devastated economy from spiraling further, analysts say. 

"I doubt that the strikes would have any impact on the JCPOA talks," Ali Vaez, Iran project director at Crisis Group, told CNBC on Monday. "The two sides seem to have managed to segregate their differences between those that could be settled diplomatically and those for which they seek a military solution." 

"Both Iran and the U.S. have demonstrated that they're capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time."

Still, with so many variables at play, there remains the very real risk that the talks could fail. Iran and the U.S. are at loggerheads over the issue of sanctions; Tehran has dramatically ramped up its uranium enrichment and stockpiling in violation of the deal since the U.S. began loading sanctions on the country, and says it will only reverse course once the sanctions are lifted. 

The Biden administration, meanwhile, is refusing to budge on sanctions until Iran walks back its nuclear deal breaches. Earlier in June, the chief of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said that "only countries making bombs" are enriching uranium at Iran's level. And on Sunday the speaker of Iran's Parliament said that the country would "never" hand over images of the insides of its nuclear facilities to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, which was part of an agreement with the monitoring group, since that agreement had expired.

The latest missile volley from the U.S. then, Vaez warned, "suggests that if the diplomatic track in Vienna collapses, the tensions in the region are bound to go from bad to worse."

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Why I choose to send tactile texts - Christian Science Monitor

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As a child, when my family took a vacation, we wrote postcards from the Great Smoky Mountains or the Lincoln Memorial to show our friends the new places we had explored.

During my college years I spent a couple of summers as a companion to an elderly woman, and her friends mailed her postcards from around the world. We lined them up on the windowsills of her sun porch, so she could enjoy the stunning scenes from the Swiss Alps to the Grand Canyon. I considered postcards as simply a way to share travels until I encountered my grandmother’s postcard album.

My three cousins and I unearthed the dark gray leather album with black paper pages. Little white gummed tabs held down the corners of each card. 

Some of the postcard designs showed pine boughs with red bows and announced Merry Christmas, and numerous hearts decorated other cards proclaiming Happy Valentine’s Day. But most of the postcards had illustrations of flowers or birds or had pastoral scenes that did not reflect a holiday or a travel destination.

My cousins and I slipped them from the album. The postmarks on the back were from Chicago, where my grandmother had grown up. She later settled in Michigan with my fruit-farming grandfather. 

Instead of telling about a holiday in Maine, the notes – written in flowing penmanship – were invitations to come to a dinner party or go for a walk the next day. 

We tramped up the basement stairs and found my grandmother.

“Why do these postcards ask you to come to tea?” I asked.

“Because this is how we communicated before we had a telephone,” she said. “I would pop a postcard in the morning mail, and a friend would receive it that afternoon. Then she’d post a reply that arrived in my mail the next morning.”

“You got mail twice a day?” I said. 

“Yes. I suppose living in Chicago gave us that privilege, and remember, we had no phone.”

My cousins and I stared at each other. Life without a phone sounded like something out of “Little House on the Prairie.” Connecting by postcards seemed as odd as using a carrier pigeon.

I had forgotten about my grandmother’s postcards until lockdowns restricted our trips to see our three granddaughters who live several hours away. While I sent them texts, such messages seemed nebulous to me. I wanted to give them something tactile to remind them of my love during a time of isolation. 

Remembering my grandmother’s postcard album, I bought several sets of cards featuring fun facts about animals and American history. Every few weeks, I’d write notes and mail them. The girls occasionally responded with brief thank-you texts. 

Then one day I opened my mailbox and spied three hand-addressed envelopes. In penmanship reflecting their ages, from tween to teen, each girl thanked me for the postcards. The notes captured their frustrations with pandemic strictures, how they’d been separated from friends, and how my messages had comforted them in an unsettled time. 

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Just as my grandmother’s postcard album had preserved moments from her youth, I treasure these missives that revealed the girls’ states of mind. I tucked them away in a safe place.

I had been pondering how my grandmother had embraced the telephone as a new way to nurture relationships. Like her, I accepted the girls’ preferred mode of communication and texted my thanks for their letters. Yet, even as the lockdowns end, I will continue to send my grandchildren postcards because everyone enjoys receiving a real letter in the mail.

