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On Tuesday hundreds of thousands of American Jews and their supporters held a rally for Israel in Washington DC. The protest was attended by both Democrat and Republican lawmakers. 900 attendees from the Detroit area were left stranded at Dulles after bus drivers refused to transport them to the rally. The Biden administration skipped the march and rally. At the same time every single Senate Democrat voted to stop aid to Israel. Unlike the pro-Palestinian crowd, the crowd sang the National Anthem at their rally yesterday. A vile leftist chanted Heil Hitler at the crowd. Newsweek reported: Hundreds of people...

A bus driver was shot to death along his route in the Germantown area of Philadelphia Thursday morning and a suspect is now in custody, police said. The 48-year-old driver was transporting passengers on the number 23 bus of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, when a woman opened fire at around 10:30 a.m., police said after releasing images of the female suspect.

Just Stop Oil protestors tried to prevent people boarding the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland. A number of people were being taken on board the vessel at the Dorset port more than two months after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bacteria in the water supply. As the eco-protesters tried to halt the progress of the bus, the driver refused to stop, making those sitting on the ground have to move out of the way very quickly.

When a video of an American Airlines pilot scolding his passengers during a pre-flight announcement went viral, some people deemed it patronizing. Others, including a Harvard University expert, are hailing the pilot’s speech as an example of strong leadership — at a time when passengers desperately need it. “I say bravo to the American Airlines pilot. He has every right to do that. He’s the captain of the flight, and he’s in charge of what happens,” Bill George, an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and author of “True North: Emerging Leader Edition,” tells CNBC Make It. “If something goes...

A Chicago bus driver landed in the hospital after he was beaten on the streets Saturday night, resulting in a 15-year-old boy being arrested. The bus driver, 49, was inspecting his bus at about 9 p.m. after he heard a loud sound. He was reportedly pushed and punched by both a male and female, police said. An unidentified 15-year-old boy was charged with a felony count of aggravated battery of a transit employee and disorderly conduct in connection. Footage allegedly showing the incident has spread on social media. A large group of youths is seen surrounding the bus driver and...

A Colorado school bus driver was arrested on Wednesday after he admitted to slapping a 10-year-old girl for how she was wearing her face mask. Jaquez Bertram Armand, 63, was captured on surveillance cameras hitting the girl in April in Fremont County.

A 600-pound man who lost his job as a bus driver after failing repeated medical and physical evaluations cannot claim that he was discriminated against for being obese, state judges ruled Thursday. Corey Dickson sued Community Bus Lines, which does business as Coach USA, claiming that he was subjected to a hostile work environment before he lost his job. But a Superior Court judge last year dismissed the lawsuit because fat people are not one of the protected groups under the state Law Against Discrimination. That decision was upheld Thursday by a three-judge appellate panel. While disabled people are considered...

A school bus driver accused of sexually assaulting two young Kinnelon students bribed them with candy and donuts so they would not to reveal the months of molestation during daily games of “hide-and-seek” on the bus after they parked outside the school in Morris County, authorities said. Thomas Thomasevich, 70, of Oakland, was arrested Tuesday on charges of sexual assault, child endangerment and multiple counts of neglect. He is being held in the Morris County jail, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office.The sexual assaults began in October and continued near-daily until one of the girls reported the abuse by...

CHP estimated between 40 and 50 students, from kindergarten to 5th grade, were on the bus when it was stopped. Officials said it was one of those children who called 911 to report Ray’s driving through the Diablo Grande neighborhood. Ray was charged with DUI and child endangerment, according to KTXL. CHP won't know what type of substance they believe Ray was under the influence of until tests results come back. The Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District said Ray works as a subcontractor for First Student Transportation. That company declined to comment on her arrest. It’s unclear whether Ray will...

A Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) driver was hailed a hero for helping save people from a burning building. MCTS driver Chanaye Brown was honored on Thursday, Oct. 10 for stepping in when help was needed. Brown was driving her route on Jan. 5, when she saw flames coming from the window of a home near 79th and Hampton. Video from inside the bus shows Brown leap into action after spotting the fire. "I'm going to see if I can get somebody's attention," Brown can be heard saying on video. In the video, you can see Brown run toward the...

MILAN – Italian authorities say a bus driver transporting schoolchildren stopped his vehicle on a provincial highway, told the passengers to get off and then doused the interior with gasoline and set it on fire. Italian media reported that the driver, an Italian of Senegalese origin, was immediately apprehended. The motive for the arson attack Thursday morning on the outskirts of Milan was unclear. An official told Sky TG24 that the middle school-age children alerted authorities, aiding a speedy emergency response. Twelve children and two adults were taken the hospital but authorities reported only one injury. Video showed firefighters dousing...

