A trainee driver and three others on board were rescued after a bus hit a car and plunged into the River Seine southeast of Paris on Thursday.
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Until recently, breaking news in the United States was most often announced through cut-ins during regularly scheduled programming or through alert crawls during local weather reports. However, as 24-hour news channels have become more popular, the use of breaking news has increased.
