Hotel migrant arrived on a boat person sexually assaulting a woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKsGsGJZlsI
Russia is projecting. We already know all the shit China does.
After that hot mic of Putin and Xi, you still think otherwise? Putin and Xi are best friends and Chinese people eat dogs.
Eric Trump’s Wealth Soars on $548 Million American Bitcoin Stake
(Bloomberg) – Eric Trump’s stake in a crypto company created this year is now worth about $548 million, in one of the most striking examples of how the first family is profiting from the digital-asset industry.
Trump’s second-oldest son owns about 7.5% of American Bitcoin Corp., according to Bloomberg calculations. The company, formed with little more than another firm’s technology and a flurry of paperwork, began trading on the Nasdaq exchange on Wednesday.
Shares of American Bitcoin closed at $8.04 in New York, after more than doubling earlier in the session. The company says it will accumulate Bitcoin using machinery in New York, Alberta and Texas, provided by another crypto company called Hut 8 Corp.
“I am incredibly proud of American Bitcoin,” Eric Trump said in a text message. “We have put our heart and soul into the company and today is just the beginning.”
A representative for American Bitcoin didn’t respond to a request for comment.
American Bitcoin’s public market debut follows a roundabout series of transactions that paved the way for Eric Trump and his brother Donald Trump Jr. to gain anew from crypto’s mainstream embrace under their father’s administration.
It adds to a wave of crypto firms enlisting Trump’s sons in prominent roles. The two are among a group that owns 98% of the newly listed company, according to public filings.
The Trump family’s more than $6.4 billion fortune is expanding with a variety of new crypto projects. While Eric Trump’s wealth is not broken out individually in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his stake in American Bitcoin is worth more than the value of a collection of 13 different Trump golf and resort properties, according to the index.
“We are incredibly fortunate in life with or without this endeavor,” Eric Trump said when asked about the value of his shares of American Bitcoin on Bloomberg Television on Wednesday.
American Bitcoin’s listing came about in less than a year. It was spun from a newly created entity called American Data Centers, set up by a small investment bank called Dominari, which the Trumps also advise. It then received mining equipment from Hut 8 in exchange for a majority stake in the new company.
American Bitcoin said it would merge with Gryphon Digital Mining Inc., which changed its name and ticker to ABTC on the Nasdaq.
The firm’s market capitalization stood at about $7.2 billion on Wednesday. It booked net income of $3.4 million on $30.3 million of revenue in the three months ending in June.
President Trump became a high-profile champion of crypto on the campaign trail, and its most powerful advocate while in office. He signed legislation that helped legitimize a certain class of cryptocurrency, created a national stockpile of virtual assets and added regulators who’ve been friendlier to the industry, ending investigations of big digital asset companies.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eric-trump-wealth-soars-600-174641154.html
Army extends orders for DC National Guard through Nov. 30
The Army is extending orders for the Washington, D.C., National Guard to remain on active duty in the nation’s capital through Nov. 30, two U.S. officials told ABC News Thursday.
President Donald Trump could still cut the mission shorter than Nov. 30 if desired – or extend the deployment past that date, the officials noted. That essentially leaves the deployment open-ended for now.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll signed off on the plan on Wednesday, enabling Brig. Gen. Leland D. Blanchard II, commanding general of the D.C. National Guard, to update the initial orders.
The Nov. 30 plan for the estimated 950 members of the D.C. Guard, which has not been previously reported, does not apply to the other 1,300 troops deployed to D.C. from other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Those troops remain under the control of their governors with many of them already under orders to remain through the end of December, one of the officials said.
Blanchard alluded to the plan in a video message on X released Thursday.
“Our mission is not complete,” he said. "I've made the decision to extend the encampment as we continue to work to ensure everyone that walks these city streets is safe.”
Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard last month to address what he insisted was “out of control” crime.
Since then, troops have been seen hanging out around the National Mall and other low-crime areas, often posing with tourists or spreading mulch as part of Trump’s “beautification” project.
