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A Washington, D.C. elementary school bus driver transporting a class full of students on a field trip in Virginia was arrested on Thursday for DWI after driving the big yellow vehicle into a ditch.Fairfax County Police arrested Troy Reynolds, 48, of Maryland and charged him with DWI as well as nine counts of gross, wanton, or reckless care for children. Police said was driving a school bus carrying 44 children and four adults back to Murch Elementary School in Washington, D.C. after spending the day at Cox Farms in Centreville, Virginia.Not long after hitting the road, Reynolds ran over a…

Rescue teams work at the scene in Seoul, South Korea, where people were injured in a crowd surge during a Halloween festival. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol vows a thorough investigation into one of the country’s worst-ever disasters. Kim Hong-ji/Reuters Published 9:08 PM EDT, Sun October 30, 2022 At least 154 people were killed and over 100 injured in a crowd surge at packed Halloween festivities in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Saturday.More than a dozen embassies around the globe have confirmed victims from their country. At least 26 foreign nationals, including two US citizens, are among…

The Ford government will introduce legislation on Monday to impose a four-year contract on thousands of education support workers in order to avoid a strike — a move that will likely trigger a court challenge by the union. The dramatic escalation in the months-long contract negotiations came after the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 55,000 custodians, clerical staff, librarians, and early childhood educators, gave the government its notice to strike on Friday, Nov. 4.CUPE’s Laura Walton characterized the offer as an “ultimatum” from the Ford government after months of negotiations.The government’s latest offer, which will now be legally…

Frank Micelotta/PictureGroup for Hulu/ShutterstockHis first Halloween! Khloé Kardashian shared a photo of daughter True holding her little brother at a costume party. The little boy, who was born in August, was Tigger, the tiger from Winnie the Pooh. He faced away from the camera as his big sister True, 4, smiled for her mom’s camera. The elder sibling was dressed as Owlette, a character from Disney Junior’s animated PJ Masks series. “Owlette and Tigger aka True and Baby Brother. (Shhhhh…. But I can’t wait for Halloween to be over),” Kardashian, 39, shared via Instagram on Sunday, October 30. Courtesy of…

The man accused of breaking into Paul Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar California home and attacking him with a hammer in the early hours of Friday morning, David DePape, has been “mentally ill for a long time,” according to his former life partner, Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, who is currently in prison for stalking and attempting to abduct a 14-year-old boy from his school in Berkeley. Taub, 53, made the comments about her ex from prison in an interview with ABC7, telling the local news outlet that she met DePape about two decades ago when he was just 20 years old, and that they shared…

The return of MessiBarcelona president Joan Laporta wants to accelerate his bid to bring Lionel Messi back to the Camp Nou, according to Marca. The Catalan club have been plotting a plan to re-sign the Argentine, who joined Paris Saint-Germain as a free agent in 2021. Messi’s current contract in Paris is set to expire next summer and Laporta wants the club legend to retire “wearing the Barcelona shirt”. However, Marca report that Barca are growing impatient and are willing to move for Messi as early as January as they “do not want to wait until the summer”. TransfersSporting to…

Overnight results from Brazil will play a leading role in news coverage as the vote brings months of bitter campaigning to an end. Deforestation in the Amazon will be an especially pertinent topic with COP27 kicking off in Egypt at the close of this week.With veteran Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva falling two points shy of the 50 per cent required to be elected outright in early October, Sunday’s vote will reflect how entrenched “Bolsonarismo” is in the rural areas at the centre of a booming yet ecologically disastrous commodities trade.Brazil’s interior has undergone significant clearances by agribusiness for cattle,…

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams took a shot at county sheriffs throughout the state while proclaiming her support of law enforcement during a Sunday night debate against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. During an exchange between the two, Kemp attacked Abrams for past comments she’s made which seemed to suggest that she supported defunding the police, despite never explicitly stating it.  “Miss Abrams on CNN got asked the question, would she defund the police? And she said, ‘Yes, we have to reallocate resources.’ That means defunding the police. She proposed in 2018, eliminating cash bail,” Kemp said before repeating his endorsement…

Challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won Brazil’s election after defeating incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in a razor-close vote. According to the country’s election authority, Lula secured 50.8 percent of the vote compared to 49.2 percent for Bolsonaro on Sunday. “First of all, I’d like to thank all the comrades that are here with me. We had a fight with the machine of the state, not just a candidate, who tried to block us from winning this election. For everyone who went to vote, I want to thank you,” Lula, 77, told a large applauding crowd. Bolsonaro had been…

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration is being accused in a lawsuit of secretly slashing access to specialty doctors — and potentially life-saving medical treatment — for 1.2 million government workers and retirees, The Post has learned. The explosive claims, laid out in a suit filed in Albany Supreme Court, accuse Hochul officials of illegally ignoring state law when making changes to the Empire Health Plan, which serves state and local government employees. The suit says Acting Commissioner Rebecca Corso and the state Department of Civil Service, who oversee the health insurance program, have dramatically slashed the reimbursement rates that “out of…