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The Trump administration has removed a longstanding directive from the civil rights era that explicitly prohibited federal contractors from allowing segregated facilities, the latest move to eradicate diversity, equity and inclusion policies from government operations that has drawn fierce rebuke.The removal of the segregated-facilities policy was included in a memo last month from the General Services Administration, which manages federal property and oversees procurement for the federal government. The memo, which applies to all civilian federal agencies, was among the many directives from agencies aiming to purge safeguards put in place in the 1960s to comply with executive orders issued…

Lorne Thurston and Joseph McIntyre were planning to get an up-close look at the Wayne Gretzky statue in downtown Edmonton on Friday, when they realized it had been smeared with what appeared to be — and strongly smelled like — feces. Wearing a white Oilers jersey, McIntyre was visiting from Nova Scotia and had hoped to get a photo with the Great One’s likeness.“Disappointing,” he said. “It shouldn’t have been done.”Thurston, who hails from British Columbia, also said he was disheartened by the desecration.“I thought people had more class.” The pair were part of a group of friends who stopped…

NewsFeed“Israel under Netanyahu is becoming more and more authoritarian.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to fire the Shin Bet spy chief and Israel’s attorney general have many worried the country may not survive as a democracy.Published On 21 Mar 202521 Mar 2025

Columbia University has announced a new mask ban, the hiring of special officers and other new policies, some of which are in line with the Trump administration’s demands.Thursday marked the deadline that the Trump administration gave Columbia to comply with its list of demands before even discussing the $400 million in funding that the federal government pulled due to what it called the school’s failure to protect students from antisemitism.”Our response to the government agencies outlines the substantive work we’ve been doing over the last academic year to advance our mission, ensure uninterrupted academic activities, and make every student, faculty,…

The temporary legal status of half a million migrants in the US will be revoked as Donald Trump continues his immigration crackdown.

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday announced the arrest of an alleged Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member from Venezuela. Franklin Jose Jimenez-Bracho is the first person detained under the Alien Enemies Act, which President Donald Trump invoked last week, officials said. “Tren de Aragua is a dangerous foreign terrorist organization that has invaded our soil,” ICE Director Todd Lyons said while flanked by members of the FHP at the Friday afternoon news conference. “TdA has infiltrated the U.S., its northern border, the southern border and in our waterways.”Many of these members are cold-blooded…

Researchers behind a new report into an Israeli spyware program used to monitor civil society members say they have found “possible links” between the controversial technology and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), suggesting it may have been used in investigations — an allegation the force doesn’t deny. The report from Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto released this week said researchers traced the IP address of a Canadian-based customer of Paragon Solutions to the address of the OPP’s general headquarters in Toronto.Paragon sells the military-grade spyware program “Graphite” to government clients for national security purposes, but the tool has been…

After the first quarter, both SMU and Memphis assumed everything would calm down. Nine fouls in 10 minutes was a lot. But everyone, officials included, regroups after each quarter. Surely, someone in the three-member officiating squad would say: Let’s let them play.In the second quarter, the teams made it 90 seconds before the next whistle. The next one came 21 seconds later. And another 29 seconds after that.“It was so hard to just play basketball, to just play free, without a ref blowing a whistle,” said Ki’Ari Cain, the only Memphis starter not to foul out of that January 2024…

Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, the online influencers who decamped last month to the United States while facing human-trafficking charges in two European countries, were set to return on Friday to Romania ahead of a criminal proceeding, one of them said Friday.The British American siblings were expected to arrive at night in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, a representative for them told The New York Times.The pair, who have millions of followers on social media and are known for their misogynistic views and for flaunting their wealth, arrived in Florida on Feb. 27 after a Romanian court lifted travel restrictions…

Since the late 1950s, most of America’s warplanes have been given names that indicate a threat, like the F-4 Phantom and the A-6 Intruder, or animals like the F-14 Tomcat, the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.On Friday, the country’s 47th president, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by his side in the Oval Office, announced that the U.S. Air Force’s newest jet would be the F-47.What kind of moniker the F-47 will get was left unsaid.The president said 47 was “a beautiful number,” but offered few details, other than that Boeing would make the new jet and that it…