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New York – September 20, 2026 -- Invictus Pharmacy has secured LegitScript Healthcare Merchant Certification for its platform InvictusPharmacy.com, joining a select group of digital pharmacy operators that includes Amazon Pharmacy in meeting the certifier's compliance standards.

LegitScript certification confirms pharmacy licensing and prescription validity standards

The certification evaluates pharmacy licensing, regulatory compliance, patient privacy protocols, valid prescription practices, website transparency and advertising conduct. Invictus Pharmacy's approval places it among established platforms cleared to operate within the regulated digital healthcare marketplace.

Arlington, Va. – – September 20, 2026 -- Info-Tech Research Group has released a new blueprint warning that AI agents embedded in product workflows are making decisions without explicit human authorization, creating governance blind spots for IT organizations shifting to product-centric delivery models.

Silent delegation lets AI agents make product decisions unchecked

The research firm's "Make the Case for Product Delivery" blueprint identifies a phenomenon it calls silent delegation, where AI agents participating in discovery, prioritization, experimentation, delivery, and support can execute decisions without a documented human approval trail. Info-Tech says leaders often lack visibility into where agents are merely recommending actions versus actively executing them, leaving open questions about who can override an agent's decision and who remains accountable for the outcome.

Los Angeles – September 20, 2026 -- Kobold Press, the twenty-year-old independent tabletop game publisher behind Tales of the Valiant, will be profiled in an upcoming segment of "All Access hosted by Andy Garcia," a short-form documentary series distributed to Public Television stations nationwide.

Filming is set for September 19, 2026, at the production company's Florida studio

Kobold Press Chief Executive Officer Alexander Stangroom and Marketing Director Dot Steverson will travel to the studio to represent the company. The segment will examine how tabletop roleplaying games function as tools for reading comprehension, arithmetic, negotiation and improvisation, and why libraries, schools and community organizations have added them to programming.

Dallas – September 20, 2026 -- AT&T and the Dallas Cowboys have extended their partnership to overhaul network infrastructure and fan technology at AT&T Stadium ahead of the 2026 season, anchored by more than 261 miles of fiber and nearly 1,000 antennas across the venue.

AT&T builds the largest stadium fiber network in the country to handle 100,000-plus attendees

The company says the AT&T Stadium buildout represents the largest network of its kind in the U.S., supporting mobile ticketing, stadium operations and real-time video sharing when crowds exceed 100,000. AT&T Chairman and CEO John Stankey said the company is using "America's largest fiber network" to connect the venue, citing the firm's fiber-to-the-home household data as the basis for that ranking.

Washington – September 20, 2026 -- The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) has endorsed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new appointments to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), following a years-long campaign by the group to force reforms on kidney disease screening policy. AAKP President Edward V. Hickey III said the appointees bring the diverse credentials needed to advance patient-centered medicine after what the organization calls two decades of Task Force inaction on kidney health.

Los Angeles – September 20, 2026 -- LaserAway has opened its 231st U.S. location in Visalia, California, at 3413 S Mooney Blvd, Unit 101, marking two decades of operation without a single clinic closure.

LaserAway marks 20th anniversary with zero clinic closures since 2006 launch

The Visalia opening coincides with the company's 20th anniversary, a milestone the privately owned, franchise-free operator says is rare in both retail and medical aesthetics. LaserAway was founded in 2006 by Dr. Roy Winston alongside brothers Scott, Brock and Todd Heckmann, starting from a single clinic on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California.

Indianapolis – September 20, 2026 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to Eli Lilly and Company's (NYSE: LLY) Inluriyo (imlunestrant) in combination with Verzenio (abemaciclib) for adults with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+), HER2-negative, ESR1-mutated locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed after at least one line of endocrine therapy.

EMBER-3 trial shows combination doubles progression-free survival

The approval rests on Phase 3 EMBER-3 data in 159 patients with ESR1-mutated metastatic breast cancer who had previously received an aromatase inhibitor, with or without a CDK4/6 inhibitor. Patients randomized to Inluriyo plus Verzenio (n=67) achieved a median progression-free survival of 11.1 months, versus 5.5 months for Inluriyo alone (n=92), a hazard ratio of 0.53 (95% CI, 0.35–0.80).

Hoffman Estates, Ill. – September 20, 2026 -- Omron Automation Americas has introduced the NXR-S Series Simple Logic Safety I/O Block, a distributed safety solution delivering response times as fast as 15 milliseconds while maintaining centralized CIP Safety management.

NXR-S combines local safety logic with centralized CIP Safety control

Unlike conventional remote safety I/O architectures, the IP67-rated NXR-S moves safety decisions closer to the point of action on the machine. Omron states this reduces overall system complexity and simplifies safety-distance design for manufacturers standardizing safety architectures across multiple machine lines.

Pittsburgh – September 20, 2026 -- Energy Corps has named four new grantees to expand access to affordable, modern energy across East and West Africa and Tribal Nations in the United States, targeting sectors from electric cooking to AI-driven energy governance.

DanChurchAid initiative moves 1,000 refugee households to electric cooking in Kenya

DanChurchAid, partnering with Mwangaza Light and Renewvia Energy, will help more than 1,000 households -- roughly 7,500 people -- in the Kakuma and Kalobeyei settlements transition from firewood and charcoal to induction cookers. The project uses pay-as-you-go financing and a discounted daytime electricity tariff to make the switch affordable.

Paris – September 20, 2026 -- A newly published book, "Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI," has become the test object for a comparative experiment feeding identical text to five major artificial intelligence systems: OpenAI/Astra, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Google Gemini and xAI/Grok. The French and English print editions are now available, but the project's core output is a public meta-reading exercise designed to expose how differently large language models interpret the same source material.

Five AI systems receive an identical corpus for independent analysis