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NZ Herald
5 days ago
- Politics
- NZ Herald
Photojournalism's power on display at Auckland's World Press Photo Exhibition
Members of the United States Secret Service help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump off the stage moments after a bullet from a would-be assassin's gun hit one of his ears during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. Photo / The Washington Post Donald Trump may dismiss much of the media as 'fake news', but it was the power of images that arguably secured his second presidential term. When the Republican nominee rose with a bloodied face after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, photos like Jabin Botsford's for the Washington Post likely
Toronto Sun
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
Six Secret Service agents suspended in connection with Trump assassination attempt
Published Jul 10, 2025 • 2 minute read Secret Service agents remove Donald Trump from the stage after a shooting during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024. MUST CREDIT: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post Photo by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post The Secret Service suspended six agents in connection with security lapses at the Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign event last year where a gunman wounded then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and killed a rallygoer. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The agents, who were suspended without pay, include some supervisors, according to an official familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the developments. The suspensions range from 10 days to 42 days, the official said Thursday. News of the suspensions emerged nearly a year after the July 13, 2024, shooting in Butler, which injured Trump and killed an attendee, Corey Comperatore. During the event, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fire at Trump from atop a nearby roof. A Secret Service sniper returned fire, killing Crooks. The Secret Service has faced intense criticism for security at the Butler rally, with an internal assessment concluding that the agency was responsible for stunning lapses in planning and communications. The attack ignited bipartisan outrage, spurred multiple reviews examining security failures and fueled calls for the Secret Service to undergo significant reforms. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Soon after the shooting, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned amid pressure. Her successor, Ronald L. Rowe Jr., served about six months as acting director, and he has acknowledged that the Butler attack 'was a failure of the Secret Service' to secure the area or protect Trump. This year, Trump, who months after the shooting was elected president for a second time, tapped Sean M. Curran – a longtime agent who had headed Trump's Secret Service detail and helped shield him on the Butler stage – to serve as the agency's director. Assessments of the Secret Service's actions in Butler have been withering, with reviews sharply criticizing the way the agency and its agents behaved before, during and after the shooting. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. An internal review found that the Secret Service never directed local police snipers to monitor a nearby rooftop, despite the snipers' willingness to do so. That review also found that the Secret Service had its own security room that was separate from a command post for Butler County Emergency Services, and also used a different radio frequency from local law enforcement officials, hindering them from rapidly sharing information. The agency said that following Butler, it imposed a number of reforms, including improving communications with state and local officials and expanding the use of technology, including drones, to better monitor venues. Another review conducted by an independent panel said the Secret Service needed 'fundamental reform to carry out its mission,' which includes providing security for presidents, former leaders and other top U.S. officials. This bipartisan panel highlighted multiple security breakdowns and found that some agents involved in Butler security were inexperienced. The panel's review also found that agents 'appear to have done little in the way of self-reflection in terms of identifying areas of missteps, omissions, or opportunities for improvement.' Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA Toronto Blue Jays Ontario NHL
Toronto Sun
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
Washington to host the 2027 NFL draft on the National Mall, President Donald Trump says
Published May 05, 2025 • 1 minute read The sun rises on the National Mall during an inauguration rehearsal on Capitol Hill. Photo by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post The 2027 NFL draft is heading to the nation's capital, with plans to hold the event on the National Mall, President Donald Trump said Monday. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account After word of Washington getting the draft two years from now surfaced Sunday night, Trump made the formal announcement in the Oval Office flanked by Commissioner Roger Goodell, Commanders controlling owner Josh Harris and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. 'I don't think there's ever been anything like that,' Trump said. 'It's going to be beautiful.' It is the latest off-field victory for the Commanders, who a week ago reached an agreement with the D.C. government to build a new home on the old RFK Stadium site, pending council approval. Trump also endorsed that plan in his remarks. Under former owner Dan Snyder, the team previously tried multiple times to land the draft and was unsuccessful. Now, it'll happen behind the team's new Harris-led ownership group, which bought the Commanders from Snyder in 2023. Green Bay, the NFL's smallest market, hosted the most recent draft in late April outside historic Lambeau Field. The NFL announced a crowd of 600,000 fans attended over the three days. The NFL draft used to be a fixture at Radio City Music Hall in New York and has become an even bigger hit since it hit the road in 2015. Chicago hosted the draft in 2015 and '16. Philadelphia had it in '17, followed by Dallas and Nashville. Goodell announced the picks from his house in 2020 during the pandemic. It went to Cleveland in 2021 followed by Las Vegas, Kansas City and Detroit. A record crowd of 750,000 attended Detroit's draft in 2024. Pittsburgh will host next year. Toronto Blue Jays Columnists Canada Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Long-Lasting Trauma of Family Detention Centers
