Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesperson, Sardar Mohebbi, claimed on Saturday that Iranian forces destroyed 11 American fighter jets and helicopters on the ground, while stationed at US military bases in the region, over the past 15 days.
"Furthermore, 17 reconnaissance and operational drones, one F-15 fighter jet inside a hangar, one P-8 aircraft, one C-17 transport aircraft and 8 refuelling aircraft were also destroyed," the spokesman said.
Mohebbi also said the US military fatalities in the conflict with Iran exceeded 200, accusing the US administration of hiding the real death toll.
Top officials with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expressed misgivings about researchers with the agency studying people with neurological issues after they received COVID-19 vaccines, according to newly released emails.
Dr. Avindra Nath, a senior investigator with the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, was studying people with post-vaccination neurological problems in 2020 and 2021.
In an email on April 10, 2021, he sent a draft of a paper to the institute's director, Dr. Walter Koroshetz, that outlined what he had found.
"Early recognition and treatment with corticosteroids can reverse the symptoms," Nath wrote.
The following day, the institute's director sent the manuscript to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who at the time was director of another NIH institute.
"There have been steady slow stream of reports to me of post vaccination neurologic conditions, seem to be mostly peripheral nerve disorders ... maybe an occasional spinal cord issue," Koroshetz told Fauci. "Avi has been collecting a bunch. He has a report sent out to publish. Hard to know not due to chance but are timed to the vaccination."
Another NIH employee sent the manuscript to then-NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Lawrence Tabak, a second top NIH official, and shared that the New England Journal of Medicine rejected the paper.
"What do you make of this?" Collins wrote in response. "The draft letter doesn't explain how these 32 patients were referred - leaving one to wonder whether this is common or rare."
Koroshetz told Collins that many reports had been lodged with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System and that Nath had been attracting referrals because he had appeared on a podcast to discuss neurological problems following COVID-19 vaccination.
Koroshetz also said that Nath, and another employee at his institute, had suffered tinnitus after receiving COVID-19 vaccines, and that Nath had hearing loss.
Collins said the approach taken by Nath's team was "very troubling," adding, "collecting anecdotes and then trying to build a case isn't scientifically compelling - and will have the main consequence of feeding vaccine hesitancy and social media overreaction."
Tabak wrote privately to Collins, telling him, "I don't understand why Walter does not shut this down."
"While the emails do not prove that Collins, Tabak, or Fauci expressly ordered Nath to abandon the manuscript, they raise serious questions about whether NIH leadership viewed its potential effect on vaccine confidence as a compelling reason to suppress its publication," the Informed Consent Action Network, which released the missives on July 22, said in a statement.
Collins, Fauci, and Nath did not return requests for comment by the time of publication. Tabak could not be reached.
The paper was never published in a journal. It was released as a preprint, or without peer review, in May 2022, more than one year after Nath sent it to Koroshetz.
Dr. Danice Hertz, a retired gastroenterologist who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shortly after it was authorized in 2020 and suffered severe problems, was one of the patients who was examined by Nath's team.
"I have always believed that Fauci must have told Nath to stop talking to us, as we were all abruptly dismissed from Nath's care without explanation. Now I know that my suspicions were true," Hertz told The Epoch Times in an email after reading the newly released missives.
OpenAI said on Saturday that its services are "fully operational" after experiencing amajor outageearlier in the day.
Users had reported issues with logging into their ChatGPT accounts and loading conversations, while the company also acknowledged that the outage affected its APIs and its command center for agentic coding, Codex.
ChatGPT users from across the world reported experiencing issues with the platform on Saturday, including inability to log into their accounts and load conversations.
OpenAI confirmed it was "experiencing issues" and seeing "elevated error rates," but noted that it "applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery." The company noted that the service is still working with a "degraded performance."
The issues affected ChatGPT, as well as OpenAI's APIs and its command center for agentic coding, Codex.
They’re dolling up the trans agenda — and taxpayers are footing the bill.
“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 dolls will be made available to kids between 4 and 10 years old in Minnesota this fall.University of Minnesota
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.
The trans dolls — which promise to “make gender fun” — will be made available to teachers, school counselors, pediatricians and mental health providers, according to a website of the “MyGender Dolls” company. It features an image of a boy doll wearing a dress and others in various states of sexual identity confusion.
It’s not known whether parents — or children themselves — will be able to order a doll, or if they will only be marketed to professionals and schools. It is not known if parents will be able to opt out of such “therapeutic play” for their kids.
A blond doll named “Sam” can be seen in some phase of a sexual transition, with Professor Dianne Berg, co-founder of MyGender Dolls, proudly standing behind the table.University of Minnesota
The dolls began as a University of Minnesota research project, which was later spun into a commercial venture — “MyGender Dolls” — by two licensed psychologists who are professors at the medical school.
The website does not reveal the cost of the paper dolls.
The University of Minnesota’s Medical School has been receiving $15 million annual funding from the state via Walz — cash earmarked to “increase the medical school’s research capacity” and “ensure its national prominence.”
