Trump readies 'massive attack' on Iran as additional 150 medics are sent to a military hospital in Germany that treats US troops wounded in Middle East

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Trump readies 'massive attack' on Iran as additional 150 medics are sent to a military hospital in Germany that treats U.S. troops wounded in Middle East --Israel would join the new strikes if he asked, Trump said. | 23 July 2026 | President Donald Trump said Thursday he was near a decision on a serious escalation of attacks on Iran as oil hit its highest price in two months and Tehran-backed Houthi rebels opened a new front in the Red Sea. "I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before," the President told Axios. "I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it." Trump added that Iran wanted a deal but had not yet felt "enough pain" to properly negotiate. The Pentagon has flown a B-1 bomber over the region for the first time since the ceasefire collapsed and surged extra special operations forces into the area. A further 150 medics have been sent to a military hospital in Germany that treats U.S. troops wounded in the Middle East. Israel would join the new strikes if he asked, Trump said, but he insisted their help was not needed.

Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure after Houthis block Red Sea artery | 22 July 2026 | U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant every time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, raising the stakes in the war with Iran as Iranian-allied Houthis in Yemen threatened a second vital energy route. Five tankers changed course in the Red Sea to avoid the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Wednesday, a day after the Houthi threat to block Saudi oil exports highlighted a new risk to global oil supplies from the escalating conflict. Three tankers loaded with Saudi oil for China and India made U-turns on Tuesday. Iran's joint military command warned, according to state media, that if Trump's threat against infrastructure was carried out, Iranian forces would target regional oil, gas, electricity and economic infrastructure and prevent the export of "even a single drop of oil."

House Again Passes Resolution Seeking to Halt Military Action in Iran as Some Republicans Defect --The resolution narrowly passed after a handful of Republicans voted with Democrats to end the war. | 23 July 2026 | The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain. The 214-208 vote requiring congressional approval for the war comes as the Senate is expected to consider a similar resolution later Thursday morning. Though the votes forced by Democrats are largely symbolic, they are meant as a strong signal to the Republican president that his support on Capitol Hill is chipping away as the war drags on and lawmakers in both parties have questioned his administration's endgame.

Trump's Iran nightmare deepens as poll reveals Americans' brutal verdict with war nearing five months and U.S. death toll rising | 21 July 2026 | Two weeks after the latest ceasefire collapsed, President Donald Trump's handling of the Iran war continues to face broad public skepticism, pushing down his approval rating and leaving Americans with little hope it will end soon. The latest exclusive Daily Mail/JL Partners poll shows only 32 percent of voters approve of the President's handling of the war with Iran, and 49 percent believe Trump was wrong to launch military action that's resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. troops, with over 100 injured. The President's approval rating currently stands at 44 percent, slightly down from 47 percent in mid-June after a peace deal framework was announced. Americans also remain opposed to the original decision to use military force: just 36 percent support the U.S. military action in Iran, while 41 percent oppose it.

Staggering number of U.S. troops wounded in secret Iran strikes the Pentagon kept quiet | 20 July 2026 | Dozens of U.S. troops were wounded in three Iranian strikes in Jordan that the Pentagon kept quiet in the week before Friday's attack that killed two American soldiers and left one missing. The strikes damaged multiple U.S. helicopters and were never publicly disclosed by the Pentagon, but multiple officials confirmed them to the New York Times on Monday. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said last week it was retaliating against Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, never mentioning the strikes on American troops in Jordan... More than 400 troops have been injured in the conflict since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28. The Pentagon has not updated the total wounded in several weeks.

U.S. reveals third service member killed in Middle East by Iranian drone | 19 July 2026 | The U.S. military has announced a third service member has been killed in the Middle East by an Iranian drone as tensions between the two countries continue to hit a peak. United States Central Command (CENTCOM) made the devastating announcement on Sunday, saying the soldier was killed in Northern Iraq during action on Saturday. The person, who was not identified, was killed during a "controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone." On Saturday, CENTCOM announced the passing of two other soldiers, and that one was missing in Jordan.

Trump tells The Post he's 'left instructions' should Iran assassinate him: 'Bomb them at levels' never seen before | 10 July 2026 | President Trump on Friday told The Post he has "left instructions" should Iran [Israel?] succeed in their plots to assassinate him -- and there’ll be h-ll to pay. "I’ve been on their list for a long time. That's what we're dealing with," he said. "...The only thing is, I've left instructions -- if anything happens, to just literally bomb them at levels that they've never seen before." Asked about recent reports that Israel this week flagged intel of a plot to take out the U.S. president, Trump indicated there was no fresh plan from Iran -- but said Tehran has wanted him dead for years. "No, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no," he said. "I've been No. 1 [on Iran's kill list] for a long time, and it's the way life is, you know."

