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'ShinyHunters Claims Control of Rival cL0p’s Dark Web Site'
A dispute between two prolific cybercrime groups has spilled into the open after ShinyHunters claimed it hacked the dark web site of rival group cL0p, turning a long-running disagreement over a software exploit into an unusual confrontation between cybercriminal operations.
What Did ShinyHunters Claim?
ShinyHunters, a digital extortion group associated with aggressive data-theft campaigns, said it broke into cL0p’s dark web site after discovering a vulnerability in cL0p’s software.
The group claimed it used the weakness to establish wide-ranging control over cL0p’s infrastructure. ShinyHunters went as far as saying, “We basically own them now.”
When the cL0p dark web site was visited on Sunday, it was unreachable. However, a screenshot preserved by a cybercrime research platform showed the message “Domain Seized By ShinyHunters.”
cL0p did not publicly respond to the claims. Two cybersecurity experts said the confrontation appeared to be genuine.
Why Are the Groups Fighting?
The dispute is linked to the alleged theft last year of a software exploit involving a previously unknown vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite.
Such vulnerabilities, commonly known as zero-days, are highly valued by cybercriminals because organisations initially have no time to patch a flaw that was previously unknown.
ShinyHunters said it had discovered the zero-day first, while cL0p later used the E-Business Suite vulnerability to steal data.
The confrontation has since expanded beyond the original disagreement. ShinyHunters said cL0p threatened to reveal the identities of several members of its rival group. ShinyHunters, in response, threatened to disclose details about cL0p’s internal operations.
The account provided by ShinyHunters about the feud could not immediately be independently established.
How Serious Is the Cybercrime Feud?
Cybersecurity specialists described the public confrontation as unusual. One threat intelligence manager said disputes between criminal groups on the dark web do occur.
Another security researcher said he had not previously seen one cybercrime group openly attack another in this manner, describing the situation as two criminal groups fighting each other.
The episode shows how rivalries within the cybercrime ecosystem can extend beyond competition for targets and stolen data into attacks against the infrastructure used by other criminal groups.
What Is cL0p Known For?
cL0p is described as a Russian-speaking cybercrime group known for identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in enterprise software.
In 2023, the group exploited a vulnerability in MOVEit file-management software and stole data affecting tens of millions of people across more than 600 companies.
More recently, cL0p claimed it had stolen large volumes of data from nearly 50 companies worldwide.
Its reputation has been closely linked to finding software vulnerabilities that can provide access to large numbers of corporate targets.
What Is ShinyHunters Known For?
ShinyHunters has also been associated with large-scale data theft. The group attracted attention in April over a claim involving millions of business records from video game developer Rockstar Games.
It was also linked to a May attack involving education tool Canvas that caused widespread disruption across US schools.
This month, AI company Anthropic said it had caught hackers linked to ShinyHunters attempting to use its tools.
What Happens After the Claimed Takeover?
The full impact of the alleged compromise of cL0p’s infrastructure remains unclear. The available information does not establish how much access ShinyHunters obtained, how long any access lasted or whether the claimed takeover extended beyond the dark web site.
The incident nevertheless marks a rare public escalation between two prominent cybercrime groups, with their dispute moving from competing claims over an exploit to alleged infrastructure compromise and threats to expose each other’s operations.
The420 View
The ShinyHunters-cL0p clash shows that cybercrime groups are not only attacking businesses and institutions but can also target each other’s infrastructure. The bigger concern is the value placed on undisclosed software vulnerabilities.
When zero-day flaws become assets in criminal rivalries, organisations using widely deployed enterprise software can remain exposed before a weakness is discovered and fixed.
https://the420.in/shinyhunters-clop-dark-web-feud/
Bush's Islamic Appeasement Greatly Damaged America
by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,
Last week, President George W. Bush sat down with his former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to discuss the September 11, 2001, Islamic terror attacks on the United States. While reflecting on his actions twenty-five years earlier, Bush went out of his way to defend Islam: "I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted their religion." Bush's absurd statement echoed a similarly absurd statement he made days after the attacks when he told the world, "Islam is peace," even though the burned bodies of three thousand dead Americans strongly suggested otherwise.
