[NYPost] A volunteer group searching for missing people says it has uncovered at least 1,600 baby teeth at a mass grave site in western Mexico believed to belong to children who were victims of human trafficking.
The group of parents, founded by former Michoacán congresswoman Margarita López, spent the last two weeks rallying outside Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office in Mexico City demanding genetic testing and identification of the teeth, but has so far been unsuccessful.
López told Mexican news outlet Milenio that her group, Buscando Cuerpos en Todo México, was accompanied by an investigator from the Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office during a search in the Michoacán city of Zacapu in 2021 when they spotted smoke rising from a hill.
They made their way to a property allegedly owned by a drug trafficker from Sinaloa, where they discovered what appeared to be human remains.
The official, identified only as “Braulio,” cleaned one of the teeth and determined it belonged to a child, according to López.
López, whose daughter disappeared in 2011 and whose remains were recovered two years later in another part of the country, continued canvassing the grounds for missing people and said she unearthed human bone fragments there over the years.
On Wednesday, the group found what appeared to be sets of baby teeth.
López suggested so far without evidence that the teeth belonged to children between the ages of 1 and 12 who may have been victims of organ trafficking or sexual exploitation.
The grisly discovery has yet to be independently confirmed through forensic testing, and federal and state authorities have not linked the teeth to specific victims.
The Michoacán State Attorney General’s Office rejected the claims in a statement Thursday.
“From 2021 to the present, no complaint, referral to authorities, or request for forensic intervention related to these events has been received,” the office said, adding that Mexico’s AG’s Office had not received any reports either.
López blasted the response in a country with over 130,000 people – including 18,104 children – missing.
“They want to downplay the incident, but the operation to recover the 1,600 baby teeth involved officers from the Michoacán State Attorney General’s Office — acting under an official assignment order to provide perimeter security — and everything is documented in the preliminary investigation,” she wrote on Facebook Thursday.
López also said a federal prosecutor and forensic personnel were present during the recovery.
“(They handled) the chain of custody for the recovered remains – I am not lying,” she wrote.
López has requested intervention from International Committee of the Red Cross to help with the investigation.
She also slammed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for remaining silent over the discovery.
“Ever since the story about the “1,600 little teeth” broke, they’ve either stayed silent or denied the discovery,” López said.
The Post reached out to Mexico’s AG’s Office and Michoacán’s State AG’s Office for comment. López didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.
[FoxNews] Kevin D. Curry used proceeds from fraudulent TRICARE claims to buy a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck and fund lavish parties
A Texas mental health clinic owner was convicted by a federal jury after prosecutors said he orchestrated a $26 million scheme to defraud the military's health care program, using some of the proceeds to fund luxury purchases, including a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck worth more than $100,000.
Kevin D. Curry, 64, of Frisco, was found guilty Thursday in federal court in Fort Worth on three counts of health care fraud, three counts of offering and paying illegal health care kickbacks and three counts of engaging in monetary transactions in criminally derived property, according to the Justice Department.
Federal prosecutors said Curry exploited TRICARE, the health care program serving active-duty servicemembers, retirees and their families, by billing for transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, therapy that was medically unnecessary or, in many cases, never provided.
According to evidence presented at trial, Curry owned and operated mental health clinics in Plano and Fort Worth, Texas, as well as Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Prosecutors said he paid more than $5.5 million in illegal kickbacks to persuade active-duty servicemembers, veterans and their family members to consent to TMS therapy they did not qualify for and, in many instances, did not receive.
The Justice Department said Curry falsely represented himself as a medical doctor, used licensed doctors' credentials without their knowledge or consent to submit claims to TRICARE, and directed employees to fabricate medical records to justify fraudulent billings.
Authorities said Curry's clinics submitted more than $26 million in false, fraudulent or kickback-tainted claims to TRICARE, which ultimately paid approximately $17 million.
Prosecutors said Curry laundered some of the proceeds by spending the money on luxury hotel stays, a lavish casino-themed party and a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck valued at more than $100,000.
"This defendant exploited a critical health care program serving active-duty servicemembers and their families, diverting taxpayer dollars to bankroll personal luxuries ranging from hotel stays to a casino-themed party and even a gold-plated Tesla Cybertruck," Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald said in a statement.
U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould said Curry "shamelessly preyed on the trust of servicemembers, veterans, and their families," accusing him of fabricating medical records, stealing doctors' identities and submitting fraudulent claims while profiting from kickback-tainted money.
