TV’s Finest Father and Daughter Relationships

Sometimes, there’s nothing like the love between a TV daughter and her TV dad. 

They’ve been through a lot over the years, from dress up days to jokes about meeting boyfriends with shotguns to solving actual murders together, but the love is always there. Or, mostly there, when the dad’s not being a total dad. 

In honor of Father’s Day on June 20, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite father-daughter relationships on TV. Some are still on the air and some have long since bid farewell, but every single one of these pairs makes us want to ask if we can be adopted, even if we’re 30 years old and our own parents are perfectly good. 

Maybe our dads never opened a private detective agency with us or wanted us to become a crime-fighting superhero family or worked as the beloved coach of our high school football team, but we like them all the same! 

Maybe when the holiday resumes you need to contemplate paying a journey agent

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Like much of the travel and hospitality industry, travel agents took a huge blow when the pandemic broke out in March 2020.

However, after months of struggles and setbacks, a potential silver lining has emerged: effectively advocating travel agents for clients stranded or disabled during the global lockdown is perhaps their strongest selling point now.

“The bottom line is the adversity of the past 15 months is not without worth,” said James Ferrara, co-founder and president of the InteleTravel network, based in Delray Beach, Fla., Which includes approximately 60,000 home travel agents. “For us, it has brought customers back to a respect for professional advice and support.

“I definitely don’t want to sound numb; I’m very empathetic, ”he warned. “I just want people to understand that you can use a travel agent.”

Because when Ferrara got into the business three decades ago, he saw a survey that “places travel agents among used car sellers in terms of trust, credibility and value,” he said. “We have come a long way from that, and the last year has accelerated that.”

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Even before the crisis, some travelers remained loyal to their advisors. “Before all that [planning] felt like an overwhelming process for customers who came to see me, “said travel consultant Mike Rubinstein, owner and director of UprouteMe travel company in Los Angeles.” They stared at their computers, trying to sift through the mountains of information and misinformation Disinformation when it comes to travel so I was always a help to them.

“But now, more than ever, with that extra layer [of crisis]”I think a trip planner has so much added value.”

Jessica Griscavage, a consultant and director of marketing at McCabe World Travel in McLean, Virginia, recalls answering her cell phone on a Friday night at the start of the pandemic. It was her contact person at the Four Seasons Resort and Residences Anguilla who informed her that her client should not go to the airport in the morning because the Caribbean island had just closed its borders.

“The next day we booked this customer for a trip to Florida instead,” she said. “We not only fought for our customers and worked to get them refunds and date changes – for those who were still willing to travel, we switched gears and got them to do something else.”

Griscavage said March and April 2020 were the two worst months of her entire career. “It happened at exactly spring break time, which was going to be my best spring break on record,” she said. “I thought, ‘This is going to go away in a month and a half; it’s Zika [virus] once again.'”

Instead, the lockdowns lasted from spring to summer and beyond. Rubinstein said his last client traveled in February 2020. “I literally had to close for a year to stay afloat and figure out how to restructure my processes,” he said, adding that he was looking for a six-month paralegal I have enrolled in the UCLA course in case the trip has not recovered.

“We just always refunded and refunded, and we fought for our customers,” said Griscavage.

Despite this uninterrupted advocacy, travel advisors – mostly women who ran small businesses – weren’t paid when customers weren’t traveling, noted Zane Kerby, CEO of the American Society of Travel Advisors in Alexandria, Virginia. “Our members are always rescheduling, rescheduling, so they’re doing more work and still not getting paid,” he said. “The pandemic has revealed a real weakness in the compensation structure for travel agents.”

While there has been a lot of pressure in many regions to support local shops, bars and restaurants during the lockdown, “people are forgetting about the other side of the hospitality industry, from the flight attendant and travel agent to the [hotel] Housekeeper, “Griscavage said.” It’s been really affecting our industry. “

Advisors have not always been the endangered species as they sometimes seem. Once upon a time, in the pre-internet era, you would take a quick trip to a travel agent before going on a family vacation or business trip. Few people had the travel expertise or connections to book flights, hotel stays, or travel packages themselves, and travel agents did it all for you for free.

If you didn’t understand the value of a travel advisor before, surely you do now.

Zane Kerby

CEO of the American Society of Travel Advisors

With the advent of so-called online travel agencies, discount consolidator sites, and travel agent web portals in the late 1990s, consumers were able to book much of their trips themselves, sometimes saving money in the process. (Gen Xer, who grew up as online agencies, “really were the culprits here,” Ferrara said.) The vendors even started cutting commissions for travel agents overall.

With the help of the Internet, “the middleman” was eliminated, the travel consultant who received commissions from airlines, hotel chains and tour operators so that the providers could offer seemingly bargains on their own self-service sites or in online travel agencies. Problems arose, however, with unforeseen bumps in the road – natural disasters, political crises, industrial strikes – and then travelers had to largely self-cater.

And what a bump Covid turned out to be. “When the pandemic hit, there were literally months of planning – for destination weddings, 50th anniversary trips, that kind of thing – all of this wonderful work was really in vain,” Kerby said. “Everything was canceled within a few days – and with that, our members’ modest commissions to support their families disappeared.”

But the work of the consultants continues. Ferrara said travel providers’ cancellation and change policies changed weekly, their phone lines were blocked, and travel insurance claims needed to be reviewed.

“Rules and regulations seem to change overnight,” Kerby said, citing a daily update from the airline he receives on security, testing requirements and even local curfews that most travelers are unaware of. “That is why the role of the travel advisor is more important than ever.

“The consumer they advocate has no relationship with all of the various vendors it takes to put together a truly successful trip.”

And it’s worth paying for it, he noted. When commissions were cut two decades ago, some consultants introduced planning fees. “Some – not enough – of our members have service fees that we believe fully because they do all of this work in advance,” said Kerby.