There have been 50,000 Islamic terror attacks since 9/11. Without question, Islam is a cult of conquest, misery, and war.
Bush's Islamic appeasement angered me twenty-five years ago, and his continued appeasement infuriates me today. I cannot believe that the man who asked Americans to go to war against an Islamic menace that threatened (and still threatens) the world can be so intellectually shallow and morally obtuse. "Islam is a religion of peace," is a disingenuous stock phrase that is too cute by half. President Barack Obama loves to tell the same lie.
While Americans fought and died in foreign lands in an effort to keep Islam's homicidal evil from causing further harm to the United States, Bush and Obama resettled Muslims into America's heartland. Twenty-five years ago, the sight of a woman wearing a burqa in the Midwest would have shocked and worried passersby. Today, it is too common for anyone to feign surprise. Both the number of Muslims and the number of mosques in the United States have more than doubled since the Islamic terror attacks that changed our country permanently. Bush told Americans that we had to fight the terrorists "over there" so that we would never again have to fight them "over here." While brave American warriors died "over there," Bush and Obama betrayed those warriors' sacrifice by inviting more Muslims "over here," ensuring that Americans will continue to endure Islamic terror attacks until this existential threat is honestly recognized and neutralized.
President Bush is eighty years old, plenty old enough to have learned that he has no business telling Muslims what their "religion" means. If he were telling black Americans what it means to be black, critics would rightfully accuse him of "whitesplaining." Does Bush believe himself to be an expert on the Quran? Has he become a Texas imam or an "austere religious scholar" during retirement? If not, then why does he insist on telling Americans that Islamic terrorists "subverted their religion"? The opposite seems patently clear: Wherever the scourge of Islam stretches its poisonous tentacles, Islamic violence is certain. Muhammad was a pedophile who encouraged the rape, torture, and murder of innocents. It should be no surprise that pedophiles, rapists, and murderers consider that malevolent deviant a "prophet."
Writer Antonio Graceffo wrote a well-researched essay this month describing in detail how Muslims are persecuting and murdering Christians across Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. Carrying out massacres against Christians with hammers, machetes, axes, and guns, Muslims are right now engaging in a genocide that corporate news media and Western governments entirely ignore. In Nigeria, the Congo, Mozambique, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Algeria, and Indonesia, Muslims threaten Christian lives. These are the barbaric conquerors whom Bush defends as noble representatives of the "religion of peace." No self-described Christian should stay silent while Muslims slaughter Christ's followers around the world. Somehow, Bush remains quiet about Islam's unquenchable thirst for Christian blood.
Islamic bloodlust continues to exsanguinate much of Europe. A recent German report shows that foreign migrants (most of whom are Muslim) are responsible for 47% of all violent crime in Bavaria. Over 80% of North African asylum-seekers in Switzerland have been accused of committing crimes while in the country. While British children beg the government not to resettle illegal immigrants into their tiny villages, the United Kingdom is granting settlement or citizenship to one new migrant every single minute.
How is the British government combating this unsustainable invasion? The Home Office hands each Islamic migrant a nine-page booklet explaining that rape and pedophilia are illegal and that women have the same rights as men. In this behavioral guide written primarily for Muslims, the British government outlines how it is not okay to beat women, mutilate girls' genitals, have sex with children or unconscious women, or leave babies alone. The document further advises Muslims that "women must consent to sex in all situations" and "are allowed to work, study, and make their own decisions" without "permission from men."
In a section on rape, Muslim men are informed that it is not appropriate to threaten someone into having sex or to have sex with someone who is "asleep, drunk, or unable to respond." The British government warns Islamic immigrants: "If you have sex with someone without their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious crime in the UK. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim." Furthermore, there are no exceptions for child rape: "Even if they say yes, it is still illegal." Finally, Britain's new Muslims are reminded that it is not acceptable to intimidate or abuse people or take sexual pictures or videos of strangers without their consent. These "religion of peace" people sure do need a lot of help figuring out that it's not okay to rape or beat women and children! Perhaps the Brits should stop dropping them off in rural villages where they quickly outnumber the locals ten to one.