According to the latest update provided by the Guard, troops have cleaned roadways, collected more than 677 bags of trash and disposed of five truckloads of plant waste in coordination with the U.S. National Park Service.
The decision to extend the Guard through Nov. 30 was a practical one, sources told ABC News. Instead of reupping orders every 14 to 29 days as is typical, the troops can plan on the extended stay.
National Guard troops typically leave other full-time civilian jobs during the deployment, and this would allow their employers to make other arrangements, officials say.
The plan also ensures there would be no gap in pay or benefits, which can happen when tours of duty need to be reapproved several times.
A spokesperson for Joint Task Force-DC told ABC News that all Guards members who are deployed to D.C. have already been extended beyond initial orders some which would have lapsed on Sept.10 in order to secure their eligibility for benefits including pay and health care.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/story?id=125266247
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https://x.com/DeptofWar/status/1963775938233299235
Minneapolis school shooter’s furry (attracted to animals) girlfriend ID’d after killer described past relationship as ‘root of my suffering’
Robin Westman's ex-girlfriend, Abigail Bodick, has been central in media coverage following the Minneapolis shooting due to Westman's intense focus on her in disturbing writings. Bodick, identified as a “furry,” was known for wearing animal costumes, such as blue cat ears and whiskers at anime conventions, and shared cosplay interests with Westman during their multi-year relationship.
Westman’s manifesto repeatedly described Bodick as the “root of my suffering” and a primary “catalyst” for the attack, portraying the breakup weeks before the shooting as a major factor behind Westman’s downward spiral. In writings, Westman expressed a fascination with furry culture as a means of escaping self-hatred, stating that furry costumes allowed creation of a new body and identity. There were references to disturbing actions, including pointing a gun at Bodick and expressing fantasies about inflicting harm, but also a fixation on hurting Bodick emotionally through violent acts.
Images and posts show the couple previously enjoying shared hobbies—craft fairs, Renaissance festivals, and aquarium visits—but Westman’s perspective in later writings turned resentful and bitter, blaming Bodick and her family for personal pain. The attack itself and related manifestos seemed motivated not only by obsession with mass shooters, but also by animosity toward Bodick and a desire to cause lasting emotional trauma to her.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/us-news/minneapolis-shooter-robin-westmans-furry-girlfriend-idd/
Police divers find 90 cars submerged in Chicago River — but how many dead bodies
https://x.com/SubxNews/status/1963337055418945953
Don Lemon calls Delaware transgender Representative Sarah McBride “dude” during interview
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1963689101997072609
'Irish comedian arrested in UK is not backing down
https://x.com/IrishMirror/status/1963528987658874997
21.5% of Chicago residents are Mexican
Chicago is a diverse city. The city’s population is about one-third white, one-third Black, one-third Latino and one-tenth Asian.
But there’s much more to Chicago’s racial identity than that.
This month, the Census Bureau released the most updated and detailed breakdown of racial and ethnic identity from the 2020 census.
The data captures nearly 1,500 detailed racial and ethnic groups — from more populous groups in the Chicago area, such as Puerto Rican and Polish, to smaller groups, such as Lithuanian and Ghanaian.
A WBEZ analysis of the new data sheds light on one of the city’s largest ethnic groups.
After seeing thousands come to downtown Chicago to celebrate Mexican Independence Day on the weekend of Sept. 16, it’s no surprise to many that the Mexican community is one of the Chicago area’s largest ethnic groups. The annual event is so large that some members of the City Council say it needs to be an official, daylong downtown parade or festival.
About 1 in every 5 Chicagoans is Mexican, and the group makes up the majority of those who identify as Hispanic or Latino in Chicago, according to a WBEZ analysis.
The size of the region’s Mexican community extends beyond Chicago’s city limits. In the last decade, as the Latino population in the suburbs has expanded, so has the Mexican population.
Suburban Cook County’s Mexican population grew much faster than Chicago’s Mexican population and the county’s overall population. The Mexican population in suburban Cook County increased by about 58,000 residents in the last 10 years, from about 384,000 in 2010 to 442,000 in 2020, a 15% increase. Both Chicago’s Mexican population, roughly 590,000 in 2020, and Cook County’s overall population grew by just under 2% in the last decade.
