Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! TUCSON, Ariz. — Federal prosecutors have charged a California man with sending a fake ransom note in an effort to extort Savannah Guthrie and her siblings as their 84-year-old mother remains missing in what local authorities say looks like a forced abduction from her home near Tucson.Derek Callella is accused of demanding a ransom across state lines and using anonymous telecommunications to abuse, threaten or harass the Guthrie family.”Did you get the bitcoin were [sic] waiting on our end for the transaction,” Callella allegedly wrote to Annie Guthrie and her husband, Tommaso…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chris Pratt pointed to veterans as Hollywood’s hardest workers.Pratt, 46, praised the former Navy SEALs he works with on “The Terminal List” as being able to “get s— done.””Our room is populated with a bunch of veterans,” he explained during an appearance on “Literally! With Rob Lowe.” “We’ve got people in front of the camera, behind the camera who are all veterans. They work, man. And that, the pipeline of like going from military to the film and television industry is — it’s such a great outlet for these guys.”Cause they are…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! El Salvador President Nayib Bukele joined the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, warning attendees that violent gang members in his country have a documented history of worshiping Satan — and that some of those gang members have crossed into the U.S.”Many people don’t know that our enemy was not just the flesh and blood, but spiritual as well. The gangs didn’t just murder, rape, extort. They also worship Satan,” Bukele said on Thursday morning from the U.S. Capitol. “It’s straight up. Literally. When we went to their homes…

Images by the author I have not had much experience with John Browning’s wunderkind, the .50 BMG. Let’s say that right up front. But I’ve always had a fascination with it, probably starting when I was a young pup, building plastic models of WWII aircraft and painting their “machine guns” a gunmetal color. I imagined what it would’ve been like to fire them. Fast-forward several decades, with two reviews under my belt of an Armalite .50BMG bolt rifle. Then add to that my recent review of the HM Defense Sniper Rifle in that esteemed caliber. I guess you could say I…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A single tip about a quiet suburban home in California exploded into a massive human trafficking takedown that rescued nearly 20 children, uncovered residential brothels and netted more than 600 arrests statewide, authorities said Tuesday.The week-long operation, dubbed Operation Reclaim and Rebuild, involved dozens of agencies and led to the rescue of 12 adults and five children in Los Angeles County alone, officials said during a news conference.Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said the entire investigation began with a single citizen complaint about a suspicious home in Walnut. That tip led…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is facing intense criticism over its failure to swiftly outlaw Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The development comes as a London-based Islamic center has been accused of selling merchandise supporting terrorism.Potkin Azarmehr, a British-Iranian expert on Iran who has written extensively on Iran’s influence operations in the United Kingdom, told Fox News Digital the “Islamic Centre of England is a regime outpost.”The head of the center is directly appointed by Iran’s supreme leader. The letter of the appointment is publicly read during the inauguration ceremony. There is…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal prosecutors have charged more than 150 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota with crimes ranging from obstruction of federal agents to FACE Act violations — offenses that carry penalties from fines to years in prison — as the Justice Department warns that similar conduct will be prosecuted aggressively nationwide. The response in the state offers a roadmap of sorts for how the Justice Department could move to quash similar protests nationwide and respond to unrest during Trump’s second presidential term. In Minnesota, more than 150 protesters have been arrested since the start of the Trump…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A suspect described as a “monster” was arrested following a manhunt for the killer of an Illinois bar owner who authorities say was murdered in an “execution-style” shooting Monday.Julius E. Burkes Jr., 47, was taken into custody on Tuesday in connection with the murder of 30-year-old Courtney M. Drysdale, the Kankakee County Sheriff’s Department said.Drysdale was killed just before noon Monday inside The Line, a local bar she owned in rural Momence near the Illinois-Indiana border, authorities said.The 30-year-old mother was opening the bar when the suspect walked in, brandished a gun…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A comprehensive new briefing document from a prominent nonpartisan research and policy group is sounding the alarm on “serious ethical and national security concerns” related to Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib and her affiliations with individuals and organizations linked to designated foreign terrorist entities.”The conduct of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, including her rhetoric, affiliations, campaign infrastructure, and ideological alignment with certain individuals and organizations, raises serious concerns about potential risks to the ethical and institutional integrity of the United States government,” the report, released by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The family of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, released a public plea to potential captors for proof of life after she went missing Saturday. Ed Smart, whose daughter Elizabeth was kidnapped in 2002, said the video’s release is likely strategic.”Talking directly to those that have taken her, the abductors, is crucially important,” Smart said Thursday on “Fox & Friends.” “That they know that they’re trying to comply with everything that’s being said, that they want to resolve this and bring their mother home,” he added.Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from…