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Global News
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Global News
U.S. ends protected deportation status for thousands of Nicaraguans, Hondurans
The Donald Trump administration is ending deportation protections for thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans living in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that protection for Hondurans in the U.S. was granted after Hurricane Mitch in 1998, but that the Honduran government has made 'tremendous strides' since then to recover from the disaster, and that it is safe for Honduran nationals to return. Using almost identical reasoning in a second announcement, DHS said the impacts of a natural disaster that hit Nicaragua in 1999 no longer exist, and that the environmental situation has improved enough that it is safe for Nicaraguan citizens to go home. It did not specify if it was the same disaster it referenced in the announcement for Honduras, despite Hurricane Mitch severely impacting both countries. Story continues below advertisement Hurricane Mitch is one of the deadliest Atlantic storms on record — a Category 5 hurricane that ripped through Central America in October 1998, causing mass devastation. View image in full screen Residents look through the remains of several businesses in Honduras that were destroyed by Hurricane Mitch after rising waters of the Choluteca River caused major flooding. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Getty Images According to the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, the hurricane led to 10,000 deaths as well as $40 million worth of damage in Florida. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said she had determined that the conditions in Honduras and Nicaragua no longer meet the temporary protected status statutory requirements and that her decision 'restores integrity' to the U.S. immigration system. 'Temporary Protected Status was designed to be just that—temporary,' she added. The policy provides deportation relief and work permits to people whose home countries experience a natural disaster, armed conflict, or other extraordinary event but does not provide a path to citizenship or permanent residency. Story continues below advertisement The U.S. State Department currently warns Americans to reconsider travelling to Honduras due to crime and to Nicaragua due to the risk of wrongful detention, crime and limited health-care access. 'It is clear that the Government of Honduras has taken all of the necessary steps to overcome the impacts of Hurricane Mitch, almost 27 years ago,' Noem continued, adding that her department was on hand to facilitate the voluntary return of Nicaraguan and Honduran nationals to their respective countries. Democrats and advocates for immigrants impacted by Trump's sweeping deportation efforts have said that TPS enrollees could be forced to return to dangerous conditions and that U.S. employers depend on their labour. Former president Joe Biden renewed TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua in 2023, saying the effects of Hurricane Mitch still reverberated and that political instability, economic issues and damage from other storms warranted extending the protections. Under Trump, DHS is encouraging people from both nations to use its Customs and Border Protection CBP Home app to document their departure from the U.S. and to 'take advantage' of a safe and secure way to leave with a complimentary plane ticket and a $1,000 exit bonus. The action, effective Sept. 6, will end TPS for an estimated 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans who have had access to the legal status since 1999, according to a pair of Federal Register notices. Story continues below advertisement Trump has sought to end temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants in the U.S., including some who have lived and worked in the country legally for decades. He has already moved to end TPS for 348,000 Venezuelans and 521,000 Haitians, as well as thousands from Afghanistan and Cameroon. — With files from Reuters
Newsweek
27-06-2025
- Health
- Newsweek
GOP Senator: Medicaid Is Broken. Republicans Are Trying To Save It
As an OB-GYN in rural Kansas, I delivered a baby almost every day for over 25 years. About half of these deliveries were on Medicaid, and another 10 to 20 percent were done without reimbursement. Every doctor in our community, and our hospital, took all comers; no one was turned away based on their ability to pay. We thought it was our duty, our obligation to society. It's why we wanted to become doctors: to serve our fellow human beings. All this despite no increase in reimbursement from Medicaid in my 25 years of practicing medicine. I've said it many times: Medicaid is the most broken program in the country. Having Medicaid does not mean you have access to health care. Only 74 percent of physicians accept Medicaid, and many of those who say they do never see patients on Medicaid. Others string out appointments and limit the number they will see. Many specialists use the "busy schedule excuse" and give Medicaid patients appointments months and months out; for all practical purposes, they exclude them from their practice. Over the past five years, Medicaid spending has increased by hundreds of billions of dollars while American health outcomes have declined. Our plan will strengthen and save Medicaid for those who need it the most. By keeping the program fiscally solvent, Republicans are protecting seniors in nursing homes and all those with disabilities. We are ensuring funding will remain available for pregnant moms and prioritizing funding for children. In fact, almost half of all the children in the country—37 million—are now on Medicaid's CHIP program. We must prioritize every dollar we have for those who need it the most. US Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican from Kansas, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Breaking the Visa-Mastercard Duopoly: Bringing Competition and Lower Fees to the Credit Card System" on Capitol Hill in Washington,... US Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican from Kansas, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Breaking the Visa-Mastercard Duopoly: Bringing Competition and Lower Fees to the Credit Card System" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2024. More ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP/Getty Images Over 60 percent of Americans support work requirements for Medicaid; a job is the best safety net out there, not to mention a great treatment for mental health and addiction issues. I believe there are better solutions out there than throwing more money at a program that doesn't work well. More block grants to federally funded Community Health Centers, which are developing a broad-based, more holistic approach to health care—which I believe will become a big part of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement. Another is block grants to rural hospitals, which are struggling. The best thing we can do for rural hospitals is strengthen our agricultural economy, which last year suffered its largest drop in net income in my lifetime. The GOP-led farm bill will help do just that; provisions related to biofuel production, taxes on farmers, and crop insurance will boost rural America's economy. Rural hospitals are a reflection of their local economies, and with populations declining in many rural counties, the financial base to support rural hospitals is no longer there. Any hospital that builds its financial survival based on dependence on Medicaid is bound to fail. We hope that this GOP bill spurs the economy, and expect that if anyone loses Medicaid, it'll only be because they found a good job with benefits. A good job is the best safety net out there. Roger Marshall, M.D., a Republican, is the junior U.S. senator from Kansas. He sits on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
