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Authorities said Monday they will perform a controlled chemical release at the site of a train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, as everyone in the area has been ordered to evacuate.

Over a third of U.S. plants and animals are at risk of extinction according to a report by the conservation group NatureServe. According to the research, "40 percent of animals and 34 percent of plants in the United States are at risk of extinction, while 41 percent of ecosystems are facing collapse," writes Reuters.

Hundreds of people took to the streets in India on Monday to demand a probe into allegations of fraud against the man behind one of the country's most lucrative companies. 

If you want the best view of the screen, that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim is about to get more expensive.  

Thousands of nurses and ambulance service staff walked off the job in the United Kingdom on Monday, creating the largest strike in the history of the U.K.'s state-run health system. 

A new report has revealed that the world's production of single-use plastic rose by 6 million metric tons to 139 million metric tons between 2019 and 2021 "despite rising consumer awareness, corporate attention, and regulation." Production is now at a record high, reports CNN.

Grammy voters are standing by Dave Chappelle. 

Chappelle won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album on Sunday for his controversial Netflix special The Closer, which sparked backlash over its jokes about transgender people. 

Released in 2021, The Closer featured Chappelle saying that "gender is a fact" and joking that he is "team TERF," meaning trans-exclusionary radical feminist, while defending J.K. Rowling, who has been criticized for anti-trans tweets. The special was accused of being transphobic at the time... Читать дальше...

The Brooklyn Nets have agreed to trade controversial point guard Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks, multiple outlets reported Sunday. In exchange, the Nets will receive point guard Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith, a first-round draft pick, and two second-round draft picks.

When Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell announced a relatively small 25-basis-point hike in benchmark U.S. interest rates last week, he really talked up the idea of disinflation. 

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California Democrat Dianne Feinstein has represented her state in the U.S. Senate for more than three decades, carving a long and celebrated path through what was, at the start of her career, still very much a boy's club for the upper echelons of American politics.

Julia May Jonas is the author of Vladimir, an acclaimed novel, now out in paperback, about an English professor who becomes obsessed with her young Russian-American colleague. Below, Jonas recommends six short books that deliver outsize rewards. 

A law banning CBD products has officially gone into effect in Hong Kong. Despite the growing number of CBD businesses popping up over the past few years, city officials have criminalized the substance. Here's what you need to know about Hong Kong's CBD product ban:

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday morning, leaving more than 600 people dead amid collapsed buildings. The earthquake, felt as far away as Egypt, was centered about 20 miles outside of the Turkish provincial capital of Gaziantep, just north of the Syrian border, according other U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was 11 miles deep.

The high-altitude Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday wasn't the first such balloon to breach U.S. airspace in the past six years, U.S. officials said over the weekend. At least three of the earlier sightings over the U.S. happened during the Trump administration, including over Texas, Florida, and Guam, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) said Sunday, citing a Saturday briefing by Pentagon officials. A similar airship traveled near Hawaii earlier in the Biden administration. Читать дальше...

For Beyoncé, 32 is the magic number.

That's how many Grammys the singer now has, after Renaissance took home the best dance/electronic music album award on Sunday night. She now holds the all-time record for most Grammy wins, eclipsing conductor Georg Solti.

When accepting her award, Beyoncé thanked God, her family, and "the queer community for your love and for inventing the genre."

Beyoncé received nine Grammy nominations this year, the most of any other artist, and won four awards... Читать дальше...

Viola Davis has another award to add to her shelf — and it's a special one.