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The quick actions of five middle school students may have prevented a disaster.
On Wednesday, a group of students from Hancock Middle School in Mississippi worked together after their school bus driver experienced a medical emergency and passed out.
Leah Taylor, the driver, told WLOX that the “students stepped up when I passed out driving the bus.”
“She kind of fell over, like flopped over, and everyone started standing up,” McKenzy Finch, a sixth-grade, told the station.
Despite most of their driving experience likely being reserved to video games or four-wheelers, the students sprung into action and devised a genius way to stop the bus by working together.
open image in galleryFive middle school students, who helped stop a bus after their driver passed out during a medical emergency, stand outside a bus in Hancock County, Miss., on Thursday, April 23, 2026 (AP)With the vehicle still in motion, Jackson Casnave, who is also in sixth-grader, rushed to grab the bus's steering whe..

President Donald Trump has called for unity after a suspect was arrested for attempting to storm a White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, armed with multiple knives and a gun.
“I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our difference [sic] peacefully,” he said at a press conference in the aftermath of the incident, still dressed in his tuxedo from the meal.
The incident took place at the Washington Hilton on Saturday evening, where the annual event was being held. Journalists and press who cover the White House and the president are invited to attend the fundraiser and awards ceremony every year.
Mr Trump has previously not attended the dinner, which usually involves poking fun at the US administration in power, and the US leader and businessman was famously the butt of a joke at the event in 2011 made by then-president Barack Obama.
President Trump thanked the Secret Service and law enforcement for their swift action to detain the gunman, 31-year-old..

ABC’s Jonathan Karl detailed a phone call from President Donald Trump on Sunday morning — just hours after the shocking White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting — and said that the president, who’d once derided him as a “third-rate” journalist, had called to check if he was OK.
Karl, a White House correspondent and former president of the White House Correspondent’s Association, described the conversation with the president on ABC’s This Week to host George Stephanopoulos. Saturday evening’s annual dinner at the Washington Hilton was disrupted by gunshots when officials say suspect Cole Allen charged through a security perimeter armed with multiple weapons.
“My phone rang shortly after 7am, my landline, George, actually a number that few people call, and it was President Trump calling … At first he was calling to see if I was OK, with what happened last night; ‘Are you OK?’” Karl recalled Trump asking.
Trump also “reiterated many of the things he said in his press conference last ..

FBI Director Kash Patel vows to file defamation lawsuit against The AtlanticPresident Donald Trump will head to the Washington Hilton hotel this evening for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, his first time at the glitzy gala as president.
The Republican broke longstanding norms by skipping the event multiple times in his previous years as president.
Trump suffered a memorable roasting by then-President Barack Obama at the dinner in 2011, and this year’s iteration won’t feature a comedian as MC, as has been typical in past years. Instead, mentalist Oz Pearlman will host the event. Arrivals to the dinner are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Eastern time.
Trump’s return to the Correspondents’ Dinner comes as his administration continues to lock horns with the press.
Earlier this week, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic over a bombshell exposé alleging he drinks excessively and has performed erratically in the job, cla..

A Florida lawmaker said he was “appalled” after learning that more than two dozen sloths died in an Orlando warehouse en route to a conservation attraction in the state.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the 31 sloths died between December 2024 and February 2025 while being held at a warehouse facility tied to the upcoming Sloth World Orlando, which has yet to open. The deaths were detailed in a FWC incident report.
“I am appalled to hear about the 31 sloths who died under the ‘care’ of the not yet opened Sloth World in Orlando,” Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who represents Central Florida and Orlando, said in a social media post.
“These sloths — naturally solitary animals — were put in the worst conditions possible. They were taken from their natural habitats to a packed warehouse that wasn’t properly heated and allowed for the spread of deadly viruses, leading to a stress-induced death,” he continued, adding that his office is investigating the situation.
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