🤔 Did it work? Club World Cup players make NBA-style entrance, watch 🎥
FIFA is implementing a new feature for the players' entrance onto the field in the Club World Cup matches. In the style of the NBA, the athletes are announced in the stadium and called onto the field one by one. Advertisement This presentation format was already put into practice in the opening match of the tournament, between Inter Miami and Al Ahly. The last to step onto the pitch was Lionel Messi, who was cheered on by the stands of the Hard Rock Stadium. Watch: The MetLife Stadium, the stadium that hosts Palmeiras' debut in the World Cup this Sunday, has also tested the novelty, with the names of Verdão's players being announced. See below: This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here. 📸 ROBERTO SCHMIDT - AFP or licensors
Toronto Sun
08-06-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
HANSON: Biden's border nihilism will live long after he is gone
Former U.S. president Joe Biden attends a Department of Defense Commander in Chief Farewell Ceremony at Joint Base Myers-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on Jan. 16, 2025. Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images The spiteful open-borders legacy of Joe Biden will plague America for generations to come, long after the former president is a fading bad memory. 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. 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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 Somewhere between 10-12 million foreign nationals are believed to have entered the U.S. illegally under his watch, to add to the existing 12-20 million illegal aliens. Almost all were unaudited. They stormed the border for four years without background checks of the sort that American citizens must undergo to purchase a firearm or take out a loan. At a time when citizens were expelled from the military for not submitting to the experimental mRNA COVID inoculations, millions of foreign nationals, with the Biden administration's encouragement, crossed the southern border, exempt from any vaccination requirement or medical examination. When Americans were required to present multiple forms of identification to apply for a mandatory 'real ID' to fly in 2025, millions of illegal entrants were flown across the country, often stealthily and under the cover of night, without any valid ID at all. 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. On some days, the Trump administration has managed to deport 800 of Biden's illegal aliens. But 10 times that many entered illegally each day under Biden. Trump's border patrol would have to deport over 8,000 people every day of his four-year tenure just to undo what Biden wrought by his dismantling of federal immigration law. Some 500,000 illegal entrants are believed to have criminal records — a number greater than the population of Oakland, Calif. Indeed, new reports relate almost every day that another illegal alien has murdered, raped, or assaulted an American citizen. The culpable left often champions violent illegal alien criminals facing deportation. Their apparent assumption is that hurting Trump politically justifies hurting Americans even more by protecting violent illegal alien criminals instead of sending them home. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Thousands of these unknown criminals are deadly land mines waiting to explode. Yet the Biden effort to destroy or subvert immigration law transcends just demolishing the southern border. There are nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals in American universities, the vast majority admitted without serious background checks. They are welcomed by elite campuses because they pay the full cost and at a premium, with few questions asked about why exactly they came or what they are doing. No wonder, then, that in the last decade, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is reported to have trained and graduated hundreds of Chinese nationals who were either Communist Party members or the children of prominent Chinese communist apparatchiks. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In other words, at a time when the U.S. is locked in an escalating Cold War with the People's Republic of China, our universities find great profit in enrolling and educating the communist elite who threaten Taiwan, imprison and oppress the Uyghurs, jail Hong Kong dissidents, and send both bio- and agro-terrorists into the U.S. Not a day went by during the last two years without Middle Eastern, pro-Hamas visa students on some campus swarming students in libraries, assaulting and bullying Jews, trashing iconic buildings, illegally camping out in student quads, and screaming to bring the intifada home to the U.S. Neither the Biden administration nor spineless college presidents took any action, despite such flagrant violations of both the terms and spirit of student visas. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Most recently, Yunqing Jian, a 33-year-old Chinese national with ties to the University of Michigan, was arrested as an 'agro-terrorist.' The mission of Jian, along with his girlfriend, was to seed toxic fungus into Midwestern farmland as a way of destroying the American food supply and thereby starve his hosts. Sometimes the baleful Biden immigration inheritance was simply a matter of allowing 'tourists' and 'visitors' to stay far after their visas had expired — without consequences. So, for example, Egyptian national and terrorist, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, along with his entire family, deliberately overstayed their visas. They were all residing here illegally when Soliman firebombed Jews, crying out 'Free Palestine' as he tried to burn them up. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Americans overwhelmingly polled against this Biden border nihilism. Indeed, the House impeached his henchman, Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security. Yet Biden, or his handlers in the shadows, would not stop destroying the borders and immigration law. So why would a president deliberately cause such mayhem that will cost hundreds of lives and billions of dollars in the years to come ?Was the reason Biden's characteristic incompetence or dementia? Or did Biden simply want to alter the demography to find a constituency for his otherwise unpopular agendas? Did he wish to grow the welfare state? Was Biden hoping to expand the DEI agenda by bringing in the poor and supposedly oppressed as new fodder in the Left's Marxist binary of victimized versus victimizer? No one knows why Biden did it, only that he did — and we will suffer his nihilist legacy for years to come. RECOMMENDED VIDEO Sports Sunshine Girls Sunshine Girls Columnists World
Toronto Sun
18-05-2025
- Health
- Toronto Sun
Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer
Published May 18, 2025 • < 1 minute read Former U.S. president Joe Biden attends a Department of Defense Commander in Chief Farewell Ceremony at Joint Base Myers-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, on Jan. 16, 2025. Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON — Former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone. 'While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,' his office said. 'The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.' 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 & GTA Toronto Maple Leafs Sports World World
