A New Jersey island owned by a branch of Venezuela’s national oil company may soon be taken over by a loyal Donald Trump supporter.
Petty’s Island, a 300-acre island in the Delaware River with sweeping views of Philadelphia, has been owned by Citgo Petroleum Corp for decades.
Citgo is the Houston, Texas-based refining arm of Venezuela’s state-owned Petr贸leos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
In late November of last year, a federal judge in Delaware approved a $5.9 billion bid from Amber Energy to buy PDVSA through a sale of shares to settle billions in debt, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Amber Energy is an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, which was founded by Paul Singer.
Singer and his firm have donated tens of millions to conservative political causes, including Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
Petty’s Island, part of Pennsauken township, was originally inhabited by the Lenni Lenape Native American tribe, according to The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
The land, which the Lenape called Aequikenaska, was later farmed by Quakers, starting around the 17th century.
It was once owned by William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and its notable visitors included Benjamin Franklin and the pirate Edward Teach, better known ad Blackbeard.
Petty’s Island is named after John Petty, a Philadelphia merchant, who bought the land in 1732.
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A global review examining reported cases of cancer following Covid vaccination was published earlier this month, just as the medical journal hosting it was hit by a cyberattack that has since taken the site offline.
The study appeared in the peer-reviewed journal Oncotarget on January 3 and was authored by cancer researchers from Tufts University in Boston and Brown University in Rhode Island.
In the review, researchers analyzed 69 previously published studies and case reports from around the world, identifying 333 instances in which cancer was newly diagnosed or rapidly worsened within a few weeks following Covid vaccination.
The review covered studies from 2020 to 2025 and included reports from 27 countries, including the US, Japan, China, Italy, Spain, and South Korea. No single country dominated, suggesting the observed patterns were reported globally.
The authors emphasized that the review highlights patterns observed in existing reports, but does not establish a direct causal link between vaccination and cancer.
Days after publication, Oncotarget’s website became inaccessible, displaying a ‘bad gateway’ error that the journal attributed to an ongoing cyberattack.
The journal reported the incident to the FBI, noting disruptions to its online operations.
In social media posts, one of the paper’s authors, Dr Wafik El-Deiry of Brown University, expressed concern that the attack disrupted access to newly published research.