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UK wants to send asylum seekers to offshore centers after Denmark passes similar law - Stars and Stripes

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For years, talk of sending asylum seekers to offshore facilities was seen as fringe in the United Kingdom.

But Home Secretary Priti Patel is pushing forward with legislation next week that would permit the U.K. to send refugees and migrants abroad for processing — a move similar to a law that Denmark passed in early June allowing it to send asylum seekers outside Europe while their applications are reviewed.

Downing Street is even exploring sharing a center in Africa with Denmark, the Times of London reported.

The Nationality and Borders Bill would allow for Britain's first offshore immigration processing center.

Refugee and human rights groups have widely condemned Australia's use of offshore detention centers on several islands, where advocates say people are denied legal protections they are due as asylum seekers. Australia says its methods are legal and necessary to deter further migration.

Migration flows slowed during the height of the global pandemic last year. But many of the problems pushing people to leave — including poverty, persecution and violence — have only worsened during the resulting global economic downturn. Some migration has nonetheless continued, and experts say people are increasingly on the move in search of safety again.

Patel previously floated a similar proposal — to widespread opposition.

In September, she asked officials to look into the feasibility of sending asylum seekers to remote islands in the South Atlantic. One option reportedly on the table was St. Helena, a volcanic island where exiled French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died.

The Home Office scrapped the idea after a public backlash.

But this time around, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing renewed pressure to stop the flow of migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe on small boats through the English Channel. About 5,700 people have crossed this year, according to the Times.

With Britain's exit from the European Union, Westminster is no longer part of the bloc's Dublin regulation, through which it could transfer some asylum seekers to other European countries, where their applications would be processed. Johnson had been a critic of the law, and his government has called for negotiating another pact.

In early June, Denmark's parliament passed legislation to enable the government to send asylum seekers to a still-undetermined third country outside Europe.

The law was backed by Denmark's Social Democratic Party, which leads the government and is hawkish on immigration. The United Nations and the European Commission, among others, condemned it.

European Commission spokesman Adalbert Jahnz said the law risked "undermining the foundations of the international protection system for the world's refugees." He also said it was not permitted under E.U. regulations, Politico reported.

In the spring, Denmark became the first European country to revoke refugee status for Syrians, arguing that about 200 applicants were safe to return to their home nation, despite widespread condemnation of forced returns to the war-torn country.

Despite the bad press, Denmark has persisted with its hard-line stance against immigration.

In March, Mike Adamson, the head of the British Red Cross, told the BBC that "offshoring" asylum claims would "do nothing to address the reasons people take dangerous journeys in the first place . . . [and] would almost certainly have grave humanitarian consequences."

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‘You are not doing your societal duty’: Local doctors send strong message to unvaccinated Coloradans - FOX 31 Denver

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DENVER (KDVR) — As the delta variant continues to spread throughout the country, the World Health Organization is asking vaccinated people to still wear masks to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations, however have not changed, allowing fully vaccinated people to go without a mask.

In Denver-area hospitals, doctors tell FOX31 at least half of the unvaccinated COVID-19 patients are sick with the delta variant. The variant is significantly more contagious, and the symptoms patients feel are worse than from the original COVID-19 virus. Doctors continue to stress the message, that it’s the vaccines that will ultimately stop the spread.

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“Not getting vaccinated if you have the opportunity to do so, is going to be one of the most selfish acts that history will view,” said Dr. Richard Zane with UCHealth. “History will view you poorly because you did not participate in finishing this pandemic.”

As of Sunday, less than three million Coloradans are fully vaccinated. 

“What’s problematic and unexpected, is the degree to which the population that’s still unvaccinated, which means that we have fertile ground for more variants to happen,” Zane continued.

Doctors are thankful that the delta variant can still be detected in current COVID-19 testing methods and even more relieved our vaccines protect against it.

Research however, shows the vaccines are most effective against the original virus. Every variant can act differently, and more variants can form that the current vaccines don’t protect against. The key to preventing this from happening, is stopping the COVID-19 virus from spreading by getting the shot.

“What’s tragic is, it seems to be purposeful. We have more vaccines than we know what to do with. If you are over the age of 12 there’s no excuse for not getting the vaccine. If you are not getting a vaccine, you are not participating in the solution to this pandemic,” Zane stressed. “You are not doing your societal duty. You are not doing your act of patriotism. You are behaving in the most unamerican way ever imaginable after a pandemic. You are the problem if you are not vaccinated.”