And it’s a job in the best interests of the average traveler, says Erika Richter, ASTA’s senior director of communications. “Travel agents aren’t just for the super-luxuries or the super-rich, and they don’t push you one way or cut money,” she said. “The value is there.”

Kerby said if yesterday’s consultants were unclear who they were working for, commission cuts would clarify. “Even if they didn’t know it then and now know, we are advisers to the consumer.”

According to Griscavage, consultants today often charge a fee for booking airline tickets – “they make every penny,” she said – despite the ability to book yourself online as flights are constantly changing these days. “A customer of mine was about to board a flight to Hawaii and it was canceled the night before,” she added. “So there is great value in paying an airfare service fee.”

It also charges a so-called “plan-to-go” fee, which the customer only loses if he ultimately does not travel. “You will see more in the future [advisor] Fees, but I think people need to keep in mind that if they don’t travel we won’t get any compensation. “

Ferrara says only a small percentage of InteleTravel’s home agents, typically the best-selling, charge “to be more efficient with their time”.

“Usually it filters out looks,” he said, referring to window shopping wannabe travelers. Typical travel agent fees can be up to $ 500; Some professionals, usually those focused on luxury, also require their clients to spend a minimum daily amount of time when putting together a trip.

Griscavage doesn’t require a minimum, but the average is $ 250. Richter said consultant fees have so many variables that there is “no one size fits all”.

“How many people are you bringing with you? Where are you from? It’s complex, ”she added. “But it is something that we need to address and that we are happy to accept because the value is there. And we are really encouraged to see more people see that value.”

Whether or not to pay for travel advice depends only on how important travelers’ free time is to them, Griskavage said. “We always say that time is your most precious asset, and that’s where we help here,” she said. “I was on hold at a tour operator for two hours just to get an answer for my customers. That was two hours in which the customer didn’t have to do anything.”

I think anyone who got through the last year would be crazy to book a trip without a travel professional.

James Ferrara

President of InteleTravel

The message seems to be getting through. Kerby says 30-40% of business is now coming from first-time users of advisory services as travel bookings start ticking again.

For example, this year’s American Express Travel: Global Travel Trends Report found that 59% of travelers surveyed plan to book their next vacation through a travel agent. Meanwhile, a survey by ASTA and Montego Bay, Jamaica-based Sandals Resorts, found that 27% of travelers before Covid always or often used an advisor and 44% say they are more likely to do so after the pandemic. In addition, 94% of long-term customers plan to continue using their travel advisor.

“The future is bright,” said Kerby. “If you didn’t understand the value of a travel advisor before, surely you do now because you know how thin the reaction mechanisms are for some” [travel] Delivery.”

He recalled stories of cruise lines unable to dock in ports last year amid Covid outbreaks on board. “The people who booked with a travel agent weren’t worried at all,” said Kerby. “Those who booked alone were on the phone and on the Internet and had to pay exceptionally high fees to find out how to get home.”

Kerby said the former ASTA slogan was “Without a travel agent, you’re on your own.” The pandemic, he said, ultimately proved it was right. “As soon as you go and use one, you implicitly understand its value.”

Ferrara is even more blunt: “I think anyone who got through the last year would be crazy to book trips without a travel professional.”

Biden laid the foundations for an alliance to protect democracy

To comprehend the audacious ambition behind President Joe Biden’s Europe trip this week, think of him less as U.S. commander-in-chief and more as the democratic (small “d”) world’s physician-in-charge.

Eighty years ago, as far fewer democracies were under siege by surging authoritarian forces, Franklin Roosevelt in his famous “Four Freedoms” speech to Congress in 1941, proclaimed himself Dr. Win-the-War. Now as democratic world faces a renewed assault, it’s Biden’s turn to be Dr. Save-Democracy.

Having repeatedly provided his diagnosis of the cancers endangering global democracies, Biden this past week accelerated the course of treatment. Like any good physician, he understands cure and recovery remain uncertain after so many years of invasive and metastasizing disease.

Waiting any longer would have ensured the patient’s failure in what Biden has diagnosed as an “inflection point” in the historic and systemic struggle against authoritarianism. As he said this week at NATO headquarters in Brussels, laying out a theme underpinning his entire presidency: “We have to prove to the world and our own people that that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people.”

While the 78-year-old President’s messaging and his remarkable endurance on the trip’s five whistle stops were impressive, any U.S. leader can line up a similar set of meetings. They included his bilateral with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, followed by the G-7 gathering of the world’s leading industrial democracies, then the meeting of NATO leaders, a U.S.-European Union summit and finishing in Geneva with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the embodiment of what Biden’s fighting.

More notable is what Biden did with them. Through painstaking planning and negotiations, his team and its partners produced dozens of pages of agreements, communiques and future commitments. All of it was designed to provide a narrative thread and to provoke common cause among the world’s leading democracies.

Behind all that rests an overriding Biden administration focus on China as the challenge of our time. Unlike the Trump administration, which put itself in conflict with Europe and China simultaneously, the Biden administration has gone out of its way to rally Europeans to its side in the competition with China, even if compromise is required from individual countries and an entire European Union that count China as their leading trade partner.  

The agreements achieved this past week included a Carbis Bay G-7 summit communique that contained, among much more, commitments to provide the world a further billion doses of Covid vaccines this year, a plan to reinvigorate member economies and a commitment toward a global minimum tax.

They included a U.S.-EU summit statement, perhaps the most underreported and underestimated of the week’s agreements, which established a number of dialogues that could forge closer cooperation on everything from Covid relief and climate change to technological cooperation and China.

 “We intend to continue coordinating on our shared concerns, including ongoing human rights violations in Xinjiang and Tibet,” the statement said, “the erosion of autonomy and democratic processes in Hong Kong; economic coercion; disinformation campaigns; and regional security issues.”

