“They have turned their homes into enemy strongholds. They should not complain later,” Rezaei wrote on X.
“For a number of financial institutions and banks, reform programs are now being implemented,” Madanizadeh said. “If the reforms are not completed, processes such as dissolution, liquidation or merger with other banks will be carried out.”
Madanizadeh said the Central Bank was putting pressure on the institutions to make changes, but did not identify them or specify the problems at individual banks.
He also defended the government’s broader economic overhaul, including changes to currency, banking and energy policies, saying postponing reforms would result in “higher inflation, deeper recession, lower per-capita income, weaker livelihoods and greater poverty.”
The White House's chief border security official, Tom Homan, blamed sanctuary policies for making local communities "less safe" in an interview with Fox News on Saturday.
"If they don't let us [apprehend] the bad guy in the safety and security of the jail, now we've got to send a whole team of six or seven people to look for this person," said the Border Czar, referring to current prohibitions against the profiling of a suspect's immigration background. "What sanctuary cities do is give sanctuary to criminals, which makes the communities less safe and puts officers at greater risk" he added.
As part of current United States immigration laws, local law enforcement and city workers generally do not ask residents or victims of crime about their legal immigration status. Jails often refuse federal requests to hold undocumented individuals past their scheduled release date unless accompanied by a judicial warrant.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Homan:-Sanctuary-policies-making-US-less-safe/66968415
Health systems have spent two years debating which AI tools to buy. The executives running them are starting to question how often they need to revisit that decision.
Richard Mulry, president and CEO of Northwell Holdings in New Hyde Park, N.Y., sees the cycle speeding up as the cost structure around AI changes.
“The most dangerous trend in healthcare right now is borrowed conviction: letting someone else’s roadmap, or someone else’s press release, stand in for your own operating strategy,” Mr. Mulry said. “AI has created a kind of gravitational pull where the fear of being late is doing more to pressure capital allocation than the actual problems in front of us.”
The pressure produces two failure modes that look like opposites. One is premature commitment — investing early in solutions that will eventually be absorbed into core platforms, leaving organizations managing technical debt with no lasting strategic value. The other is waiting for platform vendors to deliver while nothing changes in the workforce, the workflows, or the cost structure.
“Participation driven by optics and paralysis look like opposites, but we’ve come to see them as the same failure: outsourcing judgment to the market’s clock instead of your own operating priorities,” Mr. Mulry said.
Northwell Holdings’ response has been to move first where risk is lowest and enterprise impact is highest — which, today, means business process automation. As health systems are rationalizing their application portfolios and stepping back from pilot-heavy approaches, Northwell Holdings has concentrated on bounded, measurable projects that produce evidence before clinical commitments are made.
“That work is bounded and measurable, and it earns us the room to explore clinical solutions without betting the enterprise on them,” Mr. Mulry said.
The most visible change at Northwell Holdings is not which tools it has chosen but how often it revisits those choices. Health systems that are prioritizing workflow integration are finding the same logic applies — AI investments that don’t disrupt existing operations are easier to evaluate, easier to scale and easier to walk back when needed.
“What has changed most for us is the tempo — the horizon on a strategy in this space has gotten much shorter, so we check in with each other far more often than we used to, and we’ve gotten more comfortable revisiting a decision we made two quarters ago,” Mr. Mulry said.
by Kent Ingle via RealClearEducation,
Rather than fearing generative tools or treating them as mere compliance threats, higher education must train students to master AI as an exponential multiplier for innovation, career success, and national prosperity. Generative artificial intelligence is vastly more prevalent, sophisticated, and accessible today than it was even six months ago.
Today's incoming students arrive on campus with the collective knowledge of human history sitting directly in their pockets.
They are navigating a digital landscape that is fundamentally rewriting how information is processed, analyzed, and created. Predictably, administrators across the country are responding with panic. Elite institutions are rushing to expand their rulebooks, update honor codes, and purchase unreliable detection software in a futile attempt to police the classroom.
This reactionary mindset misses the entire point. When higher education views artificial intelligence primarily as a cheating hazard, it defaults to censorship and control. But when we approach technology through the lens of human potential and future readiness, our entire perspective transforms. We should be asking how to train our students to master it responsibly from the ground up.
Attempting to ban these platforms is like trying to ban the calculator in a modern engineering department. Whether we choose to embrace it or not, generative software is now a permanent fixture of the global economy. In fact, it is currently the number one most marketable skill for people looking for new jobs out of college. Recent labor market data reveals that demand for artificial intelligence competency in entry-level roles has nearly tripled in less than a year, extending far beyond traditional technology companies into marketing, operations, human resources, and finance. To compete in a rapidly evolving market, the next generation cannot simply be passive consumers of technology. They must be fluent directors of it.