A rational person should have no problem understanding Islam as a threat to the world. President Bush held a position of immense power from which he could see Muslim atrocities as key features of that cult belief system. The fact that he remains too much of a moral coward to confront and denounce Islam's murderers, rapists, and terrorists with clarity and resolve has contributed greatly to the current moral confusion plaguing the United States.
We now have members of Congress who openly support Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists. A terrorist-sympathizing Muslim is the mayor of New York City twenty-five years after his "religion of peace" friends flew hijacked commercial airliners into the Twin Towers and murdered thousands of civilians. Another terrorist-sympathizing Muslim running for the U.S. Senate from Michigan agrees with Muslim members of Congress that 9/11 was worse for Muslims who subsequently endured "Islamophobia." When Islamic terrorists aren't trying to murder Americans with their vehicles, bombs, firearms, or knives, they're rioting in the streets and demanding "justice" for Hamas animals who rape and kill women and behead and microwave babies.
Bush's inability to identify Islam as a murderous cult ideology has exacerbated the Islamic supremacy problem in the United States. In preparation for the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11 this year, public school administrators instructed teachers in Fairfax County, Virginia, to avoid associating the attacks with Islam. Teachers were even told to treat Muslims as heroes and to create "safe spaces" for Muslim students. Virginia's Democrat governor commemorated 9/11 by ignoring the act of Islamic mass murder and pretending that three thousand Americans died from some kind of inexplicable natural disaster. While New York City's Muslim mayor laughed during the 9/11 Ground Zero ceremony, New York's Democrat governor left early, so that she could appear on cable news. Meanwhile, Gen Z Americans are largely indifferent to the September 11, 2001, Islamic terror attacks on the United States. Some even celebrate Osama bin Laden.
Americans promised never to forget Islam's war against the West. Twenty-five years later, it is obvious that too many did forget. President Bush's moral equivocations are partially to blame for this travesty.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shurk-bushs-islamic-appeasement-greatly-damaged-america
CEO’s Morgan Stanley pricing outlook extends Tempus AI rally another 11% Thursday
- September 15 Morgan Stanley remarks introduced explicit revenue lifts from reimbursement upgrades
- CEO Eric Lefkofsky estimated xT pricing adds $80-$100 million next year
- He projected xF approval and pricing could add $250-$300 million annually
- Lefkofsky said Tempus should over-deliver its stated 25% multiyear growth target
- Shares gained 10.67% Tuesday, held Wednesday, then extended Thursday’s rally
- Thursday’s 10.8% gain built after opening, exceeding TEM’s recent daily range
- By 9:47, Natera, Guardant, Recursion and Schrödinger also traded higher
Space Weapons Grabbed MSM Headlines, But USAF Secretary Hinted What Could Replace MQ-9 Reaper
The Air & Space Forces Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference opened earlier this week at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink's disclosure that the Space Force had launched "space control weapons" into orbit quickly dominated the news cycle.
Beyond the USAF's new space warfare capabilities, Meink's remarks about the service's plan to build out an upgraded unmanned aircraft fleet over the next six years warrant closer attention. His remarks offered potential clues about plans for a successor to, or an alternative operating alongside, the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper.
The following excerpts from Meink's speech suggest a shift in unmanned aircraft procurement and hint that a Reaper replacement may be approaching, although they do not, on their own, establish that one is imminent:
And this is not the only class of autonomous aircraft we are aggressively pursuing. As we saw in Epic Fury, ISR strike platforms have been essential. We have used MQ-9 and even now the ULTRA aircraft to great effect.
Building on these lessons, we are developing a family of low-cost multi-role strike platforms called the Mass Modular Aircraft, or MMAs.
MMAs will provide affordable, attritable, long-range strike, and we will be able to field them at scale. Our intent is to field 100 MMAs in 2029 at even a lower cost than the CCAs and a fraction of the cost of manned aircraft we build today. Then by 2032, 500 of these platforms will join our force operational fleet.
One platform worth watching is ULTRA, a Group 5 unmanned aircraft system developed by DZYNE Technologies, now part of Ondas.