The move to end a 17-year trade and tariff dispute between Boeing and Airbus also has the rising competition with China as its motivating factor. Even the three-paragraph U.S.-Russia Presidential Joint Statement on Strategic Stability had China in its sights, aimed at launching a bilateral Strategic Stability Dialogue whose aim would be to create a more predictable environment with Moscow so that Washington’s energies could be focused more squarely on Beijing.

Lingering beneath the surface of all President Biden’s meetings, however, were enduring doubts about the durability of this renewed American commitment to alliances, democratic partners and a common cause – producing some understandable whiplash among heads of state and government who had participated in meetings of a far different tone with President Trump.

Europeans have reason to wonder what the next U.S. elections might bring, as Trump and his allies still refuse to accept his electoral defeat and claim fraud. They also have their own electoral uncertainties, with German elections in September set to end Chancellor Angela Merkel’s nearly 16 years of leadership, and French President Macron facing local elections Sunday that could provide a preview for his showdown next year with Marine Le Pen.

In no small part, credit those uncertainties for Biden’s large degree of success with his partners last week, who were only too eager to embrace the change. What the Trump administration demonstrated, as have the first months of the Biden presidency, is the continued dependence of global democracies upon U.S. leadership. So why not leverage the present to put as many agreements and habits in place as possible, hoping they might be enduring.     

In that spirit, the week started appropriately with the New Atlantic Charter signed with British Prime Minister Johnson, a useful reminder of what a historic difference an internationally engaged United States can make on the 80th anniversary of the original Atlantic Charter agreed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

“Our revitalized Atlantic Charter,” reads the new document, “building on the commitments and aspirations set out eighty years ago, affirms our ongoing commitment to sustaining our enduring values and defending them against new and old challenges. We commit to working closely with all partners who share our democratic values and to countering the efforts of those who seek to undermine our alliances and institutions.”

It is worth recalling that almost four full months before the formal U.S. entry into World War II Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to the original charter, outlining their ambitious common aims for the post-war world, and making clear U.S. support for the British war effort, on August 14, 1941.

It is also worth reflecting on what sort of world might have emerged had the U.S. not stepped forward.

With the post-war liberal order threatened, the New Atlantic Charter could serve as a clarion call of a renewed international commitment to the revival of democracy.

Back in December of last year, I wrote in this space, “Joe Biden has that rarest of opportunities that history provides: the chance to be a transformative president.”

Biden’s trip to Europe recognizes and builds upon that opportunity. However, perhaps just as motivating is the understood but unspoken cost of failure at a time when the question about what global forces will shape the future is up for grabs.  

Frederick Kempe is a best-selling author, prize-winning journalist and president & CEO of the Atlantic Council, one of the United States’ most influential think tanks on global affairs. He worked at The Wall Street Journal for more than 25 years as a foreign correspondent, assistant managing editor and as the longest-serving editor of the paper’s European edition. His latest book – “Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth” – was a New York Times best-seller and has been published in more than a dozen languages. Follow him on Twitter @FredKempe and subscribe here to Inflection Points, his look each Saturday at the past week’s top stories and trends.

Umstritten unter Trump, Bundesfeiertag unter Biden

(LR) Der 94-jährige Aktivist und pensionierte Pädagoge Opal Lee, bekannt als die Großmutter des Juneteenth, spricht mit US-Präsident Joe Biden, nachdem er im East Room des Weißen Hauses am 17.06.2021 in Washington, D.C.

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Die Szene im Weißen Haus am Donnerstag war vielleicht noch vor einem Jahr schwer zu durchschauen.

Eine vielfältige Schar von Gesetzgebern, Aktivisten und Gemeindeführern – darunter die Popikone Usher, mit der viele Fotos gemacht wurden – versammelte sich im East Room, um zu sehen, wie Präsident Joe Biden einen neuen Bundesfeiertag unterzeichnete: Juneteenth, der am 19. Juni an das Ende erinnert der Sklaverei in den Vereinigten Staaten.

Da die Coronavirus-Infektionen in den USA inmitten einer umfassenden Impfkampagne auf allen Regierungsebenen nahe einem Rekordtiefstand waren, wurden nur wenige Mitglieder der in Innenräumen persönlich anwesenden Menschenmenge mit Masken gesehen.

“Wir sind hier versammelt, in einem Haus, das von versklavten Menschen gebaut wurde”, sagte Vizepräsidentin Kamala Harris, die erste schwarze Frau, die den Titel trug. “Wir sind nur wenige Schritte davon entfernt, wo Präsident Abraham Lincoln die Emanzipationsproklamation unterzeichnet hat, und wir sind hier, um mitzuerleben, wie Präsident Joe Biden den Juniteenth zum Nationalfeiertag erklärt.”

“Wir sind weit gekommen und wir haben noch einen langen Weg vor uns, aber heute ist ein Tag der Feierlichkeiten”, sagte Harris.

Während sie sprach, trat die Präsidentin vom Podium und näherte sich der ersten Reihe, dann kniete sie nieder, um Opal Lee zu umarmen, den 94-jährigen texanischen Aktivisten, der als treibende Kraft hinter dem Vorstoß für den neuen Feiertag gilt.

„Ich bin erst seit mehreren Monaten Präsident, aber ich denke, dies wird für mich als eine der größten Ehrungen gelten, die ich als Präsident hatte“, sagte Biden der Menge, bevor er das Gesetz unterzeichnete.

Der 11. nationale jährliche Feiertag wurde nur zwei Tage vor dem 18. Juni selbst und weniger als drei Wochen nach dem 100. Jahrestag des Massakers der Rasse Tulsa festgelegt. Es folgte auch dem ersten Todestag von George Floyd, dem unbewaffneten Schwarzen, dessen Mord auf Band in Polizeigewahrsam einen landesweiten Ausbruch ziviler Unruhen auslöste.