Immigrant woman and children walk across a field as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) hosts a media tour at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas on Aug. 23, 2019. Credit - Jabin Botsford—TheCrowded detention facilities filled with families and children defined President Donald Trump's first term in office. These same facilities could define his second as well. As The New York Times reported in early March, U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan and others have ramped up their efforts in response to Trump's frustration over the 'pace of deportations.' Buried in Trump's barrage of attacks on immigrants and their loved ones is the alarming practice of family detention in Texas. Shortly after taking office, President Joseph Biden halted the practice of jailing undocumented families at two of the most controversial family detention facilities in Texas: South Texas Family Residential Center (known as Dilley) and Karnes County Detention Facility (known as Karnes). Under Trump's leadership, the practice has restarted. As the CEO of RAICES—an immigration legal service agency working in communities across Texas—I can confirm that Karnes resumed holding families this year before families were transferred earlier this month to the even more remote Dilley, which is not a licensed childcare facility. We've been providing legal access to people detained in Karnes since it opened in 2014, and our team recognized the signs early this year that family detention was imminent once more. We've seen dozens of families arrive since the beginning of March, some with children as young as one, and we fear that hundreds, if not thousands, more are likely to join them soon. Over the last two months, our legal team has advocated for more than three dozen detained families and successfully secured the release of half, who can now pursue their immigration cases with their freedom. Because we have a line of sight into detention conditions, we can confirm that families with legal counsel are being released from government custody, while those who do not have access to lawyers are, unsurprisingly, more likely to remain confined or face swift deportation. Many families that are released are being placed in 'alternative to detention,' meaning that they are forced to wear ankle monitors—some of which are notably inactive based upon what we've seen to date, meaning that they serve little purpose other than a loud symbol to brand their wearers as 'criminals'—despite never being convicted of a crime. Read More on Trump's 100 Days and Immigration: How America Became Afraid of the Other by Viet Thanh Nguyẽn In 2024, following several years of alarming reports of inadequate care for children and families at facilities like Karnes, we released a groundbreaking report on the long-term mental and physical health impacts of prolonged detention. We partnered with the Child Health Immigration Research Team at the Massachusetts General Hospital Asylum Clinic and the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University to analyze the medical records of 165 children detained at Karnes to analyze the records of children between the ages of six months and 18 years who were detained between June 2018 and October 2020. In just one of several individual studies, the report examined the case of an 8-year-old child from Honduras. On his 21st day in detention, he was taken to the detention center's acute medical care facility and was seen by a mental health provider for reported 'inappropriate touching by another adult resident.' In 1997, the Flores Settlement Agreement established national minimum standards for the treatment of children in immigrant detention in the U.S.—the resolution of a landmark case that ensured some basic consideration for the welfare of detained kids. The judge in that case determined that in order to comply with the settlement, children must be released from unlicensed congregate settings such as ICE's Family Residential Centers, 'with all deliberate speed.' Our report found that the Flores Settlement Agreement was violated many times during the first Trump Administration, prolonging and exacerbating the severe health impacts children experienced while in custody. Our concerns about conditions for children in federal government custody are deepening by the day as a result of this administration's indiscriminate assault on legal and social service providers nationwide like RAICES. The degree by which we are targeted was made clear on March 21, when the Trump Administration cut legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children. In an instant, decades-long federal funding was immediately cut off nationwide, leaving service providers like us forced to wind down our work with unaccompanied children. Children, some as young as infants, will now have to navigate our immigration system alone. It is unconscionable. Just a few short months into this second Trump Administration, we are seeing with striking clarity the cruelty of anti-immigrant attacks. Redefining who is deemed 'illegal' and deportable,destroys the very fabric of our communities. Read More on Trump's 100 Days and Immigration: How the U.S. Betrayed International Students by Susan Thomas Through devastating rhetoric and action, The White House is harming children like Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, an eleven-year-old who tragically died by suicide after relentless bullying over her family's immigration status. They are also harming men, such as Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who have been wrongfully disappeared to El Salvador without any due process. They are even threatening to deport Ukrainian families who lawfully found refuge in the U.S. after fleeing relentless Russian attacks. Across the country, we are hearing from parents who are afraid