America’s tallest man — a 7-foot, 8-inch former Virginia law officer, actor and Harlem Globetrotter known as a “gentle giant” — has died at his family home North Carolina, officials said. He was 67. George Bell, who had striking roles in “American Horror Story” and in AMC’s “Freakshow,” was a beloved former Norfolk Sheriff’s deputy known … Read more
The Delta plane that flipped over and burst into flames in Toronto last month had issues with its landing gear and was descending at a high rate of speed just seconds before crash-landing upside down, according to a preliminary report released Thursday. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is still probing the cause of … Read more
Now in the residence of the vice president, JD Vance has sold his family home in the suburbs. MediaPunch / BACKGRID Vice President JD Vance has just sold Washington, DC-area residence, pocketing a cool $172,025 over its asking price, property records obtained by The Post show. The deal for the Alexandria, Virginia abode closed on … Read more
White South Africans demonstrate in support of President Trump in front of the U.S. embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 15. (Jerome Delay / Associated Press) The United States Embassy in South Africa said Thursday it received a list of nearly 70,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Trump’s plan … Read more
He’s turning the concrete jungle green. Nearly every night, Miguel “Mike Plants” Andrade transforms the subway into a traveling floral shop, where he hawks succulents, orchids and even trees to straphangers in need of plant “therapy.” The Bronx resident, 44, is entering his 15th year as the 1 train’s “Plant Man,” a job he said … Read more
President Trump gave backhanded praise to former President Joe Biden this week, lauding his predecessor’s unique ability to quickly fall asleep. “The only thing I admired about sleepy Joe Biden is the following,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview recorded Tuesday. “He’d go to a beach, lay down on a cot … Read more
A police car patrols a street in front of a liquor store in Barrio Obrero, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Friday. (Alejandro Granadillo / Associated Press) Pastor Nilka Marrero will slam her hand on the table, raise her voice and, if needed, shake her parishioners while playing the role of a federal agent. Many of … Read more
Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, on Aug. 9, 2012. (Maika Elan / Associated Press) At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, … Read more
A general view of the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, in London, on Tuesday. (Kin Cheung / Associated Press) Real-life spies say their world is nothing like that of James Bond, but in one way truth may soon follow fiction: MI6 could be about to get its first woman leader. Britain’s foreign intelligence … Read more
A Georgia man held by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers since December 2022 was on his way back to the US Thursday after Trump administration negotiators secured his freedom. The Taliban kidnapped George Glezmann, 65, while he was on a trip to Afghanistan — but he has just been released following negotiations brokered by Trump envoy Adam … Read more
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