In einer Zeit, in der sich Republikaner und Demokraten praktisch über nichts einig sind, haben sie sich diese Woche mit überwältigender Mehrheit dafür entschieden, den 15. Juni zu einem Bundesfeiertag zu machen.

Noch vor einem Jahr, Mitte Juni 2020, stellten all diese Faktoren – Tulsa, Juneteenth, die Protestwellen und die Covid-Pandemie – Probleme für den damaligen Präsidenten Donald Trump, der unter Beschuss geraten war, weil er Pläne für eine Kundgebung in Tulsa am Feiertag.

“Ich habe Juneteenth sehr berühmt gemacht”, sagte Trump dem Wall Street Journal, nachdem er das Datum der Kundgebung verschoben hatte. “Es ist eigentlich ein wichtiges Ereignis, eine wichtige Zeit. Aber davon hatte noch nie jemand gehört.”

Der Kontrast zwischen Trumps letztem Juneteenth als Präsident und Bidens erstem könnte kaum krasser sein. Es veranschaulicht nicht nur die seismischen Veränderungen, die in der Nation im Spiel sind und wie sie die Gegenwart geprägt haben, sondern auch, wie die beiden Präsidenten an Rassenfragen herangegangen sind.

Der Weg zum Bundesfeiertag

Juneteenth feiert das Datum im Jahr 1865, als versklavte Schwarze in Texas endlich erfuhren, dass sie im Rahmen der Emanzipationsproklamation befreit wurden, die Präsident Abraham Lincoln mehr als zwei Jahre zuvor herausgegeben hatte.

Die konföderierte Armee unter General Robert E. Lee hatte sich am 9. April 1865 bei Appomattox in Virginia ergeben, eine Kapitulation, die zum Ende des Bürgerkriegs führte. Aber erst am 19. Juni trafen Unionstruppen unter General Gordon Granger in der Küstenstadt Galveston in Texas ein, um den Generalbefehl Nr. 3 zu überbringen, der die Sklaverei im Staat offiziell beendet.

„Die Bevölkerung von Texas wird darüber informiert, dass gemäß einer Proklamation der Exekutive der Vereinigten Staaten alle Sklaven frei sind“, heißt es in dem Befehl.

Lincoln war nur fünf Tage nach Lees Kapitulation im Ford’s Theatre vom Sympathisanten der Konföderierten John Wilkes Booth erschossen worden.

Der Name “Juneteenth” hat sich im Laufe der Jahrzehnte aus zahlreichen verschiedenen Namen und Schreibweisen entwickelt, stellen Historiker fest.

Während die überwiegende Mehrheit der Bundesstaaten den Juniteenth bereits als Feiertag anerkennen, kämpfen Aktivisten wie Opal Lee jahrzehntelang um die Ernennung des Bundes.

Im Jahr 1939, als Lee 12 Jahre alt war, steckte ein weißer Mob das Haus ihrer Familie in Brand. Niemand wurde festgenommen. Im Jahr 2016 begann Lee, damals 89, von ihrer Heimatstadt Fort Worth, Texas, nach Washington, DC – etwa 1.400 Meilen – zu wandern, um sich dafür einzusetzen, den Juneteenth zu einem Nationalfeiertag zu machen.

„Tatsache ist, dass keiner von uns frei ist, bis wir alle frei sind“, sagte Lee der New York Times in einem Interview im Juni 2020.

Ein Jahr später nahm Lee an der Zeremonie im Weißen Haus teil, um den Juniteenth zum ersten neuen Feiertag seit dem Martin Luther King Jr. Day im Jahr 1983 zu erklären.

Frühere Versuche, im Kongress ein Gesetz vom 18. Juni zu verabschieden, waren erfolglos. Im Jahr 2020 wurde ein solcher Gesetzentwurf im Senat von Ron Johnson, R-Wis, blockiert, der sich gegen die Kosten für einen weiteren freien Tag für Bundesangestellte wandte.

Diesmal zog er sich zurück und sagte in einer Erklärung: “Es ist klar, dass der Kongress keinen Appetit hat, die Angelegenheit weiter zu diskutieren.”

Der Grund warum?

“In zwei Worten, es ist George Floyd”, sagte Karlos Hill, Vorsitzender der Abteilung für Afrika- und Afroamerikanistik an der University of Oklahoma, in einem Interview mit CNBC.

Im Mai 2020 hatte das Video des ehemaligen Polizeibeamten Derek Chauvin aus Minneapolis, der mehr als neun Minuten lang auf Floyds Nacken kniete, einen Feuersturm von Protesten im ganzen Land ausgelöst. Das Verhalten des Beamten wurde aus dem gesamten politischen Spektrum verurteilt und veranlasste den Gesetzgeber, im Namen von Floyd ein Gesetz zur Polizeireform auszuarbeiten.

Chauvin wurde im April wegen Mordes zweiten Grades, Mordes dritten Grades und Totschlags zweiten Grades für schuldig befunden.

“Es brauchte etwas so Krasses, um das Gespräch zu ändern”, sagte Hill.

„Diese Dinge sind tief miteinander verbunden“, sagte Hill und erklärte, dass der Schock über Floyds Tod „einen Raum und eine Gelegenheit für Juneteenth geschaffen hat“.

Nur wenige Gesetzgeber – selbst diejenigen, die sich über den Gesetzentwurf beschwerten – standen diese Woche im Weg, als die von Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass. eingeführte Gesetzgebung, durch den Kongress flog.

Der Gesetzentwurf wurde am Dienstagabend im Senat einstimmig angenommen. Einen Tag später verabschiedete es das Repräsentantenhaus mit überwältigenden 415 zu 14 Stimmen. Die 14 Nein-Stimmen waren alle Republikaner, während 195 GOP-Gesetzgeber mit Ja stimmten.

