‘Far More Than We Need’: Trump Dismisses Claims U.S. Is Short on Munitions in Iran Fight

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President Donald Trump dismissed reports that the United States is running short on munitions for the conflict with Iran, telling the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that the U.S. military has “far more munitions than anyone in the world, and far more than we need” as his administration continued weighing diplomacy alongside the possibility of renewed military escalation.

Trump’s comments pushed back against reports from the New York Times and other outlets that concerns over declining stocks of Patriot and other air defense interceptors factored into internal deliberations over whether to expand the U.S. military campaign against Iran, even as the administration has emphasized that diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain underway.

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press and Fox News Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz reinforced Trump’s message, declaring that “the U.S. military, and I’ve verified this every which way, has everything that it needs to conduct this campaign as effectively as it needs to be,” while insisting Trump is “keeping all options on the table” as he gives negotiations “some space” to continue.

“I have to tell you, the people that are leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail,” Waltz said on Meet the Press, while acknowledging that years of military support for Ukraine and operations against the Houthis had strained some inventories before President Donald Trump took office. Waltz argued the administration is rebuilding stockpiles while shifting toward newer, less expensive munitions and other emerging technologies.

Speaking on Fox News, Waltz said the administration’s military campaign had focused on degrading Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping and regional stability, arguing that “the Iranian regime is isolated, economically devastated, militarily devastated,” and adding that Tehran was beginning to struggle financially, including paying government workers and members of its military.

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This University Received More Foreign Money than Any Other U.S. College

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Harvard University, which has ties to Communist China, has apparently outpaced other American universities in receiving foreign funding.

Now, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who also chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, wants government officials to investigate China’s flow of money into colleges, Fox News reported Monday.

The outlet noted the U.S. Department of Education has kept a list of federally funded universities that received foreign money, and “The Trump administration sought to revamp the agency’s online reporting portal, and, in doing so, it has shown that one institution, Harvard University, has scored more foreign funding than any other college in the country.”

Cotton wants answers regarding the issue, saying he was concerned that transactions with sanctioned Chinese entities may not have been reported.

“Therefore, I encourage additional scrutiny of financial ties between American universities and Communist China,” he said. (Read more from “This University Received More Foreign Money than Any Other U.S. College” HERE)

Just One in Three Americans back Iran War, most Unsure of Trump’s Goals

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Just one in three Americans support the war on Iran, the lowest reading in a Reuters/Ipsos poll since the five-month-old conflict’s early days, with ​most respondents saying that President Donald Trump has failed to explain his goals.

The poll, conducted Friday through Sunday, also showed the Republican president’s approval rating ticking higher to ‌37%, up three points from last month when his rating tied the lowest of his presidency.

Trump has offered shifting objectives for the conflict such as aiding Iranians to topple their leaders, taking out Iran’s ballistic-missile capabilities and preventing it from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The poll found that 69% of Americans — including four in 10 Republicans – think Trump has not “clearly explained the goals of U.S. military involvement in Iran.”

White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales said Trump will not make decisions based on “fluid opinion ​polls” and reiterated the president’s resolve to prevent Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. “What matters most to the American people is having a commander in chief who takes ​bold action to keep them safe,” Wales said.

Approval of the conflict has been below 40% since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes ⁠on February 28 — a stark contrast to the opening months of other recent conflicts. (Read more from “Just One in Three Americans back Iran War, most Unsure of Trump’s Goals” HERE)

Fauci Diary Shows He Lied to the Public About Coronavirus Fatality Rate

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Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) chief Anthony Fauci publicly lied about the coronavirus’s fatality rate, initially telling the public it was 2 to 2.5 percent but privately recording in his diary that it was “more like 0.2-0.3%.”

This explosive revelation is found in Fauci’s personal diary documenting his day-to-day duties in the early days of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released the diary ahead of Fauci’s appearance before the committee.

In a February 2020 entry, Fauci recorded the number of cases as well as his many media appearances. He also surmised that the mortality rate of the virus was “more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.”

The entry reads:

Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak. He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.

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Teacher Arrested & Dragged Out for Clapping at Data Center Vote

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Public meetings have a way of surfacing exactly where civic participation ends and enforced order begins. That line came into sharp focus in Emporia, Kansas, when a high school physics teacher was arrested for clapping. The occasion: a city commission vote on zoning changes tied to the proposed Flint Hills Digital Campus, a data center project that has split the community like a log under an axe.

According to local reporting, Lux Claridge, a 37-year-old Emporia High School physics teacher, applauded speakers opposing the data center during the commission meeting. Commissioners had explicitly warned attendees against clapping, snapping, or making rude comments. Claridge reportedly continued clapping after a final warning. Police removed him from the chamber. He was booked on charges of disorderly conduct and interference with law enforcement, then released after posting bond. . .

This was not a routine zoning session. The city had received citizen initiative petitions seeking to prohibit certain data centers and battery energy storage systems, according to local reporting verified by WIBW. The Flint Hills Digital Campus proposal had already drawn organized opposition. The room was packed and primed.

