A man is accused of stealing 14 cases of beer in Delhi Township Wednesday.

Colonial Pipeline paid the hackers who shut down some of its networks nearly $5 million in ransom, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said Thursday. News of the payment was first reported by Bloomberg. The U.S. official did not say how or when the company paid.

The incident comes as a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline has caused panic across the Southeast over a possible gas shortage.

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Tropical Race 4, or TR4, the fungal strain that causes Fusarium wilt, has been spreading across the world for the past few decades. For experts who care passionately about bananas and people whose livelihoods depend on them, watching disease reports creep across the globe has been like watching a train filled with bananas hurtling toward unavoidable wreckage, frame by agonizing frame.

Firefighters were called to a hotel on the northshore Thursday after someone reported smelling gasoline in the building. Instead of finding a gas leak, however, they found gas cans loaded with fuel inside one of the rooms.

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley has resigned after admitting that he “made a decision to cremate and dispose” of the remains of victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing that had been found at the city medical examiner’s office — without identifying the remains or returning them to family members, Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement Thursday. Kenney said that, earlier this week, Farley told him that at some point during Kenney’s first term, he “learned of remains found by the medical examiner’s office that belonged to victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing.” “Instead of fully identifying those remains and returning them to the family, he made a decision to cremate and dispose of them,” Kenney said in a statement. “This action lacked empathy for the victims, their family, and the deep pain that the MOVE bombing has brought to our city for nearly four decades.”

People fully vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to wear masks or practice social distancing indoors or outdoors, except under certain circumstances, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. "If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic," Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House Covid-19 briefing. "We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy." [...] Some people may choose to continue wearing masks even if they are fully vaccinated, and that's OK, federal Covid-19 response leaders said Thursday. "People have to make their own personal choice," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during the White House Covid-19 briefing. "There's absolutely nothing wrong with an individual who has a certain level of risk aversion, as we know the risk is extremely low of getting infected whether you're indoors or outdoors. But there are those people who don't want to take that bit of a risk and there's nothing wrong with that and they shouldn't be criticized."

Environmentalists warn carbon emissions from power-intensive bitcoin mining could harm efforts to limit global warming

Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) introduced legislation on Thursday to provide $30 billion in aid to the gym industry, which has been struggling throughout the coronavirus pandemic due to lockdowns and a lack of clients.

Here’s a confession: I’ve been thinking a lot about cryptocurrency lately. Sort of. Try as I may, I haven’t been able to think much about the particulars of decentralized finance or the utility of blockchains or whether Bitcoin is a viable currency or merely a store of value or something else. There hasn’t been a lot of space to do that because of, well, shit like this: I don’t really have a lot to say about Tom Brady’s laser eyes other than the fact that precious brain space was vaporized this week logging on and being force fed tweets from crypto dudes with laser eye Twitter avatars getting very excited about Tom Brady’s laser eyes. Similarly, I’ve tried to spend some time understanding NFTs (I wrote about them here for the NYT) but I usually get derailed by storylines like this featuring people buying digital horses for hundreds of thousands of dollars:

Organizers who fought the AIDS crisis explain how the tactics of civil disobedience can change minds that don’t want to be changed.

The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.

The odds of being attacked by a shark are less than one in 11 million, which makes it nearly impossible to find people to turn to when you become that one. Enter a support group of survivors called the Bite Club—the most exclusive club nobody wants to join.

And now they don't want to go back

Millions of people in China are buying off-brand electric cars, which are cheap, tiny, barely regulated, and extremely useful.

In its Tuesday ruling, a federal judge stated Randall Menges’ requirement to register as a sex offender is unconstitutional. The Attorney General's office is appealing the ruling.

But Gal Gadot hasn’t received the memo. Or, more likely, she has, but doesn’t really give a shit. The Israeli actor and star of the Wonder Woman franchise addressed the violence in her home country in a saccharine social media post that neglected to mention Palestinians (emphasis ours): My heart breaks. My country is at war. I worry for my family, my friends. I worry for my people. This is a vicious cycle that has been going on for far too long. Israel deserves to live as a free and safe nation, Our neighbors deserve the same. I pray for the victims and their families, I pray for this unimaginable hostility to end. I pray for our leaders to find the solution so we could live side by side in peace. I pray for better days.

We try a device called the Sushi Bazooka, designed to make easy makizushi rolls. We end up with... Big Mac sushi.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.