Zu den Kritikern der Republikaner gehörte, dass die Entscheidung, den Feiertag “Nationaler Unabhängigkeitstag des Junis” zu nennen, mit dem bestehenden Unabhängigkeitstag am 4. Juli kollidierte. Sie wiesen darauf hin, dass der Feiertag während seiner gesamten Zeit auch als Jubiläumstag, Emanzipationstag und andere Namen bezeichnet wurde Geschichte.

Andere beschwerten sich, wie Johnson, über die geschätzten Einnahmen in Höhe von Hunderten Millionen Dollar, die durch die Gewährung eines weiteren freien Tages für Bundesangestellte verloren gingen. Und einige Gesetzgeber schimpften gegen die Demokraten, weil sie den Gesetzentwurf ins Repräsentantenhaus brachten, Kongressausschüsse und die Möglichkeit, dabei über Änderungsanträge abzustimmen, umgangen hatten.

Ein Republikaner, Matt Rosendale aus Montana, gab vor der Schlussabstimmung eine Erklärung ab, in der er seinen Widerstand gegen die Maßnahme ankündigte, weil er behauptete, es sei ein Versuch, “Identitätspolitik” und “kritische Rassentheorie” in Amerika zu fördern.

Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, tat Rosendales Haltung als “verrückt” ab.

Die 14 Mitglieder des Repräsentantenhauses, die gegen das Gesetz gestimmt haben, sind: Rosendale; Mo Brooks, R-Ala.; Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.; Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn.; Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.; Doug LaMalfa, R-Kalifornien; Mike Rogers, R-Ala.; Ralph Norman, RS. C.; Chip Roy, R-Texas; Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.; Tom McClintock, R-Kalifornien; Ronny Jackson, R-Texas; Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; und Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.

Trumps Juneteenth

In einer Erklärung am Freitagnachmittag zur Feier des zehnten Juni sagte die Vorsitzende des Republikanischen Nationalkomitees, Ronna McDaniel, über ihre Partei: “Wir begrüßen ihre Annahme als unseren neuesten Nationalfeiertag mit Begeisterung, nachdem Präsident Trump letztes Jahr dazu aufgerufen hatte.”

Im September versprach Trump im Rahmen einer Reihe von Annäherungsversuchen an schwarze Wähler, den 16. Juni als Nationalfeiertag zu etablieren. Aber in Trumps Beziehung zu Juneteenth steckt viel mehr, als McDaniels Aussage vermuten lässt.

Im Juni 2020, als die Pandemie wütete, keine Impfstoffe in Sicht waren und der damalige Kandidat Biden in den Umfragen einen klaren Vorsprung hatte, kündigte Trump an, er werde auf den Wahlkampfweg zurückkehren, um persönliche Veranstaltungen abzuhalten.

Das Festzelt zu seinem Wahlkampfauftakt: eine Kundgebung in Tulsa, Oklahoma, am 19. Juni.

Die Trump-Kampagne verteidigte die Terminentscheidung zunächst als Gelegenheit für ihn, seine “Erfolgsbilanz für schwarze Amerikaner” zu präsentieren. Kritiker nannten es jedoch einen Schlag ins Gesicht, dass Trump den Juneteenth auswählte, um nach Tulsa zu kommen, dem Ort eines der schlimmsten Weiß-gegen-Schwarzen-Massaker in der US-Geschichte, um seinen Wiederwahlkampf Mitte April wieder aufzunehmen nationaler Aufruhr über Rassismus.

Michael Bender vom Wall Street Journal berichtete in einem angepassten Auszug aus seinem bevorstehenden Buch über Trumps Wahlniederlage gegen Biden, dass der Top-Wahlkampffunktionär Brad Parscale den Zeitpunkt und den Ort für die Kundgebung ausgewählt habe und dass er sich „eingegraben“ habe, nachdem andere gedrängt hatten er, um Änderungen vorzunehmen.

Bender berichtete, dass Trump, verwirrt von der Gegenreaktion auf den Kundgebungstermin, einen Agenten des Schwarzen Geheimdienstes gefragt hatte, ob er von Juneteenth wisse. Der Agent sagte, er wisse davon und fügte hinzu: “Es ist sehr beleidigend für mich, dass Sie diese Kundgebung am Juneteenth veranstalten”, so Bender.

Weniger als eine Woche vor der Kundgebung twitterte Trump, er würde die Veranstaltung auf den 20 Urlaub.”

Am Juneteenth selbst gab Trumps Weißes Haus eine Proklamation heraus, die den Feiertag feierte, als Erinnerung an “sowohl die unvorstellbare Ungerechtigkeit der Sklaverei als auch die unvergleichliche Freude, die mit der Emanzipation verbunden sein muss”.

Weniger als einen Monat zuvor hatte das Floyd-Video Millionen von Menschen dazu veranlasst, an Märschen und Demonstrationen gegen systemischen Rassismus und Polizeibrutalität teilzunehmen. Zahlreiche Proteste führten in Großstädten zu Gewaltausbrüchen und Plünderungen.

Vor der Veranstaltung im BOK Center in Tulsa ging Trump, der zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch auf Twitter aktiv war, über die Social-Media-App eine ominöse Drohung für potenzielle Gegendemonstranten aus.

“Alle Demonstranten, Anarchisten, Agitatoren, Plünderer oder Lowlife, die nach Oklahoma gehen, bitte haben Sie Verständnis dafür, dass Sie nicht so behandelt werden, als wären Sie in New York, Seattle oder Minneapolis gewesen”, twitterte Trump. “Es wird eine ganz andere Szene sein.”

