Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In the tense days following the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani on Jan. 3, 2020, Iran responded with missile barrages on American bases in Iraq, injuring scores of people but deliberately avoiding fatalities. Tehran promised “harsh retaliation,” but no attacks struck U.S. soil. The reason wasn’t deterrence alone or diplomatic restraint but something simpler: Iran lacked operational assets inside the United States.At the time, the regime had only scattered sympathizers, not embedded networks capable of executing homeland strikes. U.S. intelligence assessments after the strike highlighted threats abroad but noted…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Ohio mother was charged Thursday with aggravated murder after the bodies of her two young daughters were found buried in separate suitcases in shallow graves in Cleveland earlier this week, officials said.Aliyah Henderson, 28, was charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Mila Chatman and Amor Wilson, police told Fox News Digital.The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the girls’ names and said DNA relationship testing helped identify them. Mila was 8 years old and her half-sister, Amor, was 10, the office said.The medical examiner’s office has…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A dozen alleged members and associates of a notorious Los Angeles street gang were arrested in a sweeping federal takedown Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced.Authorities say the suspects are tied to 18th Street, the city’s largest street gang, which evaded law enforcement by using tents to blend in with the homeless population. Investigators allege the group trafficked drugs across Los Angeles, operating mainly in MacArthur Park and Skid Row.”A total of seven federal indictments charge members of this gang,” Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jarred Shaw, a 35-year-old American basketball player who used to star for Oklahoma State and Utah State, remains locked up in an Indonesian prison, and his health is deteriorating as he tries desperately to return home to the States. Shaw was arrested in May 2025 after what he called a “stupid mistake” to The Guardian, ordering a package of 132 cannabis gummies to his apartment in Indonesia. He was playing basketball in the country but was living in Thailand, where cannabis is legal, during the Indonesian Basketball League’s offseason.However, Indonesia remains an extremely…

A court ruling that dismissed a case in which the plaintiffs challenged New Jersey’s law prohibiting the publication of computer files containing digital firearms information has prompted additional action by one gun-rights organization. After a three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals recently dismissed the case in Defense Distributed v. Attorney General of New Jersey, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a petition for rehearing. Originally filed in 2018, the case challenges the New Jersey statute dealing with digital firearms information on First and Second Amendment grounds. According to FPC, the dismissal was largely based not on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former college basketball coach was on the sidelines by day and was allegedly a pimp by night.Kevin Mays was an assistant coach at Cal State Bakersfield when university police began investigating in August after the team’s head coach at the time, Rod Barnes, received a tip by email.The email, which was a “first warning and a final warning,” identified a woman Mays had allegedly trafficked for months. “FIX IT OR THE WHOLE STAFF WILL FALL,” the tipster wrote in the email. Its subject line said, “IMPORTANT MESSAGE 911 911.”Barnes then reported…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A former New York state police officer who also served as a cop for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, admitted to selling drugs while on duty. Michael Tapscott pleaded guilty in Ontario County Court to 40 drug-related charges, Rochester First reported. He resigned from the Geneva Police Department last year after he was accused of selling Adderall, a Schedule II controlled substance, to someone at a used car dealership while on duty and in his squad car. Tapscott, a 13-year veteran of the police force, also served as an instructor with DARE,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fallen U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, spent his final hours in Kuwait sending steady updates home to ease his family’s fears amid the war with Iran — before silence replaced his messages and uniformed officers arrived at his parents’ door.Coady, a Drake University student from Des Moines, Iowa, was one of six Army Reserve soldiers killed Saturday in an Iranian drone attack at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait while supporting Operation Epic Fury, according to the Department of War (DoW).He was the youngest of the fallen soldiers identified by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Footage captured a bizarre incident that unfolded in California Wednesday morning when an armed suspect surrendered to SWAT teams while wearing everything but pants. The incident occurred in a Santa Clarita neighborhood after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) received reports of a man firing a gun in a school zone before barricading himself inside a home. The suspect was experiencing a mental health crisis, Fox 11 Los Angeles reported.During the response, several nearby schools were temporarily placed on a soft lockdown, the Saugus Union School District told Fox News Digital on Thursday.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In less than a week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has gone from supporting U.S. actions against Iran to raising the issue that the U.S. and Israel “acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting with allies, including Canada” to on Wednesday not ruling out Canadian military participation in the conflict.”He’s been all over the place,” Nader Hashemi, a Canadian-born associate professor of Middle East politics at Georgetown University, told Fox News Digital. “It doesn’t look very good for him or for the government of Canada.””My own reading is that he’s influenced…