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Time of India
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
25 million Americans at risk? Trump's most shocking deportation call targets US citizens as he sets bizarre conditions
US President Donald Trump Tuesday paid a visit to the new Florida detention centre dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz ", where around 3,000 migrants are expected to be held as part of his crackdown on illegal immigration. While touring the facility in the Florida Everglades, Trump said it will soon hold the most "menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet". He again floated the idea of deporting US citizens who commit crimes, which legal experts say is "unconstitutional". Speaking to the press during a tour of a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, Trump repeated claims that there are many immigrants who are now citizens and have been committing serious crimes. ALSO READ: Elon Musk to be deported? Trump's bold warning raises explosive questions about Tesla CEO's future Trump to deport US citizens? The US President called for the deportation of some US citizens who have committed crimes, like 'hitting people with a baseball bat.' "They're not new to our country. They're old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth," he said. "So maybe that will be the next job." He said that people who kill others by wacking a baseball bat on their head or knifing needed to be thrown out of the US, even though they were citizens, and called it his administration's 'next job'. Live Events 'I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that will be the next job,' Trump added. ALSO READ: US rapper Kanye West's WW3 album crosses line? 'Heil Hitler' track title sends global shockwaves The President also mentioned New York, adding that the city had seen many such incidents, which, he said, weren't accidents. 'Even if we forget about them, we've had some very bad accidents in New York. They were not accidents,' he said. Trump acknowledged that he didn't know if deporting US citizens who are convicted of crimes is legal. "We'll have to find that out legally. I'm just saying if we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat," he added. "I don't know if we do or not, we're looking at that right now." Trump's proposals 'unconstitutional' Trump's proposal came weeks after Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate released a memo giving US attorneys wide discretion to decide when to pursue the denaturalization process to "advance the Administration's policy objectives", reported ABC News. Individuals who have engaged in torture, war crimes, human trafficking and human rights violations are some of the cases US attorney should pursue, the memo says. ALSO READ: Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill unveiled: Tax cuts, mass deportations, child credit and more Legal experts have flagged that Trump's proposals are unconstitutional claiming they violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. The issue has not come before the courts yet. Amanda Frost, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, told ABC News in April that the administration could try to target naturalized US citizens, who can lose their immigration status if they've committed treason or falsified information during their naturalization process. However, she said those instances are rare. "If someone's a naturalized citizen, there could be an effort to denaturalize that person and deport them," Frost said. "But then it would have to be that they committed some sort of fraud or error in their naturalization process. An unrelated crime could not be the basis for denaturalizing and deporting somebody." ALSO READ: Trump's 'big, beautiful' bill could leave 12 million without healthcare and America drowning in debt Last month, the US Justice Department issued a memo stating it will revoke citizenship of certain people, including those who committed crimes, espionage, or concealed material facts by wilful misrepresentation. The report also stated that if implemented, the Donald Trump administration's move will impact as many as 25 million US citizens. 'The citizenship of individuals will be revoked if they engage in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses; to remove naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the United States; and to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to US soil or traveling internationally on a US passport,' the memo read.
The Hill
20-06-2025
- Business
- The Hill
Oil and gas lawsuits are threatening Trump's energy agenda
Energy has been a highlight of the Trump 2.0 presidency. But the administration needs more cooperation from Lansing and Baton Rouge to bring its ambitious goals to fruition. Michigan and Louisiana may not have a lot in common, but there are few places in the U.S. more critical to the Trump administration's energy agenda. Michigan, an industrial powerhouse, needs abundant affordable energy to fuel the 'manufacturing boom' that the White House is promising. Louisiana, a leading liquid natural gas exporter, is key to Team Trump's goal to make the U.S. the signature supplier of energy to domestic industries and foreign allies. Yet politicized lawsuits against oil and gas companies are proliferating in both states, backed by rivals and fair weather friends whose lawfare crusades are undercutting President Trump's energy dominance agenda. For Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Louisiana's Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, it's time to decide whether to get behind America First energy policies or side with powerful forces within their states that are pushing in the opposite direction. Whitmer, widely viewed as a 2028 Democratic presidential hopeful, nonetheless quotes Trump's call for a 'golden age of American manufacturing.' During her tenure as governor, Michigan has leaned into aspirational net-zero timelines, discouraged in-state gas production and created roadblocks to energy infrastructure. But there's also the legal offensive. Michigan's Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) continues to defend her six year-old lawsuit to shut down Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline, which supplies more than half of Michigan propane use, while she taps contingency lawyers to sue oil and gas companies for far-flung climate-related damages. That's not the posture of a state preparing to power an industrial renaissance. Meanwhile, Landry touts Trump's energy dominance agenda, yet at the same time supports dubious claims against oil and gas companies in his state. As state attorney general, Landry entered a joint prosecution agreement with trial lawyers seeking to hold the oil and gas industry liable for 2,000 square miles of Louisiana wetlands and barrier islands lost to coastal erosion since the 1930s. As governor, he has taken in more campaign contributions from trial lawyers than his Democratic predecessor. The support has paid dividends. A lawyer from the Landry administration backed up the trial lawyers who recently won a $744.6 million verdict against Chevron in a coastal erosion case. Although research shows that leveeing of the Mississippi is the main culprit, oil and gas companies are now defending 43 lawsuits in Louisiana blaming them for coastal land loss. Despite the obvious federal issues at play, the