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NORWALK, Conn., July 27, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — After, Inc. announced today that it received “Product of the Year” in the 2022 Sales and Marketing Technology Awards program (The Sammys) for its QuickSuite® post-sale customer experience technology. The Sammys honors organizations and products helping to solve the challenges businesses have connecting and collaborating with prospects and customers.

QuickSuite is a modular set of SaaS technologies designed to work together at all stages of the post-sale lifecycle to help manufacturers, retailers, and e-commerce sellers build deeper relationships with their customers and increase loyalty and lifetime value. The suite includes: QuickReg®, QuickCover®, QuickClaim®, QuickInsight®, and QuickRenew® (official launch in Q3 2022).

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The Senate has passed a bill that's designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States. The $280 billion measure, which awaits a House vote, includes federal grants and tax breaks for companies that construct their chip facilities in the U.S. It also directs Congress to significantly increase spending on high-tech research programs that lawmakers say will help the country stay economically competitive in the decades ahead. Senate passage came by a 64-33 vote Wednesday. The House vote is expected later this week as lawmakers try to wrap up business before returning to their home states and districts in August.

A judge in Wyoming is hearing arguments over whether to temporarily block a state abortion ban on the day it took effect. Attorneys arguing Wednesday before Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens disagreed over whether the Wyoming Constitution provided a right to abortion. The hearing continued into late morning with no immediate ruling from Owens. Wyoming was among states that recently passed abortion bans should Roe v. Wade be overturned, which happened June 24. Wyoming's new law took effect Wednesday, banning abortion except in cases of rape or incest or to protect the mother’s life or health, not including psychological conditions.

African nations opened climate talks in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Wednesday to identify their priorities and come up with a common position ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Egypt in November, known as COP27. The talks come as the continent grapples with devastating cyclones in the south and a debilitating drought across the east and Horn of Africa. Officials are expected to decide whether to ask developing nations for reparations for environmental damage in Africa, known in climate circles as loss and damage.

LOS ANGELES — A woman who claimed to be Charles Manson's sister has backed out of a dispute over the estate of the cult leader who was responsible for a string of murders across Los Angeles in 1969.

PHILADELPHIA — In early May, Republican Party insiders in Pennsylvania were scrambling behind the scenes to thin the field in the governor’s race and unify around a single candidate — anyone, basically, but Doug Mastriano. Money was transferred. A poll was commissioned.

Forty-eight hours after she performed Sunday with Joni Mitchell at the Newport Folk Festival, Wynonna Judd couldn't quite wrap her mind around what she'd taken part in.

The effort to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand that captured the world’s attention in 2018 is rivetingly depicted in one of the best directorial efforts by prolific filmmaker Ron Howard.

NEW YORK & RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 27, 2022--

An Ohio man who admitted threatening a witness after posting videos from the U.S. Capitol riots has been sentenced to two years of probation. Justin Stoll, of Wilmington, had pleaded guilty in January in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to transmitting a threat to injure. The charges he faced following his Jan. 15 arrest were not directly related to any activities at the federal building on Jan. 6, but rather in connection to the deadly breach. Stoll attended the rally and eventually went with other rioters past police barricades that had been torn down. He recorded videos showing this and posted them online. Authorities have said he threatened an online viewer who said they’d saved his video.

The insults toward Palisades Media Group Chief Executive Roger Schaffner continued to pile up at his Santa Monica office.

The Saudi-funded LIV Golf series has announced a 14-tournament schedule for next year. That will feature 12 established team franchises and a chance for players to either be promoted or relegated through its series of Asian Tour events. LIV Golf leader Greg Norman says details of the full schedule will be announced later. He also says LIV Golf will provide 25 tournaments worldwide. That will include the “International Series” on the Asian Tour. Players from the LIV Golf series will be expected to play some of those. The third LIV Golf event starts Friday at Trump National Bedminster in New Jersey.

CHICAGO — Not everyone liked the things that artist Claes Oldenburg made, which were gigantic sculptures of such commonplace items as a hamburger, a lipstick case, clothespin, ice cream cone, pretzel, ironing board, teddy bear, aspirin, and a very, very big bat in Chicago.

A federal judge has thrown out multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuits against five media companies brought by a Kentucky student. Nicholas Sandmann was a 16-year-old high school student when was involved in a 2019 viral encounter at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The lawsuits sought tens of millions of dollars in damages. Sandmann argued that the Native American man, Nathan Phillips, had defamed him in media reports. A federal judge ruled that statements made by Phillips were “objectively unverifiable." The lawsuits thrown out Tuesday by the judge were against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, Gannett and Rolling Stone magazine.

B.J. Novak opens his debut feature “Vengeance,” which he wrote, directed and stars in, with a scene of acidic social commentary that lays the tone for the smart satire of contemporary media culture that ensues. In a scene that targets the mating rituals of the urban-dwelling modern American …

A Florida jail guard says school shooter Nikolas Cruz attacked him with little warning. Broward County sheriff's Sgt. Raymond Beltran testified Wednesday that Cruz charged him, threw him to the floor and tried to grab his stun gun. The brawl happened in November 2018, nine months after Cruz murdered 17 at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Beltran says he was able to wrest the Taser away from Cruz. He then used it to hit Cruz and get him on the ground. Beltran was testifying at Cruz's penalty trial, which will decide if he is sentenced to death or life without parole for the Valentine's Day 2018 massacre.

