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Bus plunges into river after trainee driver crash, massive rescue response: reports
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A driver in training sent a bus careening into the River Seine near Paris Thursday after hitting a parked car and veering off the road, triggering a massive rescue operation, according to BBC and Reuters.
All four people on board were pulled to safety as more than 90 firefighters, divers and emergency crews — along with boats and a helicopter — responded, officials said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, and drug and alcohol tests came back negative.
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French emergency services and firefighters responded after a bus with passengers fell into the River Seine in Juvisy-sur-Orge, near Paris, France, April 30, 2026. (Abdul Saboor/Reuters)
The incident happened in France’s Juvisy-sur-Orge, about 12 miles south of Paris, as the driver was nearing the end of her practical training, transport officials told the BBC.
Authorities said the bus missed a turn near the riverbank, instead continuing straight and dragging a parked car into the water before plunging into the Seine, Reuters reported.
Dramatic images show the bus partially submerged as rescue crews surrounded it with some individuals on top of the vehicle while others worked in the water below.
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Workers recover a bus that plunged into the River Seine in Juvisy-sur-Orge Thursday, near Paris, France. (Abdul Saboor/Reuters)
Witnesses described a chaotic response, with one saying it felt like «every firefighter in the department» had arrived as bystanders initially threw life rings into the river before first responders took over.
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French emergency services and firefighters respond after a bus with passengers fell into the River Seine in Juvisy-sur-Orge, near Paris, France. (Abdul Saboor/Reuters)
Officials later launched an internal investigation into what caused the crash.
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Video released later showed crews using cranes to pull the submerged bus from the river as helicopters circled overhead.
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President Donald Trump lost his Supreme Court bid to restrict birthright citizenship through executive order, but one of his own appointees may have handed Republicans a blueprint for pursuing much of the same goal through Congress.
Voting with the 6-3 majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed that Executive Order 14160, which restricts automatic citizenship to people born to U.S. citizens or permanent residents, couldn’t take effect. But in a concurring opinion, he also pointed to a different path forward. Kavanaugh argued the court should have resolved the case under federal law rather than the Constitution, laying out a potential legislative path for Congress to pursue changes to birthright citizenship.
Congress first wrote the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship language into federal law in 1940, then carried it over into the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
Because Congress adopted that language after the Supreme Court’s landmark 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which established that most people born in the United States automatically become U.S. citizens, Kavanaugh said lawmakers effectively incorporated the court’s interpretation into federal statute.
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Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his nomination to the Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill, Sept. 27, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
Kavanaugh said Trump couldn’t use an executive order to change a law Congress had already passed, but instead suggested Congress could rewrite the law to limit birthright citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
«Congress could — consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country,» he wrote.
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Demonstrators rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Kavanaugh argued that large-scale illegal immigration and modern international travel have created circumstances the Reconstruction Congress never envisioned. In his view, that gives Congress room to establish new exceptions to birthright citizenship that are comparable to the historical exceptions recognized under the citizenship clause, including children born to foreign diplomats and enemy forces occupying U.S. territory.
«Those two categories of foreign citizens—namely, those unlawfully or temporarily in the country—are relevantly similar to the four categories of persons recognized as exceptions in Wong Kim Ark,» Kavanaugh wrote.
While the majority rejected Kavanaugh’s constitutional reasoning, Republicans quickly seized on the idea that any future effort to limit birthright citizenship would have to come through Congress rather than the White House.
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Hours after the Supreme Court’s ruling came out, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said birthright citizenship has «been abused» and suggested that Congress will have to amend the Constitution.
«It’s one of those things that was intended to serve a noble and important purpose and has been thwarted and overused and abused,» Johnson told reporters. «I’m sure that the conclusion from this decision is you have to amend the Constitution to fix that.»
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., renewed his push for a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship, arguing that legislation alone would not be enough.
Demonstrators rally in support of birthright citizenship outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on April 1, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)
«I introduced a constitutional amendment months ago, actually, to fix birthright citizenship,» Paul wrote on X. «After the Supreme Court decision, that amendment matters more than ever. I’m asking my colleagues to take it seriously and help me get this passed.»
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, echoed Paul’s calls to pass a constitutional amendment.
«The long fight for a constitutional amendment begins now,» Lee wrote on X. «We must explicitly exclude foreign nationals who break our laws, violate our borders, or exploit loopholes to make their families American.»
Trump argued that Congress could change birthright citizenship through legislation instead of a constitutional amendment.
«No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!» Trump wrote on Truth Social. «Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!»
Several Republicans quickly pointed to existing legislation, including Sen. Tom Cotton’s, R-Ark., Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act, as well as proposals from Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., aimed at cracking down on birth tourism.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department indicated it would shift tactics, announcing a crackdown on birth tourism by targeting alleged visa fraud and related criminal conduct rather than attempting to enforce Executive Order 14160.
But, Kavanaugh’s roadmap is far from a guarantee. On the constitutional question, a 5-4 majority concluded that the citizenship clause itself protects birthright citizenship, meaning any congressional effort to restrict it through ordinary legislation would likely face immediate constitutional challenges.
