Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is not going to Beijing during President Donald Trump's trip to China this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Huang was not invited, the source said, with the White House focusing more on agriculture and commercial aviation matters, such as orders for Boeing planes, on the current trip. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Looks like a lot of CYA going on at ACS.
That’s the conclusion of a new report by the Department of Investigation detailing how the Administration for Children’s Services withholds important records from New York’s watchdog agency.
The report, “Access Denied: Challenges to DOI’s Oversight of the Child Welfare System,” explains that the department has repeatedly been denied the ability to look into allegations of misconduct and sexual abuse by caseworkers as well as the ability to see records of ACS involvement with families of children who subsequently died.
Take the case of Brian Santiago and his mother, who were found dead in their apartment in August 2024.
Per The Post, Brian’s mother was “investigated by the ACS and even had her son temporarily removed from her care at some point before she died, leaving her special-needs boy, who used a feeding tube, to likely starve to death.”
This seems like a case that would have been important for DOI to investigate, but the agency says it “has been unable to assess whether those earlier interactions could have led to interventions that may have saved Brian’s life.”
It also can’t review the case of 5-year-old De’Neil Timberlake, who died the month before Brian, after ingesting his father’s methadone.
The NYPD told news outlets that the family had a long history of child neglect cases. What was done in those investigations? We may never know.
In 2023, there were 45 fatalities with prior ACS involvement, but DOI could only see the records in 25 of the cases.
Why can’t the Department of Investigations, um, investigate?
State law prohibits DOI from accessing two categories of records. The first are those where reports of child abuse were investigated and determined to be unfounded.
To understand the insanity of this policy, let’s compare it to law enforcement.
Let’s say police were searching for a murderer and they questioned the perpetrator, but he lied and they never checked his alibi.
Later, when he was apprehended committing other crimes, the public wanted to know why the police hadn’t nabbed him earlier.
But since the police didn’t conclude anything from the initial interview, no one could access any information about the failed initial investigation.
Similarly, if ACS fails to notice clear signs of abuse and neglect and determines that an accusation is unfounded and then that child winds up dead, wouldn’t we want to know where ACS went wrong and whether there were red flags they missed?
This policy actually rewards incompetence or willful blindness.
The second category of fatality records DOI can’t access involve those where ACS determines a case to be “low risk” and diverts it from an official investigation and into a non-investigatory process, called Collaborative Assessment, Response, Engagement & Support, merely to assess the family’s “concerns and needs.”
Since CARES was launched city-wide in 2020, it has continually expanded to the point where it now accounts for 25% of cases.
Are all these families really at low risk?
Parents engaged in illegal drug use and/or criminal activity can be diverted into CARES.
And many families who seem to be merely impoverished or in need city services in fact might be suffering from addiction or severe mental illness.
It would be good to find out whether we are underestimating the risk in these families, but thanks to this ridiculous policy, we will never know.
Even in cases where DOI is notified, the agency is not getting complete information because of these loopholes.
In 2025, DOI was notified of 18 child fatalities where ACS had prior involvement with the family, but DOI couldn’t get the complete history in 17 of those cases.
In 2024, it was 13 out of 16, and in 2023, 19 out of 25.
DOI is also charged with investigating cases where ACS workers have actually been accused of criminal wrongdoing.
Between 2023 and 2026, for instance, DOI received complaints regarding sexual misconduct of ACS workers toward minors on their caseload.
When DOI requested access to the records of those workers to find out whether they had victimized other children, the state Office of Children and Family Services refused.
OCFS cited the victims’ privacy. But OCFS never even asked the victims. It simply determined that “privacy interests should outweigh an investigation into the crimes allegedly committed against them.”
Because OCFS and ACS frequently work together, there is a clear conflict of interest when OCFS is the gatekeeper of ACS records.
The public should be outraged about the lack of transparency.
Fixing these problems can only be accomplished through state legislation.
Unfortunately, the see-no-evil approach to child welfare is pervasive across the state and city’s leadership class.
The same attitude has produced a ban on the anonymous reporting of abuse, discourages teachers from telling ACS about maltreatment, pretends parental drug addiction and criminal activity are harmless and even insists that investigating abuse is just structural racism.
It’s time to out the abusers and the bureaucrats who cover for them.
Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
The measures include asset freezes, travel bans and director disqualification orders, according to a British government sanctions notice.
The United States Federal Communications Commission is under pressure from President Donald Trump's administration to censor ABC, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Monday.
According to the outlet, the news reached the channel's owner, The Walt Disney Company, through Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez, who sent a letter to the entertainment giant's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Josh D'Amaro. She allegedly warned Disney that the agency and its Chairman, Brendan Carr, have been instructed to pressure "a free and independent press and all media into submission."
The report came after Trump demanded Disney fire Jimmy Kimmel, the host of an ABC late-night show, over a joke he made about First Lady Melania Trump. Later, the US FCC ordered an early licence review of Disney's television stations.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/USS-FCC-said-to-be-under-pressure-to-censor-Disney/66265336
A French woman who was evacuated from the cruise ship MV Hondius, linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, tested positive for hantavirus, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist (pictured) said in an interview with France Inter radio on Monday.
Four other French passengers from the same ship tested negative, but will remain isolated and undergo another test in a couple of days, the minister explained. She added that 22 contact cases were identified in France, stressing that they were instructed to self-isolate and contact the health authorities.
Rist insisted that the main goal now is to break transmission chains. "We know that if we can get people to self-quarantine, we can break these chains of transmission. That's the challenge we're facing right now," she said.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/France-reports-first-hantavirus-case/66261675
One of the 17 American passengers evacuated from the cruise ship MV Hondius in the Canary Islands has tested positive for the hantavirus, but is not showing symptoms, the Associated Press reported.
"One passenger will be transported to the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit upon arrival, while other passengers will go to the National Quarantine Unit for assessment and monitoring. The passenger who is going to the Biocontainment Unit tested positive for the virus but does not have symptoms," Kayla Thomas, a spokesperson for the Nebraska Medical Center, said.
Since the virus outbreak began, three people have died, and five passengers who left the ship earlier are infected.
China’s central bank warned of imported inflation risks from higher oil and commodity prices driven by the conflict in the Middle East.
“The impact of imported inflation on the economy needs monitoring,” the People’s Bank of China said in its quarterly monetary policy report released Monday.
