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http://youtu.be/5jkM1KHty_8 A JetBlue passenger’s carry-on burst into flames just as the plane was about to take off — which he called “one of the scariest moments of my life.” Jimmy Levy was in his seat on the aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Monday when he woke up to the feeling of intense heat and immediately noticed that his backpack was set on fire. “I was jolted awake by a sudden and terrifying wave of heat which was seemingly shooting towards my face,” Levy, 25, told Caters News. “I immediately opened my eyes and noticed my backpack, which was initially tucked underneath my seat, now in a floating ball of fire.” Before the flight attendants could assist, the musical artist started to desperately stomp on his bag in an attempt to put out the fire a...

http://youtu.be/uDZuAF1r7dc An ex-staffer to Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and Councilwoman Tiffany Cabán served three months in jail for soliciting sex from a minor, public records show. NY Post Political reporter Jon Levine shares this story. Matthew Thomas, a one-time official of the Queens branch of the Democrat Socialists of America, who remains a card-carrying member of the left-wing group, was busted in 2014 after soliciting a 16-year-old boy for a gay-sex threesome with Daniel Simmons, a former Deputy Attorney General in Delaware, according to local press reports at the time. Simmons, 35, was a top deputy to Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, President Biden’s son and one-time political heir who died of brain cancer in 2015. Simmons resigned his post after being hit wit...

http://youtu.be/9irgm5Kmz6s The death toll from the collision in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh has risen to 14, with at least 50 injured, a railway official said on Monday (October 30). The accident occurred when the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada passenger train stopped on Sunday because of a break in an overhead cable and the Visakhapatnam-Palasa Express service rammed into it from the rear, derailing two carriages of the stationary train. The railway ministry said a preliminary investigation found that "human error" led to "overshooting of signal" by the Visakhapatnam-Rayagada train. The accident came months after India's state-run railway system suffered its worst crash in two decades when 292 people were killed. Indian Railways, the fourth largest rain network in the world, is ...