The anti-gun programs and policies of the Biden-Harris administration have been falling like dominoes, lately.

Election officials are warning that an increase in mail ballots arriving after state deadlines could threaten voting access in the November midterm elections as the U.S. Postal Service confronts delivery concerns and a rapidly changing legal fight over its role in elections.

‘Extraordinary strategic resource’

On August 12, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sent a letter to U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Brian Babin (R-Texas) reiterating what gun rights supporters have long understood – that firearm microstamping is a flawed and ineffective policy.

President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a ten-second A.I.-generated video of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal being “blown to smithereens,” as he put it, shortly after the first U.S. airstrikes against Iran in a month. None of the actual strikes was confirmed to have targeted Kharg Island.

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Tuskegee University's emphasis on a dress code has drawn criticism, but its president Dr. Mark Brown has a simple response in defense of it.

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Thirty-eight people were shot, two of them fatally, during the weekend in Democrat-run Chicago, Illinois.

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Heading into hunting season, America's sportsmen and women have another significant development from the Trump administration worth celebrating.

‘This is something that is authentic to her’

The National Rifle Association is going on the road for the 2026 midterm elections, launching its first-ever national bus tour Thursday to mobilize gun owners across 13 states where control of Congress and statehouses is up for grabs, the group exclusively told The Daily Wire.

More than 2,900 people have died as a result of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, authorities announced Monday.

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday appointed Mazloum Abdi, former chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as one of his presidential advisers. 

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The House of Representatives returns to Washington on Monday for its first week back after a monthlong recess spent campaigning in members’ districts. From crucial spending packages to the SAVE America Act, denouncing socialism, combating transgender ideology, and securing the border, Republicans have a lot to accomplish ahead of the November midterms when they could possibly lose the majority.

The Senate left the House with a new version of a bipartisan continuing resolution. House Speaker Mike Johnson must pass it to fund the government through Dec. 11, which is after the midterms.

While the Senate stayed in town, taking its last vote early on a Saturday morning, it did not leave the House with any Senate-passed SAVE America language. Military spending, Pentagon funding, and the SAVE America language have all been passed by the House and will have to wait until the Senate returns later in September.

But while they wait, there are multiple pieces of Republican-backed legislation they could pass.

Denouncing Socialism and DSA

The House is set to bring forward a resolution condemning and denouncing socialism in all forms and affirming support for secure elections. With the rise of Democratic Socialists of America candidates and the fracturing of the Democratic Party, this resolution could see bipartisan support in the House. 

The resolution, which will have to go through the Rules Committee before appearing on the floor for debate, cites the failures of socialism, including famine and mass murder, leading to “the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide,” and states that “the State of New Jersey registered nearly 6,600 noncitizens to vote, with reportedly hundreds successfully voting in elections.” 

If passed, it would denounce the DSA and socialist policies, reaffirm support for secure elections and that American elections are for American citizens only, and call for the enactment of voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements to close loopholes that allow noncitizens to vote in elections. 

Combating Transgender Ideology

The Chloe Cole Act has been written and sponsored by numerous Republican members across both chambers. The legislation would prohibit prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-related surgeries for anyone under age 18. It would also create a legal path for families to seek financial damages for harm caused by what proponents call gender-affirming care. Just before recess, it passed a key committee stage and is ready to go to the full House for consideration.

If passed, Congress would be codifying President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which calls for “a private right of action for children and the parents of children whose healthy body parts have been damaged by medical professionals practicing chemical and surgical mutilation.”

The Title IX Clarification Act, introduced by Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, would help eliminate transgender ideology by clarifying that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is based on sex rather than identified gender, similar to the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which seeks to amend Title IX to require the same.

Securing the Border

Late in July, House Freedom Caucus members made a deal with Johnson and were allowed to mark up the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, which would do exactly that. It passed out of the Judiciary Committee; however, Johnson has not yet scheduled a vote on it.

Introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, it would permanently secure the border, even after Trump leaves office. Regardless of which party wins the majority, Roy is on a deadline to pass this legislation. Having run and lost the Texas attorney general race, he is leaving Washington in January when his term ends.

Reforming Education

The Less Bureaucracy, Better Education package is another goal Republicans could implement before the midterms. The legislation would carry out President Trump’s plan to shut down the Department of Education, which he says has been failing students and educators, by streamlining education programs and transferring their responsibilities to other agencies.

