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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.
Washington Post
12-03-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
The Post receives recognition from Pictures of the Year International
We are delighted to announce that The Washington Post's photo department won this year Angus McDougall Overall Excellence in Editing Award at the prestigious Pictures of the Year International (POYi) contest, in addition to nine other recognitions. The Angus McDougall prize recognizes the best in visual editing by a media organization across all platforms. This year's win marks the third time in five years that The Post's photography department has taken home the top team editing award at POYi, after its wins in 2020 and 2023. The Post's winning submission included: In the same contest, Jabin Botsford earned a first-place award in the Impact 2024: On The Campaign Trail category for his dauntless work during the assassination attempt of then-presidential candidate Trump in Pennsylvania. His commitment to telling the full visual story of the event, not just the immediate aftermath, elevated his work to the top of the competition. Director of Photography, Robert Miller, and Opinions Photo Assignment Editor, Chloe Coleman, also were named finalists in the Newspaper Photo Editing category, while Dominique Hildebrand placed second in the Visual Editor of the Year category, with Natalia Jimenez receiving an Award of Excellence in the same category. Carolyn's Van Houten was named finalist for International Photographer of the Year. Carolyn was also the finalist in the Issue Reporting Story category, with Jabin Botsford receiving an Award of Excellence in the category, which honors a narrative picture story that explores an important social, economic, or political issue. Salwan Georges was granted an Award of Excellence in General News. And finally, the expansive project on one of America's last wild places, edited by Olivier Laurent and photographed by Carolyn Van Houten, earned a finalist recognition for Online Project of the Year. The photo department also won 14 awards in the Best of Photojournalism competition, organized by the National Press Photographers Association, with Jabin Botsford coming in first and second in the Breaking News category for his documentation of Donald Trump's assassination attempt. In the photo editing categories, Chloe Coleman and Olivier Laurent came first and second respectively in the Newspaper Section Front category for their work on the Department of Labor and Alaska's last wild place. See the full list of Best of Photojournalism awards below: Photojournalist of the Year – National Second Place – Jahi Chikwendiu – The Washington Post Breaking News First Place – Jabin Botsford – The Washington Post – Donald Trump Assassination Attempt Second Place – Jabin Botsford – The Washington Post – The Assassination Attempt of Donald Trump Breaking News Story Second Place – Jabin Botsford – The Washington Post – The Assassination Attempt of Donald Trump General News Story Honorable Mention – Carolyn Van Houten – The Washington Post – Silenced: Afghan Women Under the Taliban Picture Editor of the Year – National Honorable Mention – Chloe Coleman – The Washington Post Picture Editor of the Year – International Third Place – Olivier Laurent – The Washington Post Picture Editing Team of the Year – International Second Place – The Washington Post Newspaper Section Front First Place – The Washington Post – Chloe Coleman – The Canary: Michael Lewis on the Department of Labor Second Place – The Washington Post – Olivier Laurent – What to do about one of America's last wild places Newspaper General News Story Honorable Mention – The Washington Post – Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel – Mexico Cartels Newspaper Feature Story Honorable Mention – The Washington Post – Chloe Coleman Digital Project Third Place – The Washington Post – Olivier Laurent – When climate change upends sacred rituals, the faithful adapt Honorable Mention – The Washington Post – Olivier Laurent – A Year Along the Vital River That Flows Through Ukraine's Heart None of these wins would have been possible without our incredible partners from across the newsroom, from our design colleagues who consistently elevate our photography, to the reporters, graphic journalists, videographers, audio producers, editors and visual enterprise editors, copy editors, data scientists, off-platform curators and project managers, among many others.
