Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A prominent surfer from California was murdered at his home in Costa Rica during an apparent break-in over the weekend, according to reports.Kurt Van Dyke, a 66-year-old expatriate who owned a hotel in the Costa Rican town of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, was found dead Saturday inside his apartment, the Tico Times reported.A preliminary exam indicated that Van Dyke’s body showed signs of asphyxiation and multiple stab wounds, the outlet reported.Van Dyke, a native of Santa Cruz, California, was in the apartment Saturday morning when two armed men stormed inside, the San…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration unveiled a sweeping maritime action plan Friday, aimed at reclaiming U.S. maritime dominance and reducing America’s reliance on foreign-built and foreign-flagged ships that carry the vast majority of its international trade.Senior administration officials warned in a call with reporters that nearly 99% of U.S. international maritime trade moves on foreign-built, foreign-owned and foreign-flagged vessels, a dependence they described as a national and economic security vulnerability as global competition intensifies.”Roughly 50% of our trade moves through the maritime domain, and 99% of that moves on foreign-built, foreign-owned and foreign-flagged ships,” one…

We’ve reported several times about the onslaught of anti-gun legislation under consideration in Virginia since voters elected Democrat Abigail Spanberger as their new governor. Many of those measures are seeing great success, with the bill banning common semi-automatic firearms and normal capacity magazines already approved by the House of Representatives by a large margin. One egregious measure, however, has already met a timely end. House Bill 207 would have created an entirely new section of Virginia’s tax code dedicated solely to suppressors. If enacted, licensed firearms dealers would have been required to collect a $500 tax on every retail suppressor…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The man accused of carrying out a Hanukkah terror attack in Sydney, Australia, was seen publicly for the first time Monday, appearing by video link from Goulburn Supermax prison during a hearing at Downing Center Local Court.7NewsAustralia reported that Naveed Akram, 24, spoke only briefly during the less than 10-minute hearing as a suppression order protecting the names of some victims was extended.”Did you hear what just occurred?” Deputy Chief Magistrate Sharon Freund asked. “Yep,” Akram replied.”Your solicitor will call you, OK?” Freund said.FAMILIES MOURN LOVED ONES LOST IN BONDI BEACH TERROR…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Berlin Film Festival head defended actors and filmmakers who choose to avoid politics in press interviews in a lengthy statement Saturday night.Director Tricia Tuttle made the comments after actors like Neil Patrick Harris and Michelle Yeoh declined to comment on U.S. political matters while attending the festival. Festival jury head and German filmmaker Wim Wenders also came under scrutiny for fielding several questions regarding the conflict in Gaza.Tuttle defended their apolitical stances, adding that artists should not be expected to offer “a brief sound bite” on every political issue.NIKKI GLASER AVOIDED…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! TUCSON, ARIZ. – New reports attributing Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance to a burglary gone wrong were disputed by a law enforcement source Sunday, as investigators pushed back on what they say is not the leading theory in the case.The source said the latest theory behind the missing 84-year-old’s disappearance is not currently the prevailing view among investigators.”This is not the working theory inside the unit,” the source said before pushing back further on the burglary narrative, noting that nighttime residential burglaries are uncommon.”Nighttime residential burglaries are so ridiculously rare. Crazy rare,” the source…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A New Mexico woman is facing charges after she allegedly gave birth in a portable toilet and then killed the newborn by drowning them in the holding tank.Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, arrived at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces at around 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 7, when staff said she appeared as if she had just given birth, but she had no baby with her, Las Cruces Police said in a press release.Hospital staff then notified police about the unusual encounter.Jimenez’s boyfriend said they had been at Burn Lake, which is located…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ukraine’s former energy minister was detained Sunday after authorities removed him from a train at the border as he allegedly attempted to flee the country, a source has confirmed to Fox News Digital.Herman Halushchenko’s arrest, the source said, followed requests from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) and marked an uptick in an anti-corruption probe engulfing the political spectrum.”Halushchenko tried to escape Ukraine,” the source said under the condition of anonymity.”The border guards had a request from NABU and SAPO about him and also…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 20-year-old California mom was found guilty Wednesday in the death of her 1-year-old son, after reportedly leaving him in a sweltering car to receive lip and butt injections last June. Maya Hernandez took a plea deal in the child endangerment case, ultimately dropping her first-degree murder charge in exchange for involuntary manslaughter. On June 29, Bakersfield officers arrested and charged Hernandez after finding two young children left unattended in a vehicle for over two hours, according to a police report posted on a GoFundMe page. Authorities said the mother left the children unattended to undergo…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is doing something rare in state government: actually defending constitutional rights. And the gun control lobby is losing its mind over it. Uthmeier has drawn fire from anti-gun politicians, legacy media outlets, and professional victims for the radical act of refusing to defend unconstitutional laws that violate young adults’ Second Amendment rights. The latest controversy? The AG intervened in a criminal case, asking a state appeals court to uphold an 18-20-year-old defendant’s right to carry. Even hostile media outlets admit this constitutes a clear win for gun rights in Florida. At issue is a 1987…