Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At 250 years old, there isn’t much that the United States of America hasn’t gone through, and this includes periods of intense political protest and violence, the last of which ended roughly in the late 1970s. The ‘80s and ’90s were not completely protest-free, but they were not protest-driven.Most of Generation X, the young would-be protesters of the time, saw little purpose to it because, by and large, we liked America. We thought it was doing good in the world, and it also just seemed like a lot of effort.By 1999, a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As the United States marks more than two decades since the start of the post-9/11 wars, a new film is turning its focus away from the battlefield and toward the long-term challenges many veterans face after returning home.”Sheepdog,” written, directed by and starring Steven Grayhm, centers on an Army combat veteran navigating life years after his last deployment. The film avoids depicting combat itself, instead focusing on mental health struggles, strained relationships and the difficulty of reintegrating into civilian communities.The film debuts in theaters Friday. Grayhm said the story remained a priority for…

NEED TO KNOW An Oregon woman is on trial this week in connection with accusations her dogs mauled a 6-year-old boy to death in December 2023Koko Miller, 57, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, maintaining a dangerous dog and two counts of first-degree criminal mistreatmentLoyalty Scott’s death was “avoidable, and at some level, predictable,” a prosecutor argued in court The bench trial of a dog owner charged in the mauling death of a young boy began this week in Oregon. Koko Miller, 57, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide, maintaining a dangerous dog and two counts of first-degree…

NEED TO KNOW Serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to killing more than 30 young women during the 70sWhile on Florida’s death row, Bundy exchanged letters with his cousin Edna MartinBundy, who was executed on Jan. 24, 1989, always signed his letters with “Love, Ted” as highlighted in a new Oxygen documentary premiering Sunday, Feb. 15 What started as one letter led to years of correspondence between Edna Martin and her cousin, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, who confessed to killing more than 30 young women during the 70s. Martin, 74, recalls sending her first letter to Bundy on Sept. 9, 1980,…

As pro-rights groups continue to call for the abolition of what remains of the National Firearms Act (NFA), they are having to battle the Trump Administration, along with a largely uninterested Congress in the process. When President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill back on July 4, it contained a provision that removed the $200 tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns  (SBSs) and guns defined as Any Other Weapons (AOWs) under the act. With the tax removed and the NFA unnecessary, gun-rights supporters are seeking to end the NFA through legislation and in the courts. Unfortunately,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENTThe Virginia trial of Brendan Banfield, the ex-IRS agent accused of killing his wife and a stranger as part of an elaborate scheme to cover up his extramarital affair with the family’s nanny, entered its third day of testimony on Thursday, with jurors hearing how the husband and father quickly moved his mistress into the couple’s bedroom shortly after the deaths. Banfield is charged with aggravated murder in the February 2023 killings of his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan inside their home in Herndon, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington,…

NEED TO KNOW Michigan mom Crystal Royster, 42, is facing jail time and probation for calling in a false bomb threat to her daughter’s school in Detroit, MichiganRoyster made the threats after her daughter was prevented from participating in a school play because she had gone home sick earlier in the dayThe bomb threats prompted the evacuation of “700 people” from the school building as St. Clair Shores Police and other jurisdictions responded A Michigan mom is facing jail time and probation after twice calling in false bomb threats to her daughter’s school in Detroit. On Thursday, Jan. 15, the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A preliminary ballistic match linking a gun recovered from Michael McKee’s Illinois property to the scene of a double homicide of an Ohio dentist and his wife marks a “big problem for him and his defense team,” according to legal experts.McKee, 39, a Chicago-area vascular surgeon, faces two counts of premeditated aggravated murder in the Dec. 30 shooting deaths of his ex-wife, Monique Tepe, 39, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, 37.Columbus Division of Police Chief Elaine Bryant confirmed that multiple firearms were seized from McKee’s Rockford, Illinois, property and that a preliminary…

NEED TO KNOW Jose Juan Rangel filed a legal complaint against McDonald’s on Jan. 8The California resident’s filing alleges that McDonald’s employees “chose not to intervene” when he and his now late wife were attacked in the drive-thruThe alleged attack took place on March 9, 2024 A California man is filing a legal complaint against McDonald’s after a fatal accident in the fast food spot’s drive-thru. Jose Juan Rangel, 76, filed the complaint on Thursday, Jan. 8, nearly two years after he and his wife Maria Vargas were allegedly attacked while waiting for their order. According to the legal complaint…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Social media companies have removed access to millions of accounts belonging to children in Australia in the first month since the country’s historic ban took effect, requiring platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok to identify and deactivate users under the age 16.Access was revoked for roughly 4.7 million users, according to Australian officials, who on Friday touted the early success of the law, which was enacted in mid-December amid fears surrounding the impact of online environments on young people.”Today, we can announce that this is working,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said…