Trump Responds To Iranian Demand For Compensation By Also Demanding CompensationPresident Donald Trump demanded compensation from Iran on Monday, in response to Iran’s demands that the U.S. pay compensation for damage caused by an extensive five-month bombing campaign there.While Iran is refusing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz unless Trump bends to its will, Trump has no such leverage. That didn’t stop him from making the claim, however.“I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict,” Trump wrote on social media.“Now I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran,” he added, claiming to speak on behalf of “all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous.”“Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months,” he concluded. “I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any, and all, future negotiations.”Latest Live UpdatesTrump Tries Walking Back 'Lethal' MMR Vaccine Claim Before Saying It 'Can Be Explosive'President Donald Trump first tried hedging a comment he made earlier in his press conference – in which he described the MMR vaccine as “lethal” – before quickly rebounding into his usual hyperbolic language by claiming, without evidence, that the vaccine “can be explosive.”“What I’ve heard is that, there are some people that say it is that way. And I say well, let’s say there’s a 5% chance of it. Let’s split it up, let’s split it up. Because they do say that, given individual[ly], there is no impact,” he said when asked about his claim that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is “lethal.” “In fact, they’ve said how safe it seems to be. But I’ve heard when you put them together, they can be explosive.”The president did not elaborate on who “some people” are. The MMR vaccine has repeatedly been proven safe.Lauren Boebert's Son Facing Child Sex Abuse ChargesTyler Boebert, son of Trump ally Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), is facing several felony charges, including three charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.The charges were first reported by The Denver Gazette.According to court records, the 21-year-old allegedly committed the offenses in 2024, but was not arrested until last week. He was released on a $10,000 bond and will next appear in court in Colorado on Aug. 19.Boebert told the Denver Gazette that she loved her son and was taking the allegations “very seriously.”Tyler Boebert flipped his father’s SUV in 2022, causing a passenger to be hospitalized. He was later arrested in 2024 on 22 criminal charges after a string of robberies and trespass incidents unfolded in Rifle, Colorado. He pleaded guilty to some of those charges.In 2025, he was charged with misdemeanor child abuse after his toddler son wandered away from his mother’s home in Windsor, Colorado.Trump Pushes Debunked Link Between Vaccines And AutismPresident Donald Trump explained that his executive order on childhood MMR vaccinations is structured so children “get 20% of what they would have gotten in one big shot — a big shot like the size of a large glass of something.”The order recommends that the MMR vaccination be split into three separate shots delivered at three separate care appointments. He strongly suggested that, while scientists do not fully understand what causes autism, Monday’s order would likely result in fewer diagnoses. But that suggestion is not backed by science: Evidence does not show a link between childhood vaccinations and autism.“There’s something wrong when we see record numbers, all the time, every year for years and years. Every year gets higher, higher, higher — autism. And we think we have a very good recommendation,” Trump said.He asserted that the worst thing that could come of his new policy would be “nothing,” but recommending parents return for several health care appointments decreases the chance of follow-through, meaning some children may not end up receiving all the shots.Read more here.Todd Blanche Is Officially Sworn In As Attorney GeneralTodd Blanche has officially been sworn in as attorney general of the United States, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posting a video of the private event to social media.The video shows Blanche being sworn in by Circuit Judge Emil Bove inside the Oval Office as President Donald Trump looks on. Bove and Blanche both defended Trump in his New York hush money trial.Trump To Sign Order Splitting Up MMR Vaccine: AxiosIn news sure to irk parents everywhere, President Donald Trump will reportedly sign an executive order this afternoon splitting up the MMR vaccine (“measles, mumps, and rubella”) into three separate shots.So instead of getting one shot that covers three separate diseases, presumably American kids will now have to get three separate shots.A draft of the executive order obtained by Axios says that “the combined MMR vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits.”White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt alluded to the forthcoming order on social media, touting it as “More Vaccine Flexibility And Research.” Health & Human Services Secretary and prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will reportedly be on hand for the signing.Todd Blanche's Swearing-In Will Be Closed To The PressPresident Donald Trump is set to swear in Todd Blanche as the new attorney general any moment now, though the ceremony will be closed to the press.While Blanche’s event wouldn’t be the first time Trump has made such a moment private, major swearing-in ceremonies like Monday’s normally include cameras that air them to the public. The president has no other public events for the rest of the day.Trump Is An ‘Existential Threat’ To America, Hunter Biden SaysHunter Biden sat for a lengthy two-hour interview with Tucker Carlson that premiered today, during which he called President Donald Trump an “existential threat” to America while slightly criticizing people who say he’s merely a symptom of broader political rot.“The one existential threat that I think that we face, as a country, is Donald Trump,” he told Carlson. “I am not this believer that Trump is merely the symptom of a disease. I believe that Trump is central to why this disease has gone from a local epidemic to a pandemic in the United States of America.”Carlson offered the ongoing war in Iran as evidence of one of “the big failures” of the Trump administration, then confusingly suggested that a lack of criticism from Democrats, notably Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), amounts to condoning the war:“I mean you could say lots of things about Trump that are bad, but getting us into a war we can’t win, in which Americans are dying, in Iran, that will only diminish America’s power and bankrupt us — I mean, that’s the only exit — really. And make Iran stronger. And, like, Chuck Schumer is like ‘Yeah it’s bad,’ but of course he endorses it.”Auto Insurers Increasingly Unlikely To Pay Out, WSJ Analysis FindsA Wall Street Journal analysis of auto-insurance liability and medical claims from 2016 to 2025 found insurers are increasingly less likely to pay out. In 2025, 45% of claims went unpaid, up from 35% 10 years ago.The analysis found Farmers, Liberty Mutual and State Farm had the biggest increases in no-payment rates over the decade. Consumer advocates told the outlet insurers are maximizing their profits.Data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence shows auto insurers paid out 61 cents in claims for every dollar in premium, the lowest ratio since 2020.Read more at The Wall Street Journal:Powerful 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Kills At Least 20 In Western ColombiaAt least 20 people were killed and dozens of buildings collapsed in cities across western Colombia on Monday after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the South American nation, trapping residents under debris, leaving more injured and forcing people to evacuate their homes as far as the capital of Bogotá.The epicenter was in San Jose del Palmar, a community of about 4,800 people in the Choco region about 250 miles (400 kilometers) west of Bogota, the U.S. Geological Survey and Colombia’s counterpart reported. The USGS said it struck at a depth of 66 miles (107 kilometers). The quake also was felt in neighboring Ecuador.Read more at The Associated Press:AI Bot Goes Rogue, Hacks Gym Waitlist After Man Asks It To Book Him A ClassAn Australian man is speaking out after he tasked an AI assistant with booking him a gym class, only for it to go rogue and exploit vulnerabilities in the gym’s website, kicking other hopeful attendees off the waitlist.The man, identified only as Andrew, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he hadn’t intended to hack the gym’s booking system and was alarmed it couldn’t undo the damage.“The API has zero authorizations checks on cancelling other people’s reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you’ve moved from #4 to #3 already,” the Claude-based agent told him.Asked to undo it, it replied: “Bad news — I can’t add them back.” In messages seen by ABC, the bot then explained why the “classic one-way security bug” it had exploited was undoable.Read more, via ABC:See All Updates