Der Rev. Al Sharpton, der an diesem Freitag eine Rede im Juni in Tulsa hielt, beschuldigte Trump damals, mit dem Tweet „einen Vorfall provoziert“ zu haben.

Trumps Publikum in Tulsa blieb hinter den Erwartungen zurück und konnte Tausende von Plätzen in der fast 20.000 Zuschauer fassenden Arena nicht besetzen. Aber anwesend war Herman Cain, ein prominenter schwarzer Geschäftsmann, konservativer Kommentator und ehemaliger republikanischer Präsidentschaftskandidat.

Der 74-jährige Cain, ein Überlebender von Krebs im Stadium 4, wurde bei der Veranstaltung neben anderen Personen fotografiert, von denen keiner eine Maske zu tragen schien.

Anfang Juli wurde Cain mit dem Coronavirus ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert und an ein Beatmungsgerät angeschlossen, als sich sein Zustand verschlechterte. Er starb am 30. Juli und gehörte damit zu den bekanntesten Menschen in den USA, die dem Virus erlegen sind. Cains Mitarbeiter sagten, es gebe „keine Möglichkeit, mit Sicherheit zu wissen“, wie oder wo er Covid gefangen hat.

Bender des Journals berichtete, dass Trump am Tag nach der Kundgebung in Tulsa über seine mangelnde Unterstützung durch schwarze Wähler wütete.

„Ich habe all das Zeug für die Schwarzen gemacht – es ist immer Jared [Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law,] “Ich soll das tun”, sagte Trump zu einem Vertrauten, berichtete Bender. “Und sie alle hassen mich, und keiner von ihnen wird mich wählen.”

Hill sagte, dass die USA jetzt „in einer anderen Realität“ seien als im Juni letzten Jahres, „in dem Sinne, dass wir die vollständigen Folgen von George Floyd miterlebt haben“.

“Wir haben weitergemacht, als ob sich die Dinge von selbst korrigiert hätten, und das ist einfach nicht der Fall”, sagte Hill. Als bundesstaatlicher Feiertag “könnte der Juni, könnte, könnte das eine Pause machen.”

WHO says delta is changing into the dominant Covid variant globally

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Delta, the highly contagious Covid-19 variant first identified in India, is becoming the dominant strain of the disease worldwide, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said Friday.

That’s because of its “significantly increased transmissibility,” Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO’s chief scientist, said during a news conference at the agency’s Geneva headquarters. Studies suggest delta is around 60% more transmissible than alpha, the variant first identified in the U.K. that was more contagious than the original strain that emerged from Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

The situation globally “is so dynamic because of the variants that are circulating,” she added.

The variant has spread to more than 80 countries and it continues to mutate as it spreads across the globe, the WHO said Wednesday. It now makes up 10% of all new cases in the United States, up from 6% last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Friday urged Americans to get vaccinated against Covid, saying she expects delta to become the dominant coronavirus variant in the United States.

“As worrisome as this delta strain is with regard to its hyper transmissibility, our vaccines work,” Walensky told the ABC program “Good Morning America.” If you get vaccinated, “you’ll be protected against this delta variant,” she added.

The United Kingdom recently saw the delta variant become the dominant strain there, surpassing alpha, which was first detected in the country last fall. The delta variant now makes up more than 60% of new cases in the U.K.

The WHO declared delta a “variant of concern” last month. A variant can be labeled as “of concern” if it has been shown to be more contagious, more deadly or more resistant to current vaccines and treatments, according to the health organization.

WHO officials said Wednesday there were reports that the delta variant also causes more severe symptoms, but that more research is needed to confirm those conclusions. Still, there are signs that the delta strain could provoke different symptoms than other variants.

Swaminathan said Friday that scientists still need more data on the variant, including its impact on the efficacy of Covid vaccines.

German company CureVac earlier this week cited variants as one of the reasons its Covid vaccine proved to be just 47% effective in a 40,000-person clinical trial.

An analysis from Public Health England released Monday found two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech or the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines are highly effective against hospitalization from the delta variant.

“How many are getting infected and of those how many are getting hospitalized and seriously ill?” Swaminathan said Friday. “This is something we’re watching very carefully.”

– CNBC’s Holly Ellyatt and Rich Mendez contributed to this report.

Enterprise journey is anticipated to renew this fall, says the CEO of Hyatt Resorts

With more employees returning to the offices, it won’t be long before business travel resumes, according to Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels.

“We’re already seeing signs that people are starting to travel to work in more positive and meaningful ways,” Hoplamazian said in an interview during CNBC’s Evolve Global Summit on Wednesday.

“Most of the bankers, advisors and lawyers I speak to are preparing to hit the streets again, so I think that will really take off in the fall,” he said.

Hyatt Hotels has seen a boon in bookings as travelers are now more willing to vacation as the pandemic has subsided. The entire chain will get about 90% of the deal it saw in 2019 during the two-week period around July 4th.

Much of this has centered on resorts that Hoplamazian said “are back with a vengeance”. Hyatt’s resorts are about 30% above 2019 levels over the same vacation period.

According to a survey by Deloitte, four in ten Americans intend to take a vacation that includes a flight or hotel booking between Memorial Day and the end of September. This compares to 42% in 2019, underscoring the post-pandemic travel recovery.

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The draw for Hyatt has been cities, and mostly northern cities, with Hoplamazian highlighting “gateway cities … which have many international travel as part of their guest base over time,” including New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.

While this part of the year is typically a weaker time for business travel, Hyatt is seeing encouraging signs.

“Tech companies talk about having mandatory office weeks and getting back to work and most importantly, traveling again,” said Hoplamazian.

Cruise industry recovery

Carnival Corporation CEO Arnold Donald said that while the cruise industry is not yet at the same level as hotel resorts in terms of high booking levels, the company “looks forward to being in a similar position very soon be”.