"Today nobody comes out of here alive." He wanted to die and kill the kids in the burning bus launched at Linate airport. It could have been a massacre, Wednesday morning, on the provincial road Paullese (area of ​​San Donato Milanese) and not far from the city airport where he would have said "to want to make a massacre". On board a school class: 51 children from the Vailati middle school of Crema. The driver, Ousseynou Sy, Senegalese but with Italian citizenship, 47 years old, in service for the Autoguidovie di Crema, had loaded petrol cans on the vehicle: he...

Full title: Bus driver caught on camera swearing and confronting passengers screaming about how stressful his job is THIS is the moment a driver stops his bus and begins ranting at passengers – all because he is “having a stressful day”. Remarkable footage captures the drama unfold on the Las Vegas bus which appears to have been sparked after a comment from one of the passengers. After the vehicle comes to a halt, the driver comes out of his cab and let’s rip with about his working conditions. Speaking first to a female passenger, who is trying to calm him...

FULL TITLE: Moment hero bus driver rescues lost five-year-old boy wandering the freezing streets of Milwaukee in the middle of the night A kindhearted bus driver saved the life of a crying little boy who was wandering the streets of Milwaukee on a cold January night. Milwaukee County Transit System bus driver Denise Wilson was pulling over for a break around midnight on January 28 when she noticed the five-year-old boy dressed in a t-shirt, shorts and socks. 'He came out of nowhere out of nowhere. I just happened to look over and heard him crying and he was just...

The arrogance of these refugees has been seen time and again, but people are finally starting to stand up and fight back. Political correctness is quickly going by the wayside in the name of self preservation. After taking a couple of cheap shots from a Muslim thug, a bus driver had a bit of a rude awakening for one of Allah’s little soldiers… people actually fight back when you come after them! Muslim migrants don’t want anything to do with the countries customs or laws, and think they are above them and the people of the country. That’s why this...

A Somali Muslim Metro Transit driver, 32-year-old Mahmud Dabshir Aden of Minneapolis, who came to the U.S. as a ‘refugee’ from Somalia 8 years ago, was arrested by Metro Transit Police for refusing to let a pregnant teenage girl off the bus, exposing himself, and demanding oral sex, according to the criminal complaint filed.Star Tribune /TopRightNews Aden was charged with soliciting for prostitution, a felony that carries a sentence of as much as 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $50,000. He is being held pending his next court appearance Monday afternoon. (That’s all? He exposed himself to...

Police: Family of 3 beaten up by several teens after argument with bus driver BALTIMORE —A former Maryland Transit Administration bus driver is facing several charges after a family claimed she got several teens to beat them up after one of the victims got into an argument with her. GIBSON-FISHER FAMILY Gibson-Fisher family Logan Fisher, Kristina Gibson and Christopher Fisher VIEW LARGE Mobile users tap here to watch video Former MTA bus driver Karen Murphy left district court in northwest Baltimore on Thursday after her first court appearance to answer to multiple charges of assault and conspiracy. Court documents said...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blasted the United States Wednesday for its large-scale use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, saying it is flooding the market with oil produced with environmentally destructive methods. The United States, one of the world's biggest practitioners of fracking, a controversial technique that involves pumping a pressurized fluid - usually composed of water, sand and chemicals - into a shale formation to create a fracture in the rock layer and release trapped petroleum or natural gas - has used that technology to double oil output to 8.5 million barrels per day in six years.

The Wyoming Public Schools needs more bus drivers and district officials say they have "exhausted our options" trying to find new workers. Yet, a Michigan Education Association UniServ Director asked the district to fire a substitute bus driver because he did not sign paperwork to join the union. School district officials said the bus driver didn't have to join the union as a condition of employment under the state's right-to-work law. In an April 16 email to the district, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, MEA UniServ Director Sandy Paesens asked the district to tell the substitute bus...

President Shimon Peres on Sunday evening phoned and thanked bus driver Michael Yoger and passenger David Papo, whose actions saved lives in the explosion on the 240 bus in Bat Yam earlier in the day. Peres asked to hear the details of the event and thanked Yoger and Papo for their actions in discovering the device and clearing the passengers from the bus, saving lives in the process. The explosion took place shortly after passengers noticed a suspicious object and reported it to the driver, who quickly removed all passengers from the bus. .....