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The damaged plane seen on runway at Toronto Pearson Airport
'I was just in a plane crash': Witnesses recount escape in Toronto
TORONTO — "Our plane crashed. It's upside down."These were the words of John Nelson, a passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight that had just crashed and flipped while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport.All 80 people on board the flight from Minneapolis — 76 passengers and four crew — have survived, the airport's chief executive has said.Eighteen people were injured but only a small number are thought to be seriously hurt, and investigators are looking into what caused the crash."Most people appear to be okay. We're all getting off," Nelson said in a video posted to Facebook soon after the incident.He later told CNN that there was no indication of anything unusual before landing."We skidded on our side, then flipped over on our...
February 18, 2025

'I was just in a plane crash': Witnesses recount escape in Toronto

American Airlines plane seen from behind, flying through the air, with an air traffic control tower in the distance
Hundreds fired at US aviation safety agency, union says
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC.Several hundreds of the agency's probationary workers — who have generally been in their positions for less than a year — received the news via email late on Friday night, a statement from PASS's head, Alex Spero said.It is part of a cost-cutting drive, driven by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which aims to drastically cut the federal workforce.Spero called the firings "shameful" and said they "will increase the workload and place new responsibilities on a workforce that is already...
February 18, 2025

Hundreds fired at US aviation safety agency, union says

The Delta Airlines plane is seen on runway at Toronto Pearson Airport after crashlanding
All passengers survive crash landing as plane flips at Toronto airport
TORONTO — All 80 people on board a plane that crashed and overturned while landing in Toronto have survived, officials said.The Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis skidded along the runway with flames visible and it came to a halt upside down as firefighters came to the rescue.Survivors said they were suspended upside down in their seats and had to release themselves, dropping on to the ceiling before clambering out on to the snow-covered tarmac.Eighteen people were injured but only a small number are thought to be seriously hurt, and investigators are looking into what caused the crash.There were 76 passengers and four crew on board the 16-year-old CRJ900 aircraft, made by Canada's Bombardier company.In an evening briefing, Deborah Flint of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority...
February 18, 2025

All passengers survive crash landing as plane flips at Toronto airport

Steve Witkoff is the White House's Middle East envoy
Trump dispatches NY real estate dealmaker to solve global crises
WASHINGTON — When US President Donald Trump wanted someone to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to open negotiations for a potential deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he didn't dispatch his secretary of state.The man he sent to the Kremlin to handle a titanic geopolitical challenge does not even have a diplomatic background.Instead, Trump picked his personal friend, golf buddy and billionaire real estate developer Steve Witkoff.The president has made Witkoff his Middle East envoy. But last week the Bronx-born businessman found himself in discussions about ending a conflict in Eastern Europe — having been "with [Putin] for a very extended period, like about three hours", in Trump's words.Witkoff was in Moscow to help facilitate a deal that saw the US...
February 18, 2025

Trump dispatches NY real estate dealmaker to solve global crises

At least nine dead in US floods and heavy rain
WASHINGTON — At least nine people have died over the weekend, as torrential downpours drenched parts of the south-eastern US, submerging roads and houses.Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said eight people had died in his state and suggested at a news conference on Sunday that the total could go up.Hundreds of people stranded in flood waters, many stuck in their cars, had been rescued, and Beshear warned residents to "stay off the roads right now and stay alive".In Georgia, the ninth death was recorded after a man lying in his bed was struck by an uprooted tree that crashed into his home.Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina were under some type of storm-related alert this weekend. Almost all of those states suffered...
February 17, 2025

At least nine dead in US floods and heavy rain

Hampton Dellinger was fired in a one-sentence email this month
Trump makes first Supreme Court appeal in test of power to fire officials
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's attempts to shrink the federal bureaucracy are heading to the Supreme Court, according to US media.He has filed an emergency appeal to the country's highest court to rule on whether he can fire the leader of an independent whistleblowing agency.Hampton Dellinger, head of the US Office of Special Counsel, sued the Trump administration after he was fired by email this month.Trump has also sacked more than a dozen inspectors general at various federal agencies along with the jobs of thousands of employees across the US government.Dellinger, who was nominated by Joe Biden, the former president, argues that his removal broke a law that protects leaders of independent agencies from being fired by the president, "except in cases of neglect of...
February 17, 2025

Trump makes first Supreme Court appeal in test of power to fire officials

Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally to protest the closing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the work-from-home order issued by CFPB Director Russell Vought outside its headquarters on February 10, 2025
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority
WASHINGTON — Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rely on the same institutional and procedural maneuvers they used during the first Trump term, and how much are they willing to wield their own wrecking balls?Democrats remain essentially leaderless, with prospective future presidential candidates largely sitting back and allowing others to be the first ones through the buzzsaw of Trump and his cheerleaders, none eager to be the face of a party just yet. They are disconnected from the Democratic National Committee, where the Obama-era rallying cry of “Yes We Can!” became the watered down facsimile slogan “Yes We Ken!” for...
February 17, 2025

Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority

Javier Milei, president of Argentina, at the G20 Summit Rio de Janeiro 2024
Argentina’s President Milei faces impeachment calls after promoting cryptocurrency
BUENOS AIRES — Argentine President Javier Milei is facing calls for impeachment after promoting a little-known cryptocurrency, whose price soared then collapsed after his endorsement, leading to losses for thousands of investors.The news has caused a major scandal in Argentina, with the opposition accusing Milei of promoting a scam, an allegation that the presidency has denied.It started with a tweet posted by the president to his X account, which has more than 3.8 million followers. “This private project will be dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy,” he wrote, with a link to the $LIBRA cryptocurrency project.Hours later, Milei deleted the message and, in another post, said he had no ties to the initiative. “I was not aware of the details of the project and...
February 17, 2025

Argentina’s President Milei faces impeachment calls after promoting cryptocurrency

A Somali internally-displaced person (IDP) child looks out from her family's makeshift home in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, on 5 February 2025
US judge orders Trump administration to temporarily restore foreign aid funding
WASHINGTON — A US federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a funding freeze that has shut down US aid and development work worldwide.The sudden shutdown has resulted in sweeping damage to non-profits and other organizations that help carry out crucial US assistance internationally, US District Judge Amir Ali said while issuing the temporary order on Thursday.The freeze has shut down almost all of the thousands of US-funded aid and development programs globally, USAID workers and humanitarian groups say.The court ruling is the second major setback for the Trump administration in its dismantling of the six-decade-old US Agency for International Development (USAID).US President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk, who runs the Department of...
February 14, 2025

US judge orders Trump administration to temporarily restore foreign aid funding

Probationary staff at the Office of Personnel Management were fired in a conference call on Thursday
Thousands of probationary employees fired as Trump administration directs widespread layoffs
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration broadened its effort to terminate thousands of probationary workers on Thursday, instructing agencies on a call to move forward with the layoffs.Officials have set their sights on probationary workers, who have typically been employed for less than a year, or two years in some cases, because they have fewer job protections and lack the right to appeal.More than 200,000 employees have worked within the federal government for less than a year, according to the most recent 2024 data from the US Office of Personnel Management, which conducted Thursday afternoon’s call.The culling on Thursday took place at the departments of Energy and Veterans Affairs, among others, and followed terminations of scores of probationary workers earlier this week at the...
February 14, 2025

Thousands of probationary employees fired as Trump administration directs widespread layoffs

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