Iran war takes terrifying turn as missiles bombard NUCLEAR plant and flights are thrown into chaos | 9 July 2026 | President Donald Trump's war has escalated after Tehran retaliated by firing missiles and drones at war-weary U.S. allies in the Middle East, while American strikes bombarded an Iranian nuclear plant. A day after the President declared the ceasefire "over" and struck more than 170 government targets, Kuwait and Bahrain faced fresh Iranian attacks on Thursday morning. Jordan, a U.S. ally, said five Iranian ballistic missiles were fired from northwestern Iran toward an air base in the country, delaying flights across the region. Iranian officials claimed that U.S. military strikes sent shrapnel and projectiles slamming into the perimeter of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. U.S. strikes on Iran over the last 48 hours have targeted Iran's military assets near the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway responsible for one-fifth of the world's oil supply.

U.S. has about 20 warships, 20,000 sailors and Marines in Arabian Sea | 8 July 2026 | The U.S. has roughly 20 Navy ships and support vessels operating in the Arabian Sea, carrying about 20,000 sailors and Marines, according to multiple U.S. Navy officials. The force includes two carrier strike groups led by the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George H.W. Bush, along with the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the USS Boxer, USS Comstock and USS Portland. Officials said a total of 24 U.S. naval vessels are currently positioned across the region, including four guided-missile destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean and at Souda Bay, Greece.

House Lawmakers Vow to 'Fight' Against NDAA's U.S.-Israel Defense Integration Provision --The narrow NDAA passage in the House may face headwinds in the Senate, where the GOP also has a very slim majority. | 23 July 2026 | House lawmakers plan to "fight" against a proposal to extend U.S.-Israel military cooperation that was passed in the annual defense spending bill. The House of Representatives approved its version of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on July 21 by a 216-212 vote, authorizing roughly 1.15 trillion in national security spending while establishing policy priorities for the Department of Defense (DOD) for the coming fiscal year. One of the parts of the bill, Section 2019, would expand U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation. It has been overwhelmingly supported by House Republicans while House Democrats have been split on its integration. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) reacted with disdain after the House passed the NDAA and excluded an amendment that they had introduced that would have blocked this section. Now, it's in the Senate's hands.

U.S.-Israel Defense Integration on Horizon as House Keeps Section 219 in NDAA --The House passed the NDAA with Section 219 intact, advancing expanded U.S.-Israel defense cooperation despite bipartisan opposition. | 22 July 2026 | The House is preparing to vote on the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with Section 219 (formerly section 224) still embedded in the roughly 1.1 trillion bill. The House approved the rule governing debate on H.R. 8800 by a 214-211 vote Tuesday, July 21. The vote allowed the chamber to proceed with the NDAA but excluded the amendment from Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) that would have removed Section 219. Lawmakers will not receive a separate vote on the bipartisan amendment that sought to remove the section, a proposal to expand U.S.-Israel defense technology cooperation that has garnered strong rebukes in certain political and defense circles.

Secret Service agent for JD Vance put on leave over accusations of leaking details about second family's travels | 23 July 2026 | A Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President JD Vance's security detail has reportedly been sidelined for allegedly leaking information about his travels. The agent is accused of leaking the information to MS Now for a story about agents on the vice president's security detail being dismayed by his personal travel schedule, sources told CNN. The rogue secret service agent has not been identified. As part of the coverage, MS Now described Vance's planned travel, including flying with his son on a Marine Corps helicopter for a golf lesson -- a plan that was later scrapped due to severe thunderstorms and high winds.

JD Vance accuses Israel of secret plot against him and drops Mossad-Epstein bombshell in explosive Joe Rogan interview | 15 July 2026 | JD Vance has claimed he is the target of an Israeli-funded propaganda campaign over his Iran peace push, and that Jeffrey Epstein had ties to the "highest levels" of Mossad. The vice president made the explosive allegations during a nearly three-hour sit-down with podcaster Joe Rogan. Vance pointed to a Time magazine report he said proved American influencers were being paid to attack the Iran deal. The report notes that m-ney has flowed through a former Trump campaign operative and is bankrolled by elements of the Israeli government. "My response to that is, well, go to h-ll," Vance said of those taking the funds to smear him. The vice president, who complained he has been branded an anti-Semite, declared that Israel is losing the public opinion battle in America. He also said that "figures" inside the Israeli government are manipulating American public opinion to keep the war going "indefinitely." Vance then shifted to the administration's handling of the Epstein scandal, revealing that the disgraced financier "clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence" and "Israeli intelligence."