Areas on Chicago’s North and Northwest sides saw the sharpest drops in Mexican populations, while many regions of suburban Cook County saw more than twofold increases.
The Census Bureau has collected data on race and ethnicity for several decades, with each iteration using different methods to collect and code responses.
The 2020 census is the first time the agency has asked respondents who checked the “White” or “Black or African American” boxes to write in more specific identities.
Respondents who chose not to write in a response specifying their racial identity are coded as “not specified.”
In Chicago, about one-third of people who identify as Black or African American chose to skip the write-in response and are coded by the census as “Other Black or African American, not specified.” About one-third of people who identify as white in Chicago are coded as “Other White, not specified.”
The agency also added 200 new detailed racial and ethnic groups such as Afro-Latina, Croatian and Belizean.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/metro-state/2023/9/26/23890951/mexican-population-census-chicago-suburbs
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🚨 NBC News to Epstein survivors:
Did anybody see or hear of President Trump himself doing anything inappropriate as it related to Jeffrey Epstein?
“No.”
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1963261610601959431
Missouri Republicans begin redistricting to erase one Democratic seat in US House
The Republican-controlled Missouri legislature began redrawing its congressional map Thursday to target one Democratic-held seat in the US House, responding to demands by President Donald Trump and his allies to help the GOP eke out more seats in next year’s midterm elections.
Lawmakers in the Missouri House are holding committee hearings and initial votes on the map this week, with the full House expected to take up the legislation early next week. Republicans hold a supermajority in the Missouri legislature, making it likely that the map will be approved.
On Thursday evening, the redistricting committee endorsed the new map by a 10-4 vote — moving it closer to debate on the House floor.
The proposed map would dramatically alter the Kansas City-area district long represented by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, splitting parts of the city and adding a wide swath of rural and heavily Republican central Missouri.
Changing those contours favors Republicans, giving the party an advantage in seven out of eight US House districts in Missouri. GOP lawmakers currently hold six of those seats; Democrats hold two.
The legislation in Missouri is the latest move to redraw maps across the country for partisan advantage, spurred by Trump as he tries to prevent Democrats from taking control of the US House for the final two years of his presidency.
State GOP Rep. Dirk Deaton, the sponsor of the map in the Missouri House, called it an “improvement” over the current lines.
“It’s my belief that it is a better map for Missouri,” he told members of a House special committee on redistricting.
In the heated opening moments of the hearing, Democratic lawmakers slammed the redistricting effort as a raw power grab by Washington interests.
“Democracy in Missouri is taking a devastating blow … one it might not recover from,” said state Rep. Mark Sharp, the top Democrat on the panel.
State Rep. Ashley Aune, the minority leader in the House, said Republican lawmakers had opened the hearing without first publicly sharing data about the demographics of the new districts. She questioned who drew the new lines.
Deaton said the map was drawn by staffers in the office of Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe.
“I think that everyone watching actually understands that the people who drew these maps are sitting in DC,” Aune retorted. “It’s ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.”
Kehoe last week announced the special session and unveiled what he called a “Missouri First” map – a move immediately hailed by Trump.
Texas recently passed new maps that aim to help Republicans net five seats in that state; Democratic officials in California have responded by seeking a new map that could flip as many five GOP-held seats. California voters must approve that move in November.
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/missouri-redistricting-republicans
Fox News Tops All Broadcast Networks in Summer Primetime Ratings for Second Time In Its History
Fox News rode a massive summer ratings wave all the way to yet another major milestone — with the perennial ratings titan besting not only its cable news peers, but all the major broadcast networks as well in an all-important time slot.
According to data from Nielsen, Fox News — from the period spanning June 20 through Sept. 1 — finished as the no. 1 network in all of broadcast television during the primetime hours of 8-11 PM. During those hours, Fox News averaged 2.43 million total nightly viewers in primetime — topping ABC at 2.38 million, NBC at 2.21 million, and CBS at 2.03 million. It is the second time in the network’s history they accomplished that feat — with the other coming in the summer of 2020.