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Despite WHO recommendations for continued mask wearing, Colorado still is not requiring them for those that are vaccinated. The WHO argues the reason vaccinated people should wear a mask is to play it safe.

FOX31 reached out to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for their take on the matter but didn’t get a response yet.

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Departing Berklee president releases musical send-off — featuring Senator Tim Kaine - The Boston Globe

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It seemed fitting that the departing president of Berklee College of Music would release a song as his send-off.

Roger H. Brown, who is concluding his 17-year tenure at the helm of Berklee on June 30, released the music video for the bluegrass tune “Self-Unemployed” on June 24. The song, which Brown co-wrote, features the musical stylings of four Berklee alums with singer-songwriter Trey Hensley on acoustic guitar and vocals, and a one-time vice presidential candidate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, on harmonica.

“Part of what I decided to do during the pandemic year is spend a little time writing songs just for my mental health,” Brown said in an interview. “We’ve been working on it most of the year, and my departure [was] a way to create a deadline.”

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Brown and Kaine, who have been friends for nearly four decades, came up with the idea for the song while on a bike trip up the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia in August 2020.

“When we were on the ride, having a lot of fun one night with a couple of beers, I said, ‘I thought of a great title for a song,’” Kaine said in a behind-the-scenes video for the song. “Lo and behold, six months later, February, I get a note from Roger saying ‘Hey, you know that ‘Self-Unemployed’ song?’”

Brown and Kaine worked with Berklee songwriting professor Mark Simos to pen the song. Berklee alumni Sierra Hull, Matt Rollings, Jordan Perlson, and Garry West joined the others to lay down the full track with Hensley.

The song is available for download through Apple Music and Spotify, under the band name “Wahoo Springs Band,” an homage to Brown’s Georgian roots.

Senator Tim Kaine, who was the running mate for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, is also known for his harmonica chops.Courtesy of the Berklee College of Music YouTube Channel

Brown said that he — much like the song’s protagonist — is looking forward to giving up some of the pressures that come with his full-time job, but was glad he got a chance to “be in the mix” one last time.

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“It just feels like the right thing to do, to be part of the creative process that our students are all involved in,” he said. “If we expect our students to be out there figuring this out and hustling, it’s good for us to be doing the same thing.”

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NC Republicans oppose NCAA's decision to send NC State home from Omaha - WRAL.com

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Raleigh, N.C. — Prominent North Carolina Republicans are calling out the NCAA, citing inconsistencies in the organization's handling of NC State baseball's COVID outbreak.

Due to at least one positive COVID test, NC State had only 13 players available in its 3-1 loss to Vanderbilt on Friday afternoon. The teams were slated to do battle for a winner-take-all contest Saturday afternoon, and as of Friday night, the Wolfpack were even optimistic that they may even get some guys back and eligible. But the NCAA's ruling sent the Wolfpack back to Raleigh without any shot to play.

U.S. Sen Thom Tillis posted on his Facebook page Sunday, saying the NCAA "embarrassed itself," adding that the Wolfpack players deserved a shot to play for the National Championship.

Pat McCrory, the former N.C. Governor who is running for U.S. Senate, also slammed the NCAA on Facebook, even calling for people to sign a petition in an effort to fire the NCAA President.

"The NCAA may have tried to CANCEL the NC State Wolfpack, but we won't let their nonsense continue. Sign our petition to DEMAND the NCAA President be FIRED and that NC State be able to compete for a championship!," McCrory wrote.

WRAL spoke exclusively with former NC State star and current White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon Saturday. Rodon spoke candidly about the NCAA's decision, saying that it made no sense and that he was "mad for the players."

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IDF to send rescue team to assist in Miami disaster - The Jerusalem Post

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An emergency delegation from the IDF's Homefront Command will be sent to Miami to help the rescue effort from the Champlain Towers building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on Saturday night. 

In coordination with the governor's office in Florida and the Foreign Ministry, Gantz decided to send a team of engineering and rescue specialists.

"We will make every effort to help save human lives, and to offer our support to the Jewish community and to our American friends," Gantz said.

Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai landed in Florida Sunday. During his trip, he will meet with local Jewish community leaders and Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Upon his return to Israel, Shai will present Prime Minister Naftali Bennett plans for assistance to the Jewish community. Ahead of his trip, Shai said that he intends to explore various ways of assisting the Jewish community in Miami.

נחתתי הבוקר במיאמי,יחד עם משלחת פיקוד העורף שהגיעו לסייע לכוחות החילוץ האמריקאים בזירת האסון בסורפסייד.גאה לעמוד כאן כנציג ממשלת ישראל, לצד משלחת מובחרת זו ולעזרת ידידינו בארה"ב בימים קשים אלה.נפעל יחד להושיט עזרה בשטח,אל מול הקהילה וגורמי הממשל בפלורידה.#SurfsideBuildingCollapse pic.twitter.com/uHelrsjp1x

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"We will do whatever we can to help the Americans in any way they deem fit," Shai told The Jerusalem Post en route to Miami. "America can learn from Israeli experience. Unfortunately, we have too much experience with disasters."   

Shai said his visit would send a powerful message about the relationship between Israel and American Jewry being a two-way street. He said this was very important to the prime minister.

Israel will send aid to Miami, Bennett promised on Friday afternoon. In a tweet Bennett wrote that "we are following with concern the difficult images that are coming out from Florida. Our Foreign Ministry representatives in Miami and Israel are doing everything possible to assist and address the situation.

"The entire nation of Israel prays for the safety of those injured and missing in the disaster," Bennett wrote. "From here we send support to our brethren in the Jewish community in particular, and to all Florida residents in general, and express our sorrow during this tragic event."  On Saturday night, the prime minister spoke to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Expressing condolences on behalf of the Israeli public, Bennett reaffirmed his pledge to provide aid. "The US is our greatest ally and we all stand by your side in this difficult time," Bennett told DeSantis. "We all pray for the safety of those injured. I have instructed all sectors of the Israeli government to assist in any way necessary."

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said that at such difficult times, Israel must stand with its friends in America and the Jewish people in Florida in particular. He said it was a badge of pride that Israel could be effective in providing assistance.

On Sunday, President-elect Isaac Herzog sent a missive to the President of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, expressing his condolences and offering support to the local Jewish community.

"The Jewish Agency has always worked to ensure the safety and security of our Jewish sisters and brothers whenever and wherever they may be. As you begin to assess needs, I would like to offer our assistance in the days and weeks to come. Our global presence and infrastructure allow us to swiftly respond to a tragedy like this."

United Hatzalah in cooperation with El Al will also be sending a team from its Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit to assist victims of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida.

The team will work to provide psychological support and emotional stabilization to those affected by the collapse, including families and neighbors of those who were injured, killed, missing or in any other way involved in the tragedy. United Hatzalah volunteers will also make themselves available to the wider community.

“As soon as the collapse occurred, we began making preparations for the mission to depart," said President and Founder of United Hatzalah Eli Beer. "When we contacted El Al about the possibility of having this mission, they were eager to help and decided to fully sponsor the flights for the team."

The mission will be led by Vice President of Operations for United Hatzalah Dov Maisal, who has led disaster response missions to Nepal, Haiti and Japan as a paramedic. He will partner directly with Clinical Operations Director of the PCRU Einat Kaufman, who is a cognitive psychologist and a trained EMT.

Most recently, the same team provided support to those affected by the Meron tragedy, those injured, mourning and to the first responders themselves.

"This will be the fourth emergency relief mission conducted by our Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit in the United States in as many years," Beer added. "El AL is an incredible partner and we are forever grateful for their support of this mission which is to help the community in Surfside that is suffering terribly right now."

"I myself was the benefactor of the kindness of the entire South Florida community during my fight with COVID-19 last year and if I were able to go myself on this mission I would," Beer added. "I am sending my best people on this mission in order to provide as much help as we can. We stand with you and we are sending you the best of the best to help. They will be there as soon as regulations permit us to arrive.”

Dianne Lob, Chair, William Daroff, CEO, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, issued a statement saying they were devastated by the disaster and grateful for the ongoing leadership and support shown by the local and broader Jewish community for those impacted by the tragedy.

"As we continue to monitor this developing situation, the American Jewish community prays for the recovery of the victims, and extends condolences to those who lost loved ones," they said.

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