ULTRA could assume part of the MQ-9 Reaper's surveillance workload, particularly missions that prioritize endurance and operating costs over weapons capacity. Its potential role is strongest in intelligence gathering, where extended flight times could reduce aircraft rotations.
In late summer, The National Interest examined the Air Force's search for a Reaper successor in an article titled "Why the US Air Force Wants a Replacement for the MQ-9 Reaper." Mounting Reaper losses in the Gulf conflict have increased the focus on a lower-cost alternative. ULTRA's capabilities support the case for a much cheaper alternative with longer endurance and, considered alongside Meink's remarks, may suggest that the alternative has been found: ULTRA.
Waltz says no timeline for end of Iran war
The Trump administration is not setting a timeline for ending the war with Iran, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told CNN on Sunday, arguing that continued economic pressure favors Washington.
“I wouldn’t necessarily put a timeline on it,” Waltz told “State of the Union” when asked about a Wall Street Journal report that White House advisers had discussed the possibility of the war continuing through the rest of President Donald Trump’s term.
The Journal reported earlier in September that Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other advisers had privately discussed with Trump the possibility that Iran could continue resisting US pressure and prolong the conflict beyond January 2029.
“I think time — with the president’s strategy and Operation Economic Fury — is on the president’s and on the United States’ side,” Waltz said, adding that the US naval blockade was increasing pressure on Iran’s economy.
Trump said Sunday he was in a “deciding mode” over Iran, weighing military action, continued economic pressure or a deal, and said “very big things” could happen soon.
Pakistani strikes said to leave dead, injured in Afghanistan
Casualties were reported in Pakistani airstrikes targeting the Kunari province in eastern Afghanistan, Al Jazeera reported, citing an unnamed source. If confirmed, the incident would mark the latest flare-up of the confrontation between the two countries, which threatened to escalate into open war.
Islamabad accused Kabul of supporting groups conducting deadly terror attacks on Pakistani soil, launching airstrikes against the Afghan border. Border skirmishes subsequently erupted between the two nations.
There was no additional information available about the strikes.
GLP-1s Are Treating a Diagnosis. Who’s Treating the Patient?
I see this pattern often enough in my current caseload that it no longer surprises me: a patient on tirzepatide or semaglutide, eating one meal a day. Their hair is thinning. They’re losing muscle along with the weight. And underneath it all, they’re dreading what happens if the number on the scale starts climbing again.
It rarely enters into the conversation at their medical visits, not because no one cares but because nutrition and disordered eating screening usually fall outside a typical follow-up appointment.
This isn’t a rare or extreme case. It’s routine.
That’s the gap I want to talk about. GLP-1 receptor agonists have moved into mainstream prescribing faster than the infrastructure to support patients taking them has caught up. By the time a patient like this ends up in front of me, their nutrition guidance has usually come from an online influencer or a generic diet handout not specific to GLP-1s at all.
Appetite Suppression Becomes Undernutrition
Some patients taking these medications consume fewer than 800 kcal/d in the early stages of treatment, often without realizing it because appetite suppression outpaces their own awareness of how little they’re eating.
Sustained undereating at that level isn’t a side issue. Inadequate nutritional intake can contribute to lean mass loss and micronutrient deficiency and make adherence harder to sustain over time, all of which can work against the actual treatment goal.
A 2025 cross-sectional study found measurable gaps in nutrient intake among GLP-1 users. The dietitians surveyed in that research described a lack of structured nutrition education for these patients, similar to what dietitians saw in the early years of bariatric surgery before comprehensive dietary support became standard practice.
We’ve been here before, and we already know what can help close that gap.
Overlooking Eating Disorder Risk
Eating disorder risk is the piece of this that gets the least attention.
A 2026 JAMA Psychiatry study found GLP-1 use was highest among people with binge eating disorder, at just over half, and was reported by roughly 42% of those with atypical anorexia nervosa.
A 2026 rapid review of 25 studies similarly noted that eating disorder outcomes were rarely tracked in GLP-1 research to begin with, so the true scope of the risk remains unclear. A recent New England Journal of Medicine Perspective noted that “worrisome signals have emerged” regarding GLP-1s and disordered eating, an issue the field is only beginning to take seriously.