to take their children to the doctor or drop them off at school; from workers who won't speak out against dangerous labor violations for fear of being deported. We are hearing from people trying in earnest to lawfully apply for citizenship but who are being detained when they show up for ICE check-ins; from longtime immigrants who fear being targeted or dutifully paying their taxes for years without being able to access the public benefits they are helping to fund. The first Trump Administration's family separation directive under the Zero Tolerance Policy felt to me as though we'd collectively hit the shameful rock bottom of our nation's modern immigration policy. I will never be able to fully wrap my mind around the fact that our government weaponized the potentially permanent kidnapping of children in order to deter parents seeking safety for their families. I desperately wanted to believe that this could be the final straw; that it would galvanize enough righteous outrage to effectively shift the lens through which our nation views the people hoping to find refuge on our shores. But after a powerful initial repudiation of this horrific policy, our collective attention on this issue has once again faded. Our silence has empowered the Trump Administration to ramp up more brutal anti-immigrant attacks, spewing blatant lies and trusting that his political opponents and the American public will sit quietly on their hands and let it happen. We cannot stand for this. Back in 2018, the Trump Administration only rescinded its intentionally traumatizing family separation policy after forceful public outcry. We know that the White House is furious over attempts to make sure our immigrant neighbors know their Constitutional rights. We know that judicial rulings limiting Trump's power to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport people without due process have gotten in the way of the administration's most dramatic plans. As Americans, we once again have the opportunity to wield our collective power in opposition to callous efforts to strip us of our humanity. At a time when the White House is counting on us to be silent and complicit, we must hold our values close and fervently push back against this heartless agenda—again. Contact us at letters@
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
These images are uncomfortable to look at. But that's the point. Meet the winning World Press Photos
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. War. A climate crisis. An attempted assassination. An Olympic athlete. A child in shock. These are just some of the moments represented in the winning images from the 2025 World Press Photo Contest. And yet, despite the wide range of topics covered, despite representing 42 photographers from 30 different countries, the winning images all somehow feel connected. On March 27, the judges and contest organizers unveiled the 2025 World Press Photo Contest Winners. But while the contest highlights photojournalists and documentary photographers across the globe in some of 2024's most newsworthy moments, the winning images all feel as if they are connected by a common theme, representing a human connection that can be portrayed across language and cultural barriers. 'I think if we look at the winning images collectively rather than as individual images, what we see is that many of them are interconnected and overlapping,' said Finbarr O'Reilly, a photographer and judge for the Europe region and global portion of the contest. 'I think in any picture and as the regional jury and then as the global jury, what you want to feel is human connection, a strong human connection to any image.' The collection of 42 winning projects includes images that represent some of the biggest moments of 2024. A photo by Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford of Donald Trump being rushed off stage after an attempted assassination. A viral photograph of a surfer floating in midair with his board during the 2024 Paris Olympics Games by Jerome Brouillet. A protester clearing tear gas from her eyes by Mikhail Tereschenko. A photo of an aircraft surrounded by blue sky and clouds not because it's soaring through the sky but because it is sitting on a completely flooded tarmac reflecting the sky in Brazil by Anselmo Cunha. An image of a child after a double amputation by Samar Abu Elouf. The images, judges say, are the sort of historic photographs that make viewers stop scrolling. 'The world is not the same as it was in 1955 when World Press Photo was founded,' said Joumana El Zein Khoury, the Executive Director for World Press Photo. 'We live in a time when it is easier than ever to look away, to scroll past, to disengage. But these images do not let us do that. They cut through the noise, forcing us to acknowledge what is unfolding, even when it is uncomfortable, even when it makes us question the world we live in - and our own role within it.' This year's event is the contest's 70th year and includes a handful of changes from previous contests. Judges recognized three winners in each category for each region whereas the previous three years only recongized one. Those categories include singles, stories, and long-term projects. While 2025's 42 winning photographers – 30 of whom took photos in the country where they live – have been announced, the organization will announce a single photograph as the World Press Photo of the Year and two finalists on April 17. The following day, the collection of winning images will embark on a worldwide gallery tour. Browse through some of the winning images from the contest below or view additional images at the World Press Photo website. Image 1 of 7 Image 2 of 7 Image 3 of 7 Image 4 of 7 Image 5 of 7 Image 6 of 7 Image 7 of 7 Image 1 of 6 Image 2 of 6 Image 3 of 6 Image 4 of 6 Image 5 of 6 Image 6 of 6 Image 1 of 6 Image 2 of 6 Image 3 of 6 Image 4 of 6 Image 5 of 6 Image 6 of 6 Image 1 of 6 Image 2 of 6 Image 3 of 6 Image 4 of 6 Image 5 of 6 Image 6 of 6 Image 1 of 7 Image 2 of 7 Image 3 of 7 Image 4 of 7 Image 5 of 7 Image 6 of 7 Image 7 of 7 Image 1 of 7 Image 2 of 7 Image 3 of 7 Image 4 of 7 Image 5 of 7 Image 6 of 7 Image 7 of 7 Browse the best photography awards and contests for more inspiration, or take a look at the best professional cameras.
