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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Preliminary crime statistics from this past weekend show 22 shootings in Chicago in a three-day span, resulting in 29 victims and four murder cases, according to the city’s police department.The numbers are subject to change and include incidents reported between 6 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Sunday.The victims include a 16-year-old with a gunshot wound to the hand who told police he had been the victim of a drive-by involving a black SUV, a 62-year-old man and 23-year-old woman who were both shot in the legs while sitting in a garage, and…

NEED TO KNOW Sean “Diddy” Combs was sentenced to 50 months in prisonCombs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo vowed to appeal the sentence while criticizing the judgeCombs was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorney criticized the judge who sentenced the music mogul to more than four years in prison. Speaking to a gaggle of reporters following Combs’ sentencing hearing on Friday, Oct. 3, Marc Agnifilo took aim at the 50-month sentence handed down by Judge Arun Subramanian. “The judge acted as a 13th juror, one we did not choose,” Agnifilo said. “… He second…

We’ve chronicled before the danger of so-called “red-flag” laws, many of which allow the government to confiscate firearms from a lawful citizen simply on the word from someone else that the gun owner might be dangerous. Now, a Montana man is fighting to get his guns back after being falsely accused by a former girlfriend in the state of Washington. Writing at ammoland.com, Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association (MSSA), explained how the man became the victim of another’s state’s red-flag statute, even though his home state has a law banning such laws. According to Marbut, the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., joined a chorus of Republicans arguing that a judge gave a lenient sentence to a man convicted of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”You have to separate these people from society,” Kennedy said Monday on “America’s Newsroom,” after Nicholas Roske received an eight-year sentence. “That doesn’t mean you don’t try to rehabilitate them. But that’s the only answer and that’s why you find folks that have been repeated offenders again and again and again. What’s going to change? Except if you let them out, they’re going to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chaos continued to erupt in Portland as federal agents were captured in a dramatic video arresting multiple protesters and deploying tear gas late Sunday — minutes after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard to the city.In the footage, dozens of federal personnel in tactical gear, identified by markings from the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Border Patrol, are seen detaining protesters amid thick clouds of gas.The Pentagon confirmed to Fox News Digital on Monday that “while federalized Oregon National Guard…

NEED TO KNOW Kiley Dodd is facing a misdemeanor animal cruelty chargeDodd was arrested on Monday. Sept. 29Police officers found a dog inside a tote bag “covered in some type of chemical and maggots,” per a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE An Indiana woman is facing a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge after her dog was allegedly found dead in a tote bag. Kiley Dodd was arrested on Monday. Sept. 29, according to court records. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE, Beech Grove police officers responded to an animal investigation in the 200 block of South 6th…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Monday prohibiting federal immigration agents from using city-owned property for immigration enforcement operations, as the Trump administration deploys National Guard troops to Illinois.Johnson established the “ICE-free zones” — referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — as part of his Protecting Chicago Initiative, rejecting President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown and deportation rollout in the city.”Today, we are signing an executive order aimed at reining in this out-of-control administration,” Johnson said during a news conference on Monday. “The order establishes ICE-free zones. That means…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! South Carolina authorities are investigating a possible arson attack on a state judge’s house Saturday, which left the million-dollar waterfront mansion burned to the ground, according to authorities and local reports.While authorities did not immediately release the homeowners’ names, the Post and Courier identified them as Circuit Court Judge Diane Schafer Goodstein, 69, and her husband, Arnold Goodstein, 81, a former member of both houses of the state legislature.He once served as the commissioner of the South Carolina Department of Transportation and before that was wounded in the Tet offensive in the…

NEED TO KNOW Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to have her sex trafficking conviction was rejected by the Supreme CourtThe court declined to hear Maxwell’s appealMaxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator, is currently serving a 20-year sentence following her 2021 conviction The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction after she claimed she should have been given immunity as part of Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial deal with federal prosecutors. The justices denied Maxwell’s petition to the court without giving a reason in its list of orders published on Monday, Oct. 6. Maxwell was the longtime co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chief negotiators from Israel and Hamas convened in Egypt on Monday to hash out details on President Donald Trump’s peace plan to end the years-long war and return the 48 hostages still held. The talks come one day ahead of the 2nd anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel, when some 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were dragged into the Gaza Strip, where dozens of dead and alive remain hostage.Egypt announced on Saturday that the high-level negotiations would occur Monday in the coast resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, located in…