Here’s what concerns me in practice. A medication that suppresses appetite can look, on the surface, like straightforward, welcome relief. But it can just as easily be feeding a fear of weight regain or creating a pattern of restriction where none existed before.
That’s exactly the kind of pattern a registered dietitian is trained to catch, and exactly why nutrition support shouldn’t wait until a patient brings it up.
I’m not arguing against GLP-1s. I’m arguing that we treat them like the powerful intervention they are, with real support built around them, rather than just a prescription and a follow-up check-in on the scale.
Build Support Into the Prescription
At the time of prescribing, ask what the patient hopes will change beyond the scale. Say plainly that you’ll be tracking more than weight. And refer the patient to a registered dietitian right then, not later.
A joint advisory from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medicine Association, and The Obesity Society already recommends nutrition and lifestyle support as part of standard GLP-1 care, and many patients have insurance coverage for these services without realizing it.
There’s no standard eating disorder screen built into GLP-1 prescribing yet. Until there is, the SCOFF questionnaire is one option: five questions, validated in primary care, with no specialized training required. Consider using it at the start and again at intervals.
And whether or not you use a formal screen, ask patients what they actually ate yesterday. It tells you more than the scale does.
The patient I described at the start wasn’t hiding anything. It just hadn’t come up.
Anne Wilfong, RDN, LD, CEDS, is a registered dietitian and certified eating disorder specialist in Austin, Texas, where she works with clients managing GLP-1 therapy, disordered eating, and other nutrition concerns.
SPAC Leader's Advantage Acquisition prices $150 million IPO, targeting chemicals and healthcare
Leader's Advantage Acquisition, a blank check company targeting chemical and healthcare sectors, raised $150 million by offering 15 million units at $10. Each unit consists of one share of common stock, and one-half of one warrant to purchase a share, exercisable at $11.50.
Leader’s Advantage Acquisition is led by CEO and Chairman Paritosh Chakrabarti, the founder of chemical and plastics manufacturing company PMC Group. He is joined by CFO Edward Krynski, the Controller of PMC Group. The SPAC intends to target chemical and healthcare sectors with proven unit economics, the potential for stable free cash flow, among other characteristics.
The Mount Laurel, NJ-based company will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol LEDRU. Clear Street and D. Boral Capital acted as joint bookrunners on the deal.
Anthropic picks Accenture for third-party AI safety evaluations
Accenture's long list of consulting services is expanding to include evaluating Anthropic's frontier AI models for safety compliance. Anthropic announced the partnership that would allow Accenture to serve as third-party evaluators that will be embedded within the AI giant. The partnership would see both companies invest at least $1 billion each into this joint effort over the next five years.
Anthropic's partnership with Accenture is one of the first steps of a plan to slow down the pace of AI development, as proposed by its CEO, Dario Amodei, last week. In Amodei's three-step approach, the proposal called for all "frontier AI" companies to give "ongoing, employee-like access" to embedded third-party evaluators that are tasked with ensuring safety practices and commitments are being followed, reporting incidents and assessing AI model alignment. More specifically, Accenture's evaluators will "watch models take shape in training, follow the decisions that govern how those models are built and deployed and speak directly to employees," according to Anthropic.
Anthropic explained that Accenture had experience helping businesses and governments deploy AI across several industries. The AI company also said that Accenture has experience with how enterprises use AI and can offer more perspective when it comes to Anthropic's own models. However, Anthropic noted that the idea of embedded evaluators is new and hasn't yet set standards when it comes to scope, what access the evaluators get nor the procedure of reporting concerns.
To get a better sense, Anthropic said it will be working with others companies beyond Accenture when it comes to evaluating its frontier AI models. The company said it will announce other evaluators it in the coming weeks, while also expressing that Accenture will work with AI companies besides Anthropic.
https://www.engadget.com/2263235/anthropic-picks-accenture-for-third-party-ai-safety-evaluations/
Bessent: Very successful talk with China on trade, AI
United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had a "very successful" meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, which included discussions on trade and artificial intelligence. He added that the two countries will hold further talks on AI and that the US proposed a bilateral AI notification mechanism on incidents and issues that "rose to the national security level." He confirmed that the US-China board of trade has been "operationalized."