Among their cable news rivals, it wasn’t even a horse race — with Fox News nearly doubling CNN and MSNBC combined. MSNBC drew 783,000 average nightly total viewers during the primetime hours, while CNN posted an average of 444,000 viewers. CNN did fare better than MSNBC in the advertiser-coverted 25-54 age demographic — edging out MSNBC 78,000 to 72,000 in nightly viewers among that category. But Fox dramatically outpaced the competition in that metric as well — pulling in 237,000 nightly primetime viewers in the 25-54 age range.
Jesse Watters Primetime carried the torch for Fox News in the 8-11 window — bringing in an average of 3.06 million total viewers per night in August. Gutfeld! trailed slightly behind, with 2.85 million, and Hannity added 2.61 million in the 9 PM hour during August. Notably, Fox’s highest performer in August came from outside of primetime — as The Five put up a whopping 3.48 million total viewers daily.
And Fox News is not only scoring with opinion programming, but with their news programming as well. Special Report with Bret Baier brought in 2.55 million nightly total viewers and 249,000 in the key demo. Fox’s 6 PM news hour seems to be knocking on the door of its broadcast rivals — with Special Report having beaten all three network newscasts in at least a handful of major markets.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/fox-news-tops-all-broadcast-networks-in-summer-primetime-ratings-for-second-time-in-its-history/?cfp
Former State Dept Official Gets Four Years for Spying for China
❓WHAT HAPPENED: A State Department employee was sentenced to four years in prison for selling national defense secrets to people he believed were working for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Michael Charles Schena, 42, of Alexandria, Virginia, and people he believed to be Chinese government agents.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Schena’s espionage activity began in April 2022, culminating in his arrest in February 2025. Key incidents occurred in the United States and during a meeting in Peru.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The defendant threw away his career, betrayed his country, and abused the trust the United States placed in him by granting his Top-Secret security clearance.” – Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg
🎯IMPACT: The case highlights the dangers of insider threats and serves as a warning to those who might consider betraying their country for personal gain.
A State Department employee, Michael Charles Schena, 42, of Alexandria, Virginia, has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information to individuals he believed to be working for the Chinese government, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Schena began his espionage activities in April 2022, communicating with people he met online who claimed to be employees of international consulting companies.
Despite clear indications that these people were working on behalf of the Chinese government, Schena continued to provide them with sensitive government information in exchange for money. In August 2024, Schena met with one of these individuals at a hotel in Peru, where he was given $10,000 and a cellphone to facilitate further exchanges.
Using this cellphone, Schena took photographs of classified documents marked as SECRET while at work and transmitted at least four of these documents in October 2024. In February, he used the phone again to photograph seven additional classified documents, an act that was captured by surveillance video.
Before Schena could transmit the latest photographs, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents seized the cellphone and arrested him. The DOJ said that Schena’s actions represented a significant betrayal of trust and a violation of his Top-Secret security clearance.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg stated, “The defendant threw away his career, betrayed his country, and abused the trust the United States placed in him by granting his Top-Secret security clearance. He will spend years of his life in prison for passing classified information to individuals he believed to be Chinese government agents. Today’s sentence serves as a warning to those who would violate the trust placed in them by our Nation and double-cross the American people.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/09/05/former-state-dept-official-gets-four-years-for-spying-for-china/
Navy reverses demotion of Rep. Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Ronny Jackson announced that the Navy has restored his retired rank of rear admiral, overturning a 2022 demotion that followed a scathing investigation that found major issues with his behavior while he was the top White House physician.
The Texas Republican on Wednesday posted a June 13 letter from Navy Secretary John Phelan saying he had reinstated Jackson to the retired rank of a one-star admiral following a “review of all applicable reports and references.” The Navy confirmed the move, with a spokesperson for Phelan saying he “greatly appreciates Congressman Jackson’s decades of distinguished naval service.”
