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Travel nightmare unfolds at major East Coast airports as powerful storm unleashes vicious winds, rain

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Travel nightmare unfolds at major East Coast airports as powerful storm unleashes vicious winds, rain

NEW YORK – Millions of people across much of the East Coast are under High Wind Alerts, as the final leg of a coast-to-coast storm pounded the entire Eastern Seaboard from Maine to Florida early Friday, threatening to disrupt the busy holiday travel rush. Airports, such as LaGuardia and Teterboro, are already experiencing ground delays between 60 and 90 minutes due to strong winds. … Read more

Washington flights exceed 800 mph due to near-record winds over DC — arrive 45 minutes early

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Washington flights exceed 800 mph due to near-record winds over DC — arrive 45 minutes early

Multiple flights from the DC area got a roaring start to London over the weekend with help from near-record jet stream winds over the Mid-Atlantic. According to FlightAware, the flight from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to London Heathrow International Airport (IAD) arrived 45 minutes early, and the wind and flight speed data can help explain why.  Travelers on Flight 22 can thank the … Read more

Mom rescues daughter as 104-mph winds shatter window in footage caught on baby monitor

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Mom rescues daughter as 104-mph winds shatter window in footage caught on baby monitor

Footage captured the dramatic moment that a mom rescued her baby daughter as 100-mile-per-hour winds shattered their bedroom window during the bomb cyclone Ciaran pummeling Western Europe. “It felt like something was going to go wrong, and then the glass all came in,” Jessica O’Reilly told ITV News of the heart-pounding moment, which occurred at their … Read more

Tropical Storm Harold makes landfall in Texas, torrential rain, strong winds continue

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Tropical Storm Harold makes landfall in Texas, torrential rain, strong winds continue

Tropical Storm Harold made landfall on Padre Island in South Texas late Tuesday morning, and as the storm makes its way inland and weakens, it’s continuing to produce torrential rain, strong winds, and large waves that are battering the coast and increasing the risks of flash flooding and coastal flooding. Wind gusts so far have included a gust of 62 … Read more

‘Dark Winds’ star McClarnon: ‘Finally able to tell our own stories’

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‘Dark Winds’ star McClarnon: ‘Finally able to tell our own stories’

The second season of crime drama “Dark Winds” will be slighter lighter in tone, series star Zahn McClarnon said. “There’s a bit more levity between [my character, Joe Leaphorn] and Jim Chee [which] I think is fun to explore, their father/son kind of relationship, the teasing,” McClarnon, 56, told The Post.  Premiering July 27 on … Read more

Hurricane Beatriz forms off Mexico’s coast as strong winds, heavy rains rapidly intensify

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Hurricane Beatriz forms off Mexico’s coast as strong winds, heavy rains rapidly intensify

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is now tracking two tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific during what is expected to be an active period for the basin. Hurricane Warnings are now posted for parts of the western Mexico coastline as Hurricane Beatriz rapidly strengthened Friday. Where is Hurricane Beatriz now? Hurricane Beatriz is located about 175 miles away from … Read more

Man hears ‘snap’ during sex, winds up in hospital with ‘triple penis fracture’

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Man hears ‘snap’ during sex, winds up in hospital with ‘triple penis fracture’

A man in Tanzania was sent to the hospital after hearing a “snap” during sex with his female partner. The loud snap occurred “when the penis slipped out, lost the way” and struck the woman “as he was trying to reinsert it,” doctors reported in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. By the time … Read more

George R. R. Martin says ‘The Winds of Winter’ is coming: I promise!

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George R. R. Martin says ‘The Winds of Winter’ is coming: I promise!

Winter is still coming, or so George R.R. Martin says.  Martin, 74, appeared on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday night, where he claimed that he is “three-quarters of the way done” writing “The Winds of Winter.”  For more than a decade, the popular author has been working on the sixth and penultimate … Read more