The UFC 250 event at the White House was an unabashed celebration of America’s 250th anniversary and patriotism toward the United States. Which is precisely why so many on the political left were, and are, furious about it.Unsurprisingly for such a large, historic event, there were notable attendees from all across different fields and professions. Including comedian Nate Bargatze. Bargatze, who steadfastly avoids politics in his comedy and in his personal life, was photographed at the UFC White House event.Harmless enough, right? It’s a non-political event, showcasing one of the most popular sports in the country. But in the world of the extraordinarily angry online left, it was evidence that Bargatze is fascist. Seriously. “Comedian” and former television show host W. Kamau Bell attacked Bargatze for existing at the White House, saying in a new Substack post on the 10 rules he invented for “nice White guys” that going there made him part of “Team Fascism.”DANA WHITE DENIES AMERICA 250 UFC FIGHT AT WHITE HOUSE WILL BE ‘POLITICAL,’ ‘NOT AT ALL’ ABOUT POLITICS”Don’t be in a photo with fascists,” Bell wrote. “The easiest way to not be photographed with fascists is to not go to places where fascists coagulate.””If you…

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Congress on Wednesday for $87.6 billion in additional funding, most of it for “urgent needs” related to the Iran war, as well as for a response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa.The request, posted on the White House website, included $67.15 billion for the military. The White House said the request includes $21 billion for the Pentagon to procure munitions, strengthen the U.S. industrial base and support critical capabilities.It also includes $500 million for Global Health Security to prevent, detect and respond to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and other countries. “This funding is critical to protect Americans, and stop the spread to the United States,” the White House said. The request seeks $800 million in international humanitarian assistance to support the response to the Ebola virus outbreak in Central Africa, including a quarantine facility in Kenya.It also contains $11.1 billion to support U.S. farmers. Read the full article here

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Progressive candidate Iván Cepeda on Wednesday conceded Colombia’s presidential election to conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump.The concession came days after Cepeda initially refused to acknowledge defeat following preliminary results that showed de la Espriella as the apparent winner. “At this stage of the vote count, I have decided to accept the result emerging from that process, which indicates that Abelardo de la Espriella is the new President of the Republic,” Cepeda said in an address to the nation. “I do so as an act of democratic responsibility.”TRUMP SAYS COLOMBIA’S ‘EL TIGRE’ WILL BE A ‘GREAT PRESIDENT’ AS SOCIALIST OPPONENT LAUNCHES LEGAL CHALLENGE De la Espriella, a businessman and lawyer who had never previously run for office, known to his supporters as “El Tigre,” defeated Senate member Iván Cepeda by one percentage point in a remarkably close election, according to officials. “The vote count shows an extraordinarily narrow margin between the two options vying for the trust of the Colombian people,” he said. “Less than 1% of the vote separates the candidacies that participated in this contest.”Despite his concession, Cepeda made serious allegations that de la Espriella’s victory was…

The order had already come down. The assault on a fortified Mahdi Army position in the Iraqi city of Karbala was off. It was August 2004. Army Col. Peter Mansoor and his brigade had spent days preparing to clear the enemy stronghold, located across from one of Shia Islam’s holiest sites. Then coalition officials canceled the operation, deciding the political risks were too high. The enemy remained in place. Mansoor still had an AC-130 gunship circling overhead. There was no instruction manual for what happened next. Leveraging years of experience at the National Training Center with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Mansoor improvised. He moved a tank company to probe the perimeter of an area coalition ground forces had been ordered to avoid. The maneuver drew enemy fire, allowing the gunship to strike the militants’ positions. “Doctrine didn’t tell me to do that,” said Mansoor, who has since retired. As thousands of post-9/11 veterans approach retirement eligibility, military leaders and veterans interviewed by Military Times said the challenge faced by the U.S. military today extends beyond replacing personnel to preserving the judgment, leadership experience and combat intuition accumulated during two decades of war. Mansoor and retired Marine officer and defense…

France has just confirmed its first Ebola case. The patient is a doctor who had returned from a mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). The health ministry said the patient has a “very low” viral load and that contacts are “currently being identified”. The organization “confirms today the identification of a first positive case of Ebola virus disease on national territory”, said a statement. This is the first time Ebola has ever been detected in France, and the case is the first of the deadly hemorrhagic fever to be identified outside the African continent during the current outbreak, which has also affected Uganda. The doctor has been isolated in France, since before the disease was identified, according to the health ministry. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu is monitoring the situation “very closely”, his office said, according to a report by France 24.  This is DR Congo’s 17th Ebola outbreak, although this one is presenting unprecedented problems with both treatment and containment. The Bundibugyo strain, which is the one currently circulating, has no vaccine or treatment. Vaccine candidates are being fast-tracked, but nothing has made it to the public so far. Containment is difficult right now as the outbreak…

