WATCH: Mauricio Ruffy Quotes John 3:16 After Defeating Michael Chandler at UFC Freedom 250: ‘Jesus Saved My Life… Give Your Life to Jesus’

Brazilian fighter Mauricio Ruffy did not enter the Octagon at UFC Freedom 250 as the crowd favorite in his bout against “Iron” Michael Chandler, but he left the Octagon as the favorite.

After a convincing win over a legendarily tough fighter in Chandler, Ruffy used his post-fight interview to praise Jesus Christ. Specifically, he quoted John 3:16 and called people to give their lives to Christ.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life,” Ruffy said. “Jesus saved my life; he wants to save your life, too. Give your life to Jesus.”

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Actor Rainn Wilson: Cancel Culture Would Make ‘The Office’ Impossible Today

Actor Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute on The Office, has claimed that his iconic show would not be possible today due to cancel culture and political divisions.

Wilson told Fox News over the weekend that The Office would likely face an uphill battle in this current political climate, adding that show would need to jettison some of its politically incorrect jokes.

“I do feel like you couldn’t make The Office today,” Wilson said. “I think that would be too hard to be as politically incorrect as the show was. And I do, I do kind of miss that.”

While Wilson appreciated how the show poked fun at both his character and Steve Carell’s, he felt that would not be enough to assuage audiences on the more “inappropriate stuff.”

“We milked that for a lot of great, really inappropriate stuff,” Wilson said. “But even with the fact that painting that character as just an idiot, I don’t think you could get away with it today.” (Read more from “Actor Rainn Wilson: Cancel Culture Would Make ‘The Office’ Impossible Today” HERE)

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‘120 labs’: New Intelligence Drop Reveals Shocking Truth About Claims of US-Funded Ukrainian Biolabs

After years of accusations and abuse, those who have warned about previously concealed biolabs performing potentially dangerous work have seemingly been vindicated.

On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard broke “new ground” with the release of new information regarding the existence and United States’ funding of “more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.”

Blaze News previously reported that Gabbard has been calling for the investigation and increased oversight of the alleged foreign labs for at least four years, during which time she has been called a traitor for “parroting false Russian propaganda” by failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney, for example.

Now in a position to take action on this issue, Gabbard has begun the release of never-before-seen evidence of United States-funded biolabs, many of which are in Ukraine and which she said “could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.” (Read more from “‘120 labs’: New Intelligence Drop Reveals Shocking Truth About Claims of US-Funded Ukrainian Biolabs” HERE)

Trump’s Top Advisers used the White House Situation Room — Normally Reserved for National Security — to Manage the Epstein Files Crisis

By Oregon Live. President Donald Trump’s top advisers conducted multiple meetings in the White House Situation Room without the president last summer as they tried to decide what to do about the Jeffrey Epstein files.

That’s according to The New York Times, which published a detailed report Wednesday about the White House’s struggles as it faced a ballooning political problem around Trump’s refusal to release the files pertaining to the late sex offender.

Vice President JD Vance, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche and FBI director Kash Patel were among those who attended the meetings. The Times report details infighting that unfolded as officials hunkered down in the Situation Room, a place normally reserved for matters of national security, to navigate the crisis.

Vance advocated for releasing all the files, even ones that included unsubstantiated claims about Trump. But that view wasn’t popular with the Trump team. Wiles reportedly later said privately that Vance was an Epstein conspiracy theorist. Distrust between then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI’s Patel and Dan Bongino apparently boiled over.

There was “surreal” debate over an uncorroborated claim made against Trump years earlier and whether the president would be OK with releasing it. The claim was about Trump “flicking and sucking a young woman’s nipples,” The Times reported. (Read more from “Trump’s Top Advisers used the White House Situation Room — Normally Reserved for National Security — to Manage the Epstein Files Crisis” HERE)

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‘Was Never In On This’: Top Official Reportedly Stormed Out Over Epstein Cover-Up, Stayed Only to Save Trump from a Bigger Disaster

By Atlanta Black Star. One of President Donald Trump’s most loyal public defenders had spent years telling his podcast audience that the truth about Jeffrey Epstein was being hidden from the American people.

