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Key Shipping Company Files For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Liquidation (The Street) — Until the covid pandemic, most Americans rarely thought about the supply chain and the truck drivers that make it possible to keep store shelves stocked. But, when people went to grocery stores and weren't able to buy the items that had always been there, supply chains became something everyone learned all about. Some products were scarce because the pandemic changed our needs. Toilet paper was hard to come by because the rolls we use at home are different from the ones used in offices. With most Americans stuck at home, that meant that we had an oversupply of office toilet paper rolls and not enough of the kind used in homes. In other cases, supply chain problems were caused by closed production facilities. It takes people to make things and companies had a people problem. Workers were sick, and, in some cases, factories had to figure out how to operate with social distancing. See full story	Gov. Abbott Applauds Elon Musk's Plan To Move Tesla's State Of Incorporation To Texas (Just the News) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday encouraged Tesla CEO Elon Musk to move the company's state of incorporation to the Lone Star state. ".@Tesla in Texas," Abbott wrote on the social media platform, X. "It just makes sense." Earlier this week, Musk conducted a poll on X where he asked, "Should Tesla change its state of incorporation to Texas, home of its physical headquarters?" The final result was 81.7% of the over 1.1 million X users who voted saying "yes" while 12.9% voted "no." "The public vote is unequivocally in favor of Texas!" Musk announced Thursday. "Tesla will move immediately to hold a shareholder vote to transfer state of incorporation to Texas." Notable businesses that have moved to Texas over the past few years include NRG Energy and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. See full story
Navy Lowers Bar To Enlist Again Amid Continued Recruiting Woes (Fox News) — The U.S. Navy will start to enlist applicants who have not graduated from high school or obtained a GED as the service continues to struggle with its recruiting goals. "We get thousands of people into our recruiting stations every year that want to join the Navy but do not have an education credential. And we just turn them away," Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman, the Navy's chief of personnel, said of the change, according to a report in The Associated Press. The new plan will allow recruits who don't have an education credential to enlist as long as they score a 50 or above out of 99 on the qualification test, according to the report, marking the first time the Navy has allowed such recruits since the year 2000. Cheeseman said the Navy turned away over 2,400 potential recruits last year because they lacked an education credential, roughly 500 of whom could have scored high enough to get in under the new rules. See full story	The Death Of Vegan Fast Food: Experts Warn Plant-Based Restaurants Could Be On Their Way Out As One Starts Selling Meat And Chain Backed By Lewis Hamilton And Leonardo DiCaprio Closes Half Its Branches (Daily Mail) — Vegan fast-food restaurants face being wiped out across the UK after a chain backed by Lewis Hamilton and Leonardo DiCaprio closed half its branches, while another shop was forced to sell meat in order to stay afloat. Experts have warned that the declining popularity of veganism could lead to more vegan restaurants going under in the next one or two years as they struggle to compete with larger meat-selling brands. Co-founder of Veganuary Matthew Glover said that vegan start ups are being outmaneuvered by more established chains who have launched their own plant-based ranges, including the likes of Greggs and McDonald's. Helen Dewdney, also known as The Complaining Cow, added that many people are also abandoning veganism after realising that the lifestyle is much harder to maintain than initially thought. See full story
Ocean Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found Amelia Earhart's Wrecked Plane: 'We're All Hopeful' (Fox News) — A South Carolina-based ocean exploration company says it may have found the airplane that Amelia Earhart flew on her ill-fated 1937 expedition. Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, believes that the airplane-shaped object that his company captured in a sonar image is Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra. Earhart was trying to become the first woman to successfully complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe when she disappeared on July 2, 1937. She was last seen in Papua New Guinea and disappeared near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. The aviator was declared dead in absentia on Jan. 5, 1939. See full story	Dem Caught On Video Slamming Her Own Constituents For Supporting Trump: 'Drank The Trump Kool-Aid' (The Blaze) — Rep. Susan Wild (D-Penn.) has once again been caught disparaging constituents who support Donald Trump. As a result of population shifts, Pennsylvania lost a congressional seat after the 2020 census and, therefore, had to draw the state's congressional districts. Before the redraw, Wild's district – Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District – was solidly Democratic. But the redraw added Carbon County to the district, which Trump won by overwhelming margins in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Those Trump supporters, according to Wild, are guilty of drinking the "Trump Kool-Aid." At least, that's what she said in a recent Zoom meeting that included Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Penn.), Fox News reported. See full story
