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In a move that dropped more certifications than a reality show judge, the Trump Administration announced it has yanked the accreditation of nearly 3,000 commercial driver training centers and put another 4,000 on notice — a cleanse the Department of Transportation says is all about safety, standards, and the proper way to parallel park an 80,000-pound existential crisis. “Under President Trump, we are reigning in illegal and reckless practices that let poorly trained drivers get behind the wheel of semi-trucks and school buses,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy thundered in the statement that accompanied the purge — a sentence that reads like it was written by a traffic cop who also owns a flair for dramatic capitalization. According to the DOT , the removals hit training providers listed in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Training Provider Registry — roughly 16,000 outfits nationwide — after audits discovered what officials characterize as falsified paperw...

PORT-AU-PRINCE — After nearly a decade of electoral tumbleweeds, Haiti ’s Transitional Presidential Council pulled off what political watchers called the country’s equivalent of finding a working umbrella in a storm: it adopted an electoral law that finally clears the way to publish a long-awaited election calendar .  Cue equal parts relief, skepticism and the kind of jubilation usually reserved for the power at your house returning after a blackout. Council President Laurent Saint-Cyr took to X to frame the move in classic statesman mode: “We must finally offer the Haitian people the opportunity to freely and responsibly choose those who will lead them,” he wrote.  “By taking this decisive step, while remaining fully committed to restoring security, we reaffirm our dedication to putting Haiti back on the path to democratic legitimacy and stability.”  The quote read like a promise wrapped in a press release and tied with a bow of cautious optimism... Not everyone in...