News You May Have Missed: Railway Link Deal /Texas Roadhouse Tragedy/British Army Downsized/Criminal Probe/Hikers Fall/UK Electric Cars

In today's News you may have missed, you'll read about  a Railway Deal that may link the U.S. to Canada and Mexico, aTexas Roadhouse Tragedy,  The British Army gets Downsized, a Highly-watched Criminal Probe, Hikers Fall, and how an island off the Scotland coast is running all its cars by ocean-power.  

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY AGREES TO ACQUIRE KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN in $25B deal; will create first rail network connecting Canada, Mexico, and the US

(Photo: American Rails.com) 

 COFOUNDER AND CEO OF THE TEXAS ROADHOUSE RESTAURANT CHAIN, KENT TAYLOR, DIED BY SUICIDE OVER THE WEEKEND after a battle with persistent COVID-19 symptoms.  He co-founded the chain that opened in 1993, made headlines a year ago for giving up his bonus and base salary to pay his chain’s workers during COVID. On a prorated basis, the forgone salary and bonus would be just under a $1 million donation to employees,” the spokesperson said then.

 2 MASSACHUSETTS HIKERS FOUND DEAD IN APPARENT FALL IN ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Two Massachusetts hikers have died after apparently falling about 100 feet along ice-covered cliff bands on Dorr Mountain in Maine’s Acadia National Park, officials said Saturday.

 ‘NEXT PHASE’ OF CRIMINAL PROBE INTO TRUMP FINANCES: FINDING WITNESSES

Investigators in a criminal probe of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s real-estate business are combing through millions of pages of newly acquired records with an eye toward identifying witnesses who can bring the documents to life for a jury, say two people familiar with the probe.

UK NEWS: BRITISH ARMY BEING DOWNSIZED

The size of the Army is expected to be reduced by about 10,000 soldiers as part of a move towards robots, drones, and cyber warfare.  The defence review is likely to see the loss of some tanks and aircraft - but the government said there would be "more ships, submarines and sailors". Numbers in the regular Army will be reduced to about 70,000 soldiers, having already fallen in recent years.  (Credit: BBC News) 

SHETLAND, UK  ELECTRIC CARS CAN NOW BE FUELLED PURELY BY THE POWER OF THE SEA

Shetland also called the Shetland Islands is a subarctic archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated in the Northern Atlantic

Cars in Shetland can now be fuelled purely by the power of the sea, in what is believed to be a first for the UK. Nova Innovation's tidal turbines have been powering local homes and businesses for more than five years. The company has now created an electric vehicle charge point on the island of Yell where drivers can fill up using tidal energy. The charge point is located on the shores of Bluemull Sound, at Cullivoe harbour. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56482777 (Credit: BBC News)