As Israel confronts a multi-front war backed by Iran, an expanding range of battlefield medical innovations developed by the Israeli military is helping save soldiers’ lives—and may also benefit the United States.

News Media received a briefing on Israel’s latest battlefield medicine data and lifesaving results from a senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) medical specialist.

The IDF’s grueling ground offensive against Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, began in the Gaza Strip in October 2023 after the group’s Oct. 7 invasion of Israel. The campaign has driven the introduction of advanced medical tactics in combat.

Hamas murdered more than 1,200 people in southern Israel, including over 40 Americans, and abducted 251 others.

An IDF spokesman described the changes: “The IDF Medical Corps adapted its operational capabilities during the war, including casualty evacuation, innovative medical technologies and providing treatment under fire in challenging terrain.”

The IDF medical specialist told News Media that during the 2006 Second Lebanon War against Hezbollah, “it took 15 to 20 minutes for advanced life support to reach a casualty. Now advanced life support can reach a casualty immediately or within four minutes.”

Positioning more medical personnel on the battlefield—including a doctor in every company—allows the IDF to make crucial treatment decisions earlier, the specialist said. Helicopters also play a central role by transporting critically wounded soldiers to medical facilities, a measure shown in video footage provided to News Media that can help prevent deaths.

The second major improvement is “rapid evacuation,” the specialist said, explaining: “We can evacuate casualties to Israeli hospitals rapidly.”

The IDF has also focused on using blood products to control severe bleeding since 2013, the specialist said. He added that the IDF is the first medical organization to use plasma at the point of injury instead of salt and water.

The military introduced a sophisticated system for rapidly delivering blood to wounded troops. In one example, first responders carried blood in coolers on their backs to help control hemorrhaging. According to the specialist, the approach “saved significant numbers” of injured soldiers.

Another wartime improvement involves an “advanced system of learning and the collection of data that transmits the data over technical networks so that every provider can see patient data.”

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The specialist said, “Every relevant medical officer in the chain can see the patient data. This system had very good results.”

The case mortality rate is the key measure for evaluating battlefield care, the specialist said. IDF data show a substantial improvement: The mortality rate fell from 15% during the 2006 war against Hezbollah to 7.1% in 2023.

The IDF medical system has drawn on the foundational 2012 U.S. study “Death on the battlefield (2001–2011): Implications for the future of combat casualty care,” which examined American medical support during the Iraq War.

Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News’ senior medical analyst, clinical professor of medicine and practicing internist at NYU Langone Medical Center, told News Media: “Battlefield advances based on the latest technologies developed in Israel, including surgical techniques and the latest burn treatment, Nexobrid, help not just today’s wounded but fuel medical and surgical advances around the world.”

Siegel’s latest book “The Angels Among Us: How God’s Messengers Play a Role in Healing,” features a chapter involving a medical rescue during the Gaza war.

The U.S. Army and the IDF have been cooperating in how to advance battlefield medicine for years.

According to an April 2026 U.S. military report titled “Israeli Defense Force Medical Lessons Learned,” the American military authors explained in the 78-page study the pressing need to absorb Israel’s advances from the start of the Swords of Iron War campaign in 2023.

The U.S. Army wrote, “In the fields of operational health and force readiness, the IDF executed proactive public health measures – including robust bio-surveillance, forward-positioned preventive medicine teams and stringent food safety protocols – to mitigate health threats and maintain operational readiness.”

The American army warned that “Despite Israel’s preparations, it had to undergo a painful process of transformation in contact that the U.S. now has the opportunity to avoid. The time for preparation is now. Simply possessing clinical and tactical skills is insufficient.”

An IDF spokesman told News Media that the U.S. Army study of Israel’s emergency health care providers during the wars” was a joint collaboration, and American officers came to learn from the IDF.”

New text messages obtained by the Daily Mail offer a closer look at the reported turmoil behind Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ended engagement.

Eric Deters, a Kentucky attorney and Republican donor whose exchanges with Guilfoyle were previously reported by the Wall Street Journal, says he witnessed the relationship’s deterioration after hosting the pair at his events for several years.

Deters founded the annual Patriot’s Day Freedom Fest in 2020 as a protest against COVID-19 medical mandates. The gathering quickly became a showcase for prominent MAGA figures.

In the weeks before the festival, however, there appeared to be no obvious sign of trouble.  

On August 6, 2024, Guilfoyle texted Deters to wish him a happy birthday, signing the message from herself and Don Jr. 

