VIDEO: Teen clings to back of X2 bus

By Will Vitka
December 11, 2018 | 9:43 PM

WASHINGTON — Maybe he’s still upset that riders can’t carry negative balances on their SmarTrip cards anymore. Viral video showing a man hanging on to an X2 Metrobus as it zipped along its Benning Road route in D.C. lit up the web Tuesday. “Only in DC,” tweeted local artist Rasta Tahj, along with the video, which had amassed more than 200,000 views by the afternoon. “I was driving home from work and I look up, and there’s a guy on the back of the bus,” Tahj told WTOP news partner NBC Washington. “What we all witnessed in the video was not just unsafe, it was reckless,” a Metro spokesperson told NBC Washington. “While we are thankful that this person was not injured or killed, those outcomes were very real possibilities. Metro is not pursuing criminal charges against the man, but said they “hope that a lesson was learned.” See the video below. (WARNING: Graphic language.)

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One attack, many Americas: Why 9/11 and its many griefs land differently 25 years later

By The Associated Press
September 7, 2026 | 8:47 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated through every part of the United States in communities large and small, tearing at Americans' sense of safety and their place in the world. Hearts were broken across the nation, not just of those who lost their loved ones but among strangers who mourned for them, the Sept. 11 attacks leaving no one unaffected in an unwanted moment of horrifying togetherness. A quarter of a century later, the effects linger. We all live in a post-9/11 world, with its security strictures and surveillance. But here's the thing: Americans don't all live in the SAME one. What the attacks and their aftermath have come to mean isn't a single viewpoint shared by everyone, for reasons chronological, political and personal. It's a tapestry of meaning and grief as varied as the nation in which 9/11 took place.

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