A train derailment in Texas profficials to ask nearly 600 residents to evacuate their homes and will take days to clean up — but the local emergency management office reported no injuries. A Kansas City Southern train derailed around 7:30 a.m. in Mauriceville, Texas, near the state's border with Louisiana. The derailment involved 25 cars, according to the Orange County Office of Emergency Management. Most of the cars were loaded; 10 were empty.

Fallout from missed rent payments is threatening a swath of the U.S. population, as the expiration of eviction bans draws near. A large number of renters have been unable to pay some or even all of their rent since March, when the pandemic temporarily shut down most businesses. Many businesses remain closed or only partially open, pushing renters into unemployment and draining their savings.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor highlighted recent moves by PayPal and Square into Bitcoin in the company’s Q3 earnings call.

It was a blockbuster story. A respected Chinese virologist appeared on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News in mid-September to share the results of her just-completed report. The conclusion: The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was likely engineered in a Chinese lab. On Carlson's show, she claimed it was intentionally released into the world.

Half of all work tasks will be handled by machines by 2025 in a shift likely to worsen inequality, a World Economic Forum report has forecast. The think tank said a "robot revolution" would create 97 million jobs worldwide but destroy almost as many, leaving some communities at risk.

U.S. stocks slipped on Monday as investors hoped for a stimulus deal from Washington, although a rising number of Covid-19 cases dampened sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 41 points lower, or 0.1%. Earlier in the day, the 30-stock average was up more than 100 points. The S&P 500 dipped 0.2% and the Nasdaq Composite pulled back 0.1%.

Life on Venus? That outrageous-sounding possibility understandably made headlines a couple weeks ago. In part, the news grabbed people's attention because Venus seems like such an unlikely place to find anything alive. The surface temperature there averages 460 degrees Celsius, and the pressure at sea level is a crushing 93 times the atmospheric pressure on Earth — except, of course, there is no actual sea on Venus.

A male nurse has traded in a diet of quinoa and vegan sausages for beef fat and uncooked lamb’s brain – claiming raw meat has made him mighty. When a year of being vegan made him “fat and sluggish”, instead of giving him the trim physique he wanted, Jason Carter, 34, slowly reintroduced meat and dairy – then going to the opposite extreme at the start of 2020, by devouring nothing but raw meat.

More than an hour into his latest rambling campaign rally speech in Macon, Georgia, on Friday night, President Donald Trump briefly imagined a future where he loses the 2020 election to Joe Biden. “You know what? Running against the worst candidate in the history of American politics puts pressure on me,” Trump told the crowd. “Could you imagine if I lose? My whole life—what am I going to do? I’m going to say, I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics! I’m not going to...

It will become illegal for anyone to pick up and use their mobile phone while driving, under new legislation to be enacted next year. The change will end a loophole that can allow drivers to escape punishment for using a hand-held phone to take a photo or play a game. Mobiles will still be able to be used to pay for a drive-through takeaway. And drivers will still be able to use devices hands-free under the plans, the Department for Transport said.

Mark Zuckerberg "still seems to ignore why Facebook is so ripe for spreading hate speech and disinformation to begin with"

Many neuroscientists and philosophers argue that there is no such thing as free will. Some even claim experiment has proved this to be the case. Yet the behaviour of the same scientists and philosophers appears to assume their own freedom - when formulating and promoting their own theory for example. To avoid this paradox, should we accept that free will is an illusion and as a consequence cease to praise our children when they do well, and refrain from punishing murderers when they are caught?

Apple suppliers are among the Taiwanese tech companies being pressured by the White House to move their manufacturing operations away from China, says a new report today. Washington is said to have “weaponized tech supply chains” against China…

From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on beneath that thick rind.

The pandemic has boosted interest in vending machine ownership. But how much can a new operator expect to earn in the business?

California is poised to hit a fearsome milestone: 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) burned this year by wildfires that have killed 31 people

The money, spread over three years and the entire globe, is welcome — but this is PR, not a product.

Get to 100 million customers, 1% pays $100 a year, and bam! $100m business

When Cambodian schools closed due to Covid-19, poor internet access and a lack of minority language materials made distance learning in rural communities near impossible. But armed with a simple radio, children are rising above these obstacles to their education.