A celebration of the New York Knicks historic NBA Finals win turned into fiery chaos on Saturday night in New York City’s Times Square. Wild revelers targeted several school buses and some of them lit clothing on fire and threw it inside a bus while others tore the buses apart, the New York Post reported Sunday. One person at the scene shouted, “I’m scared for my homies!” while someone else said, “You know our tax-payer dollars go to public schools, right?” Video footage showed people taking turns beating the front of a yellow school bus with a scooter as the crowd watched and as some of them perched on top of the bus. The crowd eventually opened the vehicle’s hood. “This is coming out of my paycheck!” a man who appeared to be the bus driver said while trying to protect the bus from the rioters. Reuters reported that some of the vehicles targeted were World Cup buses. More clips [at the link] showed other views of the chaos that also included what appeared to be fireworks. A 17-year-old was shot in the foot during the violent celebrations near 42nd Street and Broadway... Despite leaders asking people to be responsible while celebrating, it seemed all hell broke loose. A police spokesperson told Fox law enforcement was expected to update the number arrests later on Sunday. “An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying eight people on a routine test mission crashed today shortly after take-off at 11:20 am. Initial indications are that the crash was not survivable,” Edwards Air Force Base said. It is unclear what caused the crash. Details and information about the crew have not been released. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/air-force-b-52-stratofortress-crashes-shortly-after/ Forget the final score. The real World Cup upset this summer is how many international fans are discovering that America is, against all odds, kind of great — especially in a "why does this gas station have 40 kinds of jerky and also a Wi-Fi password printed on the receipt" way — and they're documenting their delightful experiences on social media. The breakout star of the bunch is a German fan known on X as Freddy who has been chronicling a six-week road trip across the U.S. and Canada, following Germany's national team, and has picked up hundreds of thousands of followers in his trek. Freddy's Atlanta stop hit the respectable tourist beats — Stone Mountain, the MLK National Historical Park, some "Stranger Things" filming locations — and then immediately abandoned all dignity for Taco Bell, which he called "the holy land." A 1 a.m. Waffle House visit got a perfect 10/10 — food, prices, and staff included. Texas, for its part, did not go unnoticed either. A group of Japanese fans told KDFW their assessment of the state in six words: "Texas is good — everything is big." Which checks out. Everything is bigger in Texas. And in a tradition that has followed Japan's national team since its 1998 World Cup debut, Japanese fans were spotted picking up trash in the stands after a 2-2 game against the Netherlands in Dallas, a habit rooted in a saying that a bird leaves no trace when it flies. Stadium staff, presumably, were thrilled — and possibly a little confused. Meanwhile, a young Swedish fan named Elsa Thora landed in Indianapolis and immediately discovered ranch dressing, which, by the tone of her posts on X, may have been a bigger moment for her than the actual soccer. "Why did no one tell me ranch sauce is like crack? EUROPE WE NEED RANCH ASAP," she said. She also discovered that Amish people are, in fact, real. Scottish fan Shaun Cumming arrived in New York after flying from Edinburgh and was blunt about the cost of everything — especially after a $150 Uber ride into Brooklyn. He also noted to Newsweek that Americans are noticeably more open than people back home. "People here are very positive, enthusiastic, and they're not shy at all," he said. "They will tell you how they feel for good or for bad. And sometimes for British people, it can catch us off guard a little bit." Cumming had no complaints about the food. He said American cooking is simply better seasoned than what he's used to: "Here, you get flavor, you get fed well, they put a lot spices, herbs and seasoning into their food in general, which just makes it really good" — and that the regional variety is what stuck with him most. A tourism expert told Fox News that visitors driving nine hours across Texas are running into "overwhelming American kindness,"...A New Jersey deli owner gave a couple of British tourists a free lunch, and Alabama firefighters gave other British fans a station tour and sent them off with free gear. For years, the conversation about America — at home and abroad — has been almost entirely about Washington: the politics, the division, the sense that the country is somehow failing itself. But that was never the whole country. The actual texture of American life — the diners, the gas stations, the absurd portion sizes, the stranger who will drive you to a game because your Uber didn't show — was always there, underneath all of it, completely unaffected by whatever was happening in D.C. This summer, a few hundred thousand people from somewhere else have seen the real America: big, weird, generous, a little much.
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So sad.