‘Hey Eric happy birthday from me and Don Jr. Hope you have a great day!!!’ she wrote.

By the time the festival took place on September 14, 2024, Deters says the atmosphere between Guilfoyle and Don Jr. had become noticeably cold.

Deters claims Don Jr. avoided sitting beside Guilfoyle or speaking with her during the airport transfers and inside the VIP tent. The strained interaction was reportedly noticed by people working at and attending the event. 

Deters also told the Daily Mail that Guilfoyle, concerned Don Jr. might be upset if he saw her drinking, asked Deters’ wife and a friend to discreetly bring her alcohol during the festival. He compared the alleged effort to hiding drinks from parents as a teenager. 

Guilfoyle’s taste for Champagne and social events has been widely reported. After she was selected as President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece, people close to her reportedly advised her to exercise restraint, emphasizing that a posting among the Aegean islands and a warm climate did not amount to an invitation to party constantly.

Deters said that after the festival, Guilfoyle asked to take all of the remaining catered food from the VIP area home—a request he regarded as unusual.

He also said she asked him to praise her in front of Don Jr., allegedly hoping to improve the strained relationship and regain his approval. 

The day after the festival, the Daily Mail published an exclusive report featuring photographs of Don Jr. in an affectionate moment with Bettina Anderson, who is now his wife, during a private brunch.

The images were taken on August 17, 2024, and witnesses said the pair kissed several times. 

Two days after the report appeared, Deters texted Guilfoyle to check on her following the relationship revelations described by the Daily Mail. She responded angrily and repeatedly insisted that there were no problems in “Jr. World.”

But text messages show the discord behind the scenes. 

‘You doing ok?’ Deters texted on September 17, 2024. ‘Saw the Daily Mail report. I have that app. I could tell Saturday that you were hurting.’

Deters was referring to the day they had spent together at the Freedom Fest.  

Guilfoyle snapped back, calling the story ‘fake news,’ and insisting, ‘I wasn’t hurting wtf.’

In another undated exchange, Guilfoyle complained about Don Jr’s now wife, while appearing to dismiss the same reporting. 

‘I was having a f***ing great time Saturday and we had a f***ing amazing time when we got home Saturday night that’s nonsense. That’s his ex-wife’s friend,’ Guilfoyle writes in the text to Deters.

‘It’s all lies, but she’s a cloud chasing horror that plays the story in the Daily Mail to get attention,’ she says in the text, falsely claiming that Bettina sent her own bikini photographs to be included. 

The reference to ‘his ex-wife’s friend’ likely means Vanessa Trump, who shares five children with her ex-husband Don Jr.

Vanessa and Bettina were friends when Bettina started dating Don Jr, later marrying him in May 2026.

‘What a c***,’ Deters responded to Guilfoyle’s messages about Bettina at the time. ‘To increase her exposure.’

A source close to Bettina and Don Jr called Guilfoyle ‘clearly delusional.’

‘There is zero truth to her claim that Bettina had anything to do with that story,’ the source said.

Guilfoyle and Don Jr first started dating midway through his father’s initial presidential term. After getting engaged in 2020, the couple called it quits four years later, after Don Jr was spotted growing close to Bettina.

Months later, Trump nominated Guilfoyle as Ambassador to Greece in December 2024.

Following her Senate confirmation last September, Guilfoyle’s tenure as ambassador has been mired in controversy.

The Daily Mail reported earlier this week that the State Department is officially investigating complaints into her allegedly ‘tyrannical’ leadership and lavish corporate perks and Champagne-filled lifestyle.

The Trump administration is facing mounting pressure following the revelation of the probe, in addition to Wall Street Journal reporting on leaked texts between Guilfoyle and Deters detailing a $100,000 payoff request for an Amex bill. 

Trump’s top deputies, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have been pressed about her conduct this week. 

A touchy Rubio snapped at reporters asking about Guilfoyle’s controversies while on official travel to Greece this week, saying ‘I don’t even know what’s true or not true.’

‘You guys somehow walk around thinking that because some source told you something and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel. It’s not the gospel for me.’

Vance similarly brushed aside questions, calling them ‘hypothetical,’ but admitted that he ‘doesn’t love’ what’s being reported on her spending and expenses.

‘Well, so… with that hypothetical, obviously I don’t love that, but I, you know, I don’t know exactly who you’re talking about,’ he said. ‘I don’t know the full details.’ 

