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FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have used an AI-generated ripoff of a Beastie Boys music video to promote the Trump administration's anti-fraud efforts, NPR reported on Tuesday.

"With President Trump’s leadership, this @FBI and our interagency partners are conducting massive fraud takedowns coast to coast — and we’re not stopping," Patel wrote in a post to X at the start of the week.

"An analysis by NPR shows at least six clips in the FBI video were frame-by-frame recreations of shots in the iconic 'Sabotage' music video, which was directed by Spike Jonze," said the report. "The clips featured vehicles, people and buildings that were incredibly similar to the original video, but with small differences that would likely be generated by AI."

"For example, in one shot where a car is spinning out, grilles are clearly visible in some of the windows in the original footage, but they are missing in the FBI version of the clip," said the report. "Another shot shows an individual with a megaphone jumping from roof-to-roof with telephone lines in the background. The lines and dirt on the building all align identically to the 1994 video, which was filmed over 30 years ago. In one frame, one of the telephone lines appears to go through the head of the character: the sort of flaw that can be common in AI video generation."

Neither representatives for the Beastie Boys nor the FBI responded to NPR's requests for comment.

This comes after former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was fired following an awkward and blame-shifting testimony to Congress about a taxpayer-funded $200 million ad for the department featuring her on a horse, putting greater scrutiny on how agency heads under the Trump administration use public resources for self-promotion.

It also comes as Patel himself has been reported by The Atlantic to have a drinking problem, to be chronically absent, and paranoid about his own political future — claims Patel denies, and is now suing the publication over.

A rat-borne virus that broke out aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Cape Verde, West Africa, is now suspected to have spread to seven people, according to reports.

The World Health Organization, or WHO, confirmed two cases and suspects five others aboard the MV Hondius cruise. Of them, one patient who is critically ill and three others with mild symptoms. Three people have already died.

The dead include two senior Dutch passengers and a German national.

The Dutch cruise ship paused its weeks-long journey to Argentina, Antarctica and other islands in the South Atlantic, and has been waiting for help after Cape Verde authorities denied passengers the right to disembark due to public health concerns, reports The Seattle Times and The Associated Press.

According to the Daily Beast, the outbreak began between April 6 and April 28. Symptoms include fever and gastrointestinal issues. In severe cases, it can result in pneumonia, respiratory failure and shock.

The WHO said passengers were asked to stay in their cabins and, “limit their risk while disinfection and other measures are being taken,” according to The Seattle Times and AP.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the Hantavirus has a high fatality rate, adding that it's typically transmitted to humans through exposure to rodent feces.

The Daily Beast reported that, although most strains do not spread between people, a rare variant found in parts of Argentina and Chile’s Andes has shown otherwise.

“We do know that some of the cases had very close contact with each other and certainly human-to-human transmission can’t be ruled out so, as a precaution, this is what we are assuming,” Dr. Maria Van Kerhove, WHO’s Director for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and prevention, said.

Van Kerhove added, “The risk to the general public is low.”

The Seattle Times and AP reported authorities in Cape Verde sent teams of doctors, surgeons, nurses and laboratory specialists to provide the vessel with medical support.

“The outbreak is being managed through coordinated international response, and includes in-depth investigations, case isolation and care, medical evacuation and laboratory investigations,” said a WHO representative.