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http://youtu.be/JYOZdxKVJ_g Dramatic video captured the moment flames shot out of an engine of a Southwest Airlines flight from Texas to Mexico – leading one terrified passenger to think, “Damn, it’s gonna go down!” Flight 307 was climbing out of William P. Hobby Airport in Houston en route to Cancun on Tuesday evening when the right engine erupted in flames, KHOU reported. “All I know is it started swinging like left to right, and I thought, I’ve been on a lot of flights,” passenger Coale Kalisek told the outlet. “I think I fly once or twice a month and I knew that wasn’t normal and so I opened up my window and I’m sitting next to the engine and that whole engine you see like fireballs coming out of it,” said the San Antonio man, who was headed to the Mexican resort with his girlfrien...

http://youtu.be/2fvNkLiu0-c Former President Donald Trump has been charged with alleged election-tampering in Georgia under an anti-organized crime law known as RICO — a statute once famously used to finally nail New York City’s “Teflon Don” John Gotti, the late head of the Gambino crime family. The federal RICO — or Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations — Act was adopted in 1970 and since then states, like Georgia, have gone on to pass their own version of the law. More sweeping than its federal counterpart, the Peach State’s RICO law, under which Trump and 18 associates are now charged, makes it a crime to participate in, acquire or maintain control of an “enterprise” through a “pattern of racketeering activity” or to conspire to do so. Notably, the alleged plot does not have...