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the focus of the meeting was to help US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping "continue their relationship" when they meet on September 24. He added that the board of trade will look into "non-sensitive" goods that could be exempt from any future trade measures to restore "balance" in the US-China trade relationship.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Bessent:-Very-successful-talk-with-China-on-trade-AI/67139737
Is traditional enterprise IT disappearing?
Two health system CIOs say the traditional enterprise IT model is changing as AI reshapes technology work and more tech expertise spreads across healthcare organizations.
For Will Landry, senior vice president and CIO of Baton Rouge, La. -based FMOL Health, that could mean enterprise IT becomes increasingly concentrated around cybersecurity and governance.
“I do think that the traditional enterprise IT model is going to … really turn into primarily cybersecurity and governance,” Mr. Landry said Sept. 16 during Becker’s 11th Annual IT + Revenue Cycle Conference: The Future of AI & Digital Health in Chicago.
Mr. Landry said health system IT departments could become less focused over time on traditional infrastructure and application oversight. He also pointed to the proliferation of technology and so-called shadow IT across organizations as governance becomes increasingly important.
“Enterprise IT is going to be, I think, way more focused on just governance and cybersecurity in the long run,” he said.
Mr. Landry made the comments during a panel titled “The Next Gen Healthcare IT Workforce,” alongside Uday Madasu, CIO of Knoxville, Tenn.-based Covenant Health.
Mr. Madasu said traditional IT functions will remain necessary, but he expects the focus of health system IT organizations to move increasingly toward capabilities and outcomes.
He said areas such as servers, network equipment and infrastructure are a means to an end, while IT teams should focus on whether technology improves experiences, access, financial performance and care.
“The traditional model is still there. You still need the plumbing, you need the infrastructure, but the focus is capabilities and outcomes,” Mr. Madasu said.
That evolution could also involve technology expertise sitting outside centralized IT departments.
Mr. Madasu said technology employees can be embedded in areas such as finance, human resources and operations, provided the organization maintains a common understanding of data, cybersecurity and AI governance, as well as shared strategic priorities.
“The technology expertise doesn’t go away,” he said. “It can either sit in my shop, I’m OK with it sitting outside my shop, but we all have to sort of walk towards those things, same true north, if you will.”
Both CIOs said they do not currently expect AI to translate into health IT workforce reductions, instead describing a shift in the work employees perform.
Mr. Landry characterized the issue as a workforce reinvention challenge. He said FMOL Health is not planning for workforce reductions but does expect changes in administrative and IT work, with resources potentially shifting closer to patients and clinicians.
Within IT, Mr. Landry said employees could spend more time providing workflow support and subject matter expertise and less time on certain types of building and coding.
Mr. Madasu similarly said AI could change the work of analysts. As agentic AI takes on more building, configuration and testing, he said analysts could focus more on safely deploying technology, helping users understand it and determining whether the organization is getting value from it. He said report writers could also spend more time translating data into insights and action rather than retrieving the data itself.
“The question is not what positions can we eliminate but the question is what higher value work can we now do because we have a different set of tools and skills,” Mr. Madasu said.
Even as technology work becomes more distributed, Mr. Madasu said some responsibilities should remain internal.
“Governance accountability cannot outsource those, cannot delegate those because the buck stops with me and I’m accountable,” he said.
Mr. Landry also emphasized governance and cybersecurity as technology becomes more widespread across organizations. He said health systems will need to educate employees, clinicians and others about emerging technologies and how they should be used.
Tafoya hammers Minnesota Dems on welfare fraud, polls show her neck and neck in Senate race
Minnesota Senate candidate Michele Tafoya dragged her Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Gov. Peggy Flanagan, over alleged welfare fraud in the state under her watch — as new polls predict an incredibly close match-up.
Tafoya, a former NFL reporter who won a crowded Republican primary last month, urged voters to “not give [Flanagan] a promotion” to the vacant Senate seat as the lt. governor leads Tafoya by 1.8 points, according to the latest Real Clear Politics poll.