Introduced by Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., the 10 bills would transfer statutory authority from the Department of Education to other agencies, including the Labor Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, and the Interior Department.

“Washington has prioritized ballooning bureaucracy over effective education policy for too long,” Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action President Dr. Kevin Roberts said in the announcement. “The result was a parasitic Department of Education growing larger and more expensive while student outcomes stagnated. House Republicans are now taking an important step toward excising these bureaucratic leeches by putting students, parents, and taxpayers first.”

THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Eight years before COVID emerged, a journalist issued a prophetic warning that risky viral research could usher in “doomsday” and damage the reputation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthony Fauci groused in an email to an aide about that warning, then instructed the aide to permanently delete the exchange, documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.

The documents add to growing evidence that Fauci destroyed public records despite his sworn testimony that he never did. Deleting government records violates federal law.

Fauci did not respond to a request for comment.

In 2011, the advent of gain-of-function research—experiments that make viruses more infectious or deadly in the lab—caused its first major controversy. With funding from Fauci’s institute at the NIH, Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier had made an airborne strain of a bird flu with an estimated 50% fatality rate, which he described as “probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make.”

Fauci and New York Times science writer Phil Boffey traded barbs in newspaper opinion pages about the work.

Manmade pandemic viruses are a “risk worth taking,” Fauci insisted in a December 2011 Washington Post editorial, because they could help drugmakers and public health get a jump start if they emerge in nature. NIH Director Francis Collins and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Vaccine Research Center Gary Nabel co-authored the op-ed.

The New York Times published an op-ed apparently written by Boffey in January 2012 arguing that NIH created an “engineered doomsday” that could kill “hundreds of millions of people.” The new emails reveal the author of the un-bylined op-ed for the first time.

“The consequences, should the virus escape, are too devastating to risk,” he said in an apparent reference to the title of Fauci’s op-ed.

Boffey wrote a follow-up in March 2012 titled “The Truth About the Doomsday Virus?” Under scrutiny from the press, Fouchier had backpedaled on his earlier statements about his virus’s lethality. Fauci meanwhile pushed to publish the Fouchier experiment despite biosecurity experts’ concerns the information could fall into the hands of a bioterrorist.

As the question marks suggests, Boffey was skeptical of Fouchier’s assurances. Experts who had read his initial description of the experiment said it stated the airborne virus remained as lethal as the natural one, he wrote. 

One sentence really rattled Fauci: “Now, this country’s National Institutes of Health, which financed the research and has its own reputation on the line, is asking the [NSABB] to reconsider its call to redact details before publication.”

“Phil Boffey is really off base here,” Fauci wrote to Collins, on March 4, 2012. “He is acting like a mischievous guy.”

“Clearly, people are getting to Phil Boffey and he is swallowing it,” Fauci sounded off in a more candid email to a subordinate the next morning.

Fauci strongly opposed a recommendation from the NIH’s biosecurity advisors to not publish sensitive details about Fouchier’s experiment. He said that if the advisors did not change their recommendation “the field of research on influenza … has a serious problem.”

“Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file,” Fauci said on his NIH email in apparent violation of federal record-keeping laws.

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul highlighted two other instances of Fauci apparently seeking to delete public records in 2020, despite his sworn testimony before another committee in 2024 that he never did.

Fauci ultimately persuaded NIH’s biosecurity advisors to allow the Fouchier experiment to be published in full.

Boffey and Fouchier did not respond to a request for comment.

Fouchier And COVID’s Origins

When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, Fouchier worked with Fauci and other virologists to downplay the possibility of a lab origin. Fouchier ghostwrote a key argument in “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” a paper dismissing a possible lab origin of COVID. Fauci would frequently cite the paper and its authors over the years without revealing he collaborated with them behind-the-scenes.

Yet privately the paper’s authors described Fouchier as “unbelievably conflicted.”

“Ron … is not going to want it to be a GOF [gain-of-function] escape,” one author said.

Indeed, Fouchier said he didn’t support publicly addressing the possibility of a lab leak in the “Proximal Origin” paper.

Fouchier said that it could lead to “harm to science” through renewed debates about biosafety.

“This manuscript would be much stronger if it focused on the likelihood of the first two scenarios as compared to intentional or accidental release,” Fouchier said. “That would also limit the chance of new biosafety discussions that would unnecessarily obstruct future attempts of virus culturing for research and diagnostic purposes for any (emerging/zoonotic) virus.”

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.