Now, according to a detailed account from The New York Times excerpted from Times reporters’ upcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino entered the FBI’s top ranks promising transparency on the Epstein case, only to become increasingly frustrated by a White House strategy he believed would convince Trump supporters that information was still being withheld.

As senior administration officials scrambled to contain the fallout, Bongino was reportedly reaching a breaking point.

The Times investigation into the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files portrays Vice President JD Vance as one of the strongest internal voices pushing for broader disclosure while depicting Bongino as increasingly enraged by what he viewed as a disastrous effort to shut down public demands for transparency.

The report suggests Bongino repeatedly warned White House officials that the issue was not going away, resisted being tied to the administration’s approach, and at one point threatened to walk away entirely before advisers persuaded him to stay to avoid inflicting political damage on Trump. (Read more from “‘Was Never In On This’: Top Official Reportedly Stormed Out Over Epstein Cover-Up, Stayed Only to Save Trump from a Bigger Disaster” HERE)

Trump Can Counter Media’s Iran Coverage By Being Honest About The War

Fox News hosted President Trump on Thursday to talk about the progress of the war in Iran, and he did the usual, which is to say he declared the war effectively complete, while at the same time acknowledging that it’s actually still ongoing. And then he dumped all over the admittedly fallacious news media for its war reporting, saying that for Iran, “The only thing they have is fake news,” which he accused of doing Tehran’s “publicity.”

Here’s the problem with that: A lot of us who are rooting for a successful end to this conflict aren’t so upset with the media. We know how they operate. What’s frustrating us to the point of furious tears are the wildly inconsistent, contradictory and otherwise obviously untrue statements Trump is making about the war on a near-daily basis.

Literally since the start of the war, the president has said it’s over; that it’s still going; that we’re close to a deal with Iran; that Iran isn’t really trying to make a deal; that Iran really wants a deal; that Iran needs to open the Hormuz Strait; that the Hormuz Strait would be open in short order; that we control the strait; that the U.S. wants help from other allies; that the U.S. doesn’t need help from any allies; that Iran must unconditionally surrender; that a deal might not include unconditional surrender; that regime change is a requirement to end the war; that the war might very well end with the existing regime.

Here are just a few of Trump’s real-life, whiplashing inducing declarations on the war since early March, in reverse chronological order:

“[I] have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening.”— June 11

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Clinton Judge Brazenly gives White House Ultimatum over Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema has told the Trump administration that unless it provides statements denying the establishment of the “anti-weaponization” fund, a lawsuit would continue against the president.

The lawsuit against the fund was filed by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has argued that the billion-dollar fund was just another mechanism for the president to pay off his friends and allies.

President Donald Trump has touted the need for the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate Americans who have been unfairly prosecuted by the government, including J6ers.

The fund was created in a settlement after the president dropped his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax documents.

Administration lawyers argued that the issue was moot, citing testimony from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who told members of the U.S. House that it would not go through. However, he would not provide a written statement saying the same. (Read more from “Clinton Judge Brazenly gives White House Ultimatum over Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund” HERE)

Federal Judge Rules She Lacks Authority to Reinstate Fired Yosemite Ranger who Flew Trans Pride Flag

A federal judge ruled on Friday that she has no authority to reinstate a park ranger who was fired from Yosemite last summer after flying a trans pride flag on their day off.

Shannon “SJ” Joslin, who identifies as nonbinary, sued the Department of the Interior, which includes the National Park Service, earlier this year after being fired for hanging the flag across the park’s El Capitan rock formation in California last year.

The former ranger in their lawsuit asked the Biden-appointed judge to reinstate Joslin and to keep the government from launching a criminal investigation.

