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Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) announced the arrival of the first bus of migrants under its new “Secure Emerging Mobility Corridor” program. The program offers migrants free transportation, including meals and security from the Mexico/Guatemala border to ports of entry in the United States, where they will be admitted under the Biden-Harris CBP One app. The first bus arrived early Wednesday morning in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, located just across from McAllen, Texas. The bus carryied migrants from several Central and South American countries. The government of Mexico provided the migrant’s travel under a program announced after a series of...

Democrats believe Vice President Kamala Harris must admit to the failures of the Biden-Harris administration to survive exposure during Tuesday’s debate as the status quo candidate of the past three and a half years. Harris has clear vulnerabilities as the vice president: She cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, but she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy. “The debate will pose a challenge for Ms. Harris, who will have to decide how much to embrace or distance herself from President Biden and his policies...

Planned Parenthood is making a gruesome offer ahead of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers of St. Louis is offering free vasectomies, medication abortion, and emergency contraception. In a post shared on X, the baby-killing group announced that they will be bringing a bus to Chicago to offer the free services. The post said, “Here we come, Chicago! Our mobile health clinic will be in the West Loop with @ChiAbortionFund & @TheWienerCircle Aug 19-20, providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion.” “EC will also be available for free without an appointment.” Here we come, Chicago! Our...

SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Southlake's Carroll Independent School District headed back to class on Tuesday, and for some students, it cost a little extra. Carroll this year raised the price of its school bus pass to $350 for the full year, or $205 for the fall semester, per student. Family pass prices were set at $730 for the full year or $415 for the fall semester. While Carroll offered a discounted rate if passes were purchased before July 17 -- $325 for the year, $180 for the semester, per student, and $705 for the year or $390 for the semester, per...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has ordered city officials to offer homeless people bus tickets out of town before offering them shelter or housing — a controversial policy that shunts the city’s homeless problem onto other towns. The San Francisco Chronicle reported: Mayor London Breed on Thursday ordered city employees to offer homeless people a bus ticket out of town before presenting shelter or housing as an option. The mayor’s new executive order, which marks a shift from current practices, comes amid an escalated crackdown on homeless encampments after a recent court Supreme Court ruling gave city officials more power...

The New York Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Mayor Eric Adams attempting to block Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s migrant busing program. The ruling allows the State of Texas to continue busing migrants to New York City. In a post on social media, Governor Abbott vowed to continue busing migrants from the Texas border region to New York City and other sanctuary cities. The ruling by the New York Supreme Court is the second legal victory for Abbott in as many days. Another WIN! The New York Supreme Court REJECTED Mayor Adams’ attempt to block Texas from busing migrants...

Maryland Right to Life is demanding that the Baltimore Police Department conduct a full criminal investigation into the tragic deaths of two babies whose remains were discovered on a Maryland Transit Authority bus in Baltimore City on June 1st. The nonprofit organization, which has been a leading voice for human rights for more than fifty years, called for the humane treatment of the babies’ remains and has offered to provide proper burials. “Despite the circumstances of their deaths, we are seeking justice for these tiny human beings,” said Laura Bogley, Executive Director of Maryland Right to Life, “we have expressed...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — One person is dead after police said a gunman hijacked a bus from downtown Atlanta with 17 people on board while holding a gun to the bus driver’s head. The incident started at 45 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard around 4:30 p.m. Atlanta police said they responded to initial reports of a gunman on the bus that was holding hostages and that there had possibly been a discharge of a weapon. The call then immediately dropped. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Scheirbaum said that 911 then got a second call from a family member of a person on...

Police do not yet know why a woman gave birth to and discarded two babies on a Baltimore bus, but it appears to be the type of desperate situation that pro-abortion activists insist pro-abortion laws are necessary to prevent.

The road to Hamptons luxury is paved with D-listers and day-drinkers. A swanky new bus service from the company that brought Big Apple elites $1,000 helicopter trips to the East End kicked off its first weekend of rides Friday — with passengers that included a cocktail-sipping reality TV star, a CEO and a nightlife promoter. Well-to-do New Yorkers said they plunked down $195 to $275 for the one-way ticket on Blade’s new Streamliner bus to avoid cramped mass transit and safety risks associated with chopper travel.