British Ballet Dancer Dies In U.S. After Eating Mislabelled Cookie (The Independent) — A British ballet dancer with a severe peanut allergy has died in the United States after eating a cookie which did not have nuts listed on the label of ingredients. Órla Baxendale, a 25-year-old woman living in New York, bought the cookie from a Stew Leonard’s grocery store in Connecticut earlier this month. She was not aware that the Vanilla Florentine Cookies contained peanuts and there was no mention of nuts on the packaging. Baxendale carried an EpiPen but it was not enough to counter the severe allergic reaction she suffered after eating the cookie, according to a statement issued by her attorneys. She died of anaphylactic shock on 11 January. See full story	Las Vegas Judge In Hot Water After Posting Hot Tub Pic With Public Defenders (Fox News) — Las Vegas Judge Erika Ballou is facing a formal ethics complaint after posting questionable images and captions on her social media accounts, including a photo of herself in a hot tub with public defenders. The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline filed two counts of violating the Revised Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct against Ballou in connection with two social media posts, which the commission alleges undermined public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary.... The caption also included the hashtag, "VacateTheS---tOuttaOutOfCustodyCases." The post violated three Canons, the commission alleged, including Canon 1, Rule 2.1, which mandates judges act in a manner that "promotes public confidence in the independence, integrity and impartiality of the jury." See full story
Maine Lobsterman Hears Mysterious Cries From The Water That Lead To Miracle Rescue (Fox News) — A lobsterman heard faint, desperate cries for help coming off the coast of Maine and joined the multi-agency search that saved a man's life. A property owner was checking on recent storm damage to his skiff, which is a small, flat-bottomed boat, when it capsized somewhere between Tenants Harbor and Rackliff Island on Sunday, St. George Fire and Rescue said in a Facebook post. The man plunged into the freezing waters when the sun was down, around 5 p.m. Sunday. What had started as a drizzling shower intensified as the night went on. After an arduous, three-hour rescue on foot and involving several ships, he was finally on his way to the hospital. "Our local lobstermen saved his life," St. George Fire and Rescue said. See full story	Alaskan Bears Found More Than 3,600 Miles Away From Home In Florida OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (foxweather.com) — Two Kodiak bear cubs native to southern Alaska were found wandering on a rural Florida roadway, and the incident was captured on an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy’s body camera. A local resident alerted authorities to the sighting on Dec. 5 and said it was a sight he had never seen before. Their size and color were two indications that they weren’t dealing with a species native to Florida, but there remained many questions as to where the duo came from. The pair appeared healthy and even tried to climb into a responding patrol car. A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigation confirmed the resident’s initial theory – the bears weren’t from Florida; they were actually Kodiak cubs from southern Alaska. See full story
*Woman Exploits Costco Return Policy, Gets Refund For Couch After 2 Years: 'That's just fing wrong'** (Amer Wire) — A Costco return sparked controversy as social media weighed in on one woman’s braggadocious post over what she managed to bring back after two-and-a-half years. “That’s just f*ing wrong.” While the members-only warehouse store holds to a strict 90-day return policy for certain high-priced items and other goods were wholly non-refundable, a TikToker named Jackie proved she didn’t even need a receipt to bring back a couch she’d grown tired of after more than two years. “So, today we’re doing something that I’ve never done before,” the video that had since garnered nearly 3 million views with a reach of less than 4,000 followers began. “…we are returning a tw0-and-a-half-year-old couch to Costco.” See full story	Calif. Teen Arrested In ‘Swatting’ Call On Florida Mosque, May Be Connected To Other Incidents Nationwide (Fox News) — A California teen has been arrested in connection with a swatting call that targeted a mosque in Florida, authorities say. Alan Winston Filion, 17, of Lancaster, California, is facing multiple felonies after police say he conducted a swatting call on the Masjid Al Hayy Mosque in Sanford, Florida last year. "Swatting" targets an individual by calling in a false police report on a home – or in this case, a mosque – to provoke a SWAT team response. Seminole County law enforcement received a phone call on May 12, 2023, from an individual who told police he was entering the mosque, located at 786 Myrtle Street to conduct a mass shooting. See full story