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- Vancouver Sun
Trump assassination attempt was result of 'preventable' Secret Service errors: U.S. Senate panel
A 'cascade of preventable failures' within the U.S. Secret Service nearly cost President Donald Trump his life during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, according to a Senate committee report released Sunday. The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Secret Service, found that a series of lapses in planning, communication and coordination allowed 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to climb undetected onto a rooftop overlooking the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and open fire on July 13, 2024. 'It is a miracle that President Trump survived,' Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee's chairman, said in the report. 'What happened was inexcusable, and the consequences imposed so far do not reflect the severity of the situation.' Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sunrise will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. The findings were released on the one-year mark of the shooting, which jolted the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump, who was grazed in the ear, moments later raised his fist and chanted, 'Fight, fight' — an image his campaign capitalized on. According to the Secret Service, six agents were suspended for up to 42 days without pay. The committee probe, which included 17 interviews and more than 75,000 pages of documents, showed that repeated requests for additional security were either denied or left unfulfilled in the months before. Numerous questions remain about the shooting, including Crooks' motivation. Democrats on the committee did not immediately comment on the report. Agents assigned to Trump's protective detail told investigators they often refrained from submitting further requests because they were convinced headquarters would deny them, according to the report. Just 25 minutes before Crooks fired toward Trump, local law enforcement reported a suspicious man carrying a rangefinder outside the rally perimeter. But the Senate report says a Secret Service supervisory agent failed to broadcast the warning over the agency's radio network, and the message failed to reach agents on Trump's protective detail. The report found significant gaps in how agents were briefed. One counter-sniper assigned to the Butler rally testified he had not been told about any intelligence suggesting a potential long-range threat. That agent chose not to report a suspicious person because he assumed someone else would act. 'I'm not the only one that's observing that area,' the sniper told investigators. 'Someone else could've also put out the radio call.' Crooks fired eight shots, killing Corey Comperatore, a local firefighter, and wounding two other attendees before he was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here .
Edmonton Journal
43 minutes ago
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Trump assassination attempt was result of preventable Secret Service errors: U.S. Senate panel
A 'cascade of preventable failures' within the U.S. Secret Service nearly cost President Donald Trump his life during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, according to a Senate committee report released Sunday. Article content The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Secret Service, found that a series of lapses in planning, communication and coordination allowed 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to climb undetected onto a rooftop overlooking the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and open fire on July 13, 2024. Article content Article content 'It is a miracle that President Trump survived,' Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee's chairman, said in the report. 'What happened was inexcusable, and the consequences imposed so far do not reflect the severity of the situation.' Article content Article content Article content The findings were released on the one-year mark of the shooting, which jolted the 2024 presidential campaign. Trump, who was grazed in the ear, moments later raised his fist and chanted, 'Fight, fight' — an image his campaign capitalized on. Article content According to the Secret Service, six agents were suspended for up to 42 days without pay. Article content The committee probe, which included 17 interviews and more than 75,000 pages of documents, showed that repeated requests for additional security were either denied or left unfulfilled in the months before. Article content Numerous questions remain about the shooting, including Crooks' motivation. Democrats on the committee did not immediately comment on the report. Article content Article content Agents assigned to Trump's protective detail told investigators they often refrained from submitting further requests because they were convinced headquarters would deny them, according to the report. Article content Article content Just 25 minutes before Crooks fired toward Trump, local law enforcement reported a suspicious man carrying a rangefinder outside the rally perimeter. But the Senate report says a Secret Service supervisory agent failed to broadcast the warning over the agency's radio network, and the message failed to reach agents on Trump's protective detail. Article content The report found significant gaps in how agents were briefed. One counter-sniper assigned to the Butler rally testified he had not been told about any intelligence suggesting a potential long-range threat. That agent chose not to report a suspicious person because he assumed someone else would act.