Curry is scheduled to be sentenced at a later date and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on each of the nine counts. A federal district court judge will determine his sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
[Breitbart] Stanford University has apologized for using AI to swap out a Hispanic male student for a black female in a promotional photo, calling the decision a “serious error in judgment.” The university didn’t stop at transforming a student’s race and gender to promote “diversity” — it also made both a white male student and an asian female student noticeably slimmer in the image.
“Not only the fact that the image was altered, but the ways in which it was altered, reflect a serious error in judgment,” a Stanford spokesperson told NBC News. “We have apologized to the students in the photo whose images were altered or erased.”
“Quite simply, this was wrong and should never have happened,” the university spokesperson added, before noting that the school has since launched an investigation so it can “put in place protocols to prevent it from happening again.”
Garret Molloy, editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review, which first reported on the incident, told NBC News that he believes the university was “trying to create this kind of artificial perception of diversity.”
“In the past, we did that with college photographers going around campus and trying to find a diverse friend group,” he said. “Those college photographers are now being replaced with AI.”
Molloy added that the AI-altered promotional photo — which he noted had been placed on welcome banners around campus — have since been taken down.
Stanford has faced widespread mockery on social media for its overzealous pursuit of diversity.
The Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises was caught using AI to switch out a Hispanic male for a black female in one of its advertisements, as well as altering the faces of two other students to make them appear noticeably slimmer.
“Seeing my identity changed and being left out of the picture made me feel, in a way, silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me,” Billy Ramirez, the male student who was removed from the photo, told the Stanford Review.
A fierce nor'easter slammed North Carolina's Outer Banks on September 24, unleashing ferocious conditions, strong winds, and towering 18-foot waves that battered areas like Jennette's Pier in South Nags Head. The extreme surf severely impacted local infrastructure, prompting the North Carolina Department of Transportation to close sections of NC-12 between the Basnight Bridge and Rodanthe after roughly 500 feet of pavement was undermined or broken.
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[Regnum] At least 14 people went missing after an avalanche on Mount Himlung in Nepal. The Kathmandu Post reported on September 27.
An avalanche struck in the Nar Phu area of Manang County. Initially, contact was lost with eight members of the 22-person group, but the number of missing people later increased to 14.
All of the missing are Nepalese citizens, including Sherpas and other members of the support team. They arrived on Himlung to prepare the camp and route ahead of the expedition. There were no foreign climbers on the mountain at the time of the avalanche; their arrival was expected in five to six days.
Around 9:40 a.m. local time, one of the Sherpas on Himlung contacted the organizers and requested a rescue helicopter. Contact with the group was later lost again.
Helicopters and experienced mountain guides are on standby, but poor weather has prevented the operation from starting. Authorities are also considering deploying a Nepalese Army helicopter. Rescuers are also currently unable to reach the area by land.
Mount Himlung, located in the Himalayas, is 7,126 meters high.
Another major avalanche led to a tragedy on September 6 in the Bezengi Gorge in Kabardino-Balkaria. Thirty-three climbers were caught in the avalanche, 17 of whom died, and six more were taken to hospitals. The search lasted a week and ended on September 13. The tragedy was the worst in Russia's mountains in nearly a quarter century.
[NYPost] More than 40,000 participants take part in the 25th annual Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk NYC on Sunday, Sept. 27. The sold-out event honors FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller and those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
[NYPost] War-wounded UK military veterans hawking supposedly “handmade” patriotic items in emotional social media videos are nothing but AI-generated phonies selling cheap junk from China, according to a new report.
Some shameless hucksters used artificial intelligence to make videos that show disabled and disfigured vets, claiming to have suffered injuries like a lost eye and nose in battle — while they ask for support from sympathetic buyers, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported.
“They’re despicable,” Army veteran Raymond Gilbert told the outlet after he was tricked into paying $200 on what he thought was a wooden flag figure made by a disabled fellow military serviceman.
But what arrived, he said, was a package with Chinese writing on the envelope, and inside, a printed image of a flag simply glued onto a piece of plywood.
“Using our disabled Army veterans is abhorrent — preying on our heartstrings to help these people out — is a despicable thing to do,” Gilbert, who served as a quality manager for the British Army in Afghanistan, added.
Gilbert, like others who were duped by the AI, found the videos of the advertisements on TikTok, according to the outlet.
The AI-videos depicted the veterans with sad captions about society turning their back on them after going to war.
Similar videos are found all over Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, with sellers advertising bags, cutting boards and door wreaths.
Will Guyatt, a technology expert, told the outlet that these videos are made in just minutes, and can be told to deliberately make it overly emotional with one prompt.
