Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Pakistani businessman accused of trying to hire hit men to kill political targets, including President Donald Trump, insisted that Iran forced his actions as he testified to jurors in New York on Wednesday.Asif Merchant, 47, said Trump wasn’t the only potential target of the 2024 assassination scheme, telling jurors the list included then-President Joe Biden and former presidential candidate and ex-U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. He claimed that he only took part in the plot because Iran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened his family.”My family was under threat, and I had to do this,”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bodycam video from the Austin mass shooting, which is being investigated as a terrorist attack, will be released on Thursday as the county’s liberal district attorney announced he would take no action against the three officers who killed the suspect.In a news release on Wednesday, Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced no action would be taken against the three police officers who killed 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne. Diagne shot and killed three people and left more than a dozen other people injured on Sunday outside a bar in Austin, Texas.”Today, the Travis…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One thousand supporters rallied behind the family of fallen U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Declan Coady, raising more than $90,000 to support loved ones of the 20-year-old soldier killed this week in the war with Iran.Coady, a 20-year-old Drake University student from Des Moines, Iowa, was one of six U.S. Army Reserve soldiers killed in a drone attack Sunday at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait while supporting Operation Epic Fury, according to the Department of War (DOW).The GoFundMe campaign, which was set up by Marianne Crandall shortly after Coady was identified Tuesday,…

With the ongoing bombing attacks obliterating Iran’s leadership, Iranian citizens are hopeful for a future that will include more Western-style freedom and less harsh treatment from a brutal dictator. But according to one major American gun-rights group, those citizens have an uphill battle given the fact that they lack the right to keep and bear arms.  “Iran does not have an equivalent of our sacred Second Amendment,” Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said in a news release. “And right now, the Iranian people need it badly. For without arms to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NORAD scrambled U.S. and Canadian fighter jets Wednesday after detecting two Russian military aircraft operating in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ), officials said.The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it detected and tracked two Russian TU-142 military aircraft operating in the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ on March 4, 2026.NORAD launched two U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter aircraft, two F-22 fighter aircraft, four KC-135 tankers, one E-3 AWACS aircraft, two Canadian CF-18 fighter aircraft and one CC-150 tanker to positively identify, monitor and intercept the Russian aircraft in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The family of a woman allegedly killed by her husband has retained an attorney and is seeking information on the couple’s finances, including a life insurance policy listing the accused as the “primary beneficiary.”Caleb Flynn, 39, who was once a contestant on “American Idol”, was charged with murder after he allegedly killed his wife, Ashley Flynn, at the couple’s home in Tipp City, Ohio, on Feb. 16. Police said Caleb Flynn “staged the crime scene,” and audio from a 911 call shows him telling the operator that someone broke into his house…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A massive joint air campaign by the United States and Israel is dismantling Iran’s missile network in what officials and analysts describe as one of the most coordinated allied operations in modern warfare.Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the campaign is rapidly establishing dominance over Iranian skies. “Starting last night and to be completed in a few days … the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies,” Hegseth said Wednesday. “Uncontested airspace.” “We will fly all day, all night … flying over Tehran, flying over Iran,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security could impact how the federal government is able to address potential terror threats in the U.S., a public safety expert said, warning that the escalating conflict with Iran could encourage those wishing to harm Americans.Jeffrey Halstead, a retired police chief in Fort Worth, Texas, and a former commander for Homeland Security for Phoenix police, told Fox News Digital that U.S. military actions could “escalate the mindset of some of these outlying or outlier terrorist entities” wanting to take action. “We’ve seen historically that…

After a crazed murderer opened fire at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day 2018,  lawmakers immediately went to work passing more restrictive gun-control laws. The attacker killed 17 and wounded 17 others, making it the deadliest mass shooting at a high school in U.S. history. Even some Republicans felt so much heat from constituents that they supported several proposals, and Republican Gov. Rick Scott quickly signed them into law. One new law was a ban that forbids lawful 18-, 19-, and 20-year-old citizens from purchasing long guns—both rifles and shotguns—in the Sunshine State. Ever since,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A second person was arrested Wednesday in connection with last week’s chaotic snowball fight in Washington Square Park, during which multiple police officers were struck and injured by flying snowballs, police reportedly said.Eric Wilson Jr., 18, was charged with misdemeanor obstructing government administration and harassment, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said, Fox 5 New York reported. Wilson turned himself in Wednesday morning, according to the New York Post.”This second arrest sends an important message,” Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), said. “These shameful attacks on our police officers last…