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#1 California Woman Discovers Surrogate Baby’s Dad Is Reclusive Chinese Billionaire Who’s Allegedly Sired 300 Children - Marina Peña for New York Post, Eric Daugherty, instablog9ja, CBS News, Gonz/Polymarket, Senator Rand Paul, and General Mike Flynn on X
A woman has discovered she is carrying a baby for reclusive Chinese gaming billionaire Xu Bo, who has allegedly fathered hundreds of children. “The agency should’ve been very transparent from before getting matched … about who it is that you’re having a baby for and what the family is,” she told CBS News. The woman, whom CBS identified as “Judy” to protect her identity, made the comments in one of the first public accounts from a surrogate carrying a child for Xu...
#2 Paid Brokers Tout Ties to Trump’s Orbit to Lobby for Presidential Pardons - CBS News, James Li, Gavin Newsom, Real Robert, Maine, and 60 Minutes on X
Presidents have been pardoning criminals since George Washington. It's a constitutional power — no explanation needed. The Department of Justice does screen applicants and typically only recommends those who remorsefully seek mercy. But that's not always been the process: President Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich after donations. President Biden pardoned his son Hunter and Anthony Fauci. President Trump? He's developed his own vetting system: pardoning political allies — including all of the Jan. 6 rioters — as well as a string of unrepentant financial conmen who argued — just like him — that they were wrongly prosecuted...
#3 High Court Rejects Trump Mail Ballot Limits for Now Ahead of Midterms - NEWSMAX, OUTOFTHEFOXHOLE, THE WORLD CORRESPONDENT/ABC News, Occupy Democrats/DMW, Francene Corbeil, and Rasmussen Reports on X
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's mail ballot restrictions for now, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting in the midterm elections already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they've used for years. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the brief order. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed that the restrictions should not go into effect for the midterms but indicated he might rule in favor of the Trump administration later...
#4 FBI Director Kash Patel to Testify Before Senate Panel as Democrats Blast His Record, FBI Touts Crime Stats - Kaia Hubbard and Jacob Rosen for CBS News, FBI Director Kash Patel/Sheldon Whitehouse, Scott MacFarlane, FBI Rapid Response, Senate Judiciary Democrats, and MAGA Kitty on X
FBI Director Kash Patel is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday for an annual hearing on oversight of the federal government's principal law enforcement agency. The FBI has touted recent crime reports showing that violent crime rates in the U.S. have plummeted. According to the bureau's 2025 annual crime report, the U.S. murder rate reached a 20-year low, and violent crime overall had the biggest one-year drop on record. Patel has been under scrutiny over a raft of firings and resignations from the bureau, and for some of his behavior, including his use of the FBI jet. In May, the FBI director also clashed with Democratic senators over allegations of excessive drinking, which he has strongly denied...#5 FBI Arrests Most-Wanted Fraud Suspect Over Alleged $100M Medicare Scam - Kazeem Kasali for TVC News, FBI Director Kash Patel, Eric Daugherty, The Patriot Oasis™, Breanna Morello, and Gunther Eagleman™ on X
FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest in a post on X, saying Thai had been on the run since 2022 and was arrested in Vietnam. Patel said Thai was believed to have been hiding in Vietnam since at least 2023, adding that the FBI was working with international law enforcement partners to secure her return to the United States. Thai faces charges including conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, among other offenses. According to Patel, Thai is the sixth suspect on the FBI’s new Most Wanted Fraudsters list to be captured since the list was created three months ago...
#6 Data Center Debacle as ‘Computer Glitch’ Causes 5K Gallons of Diesel Fuel to Spill Into Wetlands - James Gordon For Dailymail.com/MSN, DosXXMachina, The Tornado News, Sally Sue NO DMs, jae holzman, and News12NJ on X
Thousands of gallons of diesel fuel have spilled from a New Jersey data center into wetlands feeding the Hackensack River, sparking a major cleanup operation and fury over the industry's rapid expansion across the state. Around 5,000 gallons of fuel escaped from a storage tank at Equinix's NY2 data center in Secaucus on Friday evening before flowing into Anderson Creek, a narrow tributary running through the environmentally sensitive Meadowlands. Secaucus Mayor Michael Gonnelli blamed the massive spill on a 'computer glitch,' although Equinix said it was still investigating exactly what went wrong...
#7 Trump and Huang Unite Against AI Doomers in Surprise On-Stage Call - Herb Scribner for Axios, Marcin Rojek/Rohan Paul, Sachin Kamdar, Tia, RRN, and Mario Nawfal/
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Trump onstage at the All-In Summit Monday in Los Angeles, where the two dismissed fears of an AI takeover. Trump and Huang are staking out an increasingly clear rejection of AI doomerism right as some of the world's most powerful CEOs and AI experts call for slower AI development over safety concerns. Huang appeared to receive a call from Trump in the middle of an All-In Podcast interview Monday, according to video footage circulating on social media. Huang put the president on speaker so the crowd could hear the conversation...
#8 Approved First. Studied Later - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Erica~Jo/Tim M,
On August 27, 2026, as documented on the FDA’s website, the agency approved the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA jabs for this season’s COVID-19 variant. Strangely, four days later, on August 31, the human-based study for the formulation of Pfizer’s jab was set to begin. And the human study for Moderna’s same jab doesn’t begin until November 16, some three months after it was approved for injection in the arms of Americans. How is this even real? With no human trials conducted beforehand, what did regulators actually review before signing off on these injections? Well, let’s see. In order to approve the new components of the mRNA jabs designed to target this year’s XFG variant, the FDA considered “evidence” from the 8 to 10 mice that Pfizer and Moderna used to test the new parts of their shots. In Pfizer’s studies, for the new components approved for use in millions of Americans, ten mice were used for each group in the main study for the new parts approved for use in the largest number of people, meaning everyone 65 and older and all of the high-risk children from 5 years old and up. And for the high-risk infants as young as six months, Moderna’s data rested on experiments involving just 8 rodents. Again, how is this real?
#9 Eight NFL Venues Revolt and Send Pro-Palestinian Opener Packing From Remaining Dates - Alejandro Avila for OutKick, Collin Rugg, Fox News, Double Down News, Variety, and ABC News on X
Macklemore is learning the hard way that concertgoers paying top dollar for stadium shows do not want a lecture on Middle Eastern geopolitics from the guy who wrote "Thrift Shop." Macklemore was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s U.S. stadium tour after multiple venues refused to host him following his pro-Palestinian speeches and performances at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The fallout escalated when New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft barred him from performing at Gillette Stadium, where Sheeran is scheduled to play Sept. 25 and 26...
#10 Donald Trump Jr. Acknowledges Russian Oligarch With Ties to Putin Hosted His Lavish Island Wedding Celebration - NBC News, Andrew Solender, Pro Publica, New York Post, Michael F Ozaki MD, TMZ, and Daily Mail on X
Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Bettina Trump, acknowledged Monday that a Russian oligarch with ties to President Vladimir Putin paid for their lavish Caribbean island post-wedding celebration in May. ProPublica reported that Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in wedding-related expenses for the newlyweds and dozens of guests for festivities on a private island in the Bahamas that started a day after the ceremony. The festivities included a fireworks show, which ProPublica reported Kremlev also paid for.