The University of Minnesota’s Medical School has been conducting research for the past six years on the dolls.University of Minnesota
But the school doesn’t report how much it funnels to its Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, which has a total research budget of $1.4 million, according to its 2025 annual report.
The scandal-plagued governor was even pictured with a wide grin alongside Medical School Associate Professor Nic Rider — co-founder of MyGender Dolls, which is bringing the radical dolls to market.
Walz had a big smile on when he received the sex institute’s award in 2023.Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health
Rider, a psychologist who specializes in children and teen transgender health, goes by they/them pronouns, according to a bio on the medical school’s website.
They didn’t return The Post’s request for comment. Neither did Associate Professor Dianne Berg, the other co-founder — who is a member of the Association for the Treatment of Sex Abusers. But in a since deleted 2020 article in a university publication, Berg boasted about genitals being a key part of the twisted research project.
“Everyone should be learning that there’s diversity in gender identity and that what makes you real is not what your body parts are, but how you think and feel,” she told the university’s Discovery Magazine, adding she had already begun using the dolls with her own patients, who were between 5 and 10 years old.
Nic Rider is one of the co-founders of MyGender Dolls.University of Minnesota
Other therapists from the university’s medical school said they used the dolls to get the kids talking about their private parts.
“We were able to explore and brainstorm not just what our bodies are able to do now but what we want our bodies to do and look like in the future,” bragged Adjunct Assistant Professor Elizabeth Panetta.
Critics say the dolls risk being misused by adults who want to push their ideologies on vulnerable children.
“They will find anybody who’s in trouble and use this as a tool to say, ‘this is why you’re unhappy.’ This is absolutely grooming,” slammed Dr. Quentin Van Meter, past president of the American College of Pediatricians.
“The younger kids — many of them still believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. And you’re then presenting them with paper dolls that kind of look fun, and you can change clothing, hair, genitals… It’s well beyond their ability to sort out fantasy from reality.”
The dolls come with detachable internal and external genitalia, a feature the researchers are especially proud of.University of Minnesota
“It’s profoundly inappropriate.”
When reached by The Post, a university spokesperson claimed no public funds were used “to support MyGender Dolls’ commercialization efforts.”
But when pressed on how much taxpayer money went to research and development of the dolls, and to the salaries of the professors involved in the project, the university refused to answer, telling The Post instead to file a freedom of information request.
Walz’s office did not return The Post’s request for comment.
The Saudi Prince who died in a luxurious London hotel had ingested a huge cocktail of drugs and alcohol, causing him to suffer cardiac arrest, an inquest ruled Thursday.
Abdullah bin Fahad bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Jalawi al Saud, 29, was almost three times the drink-drive limit and had traces of the party drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and Xanax in his system, an inquest at a London coroner’s court heard, according to The Telegraph.
His blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was 0.222%. The legal limit in the UK is 0.08%.
Saudi Prince Abdullah bin Fahad bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Jalawi al Saud died at a Kensington hotel after taking a cocktail of drugs, an inquest heard.Saudi Olympic Committees
The prince was found in his bathroom by a maid at the approximately $800-per-night Marriott Hotel in swanky Kensington, London, on November 25 last year.
Paramedics were unable to resuscitate him and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The court also heard that just three months prior to his death, al Saud was an inpatient at the Priory Clinic in Roehampton, where a single week’s stay can cost up to $47,000.
Dr. Victoria Chamorro, a consultant psychiatrist, said in a statement that he had “engaged well” with his detox treatment at the Priory, which “proceeded without physical side effects,” The Telegraph reported.
He was there to detox from alcohol, benzodiazepines and the anti-anxiety drug pregabalin, the outlet noted.
“He was supportive and kind to his peers, making friends,” Chamorro said.
The Marriott Kensington in London, where the prince suffered cardiac arrest.Universal Images Group via Getty Images
“He was assessed as having symptoms of low mood and anxiety on admission,” she wrote.
“When he was discharged, he was considered not to be at risk of suicide. He was discharged with a friend but then failed to attend scheduled Zoom appointments.
“Nevertheless, there was no concern for him. He engaged well and completed his treatment,” she added.
After the Priory, al Saud also underwent another round of treatment at the $9,200 Rainford Hall clinic in St. Helens, Merseyside.
He reportedly recovered and left the facility on October 14.
A post-mortem examination determined that the royal had suffered cardiac arrest. He was not suffering from any acute or chronic illnesses.
He was last seen on CCTV footage going outside to smoke a cigarette.
British authorities believe that he did not intend to kill himself.
“Passed to the mercy of God Almighty His Highness Prince Abdullah bin Fahd bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed bin Jalawi Al Saud, outside the Kingdom, and will be prayed for today, Tuesday, 11/6/1447 AH, after the Asr prayer at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh,” the Saudi Royal Court said in a statement after his passing.
“May Allah bless him with His mercy, forgiveness and acceptance, and grant him a spacious abode in His Paradise, for we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.”