The decision to restore Jackson’s rank comes as the Pentagon has become increasingly transparent in offering benefits and consideration to those it sees as personally loyal supporters of President Donald Trump, while those who are seen as unsupportive of Trump have been pushed out of senior roles across the military. Two weeks ago, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, who oversaw the intelligence agency that produced an initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iranian nuclear sites that angered Trump.
Following his 2019 retirement from the Navy, Jackson was retroactively demoted following a yearslong investigation into his behavior when he was a physician to Trump and former President Barack Obama. An inspector general’s report found that he made “sexual and denigrating” comments about a female subordinate, violated the policy on drinking alcohol on a presidential trip and took prescription-strength sleeping medication that prompted worries from his colleagues about his ability to provide proper medical care.
Jackson gained notoriety for his over-the-top pronouncements about Trump’s health during his first term. He was elected to Congress in 2020 following a failed effort in the first Trump administration to appoint him the secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2018.
“I was, and still am, a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, and Joe Biden is a retired old FOOL,” Jackson said on social media, where he has called himself an admiral despite his demotion.
Last week, military officials revealed that Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was killed by a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, would be offered military funeral honors.
Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran from California who was shot and killed wearing a Trump campaign flag wrapped around her shoulders while trying to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol as rioters interrupted the counting of electoral votes certifying Trump’s 2020 loss to Biden.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-navy-congress-demotion-087ddcbd3b242c33fb838a45b5cc6536
Trump threatens EU with tariff investigation after Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust fine
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened the European Union with an investigation that could lead to higher tariffs, after the EU fined Google billions of dollars for violating its antitrust laws.
The EU announced earlier Friday that Google must pay a €2.95 billion ($3.45 billion) antitrust fine for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative ad tech business, marking its fourth penalty in its decade long fight with EU competition regulators.
Trump on Friday criticized the EU’s fine, saying in a Truth Social post that the money Google will be forced to pay “would otherwise go to American Investments and Jobs.”
“This is on top of the many other Fines and Taxes that have been issued against Google and other American Tech Companies, in particular,” Trump added. “Very unfair, and the American Taxpayer will not stand for it!”
Trump said his administration may launch a Section 301 investigation against the EU in retaliation, a procedural measure that could lead to retaliatory tariffs. That could serve as a big blow to the EU, which landed a hard-fought but controversial trade framework with the United States over the summer.
Although the 27 members of the bloc voted in favor of the framework, many European leaders have since griped about it, and a long-term trade deal between the United States is far from a certainty.
Nevertheless, the fine is an aggressive move on the part of the European Commission, the EU’s top tech regulator, after Trump had previously threatened retaliation for future fines against US tech companies. The administration has griped about the large fines that the EU has levied as a result of their privacy laws and antitrust laws that are significantly more stringent and enforced more frequently in Europe than in the United States.
“Google has also paid, in the past, $13 Billion Dollars in false claims and charges for a total of $16.5 Billion Dollars,” Trump said in a follow-up post Friday. “How crazy is that? The European Union must stop this practice against American Companies, IMMEDIATELY!”
The move by the European Commission was triggered by a complaint from the European Publishers Council.
The EU competition enforcer had originally planned to hand out the fine on Monday but opposition from EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic on concerns about the impact on U.S. tariffs on European cars derailed EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera’s plan.
The Commission said Google favored its own online display technology services to the detriment of rivals and online publishers and that it abused its market power since 2014 until today.
It ordered Google to stop the self-preferencing practices and take measures to cease its inherent conflicts of interest. The company has 60 days to inform the Commission how it plans to comply with this order.
The Commission reiterated its preliminary view that Google should divest part of its services but said it wants to first hear and assess Google’s compliance efforts.
“Google must now come forward with a serious remedy to address its conflicts of interest, and if it fails to do so, we will not hesitate to impose strong remedies,” Ribera said in a statement.
“Digital markets exist to serve people and must be grounded in trust and fairness. And when markets fail, public institutions must act to prevent dominant players from abusing their power,” she said.
Google criticized the EU decision and said it would challenge it in court.
