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The Standard
23-05-2025
- Politics
- The Standard
As Trump rolls back DEI, Spain champions LGBTQ+ workers' rights
Students calling for diversity protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington October 10, 2012. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana/File Photo
Toronto Sun
21-05-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block watchdog access to DOGE documents
Published May 21, 2025 • 1 minute read Elon Musk flashes his T-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, March 9, 2025. Photo by Jose Luis Magana / AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to block court orders requiring Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents about its operations to a government watchdog group. 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 The Justice Department's latest emergency appeal to the high court concerns whether DOGE, which has been central to President Donald Trump's push to remake the government, is a federal agency that is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The administration argues DOGE is merely a presidential advisory body that is exempt from requests for documents under FOIA. The administration wants the justices to freeze orders that would force DOGE to turn over documents to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and have acting DOGE administrator Amy Gleason answer questions under oath within the next three weeks. CREW sued in February, claiming that DOGE 'wields shockingly broad power' with no transparency about its actions. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In March, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper found that DOGE's role is likely more than just advisory, noting its claims in helping to shutter USAID and cut billions of dollars in government contracts. 'Cancelling any government contract would seem to require substantial authority — and cancelling them on this scale certainly does,' Cooper wrote. DOGE 'likely has at least some independent authority to identify and terminate federal employees, federal programs, and federal contracts.' A panel of the federal appeals court in Washington initially put Cooper's order on hold, but a different panel later reinstated the order. Cooper has since set deadlines for the administration to comply by June 13. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to act quickly, calling Cooper's orders 'extraordinarily overbroad and intrusive.' The case is the latest in a string of emergency appeals has taken to the Supreme Court after lower courts have blocked parts of Trump's agenda. Canada Toronto Maple Leafs Sunshine Girls Columnists Canada
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Rubio Says Thousands of Visas Likely Revoked
Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2026 budget request for the U.S. Department of State on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Credit - Jose Luis Magana—AP Thousands of visas have probably been revoked by the State Department since President Donald Trump took office, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. 'I don't know the latest count, but we probably have more to do,' the former Senator said. 'We're going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher education facilities.' The estimate marks a significant increase from late March, when Rubio said student visa cancellations stood at 300. "A visa is not a right, it's a privilege," he said on Tuesday. The Trump Administration has moved to cancel student visas as part of its broader efforts to crack down on immigration. Foreign-born students who have expressed pro-Palestinian views have in particular been targeted after protesters staged hundreds of encampments across numerous colleges and universities in an effort to pressure their schools to divest from Israel and voice their dismay at the U.S.'s strong support of the country throughout the ongoing war in Gaza. At least one student, Tufts University's Rumeysa Ozturk, was arrested by ICE earlier this year after she wrote an op-ed about her university's failure to acknowledge Senate resolutions regarding the Gaza conflict. Ozturk has since been released from custody. Another detained student, Columbia University's Mahmoud Khalil, a lead organizer of the college encampments, is still being held at a detention center in Louisiana, where he has been for the past nine weeks. The Administration sought to revoke the immigration status of thousands of international students in April. But it walked back the efforts—said to affect some 4,700 international students—later in the month following an onslaught of legal challenges and protests, with the Department of Justice announcing that students' immigration records would be reinstated. Tensions between the Trump Administration and higher education institutions remain fraught as federal officials attempt to pressure universities such as Harvard to comply with Administration demands—including the elimination of all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs—or face the cancellation of federal funding. Contact us at letters@
Toronto Sun
05-05-2025
- General
- Toronto Sun
U.S. Army pausing helicopter flights near Washington airport after close calls
Published May 05, 2025 • < 1 minute read FILE - Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Va. Photo by Jose Luis Magana / AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army is pausing flights near a Washington airport after two commercial planes had to abort landings last week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon. The commander of the 12th Aviation Battalion directed the unit to pause flight operations around Ronald Reagan National Airport following Thursday's close calls, two Army officials confirmed to The Associated Press. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not publicly announced. The unit is continuing to fly in the greater Washington, D.C., region. It comes after 67 people died in January when a passenger jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter at Reagan airport. 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 Toronto Blue Jays Columnists Canada Toronto & GTA Toronto & GTA
Toronto Sun
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
Aborted landings due to Army helicopter near Reagan airport 'unacceptable'
Published May 02, 2025 • 1 minute read The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is seen at sunset, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Arlington, Va. Photo by Jose Luis Magana, file / AP Photo WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday that it is 'unacceptable' that two commercial aircrafts had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon. 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 In addition to the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration investigating what happened Thursday, Duffy said, he plans to talk to the Department of Defense to determine why rules were 'disregarded.' The incident at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport involved a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 and a Republic Airways Embraer E170, according to the NTSB. They were instructed by air traffic control to 'perform go-arounds' because of the helicopter. 'Safety must ALWAYS come first,' Duffy said on the social platform X. 'We just lost 67 souls! No more helicopter rides for VIPs or unnecessary training in a congested DCA airspace full of civilians. Take a taxi or Uber — besides most VIPs have black car service.' The aborted landings follow a deadly midair collision in January between a passenger jet and Army helicopter in Washington that killed 67 people. Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, ranking member of the Commerce Committee, which oversees the FAA, said about the Thursday incident that 'it is far past time' for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the FAA to 'give our airspace the security and safety attention it deserves.' Emma Johnson, a spokesperson for Delta Air Lines, said that the safety of their customers and all people is most important and that they'll 'cooperate with authorities as they investigate.' Republic Airways did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment from The Associated Press.