“She really needs a pink slip,” Tafoya said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
The Republican then raised concerns about alleged welfare fraud that occurred during Flanagan’s tenure, especially when posing the question of where and how billions of dollars exited Minnesota.
In Minnesota, the latest fraud occurred in Hennepin County — where Minneapolis is. About $2 million was reportedly set aside for businesses affected by ICE raids. However, businesses saw just a quarter of that fund because the state received 300 legit applications, and 200 were flagged for potential fraud.
“They know they have a place here in Minnesota where they can commit this fraud,” Tafoya said. “Because no one has been held accountable. It’s remarkable.”
Tafoya claims the only sort of accountability seen in Minnesota’s fraud was Governor Tim Walz deciding not to run for a third term.
“We’ve got a clean house, and it’s going to start with the top of the ticket, and that’s the US Senate, where people are,” Tafoya said. “We’re now in a toss-up race here in Minnesota. We’ve been trending in the right direction, and that is good news for all of us and for the US Senate.”
She is hoping to get a boost at the ballot box from non-college-educated voters who favor Republicans over Democrats by 16 percentage points, calling this group the “heart of the Trump coalition.”
“They are feeling some economic grievance and uncertainty and pressure,” Tafoya said. “For them, the question is not for whom to vote; it’s whether they’re going to bother at all.”
She hopes voters will see that the option between her and her Democratic challenger “could not be clearer.”
“It’s common sense versus crazy or chaos or communism or whatever kind of alliteration you want to use,” Tafoya said. “We are a common sense campaign that is looking to restore what Minnesota loves, which is the value of the dollar, not being stolen from, not having our leaders be untrustworthy.”
Minnesotans haven’t elected a Republican to represent them in the Senate since 2002, but Tafoya believes the North Star State is strongly “purple.”
Tafoya and Flanagan will face off in the general election in November.
Telix Pharmaceuticals to buy ITM Isotope for $1.6B
Australian company Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced on Monday that it is acquiring biotech firm ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE for $1.6 billion in 105.8 million Telix shares. Telix also committed to assuming $302 million of net debt, while agreeing to up to $700 million in milestone payments to ITM.
"We have enjoyed a close working relationship with ITM for many years and there is strong management alignment for the rationale behind this transaction. By combining our complementary strengths, we will create a company with commercial scale, world-leading supply and the most exciting theranostic drug portfolio in the sector," Telix CEO Christian Behrenbruch said. The transaction is expected to close by the end of fiscal 2026. On completion, Telix shareholders will own around 76.3% of Telix shares, while ITM shareholders will own around 23.7%.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Telix-Pharmaceuticals-to-buy-ITM-Isotope-for-dollar1.6B/67139695
Apple’s Cook calls Australia’s social media curbs ‘world-leading,’ PM says
Apple Executive Chair Tim Cook described Australia's restrictions on social media as "world-leading" during a meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the company's California headquarters, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Albanese met Cook at Apple Park as Australia moves ahead with tighter rules aimed at protecting children and giving users more control over the content displayed on social media platforms.
The Australian government this month announced plans to give social media users the option to select the content they see in their feeds, marking the latest step in its online safety push.
The country became the first to ban social media use for children under 16 in December. Other governments have since moved toward similar restrictions, including the European Commission, which this year proposed a ban for children under 13.
Speaking after the meeting, Albanese said Cook viewed Australia's work on social media regulation as leading other countries.
Apple referred questions about Albanese's remarks to a post by Cook on X. Cook said he was pleased to show the prime minister some of Apple's latest technology, including controls designed to help protect children online.
The comments come as technology companies face increased scrutiny over how their products affect younger users and how much control consumers have over algorithmically selected content.
Apple is not itself a major social media operator, but its iPhone and App Store are important gateways to platforms run by companies including Meta Platforms, Alphabet, Snap and ByteDance-owned TikTok.
The debate over technology regulation is also expanding as increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems raise separate questions about safety and the pace of development.
Industry executives have differed over how quickly companies should advance AI capabilities as policymakers consider how existing regulatory frameworks should apply to the technology.
Cook recently stepped down as Apple chief executive after leading the company for 15 years.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-cook-calls-australia-social-020208183.html