trial lawyers behind the cases are trying to keep the litigation in friendly state courts — precisely the kind of jurisdictional charade that Trump's order against state interference with American energy dominance was designed to prevent. Just this week, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review whether these cases belong in federal court where the oil and gas companies can get a fair hearing. If Landry and the trial lawyers dodge federal jurisdiction, it will be 'pay, baby, pay,' not 'drill baby drill' for oil and gas companies — much to the chagrin of the Trump administration and the detriment of the nation's energy consumers. Unless Team Trump follows through on its promise to defend domestic energy producers from state overreach, U.S. energy dominance will remain elusive. Taking on deep blue states over their climate lawfare is a solid first step, but it's not enough. The next time that Whitmer visits the Oval Office, Trump should remind her that Michigan consumes almost five times more energy than it produces. If the manufacturing golden age returns to Michigan, the demand side of that equation will only rise. The state's leadership needs to bury its green utopianism, drop its anti-pipeline crusade, and start producing more reliable and affordable energy needed to power autonomous vehicles, chip fabs, AI data centers and other industries that Whitmer is trying to attract. Likewise, Team Trump needs to tell Landry to put the energy dominance agenda ahead of his alliance with powerful trial lawyers. If Landry is unwilling to pull out of the retroactive cases against oil and gas companies, the Trump Department of Justice should intervene and defend federal energy policy interests against Louisiana's egregious overreach. For Louisiana's liquefied natural gas sector to propel U.S. energy dominance in the future, the state needs a predictable legal system, not one where industry is at the mercy of politically-connected trial lawyers. The key to the Trump administration's early energy successes has been the rollback of federal rules like the Biden administration ban on liquefied natural gas exports. Unleashing American energy over the long term, however, requires the states to push in the same direction. For states like Michigan and Louisiana, that doesn't require a new vision. It means having the political courage to make it real. Michael Toth is a practicing lawyer and a research fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
Time of India
16-06-2025
- Time of India
Ahmedabad plane crash: How is extreme heat affecting air travel?
Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads The extreme heat caused by climate change is posing new challenges to airlines. Air temperature has a powerful effect on the physics of flight, making matters more complicated for aircraft designers and week, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad in western India. It was more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or over 38 Celsius, at the time. So, we asked experts what hot weather means for air emphasized that air travel is one of the safest ways to get around, and has been for a long time, even when it's hot, because pilots are so highly trained and aircraft are built and tested to withstand the worst possible said, heat will probably be increasingly disruptive for airline passengers in the temperatures mean less dense air, and that's crucial for rely on lift to take off. They speed down the runway until the air rushing over the wing surfaces pushes them up. The less dense the air, the less lift an airplane's wing will generate and the longer it will take to get off the less dense air can also decrease the amount of thrust that propellers generate, and jet engines might not perform as well because they take in less air."The hotter it is, the more airplane performance is degraded," said John Cox, a former airline pilot and CEO of Safety Operating Systems, a consulting can compound these effects, degrading airplane performance at lower extreme cases, a runway could simply be too short to accommodate the heaviest planes in the hottest weather. One study found that the hotter the air is, the longer the distance needed for takeoff. That could lead to long delays at airports on very hot those phenomena are well understood and accounted for in airplane design, and pilots are trained to adjust a plane's settings to account for different temperatures and altitudes, Cox said."Pilots fly airplanes in a very wide environmental envelope -- high altitude, cold, hot -- it's all part of being a professional pilot," he change is causing the troposphere, the atmospheric layer in which airplanes fly, to warm. This has increased a form of turbulence, called clear-air turbulence , which can be particularly hazardous because it can be hard to spot. And if the planet continues to heat up, turbulence will likely because a warmer atmosphere can have stronger winds, including in the jet streams where commercial airplanes typically fly. That can give planes a speed boost if they're flying in the same direction. But it can also cause strong headwinds and more wind shear, which is a sudden change in wind speed or can cause turbulence, even if there's not a cloud in are unlikely to fail because of commonplace turbulence, said Carlos Cesnik, an aerospace engineer at the University of Michigan. But it can be alarming, uncomfortable and, in extremely rare cases, even deadly for passengers who aren't buckled in. New systems are being designed to improve turbulence detection and to minimize the effects of turbulence, he engineers got humans to the moon and back more than half a century airplanes are designed to handle the world's most extreme temperatures and then some. Aviation companies take new planes to the hottest deserts and the coldest deep-freeze zones they can and put them through their range of temperatures in that testing process exceeds heat seen at most airports, Cesnik said. Temperature variability for most commercial flights is small compared with the range of testing temperatures, he added. The companies then plan for heat even in excess of that, creating a large window of weather conditions in which planes can heat "is completely accounted for nowadays in plane design," Cesnik said. But "not every airplane can operate everywhere, and some airports are more challenging than others." Airports at high altitude, in hot places or with short runways can pose preflight process for pilots includes consulting a model that takes into account local weather, altitude and the plane's parameters. The model provides pilots with key calculations, such as how much runway they need to take off, how to set the wing flaps and what speed to reach. Every time a plane takes off, the pilots get a fresh set of custom human error can still enter the equation."Operations ultimately depend on people, and the pilot and the ground crew can get messed up trying to satisfy a bunch of different pressures," he because planes can take decades to develop, plane designers should be taking climate projections into account for the next generation of aircraft, said Mary McRae, an engineer at Villanova remains a safe form of travel, even on hot days."If the pilots have those calculations, the airplane is safe to fly," Cox said. If it's hot out, the airplane will take longer to lift off. "But am I concerned? Not at all."Just keep that seat belt fastened.
