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Top U.S. fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has shut its entire network after a cyberattack, the company said in a statement on Friday. Colonial's network supplies fuel from U.S refiners on the Gulf Coast to the populous eastern and southern United States. The company transports 2.5 million barrels per day of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other refined products through 5,500 miles of pipelines. Colonial Pipeline says it transports 45 percent of East Coast fuel supply. The company learned of the attack on Friday and took systems offline to contain the threat, it said in the statement. That action has...

A year-long process to find the next president of The Evergreen State College came to a shocking conclusion Wednesday when the college’s Board of Trustees emerged from a three-hour meeting and announced that the three finalists for the job had withdrawn their names from consideration. Board of Trustees Chairwoman Karen Fraser said all three finalists — Michael Dumont, Catherine Kodat and Lee Lambert — withdrew following recent interviews with faculty, students, staff and alumni. “We’re still in a state of surprise and disappointment,” she said. “This is where we are at the moment.” The Olympian wasn’t privy to all the...

Embattled Andrew Cuomo was dealt a double blow this week when the state attorney expanded the sexual harassment probe to investigate whether a top aide linked access to the coronavirus vaccine to support for the governor - just as Cuomo's communications director announced his resignation. Investigators have interviewed at least three Democratic county executives in the expanded probe. The executives all reportedly told then they had been contacted by Larry Schwartz, a volunteer adviser who oversaw vaccine distribution for New York State who asked them whether they would be calling for Mr. Cuomo's resignation.

Residents of Venice Beach in Los Angeles say soaring crime rates and the exploding homeless population have made life in the elite beachside community unbearable. A 'catastrophic' increase in homelessness in Los Angeles has seen hundreds of tents line the beach's famous boardwalk. Business owners say they are being forced to close their doors and longterm residents are afraid to leave their homes after dark after being subjected to violent attacks and intimidation.

Newly revealed Disney's training documents show the company asked their white staff to 'decolonize their bookshelves,' participate in reparations and complete a 'privilege checklist' as part of their anti-racism training. The media conglomerate has been slammed as becoming the 'Wokest Place on Earth' after the training module showed them adopting 'critical race theory' as part of their employee training. Journalist Chris Rufo who first obtained the documents, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight where he called Disney out for promoting 'division and self-hatred'.

On May 8, 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine during World War II. The eighth of May spelled the day when German troops throughout Europe finally laid down their arms: In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers, and the Germans considerably more; in Copenhagen and Oslo; at Karlshorst, near Berlin; in northern Latvia; on the Channel...

Chicago’s top prosecutor apologized Wednesday because an attorney who works under her implied in court that 13-year-old Adam Toledo was holding a gun when a police officer fatally shot him, and she acknowledged that neither she nor anyone in her office tried to clear up the matter until right before video was released showing that wasn’t actually the case. The Cook County state’s attorney’s office came under fire after the April 15 release of body camera video showing that Toledo either dropped or tossed the gun less than a second before Officer Eric Stillman shot and killed him early on...

The president’s first day in office is fraught with symbolism. What he accomplishes that day signals his priorities. So when on his first day President Biden cancelled former-President Trump’s Executive Order 13950, which forbids certain forms of diversity training by the federal government and contractors, he was making a powerful, intentional statement. Trump’s order forbid federal agencies from teaching racial or sexual stereotyping. It sought to eliminate federal training that engaged in racial scapegoating, i.e., assigning fault, blame, or bias to a race or sex or to individuals based on their race or sex. The Trump order went on to...

Back in 2006, when Venezuela's communist dictator Hugo Chavez took the UN podium, he claimed, in an allusion to the Devil, to still smell the "sulphur" from the previous day, when then-President George W. Bush had spoken. In a reprise of Chavez's clownish act, MSNBC contributor Fernand Amandi, after viewing a Tucker Carlson clip that Tiffany Cross ran on her MSNBC show this morning, dramatically waved his hand in the air, claiming he had to "wipe the stink off of that, because that polluting, racist talk is just stinking it up here in the Amandi household."Get the rest of the...

Meetings of the Windham Board of Selectmen are usually as sleepy as they sound — a handful of residents from the New Hampshire town, a discussion of ambulance fees, maybe a drainage study. So when a crowd of about 500 people showed up last week, some waving American flags, carrying bullhorns and lifting signs questioning the presidential election, Bruce Breton knew things were about to change. “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Breton, who has served on the board for 18 years. “The groundswell from the public is unbelievable.” […] The trouble started when Kristi St. Laurent, a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. energy company says a cyberattack forced it to temporarily halt all operations on a major pipeline that delivers roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. Colonial Pipeline said the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology systems. The company transports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil from refineries primarily located on the Gulf Coast through pipelines running from Texas to New Jersey. The Alpharetta, Georgia-based company said it hired an outside cybersecurity firm to investigate the nature and scope of the attack and has also...