When leveraged properly, artificial intelligence becomes an exponential work and impact multiplier. It streamlines complex research, accelerates problem-solving, and synthesizes massive datasets in seconds. A properly equipped student learns to direct artificial intelligence as a powerful research assistant while maintaining total ownership over the final outcome. We must teach our young adults the difference between outsourcing their intellect and augmenting their capabilities.
Using artificial intelligence to skip the hard work of learning is a misuse of human potential. But using these platforms to elevate our thinking, automate routine labor, and tackle grand challenges is the exact formula for lifelong success and prosperity. This is not just about individual career placement. It is about national survival. Artificial intelligence is currently the fastest-growing economic sector in our country. It is catalyzing a trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout that is reaching all fifty states, revitalizing communities, and creating unprecedented opportunities across every sector. If American industry is going to maintain its leadership on the global stage, our workforce requires graduates who understand how to harness these tools to innovate at breakneck speeds. If we are going to continue to lead on the global industrial stage, we need more students ready to embrace AI, not less.
Censoring students from trying to cheat does not protect academic integrity. It simply leaves our graduates woefully unprepared for the economic realities of tomorrow. Relying on software for baseline tasks means that the value of genuine critical thinking and strategic foresight is actually higher than ever. Employers are actively seeking out graduates who possess the discernment to evaluate machine-generated outputs, spot inaccuracies, and apply human judgment to elevate mediocre drafts into exceptional final products.
Our duty as educational leaders is to prepare students for a life of success, prosperity, and leadership in a highly competitive world. We completely fail in that core mission if we allow administrative fear to prevent us from teaching digital mastery. Instead of building higher digital walls, universities must build stronger practical foundations. We must teach students that true excellence lies in combining technological fluency with unshakeable personal integrity. We must show them exactly how to prompt, evaluate, refine, and deploy these tools ethically so that they enter their careers equipped to perform.
Artificial intelligence is driving the fastest economic transformation of our lifetime, and it is the key to America's future competitive edge. The universities that thrive in this new era will not be the ones that tried to ban the future. They will be the ones that trained their students to lead it. As a new academic year begins, we owe it to the next generation to step forward with vision and confidence, equipping them to master this technology and secure the ongoing prosperity of American industry.
Kent Ingle is President of Southeastern University, a networked university headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/beyond-ban-why-embracing-ai-essential-higher-education
Eleven people were busted for alleged possession and distribution of kiddie porn aboard two different cruise ships in Boston on Friday — the third takedown of pedophiles on an ocean liner this year.
The 11 foreign laborers — nine from the Philippines, one from Indonesia, and one from Nicaragua — were employed aboard Holland America’s Volendam and Norwegian Cruise Line’s Breakaway and detained during the operation, which lasted from Aug. 14 to Aug. 16, federal officials announced Thursday.
“Protecting children from exploitation is among our highest priorities, and this operation demonstrates the critical role CBP officers play in identifying and stopping individuals who pose a threat to public safety,” Julio Caravia, acting director of field operations for Customs and Border Patrol’s Boston Field Office, said in a press statement.
The identities of those arrested have not been released and authorities did not specify how many were arrested aboard each of the ships.
Federal agents scoured the alleged sickos’ electronic devices and living quarters to retrieve the abuse material
They are scheduled for deportation.
The Boston investigation is the latest component of Operation Tidal Wave, a multi-agency initiative led by CBP and the Department of Homeland Security that targets cruise ship crew members involved in the distribution of child sexual abuse material.
The operation follows two earlier phases this year.
In April 2026, the first phase in San Diego resulted in administrative enforcement actions against 27 crewmembers from six vessels, all of whom were processed for removal and returned to their home countries.
A second phase, conducted in San Juan during June and July 2026, involved administrative enforcement actions against 14 crewmembers from three vessels, with one crewmember also facing federal prosecution, according to CBP.
“These allegations are deeply disturbing, and we have zero tolerance for criminal behavior,” Holland America Line told The Post.
“We are fully cooperating with law enforcement and immediately terminated the individuals involved.”
Holland America Line declined to comment on how the crew members were hired or what it will do to screen future job candidates.
Norwegian Cruise Line did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
New York City Democratic Socialists of America Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo is a deadbeat tenant facing eviction after stiffing his landlord out of months of rent, The Post has learned.
Gordillo, 38, the privileged son of a Florida construction magnate, is being sued in Brooklyn housing court after skipping out on three rent payments of $2,500 for a Crown Heights apartment he leased while the $1.5 million townhouse gifted to him by his rich daddy underwent renovations, according to court filings.