“We’re really excited about a restart here in the US in July,” said Donald at the CNBC Evolve Global Summit, noting that his fleet has been sailing in Europe since the fall of 2020. “We have robust bookings and a lot of catching up to do.”

Carnival requires passengers to show that they are vaccinated according to CDC guidelines.

The CDC recently relaxed its warnings for cruising at the highest level, but only recommended those fully vaccinated to travel if sailing resumes in the U.S. Earlier this week, the Royal Caribbean Group had to make the first voyage of its ship Odyssey of the Seas move Eight crew members tested positive for Covid-19.

A federal court issued Florida an injunction on Friday against a CDC ruling preventing an immediate resumption of operations, an order preventing the agency from enforcing a cruise ship that arrives in Florida, arrives in Florida or leaves it.

Carnival’s proof of vaccination requirement conflicts with recent laws prohibiting vaccination records in Florida and Texas, where ships depart.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has threatened cruise lines with fines of up to $ 5,000 per passenger if they have proof of compulsory vaccination.

When asked if Carnival was willing to pay a fine, Donald said the company’s top responsibility and priority is “compliance, environmental protection, safety and wellbeing for all.”

“We have to stick to everyone, we have to stick to Florida and the destinations we’re going to, the CDC, other regulators similar to the CDC around the world, and we’re confident that everything will be fine “he said.” I don’t expect we’ll ever have to pay a fine. I am confident that we will work something out with the governor, CDC and industry. ”

John Legend applauds Michael Costello’s claims in opposition to Chrissy Teigen and presents alleged receipts

Roommates, the endless drama of Chrissy Teigen and Michael Costello just got an interesting new chapter when Chrissy’s husband John Legend officially entered the chat. Following Michael Costello’s allegations that Chrissy Teigen’s bullying made him think about suicide, John Legend took to social media to come up with alleged receipts proving that Michael lied about the entire situation.

If you’ve kept up, you know that after the resurgence of your old tweets, which featured the minors from almost 10 years ago, there has been a violent backlash. Chrissy Teigen has lost partnership deals, TV appearances and more. But just as she apologized a second time for her actions, the fashion designer Michael Costello announced that he had also been a victim of her cyberbullying and provided them with screenshots of alleged old text messages.

Well, it wasn’t long before Chrissy’s husband John Legend defended her – and he was hoping to post a few of his receipts on Twitter:

“Chrissy apologized for her public tweets, but following her apology, Mr. Costello fabricated a DM exchange between them. This exchange was made up, completely faked, never happened. Receipts below:

Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would fake DMs to fit into this narrative, but that’s exactly what happened.

I encourage anyone who breathlessly spreads this lie to maintain the same level of energy as they correct the record. “

Shortly thereafter, Chrissy threatened Michael with legal action if he did not admit he invented text messaging between them allegedly telling him to kill himself, which is the same language she used with Courtney Stodden in 2012.

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Goal lowers meals costs at competing gross sales occasion

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Electronics, toys and groceries?

As Target launches a competing sales event to compete against Amazon Prime Day, the big box retailer puts its grocery department in the spotlight. It adds discounts and promotions to entice customers to its cereal, meat, and soda aisles.

Target introduced Deal Days to compete with Prime Day in 2019, but this will be the first time Target has used the event to promote groceries. The discounts extend from Sunday to Tuesday – one day longer than the event of the e-commerce giant.

It’s likely that Target sees the food category differently these days. Food was a major reason Target’s sales skyrocketed and its market share grew during the pandemic. While people settled down at home, dinner ingredients, staples, and snacks drove into the store. Target had a head start in the early months of the health crisis by keeping its doors open as a major retailer by locking it down. As rival stores reopened, Target was still drawing shoppers in with its variety of merchandise, from eggs to workout tops, while people rounded up their trips and filled larger baskets.

Even with people making social plans and eating out again, Target sees its grocery stores as a way to get people to come back. The next few months will test whether Target and other grocers can convince people to keep filling fridges and cooking, even if they plan to hang out with friends for a drink or go out with family for dinner.

Before the pandemic, US consumers spent more each month in restaurants and bars than in grocery stores. This pattern was reversed in March 2020. In the past two months, the habit of spending more on restaurants has returned, according to the US Census Bureau. That leaves grocers competing for a bigger slice of a shrinking cake.

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Amazon Prime Day is all about spending that can keep up with the busiest days of the Christmas shopping season. According to an analysis by Adobe Analytics, based on a survey of 1,000+ consumers, US online spending is expected to beat last year’s all-time record of $ 10.4 billion during the two-day sales event and cyber Monday of last year surpassed US retail site visitors. According to a survey by Adobe, nearly 60% of consumers said they would shop online during Prime Day.

Retailers of all sizes have taken up the shopping vacation and increased sales as shoppers browse and buy more than usual.

Deal Days discounts will be widespread at Target, but there will be a special grocery promotion: $ 10 worth of gift cards will be given out to customers who spend $ 50 or more on food and drink while they are using one of its Use same day services as roadside pickup and home delivery service, Shipt. The company declined to share certain items that are available for sale.

At least two of Target’s competitors will also dangle grocery stores: Walmart and Amazon. Walmart is also adding groceries to Deals for Days, its annual sale, for the first time, according to a company spokesperson. It will lower the prices of foods like ribs, watermelon, ice cream, and coffee.

Amazon plans to sell some groceries for $ 1 and its Cursive wine brand is on sale. Whole Foods will discount seasonal products like lemonade and Caprese pizza, a company spokesman said.

If buyers benefit, these offers could help companies hold their own against tough year-on-year comparisons. All three have big growth numbers that will be hard to match or beat – especially in the grocery department, where consumers were stocking items during the pandemic.