«Justice Thomas says in the final paragraph of his dissent that he’s not confident that the decision is going to stand the test of time, so it could well be that the court would revisit it if Congress were to take the steps that Justice Kavanaugh describes,» Notre Dame Law School professor Haley Proctor told Fox News Digital. «This is an important decision. I don’t think the court’s going to revisit it lightly, and the only sure way to get a new answer here would be to amend the Constitution.»
Kavanaugh offered a similar roadmap in a recent Trump case over tariffs. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal emergency law known as IEEPA did not give Trump the authority to impose sweeping tariffs. But Kavanaugh argued the administration had simply relied on the wrong legal authority instead of rejecting the policy outright.
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«The Court today concludes that the President checked the wrong statutory box by relying on IEEPA rather than another statute to impose these tariffs,» Kavanaugh wrote.
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Instead, Kavanaugh said Trump could rely on several existing trade laws to impose many of the same tariffs, though those laws would require additional legal steps.
Trump later called Kavanaugh his «new hero» in a Truth Social post praising the justice’s dissent in the February tariff decision.
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Detuvieron en Ecuador a “Churrón”, el líder criminal de Los Choneros por el que EEUU ofrecía USD 5 millones
El narcotraficante y líder criminal ecuatoriano Francisco Manuel Bermúdez Cagua, conocido como ‘Churrón’, fue detenido el jueves por la noche en un operativo militar en el norte de Guayaquil, la ciudad más poblada de Ecuador. Por su captura, Estados Unidos ofrecía una recompensa de hasta USD 5 millones.
El ministro de Defensa Nacional, Gian Carlo Loffredo, anunció la aprehensión vía redes sociales y afirmó que Bermúdez estaba al frente de Los Choneros, la banda criminal más antigua del país. El máximo líder de esta organización, José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, fue recapturado en 2025 y extraditado al país norteamericano.
Bermúdez es requerido por la justicia estadounidense por delitos de tráfico de cocaína y tenencia de armas con fines de narcotráfico. Según Loffredo, el detenido será trasladado a la Cárcel del Encuentro, una prisión diseñada bajo estrictas condiciones para líderes y cabecillas criminales, inspirada en el modelo carcelario de El Salvador.
Los Choneros controlaron la actividad criminal en Ecuador hasta finales de 2020, cuando estalló una guerra de bandas por el control del crimen en el país.
La Oficina de Asuntos Internacionales de Narcóticos y Aplicación de la Ley del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos había anunciado la recompensa de USD 5 millones por información que permita la detención o condena de Francisco Bermúdez, uno de los líderes de la organización considerada terrorista por los gobiernos de Ecuador y Estados Unidos.
“Bermúdez Cagua, quien es el primer miembro de Los Choneros en aparecer en la lista de objetivos del programa de recompensas contra el narcotráfico, participa en la toma de decisiones sobre el tráfico de drogas y armas para Los Choneros”, detalló Tommy Pigott, portavoz principal adjunto del Departamento de Estado.
La declaración recordó que el 27 de junio de 2025, el reciente detenido, junto a otros líderes de la organización, Darío Javier Peñafiel Nieto (“Topo”) y José Adolfo Macías Villamar (“Fito”), fueron acusados por el Distrito Este de Nueva York de conspiración para importar y distribuir cocaína, así como de posesión de armas de fuego para facilitar el tráfico de drogas.
En la acusación, Churrón y Topo figuran como lugartenientes de alto rango de Fito, quien fue capturado a fines en una residencia de Manta tras un año y medio de fuga. “Fueron lugartenientes de alto rango dentro de la estructura de liderazgo de la organización”, señalaba el documento. La cartera al mando del secretario de Estado de EEUU, Marco Rubio, subrayó que Los Choneros mantienen vínculos con el cártel mexicano de Sinaloa y controlan rutas clave del tráfico de drogas a través de Ecuador.
Durante una visita a Ecuador el 5 de septiembre el año pasado, Rubio declaró a Los Choneros y Los Lobos como organizaciones terroristas extranjeras. Esta medida autoriza la sanción de bienes, propiedades y fondos de ambos grupos en el sistema bancario estadounidense y prohíbe cualquier transacción de ciudadanos norteamericanos que involucre activos vinculados a esas organizaciones.
En esa ocasión, el jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense también anunció una ayuda económica de USD 19 millones a Quito, de los cuales 13,5 millones se destinarían a la lucha contra el narcotráfico y 6 millones a la adquisición de drones para la fuerza naval.
Con el regreso de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca, Estados Unidos incluyó a 12 grupos latinoamericanos en la lista de organizaciones terroristas extranjeras.
Entre los grupos designados figuran, en México: Cártel de Sinaloa, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, Cártel del Noroeste, Cártel de la Nueva Familia Michoacana, Cárteles Unidos y Cártel del Golfo; en Ecuador: Los Choneros y Los Lobos; en El Salvador: Mara Salvatrucha y Barrio 18; y en Venezuela: Tren de Aragua y Cártel de los Soles.
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