https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ny-governor-adds-12000-deaths-publicized-covid-tally-79640042
New NY governor adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally
Delivering another blow to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legacy, New York’s brand-new governor is acknowledging that the state has had nearly 12,000 more deaths from COVID-19 than Cuomo told the public
https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthorized-access-to-private-data/
A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing.
The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel — was detailed in a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith.
Data recovered from Griffith’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, which was obtained through a federal search warrant in March 2020, was accessed on Palantir for more than a year by at least four FBI employees, all of whom work outside of New York and were not investigating the case, prosecutors wrote.
The FBI case agent assigned to Griffith’s case was alerted to the unauthorized access earlier this month, when another agent emailed him and said an analyst accessed the search warrant material on Palantir, according to the letter.
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/medical-device-recalls/stop-using-certain-n95-respirators-manufactured-shanghai-dasheng-letter-health-care-providers
August 25, 2021
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting health care facility risk managers, procurement staff, and health care personnel to stop using certain N95 respirators manufactured by Shanghai Dasheng Health Products Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Dasheng). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) revoked all respirator approvals previously issued to Shanghai Dasheng because the company did not implement, maintain, and control a quality management system. All previously authorized Shanghai Dasheng respirators are no longer authorized for emergency use as a result of the loss of NIOSH-approval.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-raids-detroit-city-hall-homes-council-members-corruption-probe
FBI agents reportedly raided the homes of two Detroit city councilmembers Wednesday morning, as part of a federal corruption investigation.
The FBI is executing search warrants at the homes of Detroit City Council members Janeé Ayers and Scott Benson, as well as offices in the city’s Coleman A. Young Municipal Center.
The FBI did not immediately return Fox News’s request for comment on the raids.
No criminal charges have been filed, according to The Detroit News, and the search warrants remain sealed in court.
The searches follow charges against councilman André Spivey three weeks ago, when he was charged on one count of conspiracy to commit bribery for allegedly accepting more than $35,000 to be "influenced and rewarded" for votes.