Target sales grew by more than $ 15 billion in the last fiscal year – more than the sales growth of the last 11 years combined. The company said it gained approximately $ 9 billion of market share during the year, according to the company’s own and external research.

The company’s shares are up nearly 31% so far this year, reaching a market value of nearly $ 114.05 billion.

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Comparable sales for Target, which tracks sales in stores that are open for at least 13 months and online, rose 19.3% over the past fiscal year – a faster rate than any other major food company. Like-for-like sales for Kroger increased 14.1% and Walmart’s increased 8.6%. Retailers’ fiscal years and definitions of comparable sales vary slightly.

By combining food and digital services, Target has also found that it can drive customer loyalty.

At a conference call on the fourth quarter results on March 2nd, Target CFO Michael Fiddelke said customers tended to visit their stores more frequently, increase their food and beverage spend by an average of 20-30%, and get more sales in other categories after getting fresh or frozen Groceries bought by pickup or roadside store had to pick up the first time.

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The company also announced that groceries and beverages accounted for 20% of its total sales for the year, making the category the second largest sales driver after beauty and household items at 26%. During the pandemic, the company launched its own brand of snacks and desserts, as well as a collection of gourmet pasta, coffee, and more.

So far, Target has been able to keep growth going. In the first quarter, food and beverages grew in the low to mid single digits, despite difficult comparisons with the same period last year as consumers stocked up and sought shelter.

Target will use food as a differentiator and “defense mechanism” on Amazon Prime Day, Krishnakumar Davey, president of strategic analysis at research firm IRI. Over the past year, it has helped Target promote bigger shopping carts and attract new customers, he explained.

Target has deepened its market penetration with lower-income customers and older buyers, according to market research from IRI.

It has also done more business than the competition in the past few months. As of the beginning of June, the number of destination trips increased by 16.1% compared to the same period in the previous year. All other competitors, with the exception of Costco, are in the low single digits, according to the IRI, which collects consumer data from a representative sample of over 100,000 households.

Compared to Amazon, Target also has a much larger footprint in the food space. Amazon owns more than 500 Whole Foods stores and has about a dozen Amazon Fresh stores, its expanding grocery chain. Target has around 1,900 stores.

Eating out may return, but home food consumption is still above pre-pandemic levels due to other factors such as remote working, Davey said. Also, he said, a sale of groceries might be more popular than other types of offerings.

“Everyone needs something – more than an iPad or whatever,” he said. “It’s a high frequency object.”

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Amazon holds on to prime on-line retail spot

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As Amazon prepares for its annual Prime Day megasale, its reign as the biggest online retailer in the country is eye-popping: It’s projected to be raking in more than 40% of the nation’s e-commerce sales by the end of 2021.

Amazon’s dominance on the internet has only grown as shopping online becomes second nature for many consumers. That’s exactly what has transpired over the past 13 years.

In 2008, e-commerce sales accounted for just 3.6% of total retail sales in the United States, according to data from eMarketer. Following gradual growth year after year, that figure skyrocketed to 14% in 2020, as the Covid pandemic fueled online spending on everything from groceries and toilet paper to spin bikes and workout clothes. E-commerce sales are predicted to account for 15.3% of total retail sales by the end of this year and jump to 23.5% by 2025, eMarketer said.

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Falling second to Amazon and far behind, big-box chain Walmart is predicted to take about 7% of the digital retail market this year. The two are followed by eBay, Apple, Home Depot, Target and Best Buy, according to eMarketer.

Walmart and Target are holding competing deals events — as they have in past years — to coincide with Amazon Prime Day 2021. Both discounters will start sales on Sunday, but Walmart’s offers extend through Wednesday, while Target and Amazon end on Tuesday. Both Walmart and Target hope to reach customers who are already browsing the web on Prime Day for summer discounts.

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According to a recent research report from JPMorgan, Amazon is on track to overtake Walmart as the largest U.S. retailer in 2022, as it gains a greater and greater share of the total e-commerce market. Consumers’ accelerated adoption of internet shopping during the Covid pandemic has also provided a lift to other areas of Amazon’s business, too, JPMorgan said.

EMarketer is forecasting that total digital sales in the U.S. on Prime Day will jump 17.3% year over year to $12.18 billion. Sales made exclusively on Amazon on Prime Day will grow 18.3% from 2020 levels, to $7.31 billion, it said.

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Last year, Amazon’s typical July timing for its shopping extravaganza was postponed all the way into October because of the pandemic. Prime Day ended up marking the unofficial kick-off to the holiday shopping season.

Back on a more normal schedule, this year’s event has been moved up slightly into June. Experts say the company is looking to boost spending in what is normally a slower time in the retail calendar. The new timing could also prompt an earlier kickoff to back-to-school shopping.

“Amazon will be coy, when they announce … and so they have the benefit of knowing what they’re doing to make sure that they’re in a good position,” Rod Sides, a vice chairman of retail and distribution at Deloitte, said in an interview. “Whereas the others are responding.”

—CNBC’s Nate Rattner contributed to this report.

Johnny Chaillot recordsdata for divorce from Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis

As the saying goes: All good things have to come to an end.

Olympic champion after eight years of marriage Greg Louganis announced that he and Johnny Chaillot go their separate ways. The 61-year-old dive master went to Instagram on Friday evening June 18 to share the news of their divorce.

“At this point, Johnny and I would like to announce that we are going to end our marriage respectfully and amicably,” Greg began to testify. “Marriage between all couples is mostly a challenge, and especially at #pridemonth it is important that we say how grateful we were to be among the first gay couples to have the privilege of legally getting married and facing these challenges that so many are doing. It’s something, not so long ago, that many of us were sure would never happen. “

He continued: “And so we make this announcement with this in mind and ask for the respect and privacy of everyone who treads this new path that we must embrace. Many thanks to everyone who has supported and encouraged us over the years. “