Joslin had argued in the lawsuit that the government had “enforced its rules selectively based on the message that the pride flag sends,” and that Joslin’s firing was “vindictive, retaliatory, [and] intended to communicate disapproval of a particular point of view.”

U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston wrote in her ruling obtained by Fox News Digital: “The government claims for its part that Joslin was fired for reasons that had ‘nothing to do’ with “speech,” adding, “But the government has another more fundamental and more persuasive point: under the laws that Congress has passed, and under the legal precedent that a federal trial court must follow, this Court does not have authority to decide whether Joslin was fired for unconstitutional or illegal reasons, nor to block a hypothetical criminal case against them.” (Read more from “Federal Judge Rules She Lacks Authority to Reinstate Fired Yosemite Ranger who Flew Trans Pride Flag” HERE)

Justice! Scottish Axe Girl Vindicated after Judge’s Epic Ruling: ‘F*****g creep and an immigrant’

The trial for a Bulgarian immigrant to Scotland took an unexpected turn when the judge made a ruling surrounding claims of racism.

Ilia Belov, a 22-year-old Bulgarian immigrant, was convicted on Thursday following a violent incident with a group of young girls that took place last September, resulting in one female, then 12 years old, being dubbed the “Scottish axe girl.”

The young lady and her family had said for months that she had acted in self-defense when she wielded an axe and a blade in order to protect herself and her friends from abusive migrants.

This week, the judge of Dundee Sheriff Court, Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith, convicted Belov after seeing what was described as “proof beyond reasonable doubt.”

As reported by the Irish News, Scottish axe girl, now 13, claimed Belov made sexual remarks to her as she and friends walked to a bus stop: “He kept saying, ‘Come here sexy. I will show you how to have a good time,'” the girl recalled. She also said Belov shoved her to the ground while his sister, whom he called for help, arrived and attacked another girl. (Read more from “Justice! Scottish Axe Girl Vindicated after Judge’s Epic Ruling: ‘F*****g creep and an immigrant’” HERE)

Trump Executes Leader of Notorious Venezuelan Gang Tren De Aragua with Lethal Strike

Donald Trump announced the killing of Tren De Aragua cartel leader Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, aka ‘Nino,’ in a swift and lethal kinetic strike’ by US Southern Command.

The President has made protecting the border and taking down criminal gangs and cartels a priority in his second term and celebrated the killing of the leader of what he called ‘one of the most bloodthirsty Terrorist Organizations on Planet Earth.’

‘Early in my Administration, I delivered on my promise to designate Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, deport thousands of evil criminals, and wage war against the Cartels, who have long been waging war against our Citizens, while weak leaders left America helpless and defensive,’ he wrote on Truth Social.

The President shared a video of the fiery strikes to his social media page.

Trump also thanked Venezuela for coordinating the strike with US Southern Command. (Read more from “Trump Executes Leader of Notorious Venezuelan Gang Tren De Aragua with Lethal Strike” HERE)

Trump’s Explosive Secret Call with Charlie Kirk over Epstein just Weeks Before TPUSA Boss’ Assassination

Donald Trump ‘scolded’ Charlie Kirk over his criticism of the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, according to an upcoming book.

Trump told aides he was unhappy with Kirk, along with other influential supporters, for framing the botched release of the files as a ‘cover-up’ and pleading for further disclosure. . .

Kirk hosted a Turning Point USA event on July 11 that became a platform for young MAGA supporters to bash then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and her handling of the Epstein files.

Trump later called Kirk to reprimand him, according to Regime Change, the book by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

Days after Trump’s reported call with Kirk, the TPUSA co-founder changed his tune.

‘Honestly, I’m done talking about Epstein for the time being. I’m going to trust my friends in the administration, I’m going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it – ball’s in their hands,’ he said on his show on July 14. (Read more from “Trump’s Explosive Secret Call with Charlie Kirk over Epstein just Weeks Before TPUSA Boss’ Assassination” HERE)