Author: Jack Bogart

by Lee Williams Gannett’s flagship, USA TODAY, actually warned its shrinking readership that gun owners may call out its staffers for using fake mass-shooting data in their reporting.  In a story published Monday, reporter C. A. Bridges, who writes for the USA TODAY NETWORK, first claimed there have been six mass shootings in Florida this year, “double the number in the state last year at this time.”  Bridges then admitted he got his mass-shooting data from the Gun Violence Archive, or GVA, and he warned that the GVA data could be challenged.  “The GVA numbers, which have been disputed by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The North Carolina man shot and killed after breaching the north gate at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was described as a “good kid” and had no prior run-ins with the law, but his background remains shrouded in mystery as authorities investigate. Austin Tucker Martin, 21, was killed on Trump’s property around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, by a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy and two Secret Service agents, according to Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. Fox News confirmed that he walked onto the property through an open gate as a vehicle was exiting. A family…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s [dead] supreme leader, has met his well-deserved demise after a barrage of airstrikes announced by President Trump Saturday morning. A slate of Khamenei’s fellow Islamic terrorists in the Iranian government have met the same fate.Khamenei never tried to hide his thirst for American blood. Two weeks ago, he posted on X threatening to sink American ships. He plotted to assassinate President Trump prior to the November 2024 election, deploying a hit squad to U.S. soil armed with surface-to-air missiles. This forced Trump’s Secret Service team to use a decoy plane. These are…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iranians across the country could be seen and heard celebrating the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after coordinated Israeli strikes overnight.In one video, Iranians near Karaj, Iran, outside the capital of Tehran, took to the streets, honked their horns and cheered.In social media videos, Iranians in Tehran cheered from their apartments, playing loud music and setting off fireworks as the news spread.In Fuladshahr, people packed the streets, waving their arms in the air, whistling, honking and cheering over the news.In Borazjan, Iran, celebrants chanted and, in Mamasani, they waved flags…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iran was plunged into an internet blackout Saturday after Israel and the U.S. launched military strikes around the country, according to a global internet monitor.Within hours of the strikes — which officials said targeted infrastructure and killed dozens of senior regime figures at a compound in Tehran— NetBlocks CEO Alp Toker confirmed connectivity started “flatlining.””We’re tracking the ongoing blackout, but our assessment is that this is straight out of Iran’s wartime playbook and consistent both technically and strategically with what we saw during the 2025 Twelve-Day War with Israel,” Toker told Fox…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Israel struck its key target in Tehran Saturday in what a defense expert has described as a multimillion-dollar precision-guided attack alongside a broader offensive involving U.S. waves of lower-cost kamikaze drones.Cameron Chell, CEO of drone manufacturer Draganfly, told Fox News Digital the campaign would have likely paired advanced and costly assets against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s compound, while U.S. forces used cheaper drones to “overwhelm” on land, air and sea.”Saturday saw an overwhelming daytime attack with incredible intelligence to target the leadership and a strike on the compound possibly costing tens…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A major public policy nonprofit co-led by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised President Donald Trump for ordering Saturday’s military strikes against Iran.United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI) was formed by Bush and Ambassador Mark Wallace, who held a United Nations-centered post in Bush’s brother’s administration and also advised Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s presidential campaign, to combat threats posed by the Islamic Republic. The group has been on the front lines of highlighting Iran’s human rights abuses and attacks on Americans and advising policymakers and the business community about dangers posed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In coordinated, sweeping U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran in the predawn hours of Saturday, key military and nuclear-linked sites were targeted inside the country.The strikes focused on what U.S. officials described as high-value Iranian targets, which included Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command and control facilities, naval assets and underground sites believed to be associated with Iran’s nuclear program. In addition, Iranian air defense weapons, missile and drone launch sites, and military airfields were also targeted, according to officials. Israeli forces targeted sites linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior Israeli official…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man who was an escaped fugitive at the time of a 7-year-old Kentucky girl’s abduction has been charged in her killing 30 years later, according to authorities.Morgan Jade Violi was abducted while playing outside her apartment building on July 24, 1996, in Bowling Green, Kentucky — and for 30 years her case remained cold until recent advancements in forensic science linked Robert Scott Froberg to her killing.Froberg, who was already in the Alabama prison system, was charged Thursday with kidnapping resulting in death, United States Attorney for the Western District of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! There is so much to say as an Iranian-American who has devoted my entire career to the promise of a moment like this. And now, it is finally here. Watching Iranians pour into the streets waving the lion‑and‑sun flag, singing old freedom songs and crying tears of disbelief feels surreal. These are people who have literally buried their children for a chance at freedom. Their joy is over a day they never thought they’d experience after 47 years of suffocation.It is hard to fathom a people so desperate for justice, so hungry for…