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

ByNews Polite

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

ByNews Polite

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

ByNews Polite

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…

University of South Carolina fraternity bus crashes in Mississippi injuring 11
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University of South Carolina fraternity bus crashes in Mississippi injuring 11

ByNews Polite

Eleven people were injured when a bus carrying University of South Carolina students blew a tire and hit a concrete barrier in Mississippi. Mississippi state troopers said the driver and a student were critically injured and taken by helicopter to hospitals after the crash Friday, while nine other students were taken…