Final Hump Day of June. Is that right? Let’s see … how’s the song go, again?Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November …Ah yes, that’s right! So we ARE in the final Wednesday of the month. Wow. Time flies. Feels like we were just celebrating a Memorial Day Hump Day, and now we’re one week from the Fourth of July.These Dog Days are BARKING right now. We’re cruising. This time next month, we’ll have a FIFA champion, MLB will be fresh off its All-Star Game with the trade deadline approaching, and NFL training camps will be underway.Who has it better than us? Dumb question, of course. It’s nobody. Nobody has it better than us.Let’s roll.Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham continues to dominate the WNBA, one finger-wag at a time.WNBA’S SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM’S LATEST VIRAL ATTIRE CELEBRATES HER LOVE OF BBQ, CORNHOLE GOLF COURSE & HOT STEAKS! What else? I’ve got an emergency landing in Alaska that left me queasy, Buster Posey looks like he’s being held hostage, and Paige Spiranac is ready to celebrate America’s 250th birthday.Pageviews has had a rough year, but the #content lately has been top-notch. She’s getting back to…

The United States, Britain, France and Germany raised the alarm on Wednesday over recent Chinese activities off the east coast of Taiwan where China has mounted Coast Guard patrols, saying they threaten regional stability and freedom of navigation.China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, sent Coast Guard ships earlier in June into the waters off the island’s east coast for what it called a “special maritime traffic law-enforcement operation,” angering Taipei.China said the operation was in response to an announcement by Japan and the Philippines that they would begin formal talks on their maritime boundaries, which Beijing viewed as involving Chinese waters off Taiwan.China has also been sending maritime survey ships into the same waters.“China’s actions are deeply destabilizing,” a U.S. State Department spokesperson said regarding reports that Chinese Coast Guard vessels were harassing commercial ships.“We reject any assertion by China of authority to interfere with freedoms of navigation or overflight, the freedom to lay cables, or other lawful uses of the sea,” the U.S. official said, adding that Beijing was undermining the peaceful resolution of issues that it claims to seek.The de facto British, French and German embassies in Taipei said in a separate but rare…

Australia is experiencing a bird flu outbreak. It has ramped up surveillance procedures after just two cases of ⁠the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu were confirmed in migratory seabirds. It does claim that other birds could also have contracted the virus. Tests are underway in South Australia (SA) after two dead sub-Antarctic seabirds and a pelican ​were found on Monday near Fowlers Bay, more than 1,200 ‌kilometers east of Esperance in Western Australia, (WA) where the first ​two confirmed cases were reported, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), as reported by The Japan Times. Both bird in Fowlers Bay tested negative for the virus, according to a report by ABC.  South Australia state Primary Industries Minister Claire Scriven told ABC Radio at the time, that it could be a few days before the results of the possible cases come back. “In terms of the ⁠turnaround times, it sort of depends on the outcomes … we hope this doesn’t get to South Australia, but we know, ​of course, that it may,” ⁠Scriven said. The third case of bird flu was confirmed in a migratory bird on Australia’s southern coast, with a giant petrel testing positive in SA. South Australian Premier…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller argued Tuesday that the Democratic Party has fundamentally transformed as progressive candidates continue to win primaries across the country.”[We have to] explain to the American people that Democrats you grew up with, the Democrats that your mom and dad grew up with, the Democrats that your grandma and grandpa grew up with, do not exist anymore at all, not at any level of government,” Miller said.”A vote for any Democrat, anywhere, for any office, is empowering a party that wants to strip this country to the bone, to take away our security, our defense, our way of life.”FAR-LEFT GROUPS PIVOT FROM MAY DAY PROTESTS TO MOBILIZE VOTERS FOR 2026 MIDTERMS, PUSHING DEMS LEFTWARD Miller’s warning came during a “Hannity” appearance, where he discussed Tuesday night’s New York primary victories for Zohran Mamdani-backed candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez and Brad Lander.Far-left progressivism and Democratic socialism are spreading beyond New York State, however. In Maine, progressive Graham Platner secured a primary victory earlier this month and will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November’s general election.In other races, Democratic socialist Nithya Raman…

A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced to six life sentences for shooting and wounding his fiance and four other soldiers at a Georgia base last August, the service said in a Tuesday statement. Sgt. Quornelius S. Radford, 29, was convicted by a military judge of attempting to murder six people during a shooting spree at his unit headquarters at Fort Stewart, the Army Office of Special Trial Counsel said. All five shooting victims survived after soldiers overpowered Radford and administered first aid until emergency medical providers arrived. Radford was found guilty of two specifications of attempted premeditated murder and four specifications of attempted unpremeditated murder. In late March, he pleaded guilty to one specification of domestic violence, one specification of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon, and four specifications of aggravated assault by inflicting grievous bodily harm.The former automated logistics sergeant was assigned to A Company, 703rd Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division. He was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences with the possibility of parole, reduction in rank, a dishonorable discharge and the forfeiture of all pay and allowances. On Aug. 6, 2025, Radford argued with his fiancé and then drove to Fort Stewart…