New message from hosts file entry. First time this has been shown.
No internet connection
Please check your connection and try again.

This is a hosts file entry for a news organisation. The entry was not added today so may have been in hosts file for a few days or a week or more.
brave://net-internals/#dns
Resolved IP addresses of “www.cbsnews.com”: [“127.0.0.1”].
No data on which protocols are supported.
Please note. This is not to single out CBS. Many other household name news organisations have been added to the hosts file as a localhost loopback.
For example inter alia;
www.aljazeera.com
www.bbc.com
www.channel4.com
www.channelnewsasia.com
www.foxnews.com
www.rt.com
all return.
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
The internet connection though remains connected and secured.
FYI. Twitter still loading.