Health regulators say nearly 800,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine will soon be available for U.S. distribution. The Wednesday announcement follows weeks of delays and growing criticism that authorities have been too slow in deploying the shots. The Food and Drug Administration needed to inspect and certify the standards of a Danish manufacturing plant where the doses are manufactured. The agency said two weeks ago that the inspection had been completed, but the final go-ahead came Wednesday. U.S. health officials say they will announce allocation plans on Thursday. Health departments in San Francisco and other major cities say they still don’t have enough shots to meet demand.

Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison is slated to testify in a lawsuit in which a loss could still result in a windfall for the company he co-founded and holds a 40% stake in.

The U.S. economy may have eked out modest growth in the second quarter, skirting back-to-back quarterly contractions, but rising at a tepid enough pace to feed concerns of an eventual downturn.

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 27, 2022--

The head of the World Health Organization is advising men at risk of catching monkeypox to consider reducing their sexual partners “for the moment.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 98% of the monkeypox cases detected since outbreaks emerged in May have been among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. He called for those at risk to take steps to protect themselves and others. Tedros says that means reducing their number of sexual partners, getting contact details for new partners and isolating if infected. The U.N. health agency on Saturday declared the escalating outbreaks in multiple countries to be a global emergency.

UEFA says safe-standing areas will be allowed on a trial basis at European club games involving teams from England, Germany and France this season. European soccer's governing body says it will assess the findings of what it calls an “observer program” at the end of the season and decide whether to continue or expand it. The three countries in question are already authorized to have safe standing at the domestic level. In England, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham all have safe-standing licenses. UEFA is limiting the trial to the top-five associations in its rankings. Spain and Italy do not currently have safe-standing areas.

Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry plans to drop out of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race, less than two weeks before the primary. That's according to a Democrat who told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he spoke with Lasry about his plans but was not authorized to comment publicly. Lasry’s departure in the race would leave Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes as the top candidate in a race public polls had shown was a tight contest with Lasry. State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski and other lesser-known candidates remain in the contest. The winner of the Aug. 9 primary will advance to face Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

Riot police have used water cannons to repel demonstrators who pulled down cement blast walls at the gate of Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, home to government buildings and foreign embassies. Wednesday's standoff marked the biggest protest since federal elections were held in October. The demonstrators were protesting the recent nomination for prime minister by Iran-backed political groups. They chanted against the selection of Mohammed al-Sudani as the official nominee of the Coordination Framework bloc, a coalition led by Iran-backed Shiite parties and their allies.

A close associate of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has resigned after the leader said in a recent speech that Hungary was fighting against Europe becoming a “mixed race” society. The adviser compared Orban’s rhetoric to the kind of language used in Nazi Germany. Her resignation letter stands as a rare rebuke of Hungary’s authoritarian leader from within his governing ranks. In his speech Orban compared places where “European peoples are mixed together with those arriving from outside Europe,” to places where only people from Europe mix together. He said that "we are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race."

Ex-Minneapolis officer J. Alexander Kueng gets 3 years for violating George Floyd’s civil rights in May 2020 killing.

The England women’s soccer team is the talk of the nation and capturing hearts and minds because of its run to the European Championship final. Messages of support and praise have come from the royal family and prime minister. There are some key reasons behind the growing success of “The Lionesses.” The massive injection of cash into the women's game is beginning to pay off in terms in improved standards of play and higher viewing figures. Women's soccer is more professional and has better coaching. England also has a national team coach with expertise in the women's game.

Eighth-seeded Marie Bouzkova advanced to the quarterfinals of the Prague Open by beating Czech teenager Dominika Salkova 6-1, 6-2. The Wimbledon quarterfinalist will next face Oksana Selekhmeteva. The 19-year-old Russian beat Chloe Paquet of France 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to record her second victory in the main draw of a tournament. Qiang Wang also advanced. The Chinese player beat Dalila Jakupovic 6-3, 6-1. She will next face Magda Linette.

“The View” reportedly has its eyes set on former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin.

Maggie Rogers' 12-track “Surrender” is the follow-up to “Heard It in a Past Life,” her 2019 debut album that announced a major talent. Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy says the new album only solidifies Rogers as one of the most interesting singer-songwriters out there. It’s less tentative or dreamy than her debut, more brash, confident, compelling and occasionally profane. From the bubblegum pop of “Want Want” to the soaring ballad “Begging For Rain,” the album consistently sparkles and, in a sign of Rogers’ increasing clout, includes contributions from Florence Welch, Jon Batiste and Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett.

Employees at a Trader Joe’s in Massachusetts are casting votes over the next two days in an attempt to form the supermarket chain’s first union. A union organizer says about 80 workers at the Hadley store are scheduled to vote Wednesday and Thursday. The workers are organizing under the name Trader Joe’s United, which if successful, would be an independent union, and not affiliated with a larger existing union. Trader Joe's in a statement welcomes the vote, but said its compensation and benefits are already among the industry's best.

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 27, 2022--

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

The U.S. secretary of the Navy has warned that any Asian aggressor who violates the sovereignty of other countries in the region risks punitive counter actions just like what Russia is confronting for its invasion of Ukraine. Comments by Carlos Del Toro appear directed at China over its increasingly assertive behavior in the Asia-Pacific region. He told AP in an interview in Manila that the U.S. military focus in the region particularly in the disputed South China Sea will never slacken despite the war in Ukraine. He did not name China but underscored that Beijing has encroached in sovereign waters of its Asian neighbors and violated international law with impunity. He renewed assurances the U.S. would honor its defense treaty obligations to the Philippines.

To quote The Boss himself: “Poor man wanna be rich/ Rich man wanna be king/ And a king ain’t satisfied 'til he rules everything.”

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