WARNING: Content may be disturbing for some. DENTON — A criminal investigation is unfolding in Denton after a 13-year-old girl is attacked on a school bus by adults. The bus was leaving Bettye Myers Middle School last week when the 8th-grade girl says she was attacked by someone she says she didn't really know. Earlier in the day, she'd heard rumors that the girl, new to the school, wanted to fight her. "She said if I didn't keep her name out of my mouth, then she was going to beat me up," explained the student we'll call "Nicole" to protect...

Parents in Michigan are terrified over horrifying footage of a fifth-grade girl beating a six-year-old boy and leaving another injured while on a school bus. The cellphone-shot footage shows the fifth grader throwing punches on the younger student from Ballard Elementary School during the afternoon route home on a Niles School Bus on March 4. The unidentified students can first be heard arguing, screaming expletives and calling each other names. Their argument is said to have begun after the boy tried to knock the girl's phone out of her hands. The situation soon escalates when the young girl gets out...

Three men — all teenagers — have been arrested in the harrowing Philadelphia bus stop shooting that wounded eight high school students, officials announced. Jamaal Tucker and Ahnile Buggs, both 18, and 19-year-old Jermahd Carter were part of the foursome who sprayed some 30 rounds of bullets at the Northeast High School students who were waiting to load the SEPTA vehicle, last week, according to the city’s police and US Marshals. The fourth person — who is known to police but has not yet been identified — is still being sought. It is not clear whether the arrested men were...

Three children and two adults were killed when a school bus collided with a semi-truck on Monday in Illinois.

South Korean drivers are concerned that their future EVs could catch fire while charging or in a car crash ... In 2020 and 2021, several high-profile cases of EVs catching fire were reported in South Korea. Three years ago, an electric bus manufactured by Hyundai Motor caught fire while in use. A few months earlier, Hyundai Motor recalled more than 77,000 Kona EVs sold globally after 13 of the electric crossover vehicles caught fire. Hyundai and its battery supplier LG Chem were at odds over the reasons for the recall, with the battery cell maker saying it wasn’t its battery...

Cities coast-to-coast grappling with broken-down e-buses that cannot be fixed .. Between the federal government, states and municipalities, untold billions in taxpayer dollars have been spent adding electric buses to transit fleets across the U.S. in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. However, cities from coast-to-coast are grappling with broken-down e-buses that cannot be fixed, are too expensive to fix, or they have scrapped their electric fleets altogether. Officials in Asheville, North Carolina, recently expressed frustration that three of the five e-buses the city purchased for millions in 2018 are now sitting idle due to a combination of software issues,...

Officials today launched an investigation after one of Sadiq Khan's electric buses exploded during today's rush hour. Terrified residents in Wimbledon described a massive 'bang' after a double decker burst into flames during this morning's commute, sparking chaos on the roads as black smoke filled the streets. Astonishing video obtained by MailOnline shows the dramatic moment firefighters battled to put out the inferno. Transport for London (TfL) today launched an investigation after the blaze destroyed the rear and blew out the back windows ... 'It took a long time for them to get it under control with flames flying out...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy asked charter bus companies bringing migrants to his state for a 32-hour notice of arrival Monday — on the heels of a similar order from New York City Mayor Eric Adams. In a letter to more than 20 companies, Murphy said more than 1,800 migrants from the southern US border have been dumped in the Garden State since Dec. 31, with nearly all of them continuing on to their intended destination in the Big Apple. “As we continue to see more migrants arrive to our state at the hands of the governor of Texas, who...

Mayor Eric Adams wants to add trains and planes to his executive order limiting migrant buses arriving in the Big Apple — as City Hall attempts to stem the flood of asylum seekers now flocking in on New Jersey transit trains. The call comes as Adams was scheduled to huddle with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy over the new wrinkle in the crisis, which saw busloads of migrants thwarting the crackdown by heading to the Garden State, where asylum seekers would then hop trains into Manhattan. “We’re dealing with a person who just wants to disrupt,” Adams said Tuesday, referring...

While speaking to New York ABC affiliate WABC on Monday, Edison, New Jersey Mayor Sam Joshi (D) stated that he turned a bus full of migrants sent to the city back because local police “did not know if any of those 40 individuals were carrying weapons, they couldn’t be identified.” And this is “a major security risk. It’s a health risk. And we’re just not going to tolerate that.” Joshi, who plans to send migrants back to the border, also stated that he doesn’t want to pawn problems off on other mayors. WABC New Jersey Reporter Toni Yates stated, “The...