“The European Commission’s decision about our ad tech services is wrong and we will appeal. It imposes an unjustified fine and requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money,” Lee-Anne Mulholland, Vice President, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, said in a statement.
“There’s nothing anticompetitive in providing services for ad buyers and sellers, and there are more alternatives to our services than ever before.”
The latest fine compared with a record 4.3 billion euro penalty handed out to Google in 2018, 2.42 billion euros in 2017 and a 1.49 billion euros in 2019.
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/09/05/tech/google-eu-antitrust-fine-adtech
Mortgage rates see biggest one-day drop in over a year
-The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 16 basis points to 6.29% on Friday.
-This is a major change from May, when the rate on the 30-year fixed peaked at 7.08%.
-Homebuilder stocks Lennar, DR Horton and Pulte gained ground.
The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage dropped 16 basis points to 6.29% on Friday, according to Mortgage News Daily, following the release of a weaker-than-expected August employment report.
It marks the lowest rate since Oct. 3 and the biggest one-day drop since August 2024. Rates are finally breaking out of the high 6% range, where they’ve been stuck for months.
“This was a pretty straightforward reaction to a hotly anticipated jobs report,” said Mortgage News Daily Chief Operating Officer Matt Graham. “It’s a good reminder that the market gets to decide what matters in terms of economic data, and the bond market has a clear voting record that suggests the jobs report is always the biggest potential source of volatility for rates.”
Graham said in a post on X that many lenders are “priced better” than Oct. 3 and would be quoting in the high 5% range.
The drop is a major change from May, when the rate on the 30-year fixed peaked at 7.08%. It’s big for buyers out shopping for a home today, especially given high home prices.
Take, for example, someone purchasing a $450,000 home, which is just above August’s national median price, using a 30-year fixed mortgage with a 20% down payment. Not including taxes or insurance, the monthly payment at 7% would be $2,395. At 6.29%, that payment would be $2,226, a difference of $169 per month.
That might not sound like a lot to some, but it can mean the difference in not just affording a home, but qualifying for a mortgage.
Homebuilder stocks reacted favorably Friday, with names like Lennar, DR Horton and Pulte all up roughly 3% midday. Homebuilding ETF ITB has been running hot for the last month as rates slowly moved lower. It’s up close to 13% in the past month.
The big question is whether the drop in rates will be enough to get homebuyers back in the market.
Mortgage demand from homebuyers, an early indicator, has yet to respond to gradually improving rates. Applications for a mortgage to purchase a home last week were 6.6% lower from four weeks before, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
“Homebuyers grapple with a lack of affordability, sellers contend with more competition, and builders deal with lower buyer demand,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com, in a statement Friday after the release of the August employment report. “These conditions haven’t spelled catastrophe, but have created a cruel summer for the housing market.”
Some analysts have argued that buyers need to see mortgage rates in the 5% range before it really makes a difference. Home prices remain stubbornly high, and while the gains have definitely cooled, they are not yet coming down on a national level. In addition, uncertainty about the state of the economy and the job market has left many would-be buyers on the sidelines.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/mortgage-rates-drop.html
Kenvue stock drops 10% on report RFK Jr. will link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy
-Shares of Kenvue fell more than 10% on Friday after a report that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely link autism to the use of the company’s pain medication Tylenol in pregnant women.
-HHS will release the report that could draw that link this month, the Wall Street Journal reported.
-Kenvue said it has “continuously evaluated the science and [continues] to believe there is no causal link” between the use of acetaminophen, the generic name for Tylenol, during pregnancy and autism.
Shares of Kenvue fell more than 10% on Friday after a report that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely link autism to the use of the company’s pain medication Tylenol in pregnant women.
HHS will release the report that could draw that link this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
That report will also suggest a medicine derived from folate – a water-soluble vitamin – can be used to treat symptoms of the developmental disorder in some people, according to the Journal.
In a statement, an HHS spokesperson said “We are using gold-standard science to get to the bottom of America’s unprecedented rise in autism rates.”
“Until we release the final report, any claims about its contents are nothing more than speculation,” they added.