Vance lays out U.S. red line for Iran: Stop attacking ships or face more strikes | 8 July 2026 | Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday the Trump administration’s agreement with Iran was straightforward: The U.S. would ease its blockade if Tehran stopped attacking commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. “They were good. They were well behaved for about a week, but then they started shooting at ships,” Vance told reporters in Milwaukee. “The deal is very simple. If they shoot at ships, we’re going to knock the h-ll out of them...They can either follow it or they can have exactly what happened to them last night. It’s just going to keep on happening until they open up that lane and stop shooting at ships.”

U.S. directly involved in Ukrainian strikes on Russia - Lavrov | 22 July 2026 | The U.S. is directly participating in Ukrainian strikes against targets inside Russia by supplying weapons, intelligence, and communications support to Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Lavrov rejected Western claims that Russia and China were allegedly supplying Iran with weapons used to attack American military facilities. He accused Washington of hypocrisy, pointing to its own role in the Ukraine conflict. "The Americans, through arms supplies paid for by the European Union, the provision of intelligence, the Starlink system and much more, are not simply helping, but are directly participating in guiding Ukrainian weapons toward targets, including civilian targets, on Russian territory," Lavrov said.

U.S. withholding $400 million in Ukraine military aid - senator | 22 July 2026 | The White House is withholding 400 million in military aid for Kiev approved by Congress, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin has said. The funding, allocated by lawmakers in January, will not be available until at least 2029, Durbin said during a hearing on Wednesday. The m-ney is part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), a Pentagon-led program in which Ukraine receives training, equipment, and advisory assistance from the U.S. According to Durbin, the package has yet to reach Kiev and has so far "bounced back and forth." On Wednesday, he said the administration of President Donald Trump "informed us that the m-ney will not be available in many aspects until the next president is in office."

Bomb squad called after radioactive and explosive materials were found in dead chemist's Massachusetts home | 22 July 2026 | A bomb squad has been deployed after radioactive and explosive materials were found in a dead chemist's Massachusetts home. On Tuesday a radioactive "non-transportable" material and picric acid were found during a chemical mediation company clean-out of the chemist's home lab in Lexington, near Boston. Multiple bottles of old and degraded chemicals deemed "compromised" were found in the house on Longfellow Road. Lexington Fire said they evacuated and secured the affected area with the help of Lexington police. A Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad consisting of a hazmat team and FBI bomb technician, were required to carefully search for and remove the potentially hazardous materials.

Gunman arrested at U.S. Capitol as cops swarm SUV | 14 July 2026 | A gunman was detained at a barricade just north of the US Capitol building around noon Monday. Law enforcement vehicles swarmed a Ford Bronco SUV ahead of the arrest. "We just arrested a man at the North Barricade of the U.S. Capitol who had a firearm. Firearms are prohibited on Capitol Grounds," a spokesman for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) said. "The North Barricade will be closed while the USCP investigates. Our investigators are working to learn more about the suspect and why he drove to the US Capitol." Other reports indicated that the vehicle also contained a dog.

Ebola outbreak spreading to new patients who have no known links to existing carriers of disease | 10 July 2026 | Four out of every five new Ebola ​cases in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo have no known link to existing patients, a ‌senior World Health Organization official said, warning that the true scale of the outbreak could be two to four times larger than official data suggest. The figures underscore the challenges facing health workers as they battle to contain the outbreak in the country's northeast, ​which has so far infected 1,792 people and killed 625, according to government data released on ​Thursday. "Eighty percent of the...new patients confirmed are coming outside of known contact lists" ⁠in the heart of the outbreak in Bunia, Ituri province, WHO Emergencies Director Chikwe Ihekweazu told Reuters in ​an interview late on Thursday.

Deadly bacteria found in major U.S. city's water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg's $800m data center | 8 July 2026 | Meta's massive AI data center in Wyoming is facing scrutiny after an unexpected contamination incident emerged during construction. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company is developing a 715,000sq ft campus in Cheyenne that is set to go online next year, but its contractor has come under fire after city officials traced wastewater containing a rare bacterium to the project. Known as Cupriavidus gilardii, the naturally occurring bacterium is typically found in soil and water. While harmless to most healthy people, it can cause severe pneumonia, bloodstream and lung infections, and, in rare cases, death among people with weakened immune systems. Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities (BOPU) said the bacterium was found in wastewater discharged by Goat Systems, a contractor working on Meta's 800 million data center.