The core legal question is not whether Claridge clapped — nobody disputes that. The question is whether arresting someone for applause at a public meeting represents proportionate enforcement of decorum rules. Whether this rises to a First Amendment issue depends on how those rules were written, applied, and whether enforcement was viewpoint-neutral. Think of it like content moderation: the policy matters far less than who gets flagged and why. Details on those specifics remain unclear from available reporting, making this a single-source story at this stage. (Read more from “Teacher Arrested & Dragged Out for Clapping at Data Center Vote” HERE)

Argentine Leader Calls Brazilian President a ‘Thief’ and a ‘Convict’

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Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Argentina in protest over what it said were “insults” levelled by Argentine President Javier Milei against his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during a visit to Brazil.

Milei was speaking at a rally in São Paulo to launch the campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro, who will be running against Lula in Brazil’s presidential election in October.

While Milei did not use Lula’s name, he railed against “the thief” and “the convict”, referring to the time Lula spent in jail before his corruption convictions were annulled and he successfully ran for president in 2022.

Milei is a political ally of Flávio Bolsonaro, son of jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.

Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in jail for plotting a coup aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to Lula. (Read more from “Argentine Leader Calls Brazilian President a ‘Thief’ and a ‘Convict’” HERE)

“Anti-White” Attack by Mob at Maui Resort Leaves Six with Serious Injuries

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A California family’s Hawaiian getaway turned to horror when its members were targeted as “haole boys” and viciously beaten by a mob at a luxury Maui resort, leaving one with a huge head wound.

The violent brawl broke out around 10 p.m. on July 17 at the Kaanapali Alii resort in West Maui, where local officers responded to a disturbance involving roughly 30 people near the property’s pool.

Seven visitors from California, ranging in age from 17 to 62, told police they were assaulted after a group of young people allegedly threw chairs and attacked members of their family.

At least six victims suffered injuries serious enough to require medical treatment. . .

The family, who has not been named, believes they were singled out because they are white and is urging investigators to pursue the case as a hate crime. (Read more from “Anti-White” Attack by Mob at Maui Resort Leaves Six with Serious Injuries” HERE)

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“Tran” Teacher Who Received Top Ten Amazon Award Charged with Raping Child

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A New Hampshire teacher who had been named an Amazon “teacher of the year” was charged with raping a child who was 14 years old at the time.

Tymond Tran, 38, of Hudson was arraigned on Wednesday for various charges related to the heinous allegations, according to the Essex District Attorney’s Office.

Tran was an eighth-grade teacher at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Lynn during the 2022-2023 school year when he allegedly raped the student. . .

The student’s allegations led to Tran being indicted by a grand jury on July 15 on charges that included aggravated rape of a child, posing or exhibiting a child in the nude, and providing obscene matter to a minor.

Tran had been honored by Amazon for promoting “diversity and inclusion” and named a “Future Engineer Teacher of the Year” in 2022. Only 10 teachers were selected for the award related to computer science and robotics. (Read more from “”Tran” Teacher Who Received Top Ten Amazon Award Charged with Raping Child” HERE)

Ukraine Attacks Iranian Vessel in Caspian Sea, Tehran Furious, Says Zelensky Trying to Drag Europe into Gulf War

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Iran summoned a Ukrainian diplomat in Tehran on Sunday to protest an attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea, as the war in the Middle East threatened to overlap with the Ukraine conflict.

Iran said the attack left one sailor dead and injured several others. The country’s foreign ministry complained to Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran early on Sunday and “conveyed Iran’s strong protest over the ‘hostile and criminal act.’” Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

In a post on X highlighting Ukraine’s attacks on distant Russian targets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that his country’s forces “also achieved very strong results with long‑range strikes in the Caspian Sea – including vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran, as well as a warship.”

Russia has long used Iranian-designed Shahed drones in its war on Ukraine, a weapon that analysts sometimes refer to as “the poor man’s cruise missile.”

But the latest attacks by Ukraine, combined with Saudi military strikes on Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen following the rebel group’s attacks on Red Sea shipping in recent days, represent a widening of the Middle East conflict. (Read more from “Ukraine Attacks Iranian Vessel in Caspian Sea, Tehran Furious, Says Zelensky Trying to Drag Europe into Gulf War” HERE)

Taxpayer-Funded Trans Dolls with Removable Genitalia to hit Classrooms this Fall for Kids as Young as 4 to ‘Learn about Different Options’

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. . .“First-of-their-kind” transgender dolls — complete with removable genitalia — will debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall to kids as young as 4 years old.

The paper dolls, with gender-neutral names like “Sam,” “Rory,” “Avery” and “Parker,” have removable internal and external genitals, along with more than 100 interchangeable pieces of clothing, accessories and hairstyles — like a trans Mr./Mrs. Potato Head.

The goal is for kids to “learn about the different options that exist for who they can be,” according to a therapist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, which spent over half a decade developing the controversial project funded by lefty Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

The Medical School’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Health research over those six years included paying $20 to $60 for “trans and gender diverse” children and their parents to play with the dolls and “talk about gender and bodies” in groups.

Prototypes of the dolls were shown in a 2024 conference where one named “Sam” can be seen in what appears to be some phase of a gender transition, with a detachable penis off to the side, and a dress and girls’ underwear within reach. (Read more from “Taxpayer-Funded Trans Dolls with Removable Genitalia to hit Classrooms this Fall for Kids as Young as 4 to ‘Learn about Different Options’” HERE)