Tylenol could be the latest widely used and accepted treatment that Kennedy has undermined at the helm of HHS, which oversees federal health agencies that regulate drugs and other therapies. Kennedy has also taken steps to change vaccine policy in the U.S., and has amplified false claims about safe and effective shots that use mRNA technology.
Kennedy has made the disorder a key focus of HHS, pledging in April that the agency will “know what has caused the autism epidemic” by September and eliminate exposures. He also said that month that the agency has launched a “massive testing and research effort” involving hundreds of scientists worldwide that will determine the cause.
In a statement, Kenvue said it has “continuously evaluated the science and [continues] to believe there is no causal link” between the use of acetaminophen, the generic name for Tylenol, during pregnancy and autism.
The company added that the Food and Drug Administration and leading medical organizations “agree on the safety” of the drug, its use during pregnancy and the information provided on the Tylenol label.
The FDA website says the agency has not found “clear evidence” that appropriate use of acetaminophen during pregnancy causes “adverse pregnancy, birth, neurobehavioral, or developmental outcomes.” But the FDA said it advises pregnant women to speak with their health-care providers before using over-the-counter drugs.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists maintains that acetaminophen is safe during pregnancy when taken as directed and after consulting a health-care provider.
Some previous studies have suggested the drug poses risks to fetal development, and some parents have brought lawsuits claiming that they gave birth to children with autism after using it.
But a federal judge in Manhattan ruled in 2023 that some of those lawsuits lacked scientific evidence and later ended the litigation in 2024. Some research has also found no association between acetaminophen use and autism.
In a note on Friday, BNP Paribas analyst Navann Ty said the firm believes the “hurdle to proving causation [between the drug and autism] is high, particularly given that the litigation previously concluded in Kenvue’s favor.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/rfk-tylenol-autism-kenvue-stock-for-url.html
Two teens arrested, charged with murder of Capitol Hill intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym
-U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is holding a press conference at noon on Friday.
-Capitol Hill intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym was killed in Washington, D.C. in June.
-He had been interning with the office of Kansas Rep. Ron Estes.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro provided an update on arrests in the murder of Capitol Hill intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym.
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said two 17-year-olds have been arrested and a third arrest is pending. Both teens will be charged as adults.
Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, a University of Massachusetts Amherst student from Granby, Massachusetts, was struck by gunfire on the evening of June 30, 2025 at the intersection of 7th and M streets NW. He was transported to a hospital, where he later died.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, multiple suspects exited a vehicle and opened fire on a group of people. A woman and a 16-year-old boy were also shot but survived. Investigators believe Tarpinian-Jachym was not the intended target.
Tarpinian-Jachym was a senior majoring in finance with a minor in political science. He had been interning with the office of Kansas Rep. Ron Estes and previously served as a fellow with the Fund for American Studies.
"Eric was a good, smart Republican. Quite frankly, somebody in Congress should introduce a bill called the Eric Jachym Act that works on increasing police support in D.C, and Congress can do that," said friend Phillip Petersen.
Estes said he and his staff are sending prayers to the family, adding, "I will remember his kind heart and how he always greeted anyone who entered our office with a cheerful smile. We are grateful to Eric for his service to Kansas’ 4th District and the country."
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/arrests-expected-be-announced-murder-capitol-hill-intern-eric-tarpinian-jachym
Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap
-Alphabet and Apple shares rallied following a favorable decision for Google in the remedies portion of the antitrust case.
-Broadcom got a big boost from a new $10 billion customer.
-Add it up and tech’s eight billion-dollar companies added more than $400 billion in combined value and now make up over 36% of the S&P 500.
From the courtroom to the boardroom, it was a big week for tech investors.
The resolution of Google’s antitrust case led to sharp rallies for Alphabet
and Apple. Broadcom shareholders cheered a new $10 billion customer. And Tesla’s stock was buoyed by a freshly proposed pay package for CEO Elon Musk.
Add it up, and the U.S. tech industry’s eight trillion-dollar companies gained a combined $420 billion in market cap this week, lifting their total value to $21 trillion, despite a slide in Nvidia shares.
