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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – On Monday, Sable Offshore informed investors about the current status of its plans to restart oil production in Santa Barbara County sharing that it is actively pursuing a shipping strategy in federal waters.

In Sable's latest 8K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, it shared with investors that it has not made additional capitol investments into onshore facilities and pipelines outside of ongoing court proceedings, but the Houston-based energy company has made investments into an alternative plan to move crude oil from offshore platforms in federal waters using transport vessels.

In September of last year, Sable Offshore submitted a Request for Approval of Restart Plans to the California Office of State Fire Marshal.

The state safety regulator found that there were still outstanding steps required before approving restart the following month, but Sable also announced at the same time that it was pursuing an alternative transportation plan using treating vessels that would transport crude oil directly from offshore platforms.

"Since beginning the OS&T Strategy, we have curtailed substantially all capital expenditures relating to the Santa Ynez Pipeline System other than applicable legal expenses," shared Sable Offshore with investors Monday. "As soon as commercial sales through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System become available, we expect to pursue such onshore sales, which would require incurring such curtailed Santa Ynez Pipeline System capital expenditures, in addition to the OS&T capital expenditures discussed here."

In response to the State Fire Marshal's decision regarding onshore pipelines in October, Sable Offshore announced that it had determined that the pipelines connecting the Santa Ynez Unit to Pentland Station in Kern County are technically interstate pipelines under the Pipeline Safety Act and requested that the U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration take over its restart plans involving the pipelines.

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By Ramishah Maruf, CNN

New York (CNN) — The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is probing Nike in response to unspecified allegations that the company discriminates against White employees, the agency said Wednesday.

The agency said it is investigating potential discrimination against White workers that may have occurred in part due to “NIKE’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-related 2025 Targets and other DEI-related objectives.”

The subpoena enforcement action is another sign of a shift in views on discrimination under the Trump administration, which has sought to end diversity initiatives and instead examine whether such programs unfairly target White people.

“Thanks to President Trump’s commitment to enforcing our nation’s civil rights laws, the EEOC has renewed its focus on evenhanded enforcement of Title VII,” EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas said in a statement.

In the Wednesday filing, the EEOC did not identify individual victims. Rather, the filing refers to “all White employees, former employees, prospective employees, and current and prospective training program applicants and participants who have been, continue to be, or may be in the future adversely affected by the [alleged] unlawful employment practices.”

The EEOC said it is requesting information from Nike going back to 2018 over “race-based workforce representation quotas” and allegedly deciding layoffs and promotions at least in part due to race. The agency also asked for information about 16 mentoring and career development programs that were “race restricted.”

The EEOC said the agency filed the enforcement action after Nike failed to voluntarily provide all the information required by the subpoena. CNN reached out to Nike for comment.

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By Natasha Bertrand, CNN

(CNN) — A complaint filed last year by a US intelligence community whistleblower that is now being scrutinized by lawmakers includes claims that the distribution of a highly classified intelligence report had been “restricted for political purposes” and that an intelligence agency lawyer had failed to report a potential crime to the Justice Department, a government watchdog told lawmakers earlier this week.

The Intelligence Community Inspector General provided the broad outline in a Monday letter to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees of the whistleblower complaint it received in May 2025 concerning Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

The letter from Christopher Fox was released by Gabbard’s office late Tuesday. Fox did not detail the substance of the intelligence report or the alleged crime referenced by the whistleblower. The intelligence report at issue is the “most sensitive to date” that has ever been received by the IC inspector general as part of an “urgent concern” complaint, Fox wrote, and would ordinarily only be briefed verbally to the Gang of 8 composed of the top Democrats and Republicans in each chamber of congress and the leaders of the intelligence committees.

The existence of the complaint was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and Gang of 8 lawmakers were given access to the complaint itself on Tuesday.

Upon reviewing the complaint last June, Fox’s predecessor Tamara Johnson determined that it would meet the “urgent concern” threshold if it were true, a determination meaning that the Gang of 8 would need to be briefed, Fox wrote. But Johnson was unable to determine the credibility of the claims at the time, according to the letter.

The whistleblower then elected to share their complaint directly with the congressional intelligence committees, an option protected under federal law. Before sharing a complaint, whistleblowers are required to get security guidance from ODNI to transmit classified complaints securely.

On June 9, 2025, Johnson issued a memo after receiving new evidence finding that while the first allegation by the whistleblower — that a report was withheld for political reasons — did not appear credible, she was unable to assess the credibility of the second allegation, that the IC had failed to report a crime to Department of Justice. The whistleblower still sought to transmit the complaint to lawmakers and the IG kept inquiring “at least monthly” to ODNI since June about how to do so securely, the letter says.

When he was confirmed in October, Fox says he was told by ODNI’s general counsel that “complexity in the classification” of the complaint had contributed to the delay in providing the whistleblower with the necessary security guidance to send it to Congress. Fox says he continued to push for the guidance, and that when he met with Gabbard in December she said she had been unaware of the issue “and committed to providing the guidance as soon as practicable.”

The whistleblower’s lawyer told CNN on Tuesday night that he has yet to receive security guidance on sharing the complaint with the broader intelligence committees, beyond just the Gang of 8.

“They’re also flagging executive privilege concerns, and for me, executive privilege concerns means that this somehow involves the White House,” Andrew Bakaj said.

The day after the Monday Wall Street Journal report on the whistleblower report, the Gang of 8 was given access to a copy of the complaint.

Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on House intelligence committee, told CNN after seeing the complaint that he had “ongoing concerns about both the contents and the delay in it