Currently, consumers are stuck relying on e-commerce platforms and social media sites to proactively take down the fake ads, but once it’s taken down, the gutless culprits will oftentimes just create a new account and repost the AI advertisements.
“In many respects, we’re fighting a bit of a losing battle,” Daniel Fletcher, a British attorney, said about the AI-slop takeover.
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[NYPost] President Trump’s next AI czar will be walking into a technological revolution moving at breakneck speed — and a Washington power struggle over the government’s role.
The president announced Sept. 19 that he would appoint a new AI adviser and create an “AI Force,” and the “high IQ” tech wizard will inherit an AI landscape that has changed dramatically since venture capitalist David Sacks became Trump’s first AI and crypto czar in late 2024.
He stepped down in March after reaching the 130-day service limit as a special government employee.
Filling the post comes as AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic call for greater government intervention and while lawmakers push for new rules governing the nation’s frontier AI labs.
Among those reportedly in the mix for the job overseeing policy toward a trillion-dollar industry:
SRIRAM KRISHNAN
The senior White House policy advisor on AI was named one of “The Architects of AI” in TIME Magazine’s 2025 Persons of the Year. He is a native of Chennai, India, and a venture capitalist who previously held senior roles at Microsoft, Meta, and XAI.
Krishnan was the architect of the administration’s AI Action Plan, which provided a blueprint to roll back regulation of the market and to promote growth with building data centers.
Trump has previously praised Krishnan, saying at a White House holiday party: “[W]ithout him things, certainly on AI, would not function well,” The Washington Post reported in June.
Krishnan took on a more formal role at the National Economic Council when Sacks vacated the czarship until his own departure in June, according to Axios.
SCOTT BESSENT
The US Treasury Secretary has been widely reported as the frontrunner and has repeatedly stated that AI companies should bear responsibility for what their models do.
He has become increasingly involved in AI policy, including discussions with Chinese officials this week over a potential US-China mechanism for communicating about AI incidents that threaten national security.
“The best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate,” Bessent said in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
Bessent told Fox News that Reuters’ report claiming he was already asked by Trump to serve in the role was “fake news.”
SEAN CAIRNCROSS
The National Cyber Director has been a major part of the Trump administration’s AI policymaking since 2025.
He was appointed by Trump as the CEO of the US foreign aid organization Millennium Challenge Corp. from 2019 to 2021 and was elected chief operating officer of the Republican National Committee in 2016.
Cairncross has clashed with Bessent, believing that the Treasury Department has become too involved with AI matters, according to a June 6 report from Axios.
Administration insiders expressed doubt that former Republican party operative was up to the task of regulating frontier AI labs — with one anonymous official previously telling Politico that Cairncross was “in over his head.”
MICHAEL KRATSIOS
The director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been one of Trump’s leading technology advisers and has argued against slowing the development of frontier AI.
“The frontier of intelligence is advancing rapidly. That is not a reason to pause its further development or to constrain it with new global governance structures,” Kratsios said in an address at the United Nations on Wednesday.
Whoever gets the job will face pressure from both the AI industry and lawmakers as Washington struggles to determine how to regulate technology that is advancing faster than the government can write rules for it.
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[NYPost] The American company OpenAI has stopped training its most effective AI models until security issues are resolved. This was reported on September 27 by Axios, citing sources.
"This is not the first time we have paused to take such measures, and I believe it will not be the last, given the constant advancement of AI capabilities," an OpenAI spokesperson said.
According to the portal, OpenAI and Anthropic specialists, together with security experts, are investigating tens of thousands of incidents related to the work of AI agents.
These issues include bypassing security mechanisms, escaping sandboxes, hacking websites, and attempts to circumvent moderation. Such incidents were recorded both during internal testing and in real-world situations, the authors explained.
On September 25, The New York Times reported that OpenAI's AI agents had, without the company's knowledge, attempted to obtain information from US government agency websites. One agent attempted to hack the US Department of Education's website to access data from the Office for Civil Rights. In another case, AI agents collected publicly available data from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website and posted it on an online forum.
In the wake of such incidents, American companies have begun developing systems to shut down AI systems when threats arise.
Scientist Geoffrey Hinton and xAI founder Elon Musk warned of the dangers of uncontrolled artificial intelligence development. Hinton called for a ban on the development of super-powerful AI systems due to the risk of catastrophic consequences, while Musk acknowledged the threat of human extinction and compared the likely future scenario to the plot of the film "Terminator."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
