Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “Our stockpiles of defensive and offensive weapons allow us to sustain this campaign as long as we need to,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said at U.S. Central Command headquarters on Thursday.From a tactical perspective, the scale of the airstrikes unleashed in Operation Epic Fury indicates that the U.S. almost waited too long. Starting the campaign to take out Iran’s ballistic missiles and drones required strikes on almost 2,000 aimpoints in just the first few days. That’s one munition per aimpoint, and there could be thousands more to go.It was now or…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Colorado parolee once classified as a “very high” risk of reoffending is now charged in four separate killings across three counties — including three counts of first-degree murder tied to an alleged 2025 crime spree.Ricky Lee Roybal-Smith, 38, faces two counts of first-degree murder in Adams County, one count of first-degree murder in Denver and a newly filed second-degree murder charge in Arapahoe County connected to a 2022 death.He is being held without bond in the Denver jail, prosecutors confirmed.In 2022, Roybal-Smith was accused of threatening customers at a retail store.…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Amid the ongoing conflict with Iran, analysts say the Trump administration should pressure Lebanon to fulfill its commitments to disarm the Iran-backed terrorist group as it drags the country into another war with Israel.  David Schenker, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs who oversaw Lebanon’s policy during the first Trump administration and now directs the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said: “The U.S. should make clear to Lebanon that it is time for the state to honor its ceasefire commitment…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The father of a California girl who sustained a traumatic brain injury when an illegal immigrant commercial truck driver slammed into a vehicle she was riding in urged congressional lawmakers to prioritize the safety of American citizens amid the back-and-forth rhetoric over the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. Marcus Coleman was in attendance during this week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing in which then-Homeland Security Kristi Noem answered questions about the agency’s immigration enforcement actions. “At this point right now, what they’re doing is extremely disrespectful. It’s insensitive,” Coleman told Fox News Digital, referring to…

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…