The Yale University-educated sculptor moved into the “stunning” one-bedroom pad on Eastern Parkway in May 2025, according to court records.
From day one, he treated the rent bill like a mere suggestion, dodging payments for months at a time only to cough up one lump sum after he’d racked up three months of unpaid rent, according to the account statement included in the court case.
The revolutionary was finally taken to court in March by his landlord Shimon Liashi for $5,000 after missing payments in December and January, according to documents.
Gordillo never filed an answer to the suit, as New York law requires tenants to do within 10 days of being served, and the case is still pending in housing court. No judgment has been issued.
“This should be surprising, but it isn’t,” NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino told The Post. “The entitlement of these rich DSA kids is bottomless. Even when his parents are paying his bills, he still stiffed his landlord.”
“It’s really appalling that these brats are in charge of our city now, when they’re so quick to screw over working people and can’t even manage their own lives.”
Not only is Gordillo a so-called “rent abolitionist” — a movement popularized by Mayor Mamdani housing guru Tracy Rosenthal — he doesn’t even believe in housing court altogether.
“It’s mitigating harm,” he said at a DSA Housing Justice meeting in 2022, according to a transcript obtained by The Post. “It’s not abolishing landlords and rent which are our long-term socialist goals.”
The apartment was rented to someone else in May, according to records.
Critics slammed Gordillo for masquerading as working-class and stiffing landlords he could clearly afford to pay.
“Gustavo has a luxury home to go with his luxury beliefs. His DSA activism confers social status on him while the real costs of the DSA anti-landlord policies raise the prices on everyone else without rich parents to pay their rent or buy them brownstones,” NYC attorney Maud Maron told The Post.
His move to Crown Heights came one year after the Landmarks Preservation Commission gave the go-ahead on the renovation plan for the townhouse.
Major work permits were approved in June 2025 when Gordillo’s first rent payment was due, according to city records.
His father, Gustavo E. Gordillo, the founder and CEO of the telecommunications engineering firm DraftPros, which hauls in an estimated $90 million a year from high-profile clients including AT&T and Verizon, confirmed to The Post he purchased the property for his sons to live in.
The home was bought for $935,000 in 2019 and its resale value already shot up 80% to up to $1.7 million, according to estimates on Zillow.
Gordillo has previously called for double-digit returns on real estate investments to be banned as part of his radical Marxist program.
“Landlords in New York have been making a 12% return on their investment on average… we don’t think that anybody should have a constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment,” Gordillo told Fox News during an interview last month.
The Gordillos hired Garrison Architects to present the renovation plans for the landmarked townhouse to the community board in 2023, according to a copy of the proposal.
The renovations, totaling at least $1.4 million according to filings with the city, would add a third floor and a rooftop to the two-story home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy. The house is still under construction.
The Ivy League radical, who joined the DSA in 2017, was outed by The Post this week for making his identity as a “union electrician” central to his communist persona — despite never working a day on the job and being booted from the electricians’ union for failing to pay his dues, the union said.
The silver-spoon socialist even had the audacity to beg the DSA to make his up-until then unpaid leadership position a $95,000 a year gig last month, claiming it was too much to juggle with his nonexistent electrician work. His comrades said yes.
Gordillo’s only apparent paycheck since moving to the Big Apple came from high-end Chelsea gallery Greene Naftali, where he worked between 2016 and 2019.
At that time, he wrote down his occupation as “serf” according to FEC records of 40 campaign donations he made to Bernie Sanders’ presidential run and candidates that included “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
He also moonlighted as a model for a “gender-neutral union printed” DSA-branded tank top currently on sale for $29.99 — down from $34.99.
He joined his family on travels that have included a pricey South American cruise that, starting at $3,856 a person, offers “an exquisite experience through the enchanting wonders of the jungle.”
The Zafiro Amazon River Cruise offers four-to-eight-day excursions which can cost up to $5,600 on a luxury boat that includes air-conditioned private suites and hot tubs, and where “a dedicated crew of 20, ensures your needs are met,” according to its website.
Gordillo and his father are seen in a picture taken during that trip looking awe-struck on a small boat as their guide holds what appears to be a baby alligator.
His mother, Elizabeth, drives a two-door 2019 silver Porsche, according to a speeding ticket obtained by The Post.
“It takes a lot of chutzpah to live a secret double-life cosplaying as a ‘working man’ who espouses Marxism for the people while living comfortably off the capitalist gains of his immigrant parents,” added Sara Forman, senior adviser to community and policy platform Optimist Labs.
Neither Gordillo nor his father returned requests for comment.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/22/us-news/embattled-nyc-dsa-leader-gustavo-gordillo-sued-for-eviction/
