Articulated Bus Plunges Off New York Overpass, Injures 9
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A Thursday night commute went wrong when a New York MTA articulated bus crashed through an overpass railing and plunged several feet down to the road below. At least nine people were injured and the bus dangled over the Cross Bronx Expressway for hours.
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The FDNY’s Twitter account shows a frightening scene:
As of now, it’s not known what caused the crash. According to ABC 7 New York, the bus driver was trying to turn left off of University Avenue onto the ramp to the Washington bridge when the bus a New Flyer XN60 ran off of the overpass. The rear section of the articulated bus remained on the overpass while the front section slammed into the road below. The bus appeared to have remained at least partially connected at the articulation point.
The Washington Post has reported on the long, strange story of how Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Secret Service detail, barred from using their toilets, created an "unpleasant mess" in the Obamas' bathroom.
The confusion was the natural result of WhatsApp’s bungled rollout of these new policies. By shoving a scary-sounding ultimatum in front of countless users, and by tying that ultimatum to a privacy policy that (I think we can all agree) is near-impossibleto comprehend, the bulk of WhatsApp’s users were left assuming the worst: that Facebook could now readtheir WhatsApp messages, snoop through their entire contact list, and know every timeyou leave someone on “read” within the app. These rumors eventually reached WhatsApp Head Will Cathcart, who issued his own lengthy Twitter threaddebunking the bulk of these claims, before WhatsApp proper did its own debunking in the form of an FAQ page.
A species of Ecuadorian glass frog combines high-frequency croaking and a striking visual display to attract mates, in what is a fascinating adaptation to a noisy environment.
The Root s Clapback Mailbag: Whitenotes
Illustration: Oscar Bustamante
Clapback MailbagEach Friday, we select the best (or worst) emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers and respond to them in the The Root s Clapback Mailbag.
The Clapback Mailbag will often search through the emails, tweets, DMs and comments to find a common theme from our perturbed readers. Sometimes they are upset about one thing. Occasionally, we will receive a spate of responses that all have the same “whataboutism.”
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all the things, including:
Not all white people
You’re the real racist
In fact, this week’s Mailbag letters were so completely batshit insane, the only feasible way to realistically clap back at these wypipo maniacs was to do an academic-style annotated examination of their white nonsense.