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- Toronto Sun
'Terrified' Haitians in the U.S. are desperate for asylum in Montreal
Number of people seeking to escape Trump regime, move to Canada has surged in recent weeks Published Jul 13, 2025 • Last updated 10 hours ago • 4 minute read "I have been getting calls every day from people in the United States who are terrified they will be deported," says Frantz André, a co-ordinator at the Comité d'Action des Personnes sans Statut. Allen McInnis/Montreal Gazette The rise in the number of Haitians living in the United States applying for asylum in Canada started even before Donald Trump was elected, Frantz André recalls. 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 the months before his election in November, Trump had promised to deport more than 11 million undocumented migrants if he was elected. His anti-migrant rhetoric, coupled with baseless claims that Haitian immigrants were eating dogs in Springfield, Ohio, sent the message that their days in the United States could be numbered. Their fears were confirmed in late June when the Trump administration moved toward deporting more than 500,000 Haitians living in the U.S. by ending their temporary legal status. The number of Haitians desperate to come to Montreal has surged in the last weeks. 'I have been getting calls every day from people in the United States who are terrified they will be deported,' said André, a co-ordinator at the Comité d'Action des Personnes sans Statut who has been helping Haitians to settle in Canada for more than a decade. 'We have spoken to people who have been hiding out in church basements for weeks in the U.S. because they're worried ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents) will come to arrest them.' 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. Many Haitians have been living in the United States under temporary legal status for more than a decade since the earthquake that devastated their country in 2010. Under President Joe Biden, the temporary legal status was extended until at least February 2026 because of gang violence, political unrest and other factors in Haiti. In June, the Department of Homeland Security attempted to move up the expiration date to Sept. 2 but was stopped by a federal judge in New York on July 2 who deemed the move unlawful. Despite the judge's ruling, 'Haitians don't trust Trump,' André said. 'So they're still coming to to Canada because that's the one place where they might feel safe.' In the first six days of July, officials at the St-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing between New York and Quebec received 761 asylum claims, a more than 400-per-cent increase from the year-earlier period, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Bloomberg News reported. The number of claims at the crossing rose 128 per cent in June and is up 82 per cent since the start of the year. Most of those claimants were Haitians, the CBSA said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Advocates like André fear Haitians applying for asylum here could be putting themselves in greater danger of deportation because those who are refused entry to Canada are put into the hands of U.S. authorities, who could detain them or put them in prison pending deportation. Under the long-standing Safe Third Country Agreement, which requires anyone seeking refugee protection in Canada or the U.S. to claim asylum in the first of the two countries they reach, only Haitians who have close family in Canada can claim asylum here if they're coming from the U.S. Those who don't will be turned back. Even those with family here can be turned away if they don't have the proper documentation proving their case. 'Many Haitians living in the United States are not aware of these regulations,' said Marjorie Villefranche, the former head of the Maison d'Haiti organization in Montreal that serves the Haitian community. 'And they are trying to come in just as the Canadian government is making it more difficult for people to seek asylum here.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. She also questioned how the U.S. planned to deport 500,000 Haitians to a country whose main airport is closed. Canadian authorities had returned more than 1,600 asylum seekers to the United States in 2025 without hearing their case for refugee protection, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the Gazette reported in early June. Many have landed in ICE custody. André noted that Canada has put a moratorium on returning Haitians to Haiti because of the unsafe conditions in that country. He accuses the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney of 'hypocrisy' by refusing access to Haitians from the United States and then putting them in the hands of U.S. authorities who might send them back to Haiti. Asylum claimants should have the right to claim their cases here, he argued. 'Canada is actually deporting people by proxy,' he said. 'Carney is making the rules tougher — he's using immigration as a bargaining tool because he knows Donald Trump is very sensitive about everything that's immigration.' In an emailed statement sent earlier to The Gazette, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokesperson Julie Lafortune said the U.S. 'continues to meet the criteria … to be a designated safe third country.' In 2024, nearly 80 per cent of asylum seekers who made their case to an immigration judge in Canada were granted refugee status. Toronto & GTA Golf World Toronto Raptors Toronto & GTA