The husband of murdered unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt is now speaking out. Everyone needs to pray for this man’s safety because he’s not pulling any punches when it comes to calling out our government. As you know, Ashli Babbit was shot and killed while attending the January 6th event at the State Capitol. She was unarmed, and posed no immediate threat to anyone, yet, even so, she was shot in the neck by a federal officer. Was he a Capitol Police Officer? Who knows. The government is tightlipped and refuses to release the man’s identity. All we know is...

When it comes to fetal tissue research, the public deserves to know what sort of experiments scientists are conducting on their fellow man. Nowhere is that more evident than the state of Pennsylvania. In a Tuesday hearing centered around fetal experimentation, the Pennslyvania House Health Committee discussed the ethics of the practice, as well as the University of Pittsburgh’s alleged involvement in unethical experiments using the body parts of aborted babies. The four witnesses at the hearing included a former abortionist, a Standford ethics professor, a University of Pittsburgh researcher and pro-life investigator David Daleiden. The University’s Inhumane Experiments Last...

The key to this proposed solar-weather connection lies in “terminator” events, which spell the end of a solar cycle. Over the course of 22 years, bands of magnetism wrapping around the sun slowly migrate toward the equator, interacting with one another to produce sunspots. Those sunspots, or cool, dark discolorations on the sun’s surface, pulsate with magnetic energy, occasionally hurling it into space in solar storms that can spark displays of the northern lights. There are two bands of magnetism per hemisphere on the sun. At solar minimum, both sets of bands are of equal and opposite strength, so the...

Even if you were genuinely convinced that COVID-19 is statistically dangerous for children and that forcing them to wear face masks actually stopped or curbed its spread, the sight of kids in masks should be heartbreaking to you and something you'd want to see gone as quickly as possible. So imagine what those of us who know the truth, and the utter futility of it all, feel. Countless children are suffering needlessly, and in too many places school boards and health departments continue to ignore that suffering - and the science - in the name of their newfound false face...

When Biden ventures out, it’s like his campaign all over again. Nobody shows. Things were so bad for Biden during the presidential campaign of 2020, that they finally took him off the road. Now he’s back. Team Demented touts their Get America Back on Track tour. Despite the train reference, Biden appeared in Louisiana to tout his $2T infrastructure boondogggle. The event had all the hoopla of watching Biden pick lint out of his belly-button.

“The Who” lead singer Roger Daltrey has joined the wave of rock musicians speaking out against woke culture and its effect on society. Speaking with DJ Zane Lowe on Apple Music, the “Baba O’Riley” singer said that the “woke generation” is creating a “miserable world” for themselves and everyone else. “It’s just getting harder to disseminate the truth,” Daltrey said. “It’s almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth, and start to read books again. It’s becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do,...

There is no reason for any more government spending after the U.S. economy added just 266,000 jobs in April, former top Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow warned Friday. “There is no crisis. There is no health care crisis. Thanks to Trump, there is no COVID crisis,” Kudlow, a Fox Business Network host and the former National Economic Council director, told Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” “Thanks to Trump, we have low taxes and regulations,” he added. “There is no house on fire. The economy is not crashing. Global warming is not an existential threat . . . There are no...

The sister of a San Diego woman found dead in a trash can on Tuesday morning said their family is "devastated" and can’t imagine why anyone would have hurt her. City police on Thursday identified the body as that of Candace Morgan, 41. She was considered to be homeless. Morgan’s sister Jeana Morgan Abughuwaleh told FOX 5 in San Diego that her sister was a "free spirit" and "beautiful" with "lots of character." "She didn’t deserve this at all. No one deserves this kind of treatment," she said. "We’re just devastated how something like this could happen."

DRAPER, Utah (ABC4) – The day after his COVID-19 vaccine shot, 17-year-old Everest Romney felt his neck swelling. In the coming days, he suffered from severe headaches. His mother, who tells ABC4 the pediatrician initially dismissed the symptoms as a pulled neck muscle, says she was convinced it was something else. “He could not move his neck without the assistance of his hands,” says mother Cherie Romney. That was just a few days after the shot. Plus, now her son suffered from fevers and incessant headaches. Romney says she knew she needed to keep advocating to doctors that something wasn’t...