Deters went on to tell the Daily Mail that during the festival, Don Jr was seemingly focused entirely on his political strategy.

He claimed that Don Jr privately boasted to him that he used all of his ‘political capital’ to secure JD Vance on the presidential ticket in 2024, adding that the move set him up well for 2028 with Vance at the top of the ticket.

Trump tapped Vance, a young Senate rookie, during the Republican National Convention in July 2024, days after he survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally. 

The travel arrangements for the 2024 event were equally fraught, as the couple arrived on separate flights at different airports, according to Deters. Don Jr landed at private airport Lunken, while Guilfoyle arrived at Cincinnati’s main airport, about 30 minutes away.

After picking up Guilfoyle, Deters says he was forced to drive at extreme speeds to meet Don Jr before he disembarked, earning himself the nickname ‘Jason Statham’ from Guilfoyle.

The high-speed drive turned chaotic when Deters accidentally missed an exit and drove his SUV down a steep grass embankment. 

As Guilfoyle and her assistant, Cassidy, bounced around the cabin, Guilfoyle shrieked: ‘I might lose my breast implants!’ according to Deters.

Behind closed doors, Guilfoyle’s frustration with the event and the Trump family erupted when she reportedly candidly branded all Trump men as ‘narcissistic a**holes,’ according to Deters.

The State Department and Guilfoyle’s lawyer did not return the Daily Mail’s requests for comment. 

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Records show that the kratom industry has invested millions of dollars in political action committees, candidate campaigns and lobbying operations as it works to prevent broad bans on opioid-like products and persuade policymakers to focus instead on synthetic versions.

The American Kratom Association has emerged as the industry’s leading political force, spending more than $1 million on lobbying during the past decade, including $443,000 so far this year, according to OpenSecrets.com.

Among the group’s prominent lobbyists are Mac Haddow, a veteran Capitol Hill power broker and former Reagan administration official, and David Carlucci, a former Democratic state senator from Rockland County.

Botanic Tonics, an Oklahoma supplement company founded by Jerry W. Ross, has also helped drive a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign. The effort used private meetings with senior federal officials to promote the purported benefits of natural kratom leaves, which come from a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia.

According to The New York Times, the campaign included $1.1 million in contributions to political action committees connected to former presidential candidate and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, along with another $443,000 given to the Republican National Committee. The spending helped arrange a private meeting between Ross and Vice President JD Vance to discuss possible restrictions on high-potency 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, and other synthetic kratom products while seeking protections for natural supplements.

Ross’s allies also established an organization called “Stop Gas Station Heroin,” which portrayed natural kratom as the safer alternative. Records show the group paid at least $750,000 to Checkmate Government Relations, a lobbying firm owned by Kennedy ally Ches McDowell.

The strategy of promoting natural kratom while pushing for restrictions on synthetic products proved successful in New York, according to state Assemblyman Phil Steck.

Steck, a Democrat from the upstate Capital Region, sponsored legislation that would prohibit synthetic kratom statewide. The measure passed the Legislature in June but has yet to be signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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Steck said he would also support banning natural, or “distilled,” kratom, citing what he described as “dangerous side effects.” He acknowledged that the risks may not be as severe as those associated with synthetic kratom.

However, Steck said legislative leaders and Hochul’s administration declined to pursue the broader restrictions.

Haddow, who also serves as the American Kratom Association’s senior fellow for public policy, defended the industry’s spending on lobbying and political contributions. He said the money is intended to give natural kratom advocates “a seat at the table” and help ensure that policymakers treat the competing sides fairly. He added that companies involved with synthetic kratom use similar tactics.

“It’s not a perfect system … but in order to have access to these [government] offices we have to retain lobbyists,” Haddow said.

Haddow also argued that natural kratom provides significant health benefits. He said the nation’s roughly 24 million kratom users primarily turn to the products for energy, relief from anxiety and depression, help managing chronic pain and support in overcoming opioid addiction.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it was moving to intensify enforcement against synthetic kratom, following recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Representatives for HHS declined to discuss the industry’s lobbying campaign. Kennedy, however, praised the new guidance in a statement, saying, “We are drawing a clear line between natural kratom and dangerous, enhanced opioid products.”

Additional reporting by Geoff Earle.

Ella Langley’s Friday night concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was canceled after officials received what was described as a “serious security threat.” Tulsa police later said they found no credible threat, and an investigation remains underway.

The “Choosin’ Texas” singer was scheduled to perform at the BOK Center as part of her ongoing Dandelion Tour.

