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How Trains Derail, Explained by an NTSB Investigator

March 28, 2023 5:35 am ET The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, was just one of over 1,000 that happen every year. NTSB’s Michael Hiller explains the most common reasons trains come off the tracks and what can be done to prevent them. Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 March…

DCU Doomsayers Predict James Gunn Being Extremely Online Could One Day Derail the Franchise

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images A harsh reality of movie-making is that you can’t please everyone, and (more importantly) if you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one at all. Such is the way of show business. In a world where that fact seems to be growing more and more contentious, director James Gunn thankfully understands how an entertainment company should be run these days. Heading up DC Studios with producer Peter Safran, Gunn announced earlier this year his plan for an entirely new…

Could Jamie Foxx’s ‘meltdown’ derail Cameron Diaz’s movie return?

Cameron Diaz has a number of fans who probably won’t be happy with the news that their first chance to see her in a movie in nearly a decade has been thrown “into chaos” because her co-star Jamie Foxx had a “meltdown” and fired a bunch of people involved in the production. Diaz and Foxx have been in London since December filming “Back in Action,” an action-comedy for Netflix, People reported. The movie marks Diaz’s first film since 2014, when she co-starred with Foxx in an adaptation of the Broadway musical “Annie.” But…

Before Entering Kharkopar Station, 3 Coaches of Trans-Harbour Line Derail on Belapur Route

Last Updated: February 28, 2023, 11:37 ISTRelief trains from Panvel and other locations reached the derailment site and senior officials also rushed to the spot.(Image: Shutterstock)Central Railway's chief public relations officer Shivaji Sutar said three coaches from the motorman's end derailed at around 8.45 am when the train was about to reach Kharkopar station, located about 30 km from Mumbai, on Belapur-Kharpokar line in Navi MumbaiThree coaches of a local train derailed at Kharkopar station in Maharashtra’s Raigad…

10 Horror Tales to Derail Your New Year’s Fitness Resolutions

American Horror Story: 1984 | Season 9 Ep. 1: Jazzercise Highlight | FXBefore the main characters in American Horror Story: 1984 head to the doomed summer camp where most of the anthology show’s ninth season takes place, they meet in... Jazzercise class. It’s just one of many clever winks to the slasher genre that pepper every episode, and it sets up the slaughter to come with a knowing sense of pitch-perfect camp that helped make 1984 one of the long-running series’ most entertaining installments.Want more io9 news?…

Chris Hemsworth Was Worried He’d Derail an Iconic Franchise, and He’s Not Talking About the MCU

No offense to Chris Hemsworth, who by all accounts is a wonderful gentleman, but his box office track record as a leading man outside of his Marvel Cinematic Universe comfort zone isn’t all that great. The actor has seen Blackhat, In the Heart of the Sea, Huntsman: Winter’s War, 12 Strong, Bad Times at the El Royale, and Men in Black: International all under-perform during their theatrical runs, while the majority of them weren’t particularly well-received by critics, either. With that in mind, it’s understandable the…

Will Smith’s Oscar slap didn’t derail Emancipation’s release, says director

Emancipation was always coming to theaters and Apple TV Plus despite Will Smith's conduct at the Oscars.In an interview with Variety, director Antoine Fuqua talked about the fallout of Smith slapping Chris Rock at the awards show but pushed back against the idea that the incident should stop the film from being released. Fuqua said that "the film to me is bigger than that moment. Four hundred years of slavery is bigger than one moment. My hope is that people will see it that way and watch the movie and be swept away with…

Apple Supply Crunch on Premium iPhone Threatens to Derail Record Sales Run

Apple Inc.’s AAPL -3.32% warning this week about iPhone supply limitations threatens one of biggest drivers of the company’s record-breaking sales in recent years: persuading customers to buy its priciest smartphones. The iPhone Pro models, unveiled in 2019, have been integral to iPhone sales growth in recent years, helping to power Apple’s bull run, accounting for 52% of the tech giant’s record sales in the 12 months that concluded in September. This year, for the…

Five Tensions That Could Derail the COP 27 Climate Summit

The biggest climate event of the year kicks off Sunday in Egypt as a raft of challenges threaten global efforts to tame rising temperatures. Set against a backdrop of severe weather disasters, this year’s gathering collides with soaring energy costs, food insecurity and a looming debt crisis that undercuts resilience measures in peril-prone countries. Other complications include sharpening tensions between many of the world’s biggest climate polluters, a string of broken promises to lower emissions and failures to deliver…

Fearmongering Could Derail Kids’ Age-Appropriate Design Code

Photo: Amy Osborne (Getty Images)For two decades, we have watched as the tech sector rose from quirky start-ups – many of which originated here in the state of California – to global behemoths with the power to entertain, inform, manipulate, addict, and destabilize at an individual, local, and global scale.Some of those hurt most by tech’s worst effects are also the most vulnerable among us. There is no longer any question as to the nature of the harm to children around the globe, including heightened body image issues