Author: Jack Bogart

As athletes from all over the world gather in Paris for the start of the 2024 Olympic Games, there is a dark cloud that hangs over the event due to the controversy of the inclusion of Dutch volleyball player Steven van de Velde, who was sentenced to prison for raping a child. Despite the intense backlash and calls for Van de Velde to be banned from the Games, he will represent the Netherlands as one of the athletes competing this year. In 2014, Van de Velde, then 19, flew from Amsterdam to London and had sex with a 12-year-old girl…

At least eight people associated with the anti-Israel protest in the nation’s capital Wednesday now face federal criminal charges after clashes with police. However, Fox News has learned that local prosecutors in D.C. have dropped less serious charges against several other individuals arrested at the protest. Authorities emphasized this is an ongoing investigation, and more charges may be filed. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., has charged Frederick Coates, Crow Momamome and Antonio Somerville with attempting to carry a dangerous weapon. Zachary Kam was charged with two counts of assault on a police officer. Nathaniel Lawrence, Sonia Krishan and Roger Miller…

Authorities in Texas have made an arrest nearly two months after a mother of four was found hanging from a dock in a scene police allege was a staged suicide.  Giselle Salazar-Tapia, 30, was found “hanging off a dock” of a marina in League City, Texas, on May 31, local police said at the time. On Friday, July 26, League City police announced they arrested 51-year-old James Hart, identified in several outlets as the woman’s boyfriend, in connection with her death. They charged Hart with tampering or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse, police said in…

Following the protests at Union Station by anti-Israel agitators defacing federal property in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, a Park Police union is pushing back against criticism that only a few arrests were made.Thousands of Hamas-sympathizing agitators descended on Washington, D.C., Tuesday, at one point defacing federal monuments with phrases in support of the terrorist group responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, saying, “Hamas is coming.” Twenty-three people were arrested at the protests, but some have suggested that number should have been higher. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., posted on X, “How many more times are…

Justin Timberlake was “not intoxicated” when he was arrested for DWI in June, his lawyer claimed Friday following a hearing in the case. Over a month after his arrest in Sag Harbor, N.Y. on a charge of driving while intoxicated or impaired, the case appeared before a judge on July 26, with Timberlake’s attorney Edward Burke Jr. asking for it to be dismissed outright, citing signing errors allegedly made by the arresting officer, PEOPLE confirms. Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace agreed to review Burke’s motion, but ruled Timberlake will be re-arraigned on the misdemeanor again next Friday, Aug. 2,…

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U.S. forces in the Middle East have destroyed Houthi drones in Yemen in the past 24 hours, the military said Friday. Separately, forces with the U.S. Central Command destroyed three uncrewed Houthi surface vessels operating of the Yemeni coast, CENTCOM said. “It was determined these weapons presented an imminent threat to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region,” a Centcom statement said. “These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure.”LARGE EXPLOSION ROCKS TEL AVIV IN MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT U.S. forces have engaged with Iran-backed Houthi drones and militia for months…

Authorities in Georgia say a 12-year-old girl who was missing for two months was found with a 31-year-old man she had been communicating with online prior to her disappearance.  Maria Gomez-Perez of Gainesville, Ga., was found “safe and OK” in another state on Thursday, July 25, the Hall County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.  She was last seen on May 29 in her home, per police.  Maria was found with 31-year-old Antonio Agustin on Thursday, Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch said at a press briefing.  Police did not detail any charges against him, but Couch said he could face…

Just before 9 a.m. Friday, July 26, New York City police officers responded to several 911 calls reporting three shots fired just half a block from Gracie Mansion, where they found two women with gunshot wounds to the head. A loaded gun lay between the two women, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a press conference just hours after the incident. Marisa Galloway, 45, was rushed to a nearby Upper East Side hospital, where she succumbed to gunshot wounds to the head and lower back. Kathleen Leigh, 65, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, was…

A recently unearthed video has captured then-Sen. Kamala Harris voicing support for the “defund the police” movement in 2020, despite the Biden campaign saying otherwise just months later after she joined the Democratic presidential ticket. Harris, speaking to the “Ebro in the Morning!” radio program on New York City-based HOT 97, said, “This whole movement is about rightly saying we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities.” “Defund the police, the issue behind it is that we need to reimagine how we are creating safety. And when you have many cities that…