Trump Official Threatens to Withhold M.T.A. Funding Over Safety Data
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Trump Official Threatens to Withhold M.T.A. Funding Over Safety Data

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funding from New York’s mass transit network if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not respond to a series of demands about efforts to prevent crime on the city’s subway and buses. Sean Duffy, the…

13 People Injured as School Bus Overturns on Garden State Parkway
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13 People Injured as School Bus Overturns on Garden State Parkway

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A school bus with at least 30 passengers on board overturned on the Garden State Parkway near Montvale, N.J., on Monday evening, injuring 13 people, the authorities said. According to the New Jersey Department of Transportation, the bus overturned on the northbound lanes…

Multiple Bus Explosions in Israel Put Country on Terrorism Alert
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Multiple Bus Explosions in Israel Put Country on Terrorism Alert

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Three buses exploded in Tel Aviv area parking lots on Thursday night, raising suspicions of an attempted, coordinated terrorist attack and prompting the Israeli authorities to halt all buses and trains nationwide. There were no injuries reported. After the explosions, Prime Minister Benjamin…

Less Traffic, Faster Buses: Congestion Pricing’s First Week
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Less Traffic, Faster Buses: Congestion Pricing’s First Week

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The first data for New York City’s new congestion pricing program shows that gridlock lessened in its initial week as fewer drivers traveled into the core of Manhattan, though traffic continued to be heavy in parts of the tolling zone. In the first…

Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82
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Charles Person, Youngest of the Original Freedom Riders, Dies at 82

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Ala., in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South — and who were nearly beaten to death for doing so — died…

Opinion | Congestion Pricing Shows the Future of the Democratic Party
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Opinion | Congestion Pricing Shows the Future of the Democratic Party

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines One of the lesser-known acts of the French Revolution, in the days before the storming of the Bastille, was a series of attacks on the toll barriers at the boundaries of Paris. These customs houses were a natural target for angry commoners: They…

Bus crashes into students and parents in eastern China, killing 11 and injuring 13, police say
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Bus crashes into students and parents in eastern China, killing 11 and injuring 13, police say

A bus crashed into a group of students and their parents at a school in eastern China early Tuesday, killing 11 people and injuring 13, police said. The students and parents were at the gate of a middle school in Tai’an city in the eastern province of Shandong just before…

Gunmen kill 23 passengers taken from vehicles in an attack in southwest Pakistan
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Gunmen kill 23 passengers taken from vehicles in an attack in southwest Pakistan

Gunmen fatally shot 23 passengers after identifying them and taking them from buses, vehicles and trucks in one of the deadliest attacks in restive southwestern Pakistan, police and officials said Monday. The killings occurred overnight in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan province, senior police official Ayub Achakzai said. The attackers…

Kamala Harris touted greener school buses — but good luck finding them
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Kamala Harris touted greener school buses — but good luck finding them

Veep Kamala Harris touted federal grants two years ago to replace thousands of gas-guzzling school buses with greener versions — yet fewer than 7% of the initial districts have actually completed the switch. The administration announced its kick-off to the troubled program in 2022, with Harris crowing that the first…