Those companies now account for roughly 36% of the S&P 500, a proportion so great by historical standards that Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, told CNBC by email, “there are no comparisons.”
There was a certain irony to this week’s gains.
Alphabet’s 9% jump on Wednesday was directly tied to the U.S. government effort to diminish the search giant’s market control, which was part of a years-long campaign to break up Big Tech. Since 2020, Google, Apple, Amazon and Meta have all been hit with antitrust allegations by the Department of Justice or Federal Trade Commission.
A year ago, Google lost to the DOJ, a result viewed by many as the most-significant antitrust decision for the tech industry since the case against Microsoft more than two decades earlier. But in the remedies ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said Google won’t be forced to sell its Chrome browser despite its loss in court and instead handed down a more limited punishment, including a requirement to share search data with competitors.
The decision lifted Apple along with Alphabet, because the companies can stick with an arrangement that involves Google paying Apple billions of dollars per year to be the default search engine on iPhones. Alphabet rose more than 10% for the week and Apple added 3.2%, helping boost the Nasdaq 1.1%.
Analysts at Wedbush Securities wrote in a note after the decision that the ruling “removed a huge overhang” on Google’s stock and a “black cloud worry” that hung over Apple. Further, they said it clears the path for the companies to pursue a bigger artificial intelligence deal involving Gemini, Google’s AI models.
“This now lays the groundwork for Apple to continue its deal and ultimately likely double down on more AI related partnerships with Google Gemini down the road,” the analysts wrote.
Mehta explained that a major factor in his decision was the emergence of generative AI, which has become a much more competitive market than traditional search and has dramatically changed the market dynamics.
New players like OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity have altered Google’s dominance, Mehta said, noting that generative AI technologies “may yet prove to be game changers.”
On Friday, Alphabet investors shrugged off a separate antitrust matter out of Europe. The company was hit with a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.45 billion) fine from European Union regulators for anti-competitive practices in its advertising technology business.
While OpenAI was an indirect catalyst for Google and Apple this week, it was more directly tied to the huge rally in Broadcom’s stock.
Following Broadcom’s better-than-expected earnings report on Thursday, CEO Hock Tan told analysts that his chipmaker had secured a $10 billion contract with a new customer, which would be the company’s fourth large AI client.
Several analysts said the new customer is OpenAI, and the Financial Times reported on a partnership between the two companies.
Broadcom is the newest entrant into the trillion-dollar club, thanks to the company’s custom chips for AI, already used by Google, Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance. With Its 13% jump this week, the stock is now up 120% in the past year, lifting Broadcom’s market cap to around $1.6 trillion.
“The company is firing on all cylinders with clear line of sight for growth supported by significant backlog,” analysts at Barclays wrote in a note, maintaining their buy recommendation and lifting their price target on the stock.
For the other giant AI chipmaker, the past week wasn’t so good.
Nvidia shares fell more than 4% in the holiday-shortened week, the worst performance among the megacaps. There was no apparent negative news for Nvidia, but the stock has now dropped for four consecutive weeks.
Still, Nvidia remains the largest company by market cap, valued at over $4 trillion, with its stock up 56% in the past 12 months.
Microsoft
also fell this week and is on an extended slide, dropping for five straight weeks. Shares are still up 21% over the last 12 months.
On the flipside, Tesla has been the laggard in the group. Shares of the electric vehicle maker are down 13% this year due to a multi-quarter sales slump that reflects rising competition from lower-cost Chinese manufacturers and an aging lineup of EVs.
But Tesla shares climbed 5% this week, sparked mostly by gains on Friday after the company said it wants investors to approve a pay plan for Musk that could be worth up to almost $1 trillion.
The payouts, split into 12 tranches, would require Tesla to see significant value appreciation, starting with the first award that won’t kick in until the company almost doubles its market cap to $2 trillion.
Tesla Chairwoman Robyn Denholm told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin the plan was designed to keep Musk, the world’s richest person, “motivated and focused on delivering for the company.”
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