Hundreds of non-citizens voted in NJ elections since 2023 - but Dem governor still blames Trump | 21 July 2026 | Approximately 400 non-citizens cast ballots illegally in New Jersey elections since 2023 after more than 6,000 immigrants were wrongly added to the Garden State's voter rolls, Democratic Gov. [Grade "A" sociopath] Mikie Sherrill admitted Tuesday. Despite the mortifying disclosure, Sherrill managed to use her press conference about the fumble to take a swipe at President Trump. When asked about the possibility of Trump using New Jersey as an example of vulnerable elections, she declared: "I think that Donald Trump has done more to undermine free elections in this country than certainly anyone in my lifetime, including Vladimir Putin." In a prime-time address to the nation last week, Trump claimed nearly 250,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, with up to 35,152 wrongly enrolled in the Garden State.

In prime-time address, Trump claims nearly 250,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in several states and China stole voter registration data from 220M Americans | 16 July 2026 | President Trump revealed that China stole the voter registration data of 220 million Americans as part of his primetime speech on Thursday. "Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files," Trump said in remarks from the East Room of the White House. "That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities, which is exactly what was happening," the president continued. The president highlighted "raw intelligence" obtained by the FBI in 2020 that he asserted detailed China's "attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden." Trump claimed the Chinese election interference plots were "buried by rogue bureaucrats" and, during his first term, kept out of his daily presidential briefings.

DHS alleges over 256K possible illegal voters uncovered across 4 key states | 16 July 2026 | The Department of Homeland Security told election officials in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania a preliminary review found what could be more than 256,000 noncitizens registered to vote across the four states, according to letters obtained by Fox News Digital. In the four letters dated Friday, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the department compared publicly available voter registration records with federal immigration data and uncovered thousands of potential matches. He asked state election officials to work with DHS to verify the identities before taking any action. According to the letters, DHS estimates there may be as many as 190,832 noncitizens registered to vote in California, 35,152 in New Jersey, 15,903 in Nevada and 14,576 in Pennsylvania.

Ohio immigrant truck driver admitted to U.S. under Biden allegedly killed UMass soccer star, spoke no English | 8 July 2026 | An Uzbek commercial truck driver admitted to the United States via a diversity lottery killed a star college soccer goalie in Ohio over the weekend and had to use Google Translate to speak with state troopers who arrived at the deadly scene, sources told Fox News. Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, rammed the back of a vehicle on Interstate 71 in Madison County, resulting in the death of Tobias "Toby" Forsythe, 21, who played goalkeeper for the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Fox is told. When Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers arrived at the scene, Asrarov, who holds a commercial driver's license (CDL) from Ohio, tried ripping off the dash camera and tried to destroy it by smashing it, sources said. He also tried to smash and destroy his three phones and his logging device, Fox is told.

Fury erupts as U.S. brand fires 1,600 employees after securing thousands of foreign worker visas --One lawmaker called to end the H-1B foreign worker visa program entirely | 9 July 2026 | A popular U.S.-based gaming brand owned by Microsoft is facing fury after mass employee layoffs occurred in the wake of the company being approved for thousands of foreign worker visas. Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation's XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game console. Meanwhile, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program, according to data from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS). A great way to fix this is to throw anyone doing this in prison," said one user on X. "Fire Americans to replace with thousands of visa workers? Straight to jail, and assets seized. This story has been told countless times. Fire American staff and hire foreigners. Over and over."

Treasury stopped nearly $100M in taxpayer funds from going to dead people after new gov't measure implemented | 21 July 2026 | The Treasury Department has blocked nearly 100 million in taxpayer m-ney from going to dead people since implementing a government-wide payment verification process last year, The Post has learned. The department's Bureau of the Fiscal Service discovered the m-ney set to go to ghosts after a review of an eye-popping 885 million payments worth a total of nearly 2.7 trillion. Since March 2025, the screening has identified more than 4,900 disbursements, worth approximately 99 million, associated with deceased payees, according to the Treasury. The payments going to the dead -- often indicative of fraud -- were returned to the originating federal agencies for review before any funds were disbursed, the department said.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham dies aged 71 after 'brief and sudden illness' | 12 July 2026 | U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died at the age of 71 from a "brief and sudden illness." The South Carolina representative passed away on Saturday evening, according to a statement from his office. Graham never married and is survived by his younger sister Darline Graham Nordone. Most recently he served on Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and as a member of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.