Evening Standard
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson's Cannes directorial debuts, unpacked
Cannes 2025 is done, and two of its most talked about feature film debuts didn't come from unknowns. They came from familiar faces. Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson, pictured above, both featured in Un Certain Regard – the strand known for championing bold new voices. Their films Eleanor the Great, a New York-set character study by Johansson, and Urchin, Dickinson's walk on the margins of London. Both sparked immediate curiosity – not only about the stories, but also about the kind of directors these two stars might be.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Black holes caught devouring massive stars in biggest explosion since Big Bang
Supermassive black holes lurk all throughout the known universe, but catching one in the act of devouring its cosmic dinner doesn't happen all that often. In fact, unless a black hole is actively in the middle of eating gas, dust or massive stars, the ominous entities remain invisible to us. It's when black holes emerge out of hiding to feast on their prey and some type of matter is sucked into their celestial maw that they begin to glow brightly. And recently, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii may have seen more than they anticipated. Using both space and ground-based data, the researchers uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they said they represented the biggest explosions since the Big Bang. The three examples the team highlighted in a new study describe supermassive black holes feasting on stars more than three times as massive as our own sun. The events, dubbed 'extreme nuclear transients,' are not only more rare than a supernova star explosion, but are more powerful than 100 supernovae combined, the team claimed. Here's what to know about how the powerful forces may have shaped galaxies and how the discovery may help astronomers better study black holes. Supermassive black holes, regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough energy to escape, are often considered terrors of the known universe. When any object gets close to a supermassive black hole, it's typically ensnared in a powerful gravitational pull. That's due to the event horizon – a theoretical boundary known as the "point of no return" where light and other radiation can no longer escape. As their name implies, supermassive black holes are enormous (Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our Milky Way, is 4.3 million times bigger than the sun.) They're also scarily destructive and perplexing sources of enigma for astronomers who have long sought to learn more about entities that humans can't really get anywhere near. Black holes: NASA finds supermassive black hole it calls 'Space Jaws' Each of the supermassive black holes the researchers described lies at the center of a distant galaxy. And each were observed to have suddenly brightened for several months after shredding up a star three to 10 times heavier than our sun – unleashing enormous amounts of radiations across their host galaxies. The scientists involved in the new study described these rare occurrences as a new category of cosmic events called 'extreme nuclear transients.' One of the transient events the astronomers looked at released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on record ‒ radiating in one year the amount of energy equal to the lifetime output of 100 of our suns. Since just 10% of early black holes are actively eating gas and dust, extreme nuclear transients are a different way to find black holes across vast cosmic distances, which in astronomy means peering back in time, Benjamin Shappee, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii who co-authored the study, said in a statement. 'These events are the only way we can have a spotlight that we can shine on otherwise inactive massive black holes,' Jason Hinkle, graduate student at the University of Hawaii who led the new study, added in a statement. The new discovery was announced not long after NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope helped uncover another covert black hole that had long eluded detection. That supermassive black hole was so menacing that NASA even dubbed it in a blog post as "space jaws" – a reference to Steven Spielberg's famous 1975 shark film. "Space jaws" revealed itself to astronomers earlier in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event that was so large and so bright that several NASA instruments were able to detect it 600 million light-years from Earth. In the University of Hawaii's study, researchers examined three black holes discovered within the last decade. One of the star-destroying events, nicknamed 'Barbie' because of its catalog identifier ZTF20abrbeie, was discovered in 2020 by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in California. The other two black holes were first detected by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission in 2016 and 2018. Data from a number of spacecraft and ground-based observatories helped the team confirm their findings. Though the team concluded the events to be rare, the extreme brightness they produced means they can be seen even in extremely distant galaxies. Astronomers who took part in the study say looking for more of these extreme nuclear transients could help unveil more supermassive black holes in the universe that are usually quiet. The team's findings were published Wednesday, June 4, in the journal Science Advances. Eric Lagatta is the Space Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at elagatta@ This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Black holes spotted devouring stars in most explosive event ever seen