In a video posted to Facebook Friday evening, Tulsa Police Department Capt. Richard Meulenberg said officers conducted a pre-concert sweep of the venue with bomb-detection dogs.

The initial search uncovered no threats, and authorities cleared the concert to go ahead.

Police later received a call warning that people at the event could be seriously injured by gunfire and bombs. Officers returned to the BOK Center and carried out another search with bomb-detection dogs, but again found no credible threat.

Authorities said they told the performers that the additional searches had not identified a credible threat. The performers ultimately made the decision to cancel the show.

A spokesperson said later Friday that the FBI was assisting with the investigation but did not provide additional details.

Langley and the BOK Center announced the cancellation in a statement Friday afternoon, saying a security threat involving the singer and “the safety of fans, venue personnel” had prompted the decision.

“The safety and well-being of everyone is our absolute priority, and after careful consideration, we have determined that the show cannot proceed,” the statement said.

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It added, “We understand the disappointment this news brings and apologize to fans who planned to attend. The safety of fans is our foremost concern and will always come first.”

Details about ticket refunds will be released as soon as possible, according to the statement.

In the caption accompanying her post, Langley said the decision to cancel the concert “was made under the advisement of local authorities, the venue, and my security team.”

“I know how much time, track, money, and planning goes into coming to a show, and I can’t tell you how sorry I am,” she wrote. “This is not a decision that was made lightly. I was so looking forward to spending tonight with you, but your safety will always mean more to me than anything else. I refuse to put anyone in harm’s way.”

Langley launched her Dandelion Tour in May in Toledo, Ohio. The tour supports her second studio album, also titled Dandelion.

Earlier this week, the country singer performed at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.

Her next scheduled performance is Oct. 10 in Lubbock, Texas, followed by a two-night engagement at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre. The Dandelion Tour is set to conclude Oct. 31 at Grand Casino Arena in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

An attorney for one of the men accused in a civil lawsuit involving a Cornell University student identified as “Jane Doe” is asking a court to remove New York Attorney General Letitia James from the criminal investigation. The filing claims James demonstrated bias and reached conclusions about the case before being appointed special prosecutor.

Teny Geragos, the daughter of high-profile defense lawyer Mark Geragos, submitted the motion Thursday in Tompkins County Court. She argued that statements James made publicly in support of the accuser had potentially influenced or prejudiced grand jurors.

The filing points specifically to a social media message James posted Sept. 28, the day Van Houten announced that he would reopen the investigation.

“What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I’m holding her in my heart and in my prayers,” James wrote. “To her, and to all survivors: you’re not alone. We stand with you.”

Geragos contended that the post suggested James had already determined that the seven fraternity members identified in the earlier civil lawsuit were responsible, even though she had not yet reviewed any evidence in the matter.

“The public cannot, and should not, have any confidence in the investigation or charging decisions of someone who has clearly prejudged the guilt of individuals who the law presumes are innocent,” Geragos wrote. “The AG should be removed.”

The defense filing also alleged that Gov. Kathy Hochul chose James because of those public comments and suggested the governor expects the special investigation to reach a predetermined result.

A Hochul spokesperson referred News Media to the governor’s response at an Oct. 2 news conference when she was asked about James’s post.

“I will answer that. I have every confidence in our Attorney General to do what she has always done: look at the facts, examine the record and draw the proper conclusions. That’s exactly what’s going to happen in this case,” Hochul said.

The New York Attorney General’s Office did not immediately respond to News Media’s request for comment.

Geragos filed her motion shortly after another man named in the civil lawsuit asked Albany State Supreme Court to remove James, likewise alleging that her public statements showed bias.

The former Cornell student whose allegations prompted the investigation filed the civil lawsuit in September. She accused seven former members of the Chi Phi fraternity of drugging and raping her during the night of Oct. 19, 2024, and into the following morning.

According to the complaint, Doe arrived at the fraternity house already intoxicated and was later pressured to use ketamine and other drugs. The men have rejected the accusations. Some say the sexual activity was consensual, while others deny taking part altogether.

Doe’s complaint says the fraternity was suspended Nov. 8, 2024—the same day she reported the alleged sexual assault to campus police.

Van Houten, who initially chose not to bring criminal charges, has said Doe’s sworn statement from November 2024 did not claim that she was involuntarily drugged or subjected to a gang rape. Instead, he said, the statement characterized her drug use and sexual activity as “voluntary, conscious, and consensual.”