Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fifty years after the daughter of a wealthy Connecticut family was found murdered in the yard of their quaint suburban home, questions remain surrounding the involvement of a Kennedy relative who was convicted of her killing – but ultimately walked free after the guilty verdict was overturned. Michael Skakel, cousin of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spent 11 years in prison for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. However, since his arrest in 2000, Skakel has maintained his innocence – and is speaking out for the first time in a new NBC News podcast…

NEED TO KNOW Ezaki Glico president Katsuhisa Ezaki was kidnapped from his home in 1984 before escaping three days laterThe extortionists later claimed to have laced the company’s candies with cyanide, prompting massive recalls of its products, including Pocky, the company’s popular chocolate-covered biscuit sticksPolice interviewed more than 100,000 people but never identified the suspects, who used the moniker “Monster with 21 Faces” An elusive group of extortionists terrorized Japan in the 1980s, kidnapping a candy executive and triggering a nationwide food scare that left millions afraid to open a box of sweets. Ezaki Glico president Katsuhisa Ezaki was taken…

NEED TO KNOW Two people are dead and one is in critical condition following a shooting at Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora, Ill., on the evening of Nov. 22Police said that initial information suggests that the three individuals involved knew each anotherPeople at the restaurant during the incident said they have been left “shaken” by the “terrifying” event Two people are dead and one is in critical condition after a shooting at a restaurant in Illinois. Police responded to multiple 911 calls about a shooting at Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora at about 9:10 p.m. on the evening of Saturday,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Veteran actor Gerald McRaney stepped into the part of the formidable father at the heart of Hulu’s limited series “Murdaugh: Death in the Family,” a role he said required him to inhabit a family’s patriarch amid scandal.McRaney, 78, spoke with Fox News Digital about how he approached portraying Randolph Murdaugh III, the patriarch who loomed over generations of privilege in South Carolina’s Lowcountry.”You were dealing with a man who had no soul,” McRaney said of Randolph’s son, Alex. “Everything was done to impress other people with his success. It didn’t matter how…

NEED TO KNOW Two football players were injured after they were allegedly stabbed by their teammateThe incident took place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on Nov. 22UAB player Daniel Mincey has since been charged with aggravated assault and attempted murder Two University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) football players were injured after they were allegedly stabbed by their teammate this weekend. The alleged stabbing took place on campus at the college’s Football Operations Center at around 10 a.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 22, the Associated Press, NBC News and WVTM 13 News reported.  Two football players…

A measure that would restore the rights of 18-, 19- and 20-year-old Floridians has passed its first hurdle in the state legislature. Following the terrible mass murder at Parkland High School in Parkland, Florida, back in 2018, the state legislature hastily passed several new gun laws, including one outlawing firearm purchases for anyone under 21, including adults aged 18, 19 and 20. Republican lawmakers have been trying to overturn that law for several years. The measure, House Bill 133, which would lower the age for law-abiding Floridians to purchase a firearm from 21 back to 18, passed the House Criminal…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A CNN panel nearly erupted Thursday night as host Abby Phillip and her liberal guests clashed with conservative radio host Ben Ferguson over a video featuring Democratic lawmakers urging U.S. service members to disobey “unlawful” orders.During the exchange, Ferguson insisted that the Democratic lawmakers were asking service members to disobey President Donald Trump’s orders in the video, prompting backlash from liberals on the panel and Phillip accusing him of lying.”You cannot sit here and lie about that same video. That doesn’t work,” Phillip told Ferguson, pointing out that the lawmakers never explicitly…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal investigators are examining the online activity of the suspect accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, as questions grow about how digital spaces are fueling a new wave of politically motivated attacks — including last year’s attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.A viral post from the Libs of TikTok account on X listed several recent shootings and noted multiple suspects identified as transgender or nonbinary, calling it “an epidemic of trans violence.”But experts say those claims miss the mark. The real danger, they warn, is playing out in the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Associated Press heads back to court on Monday as its First Amendment battle with the Trump administration over refusing to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” continues. “This isn’t about the AP and the Trump administration. This is about something that’s much bigger,” Associated Press senior vice president and executive editor Julie Pace told Fox News Digital. Trump signed an executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” on his first day in office for a second term. But the Associated Press decided to continue to refer to the…

NEED TO KNOW Randi Nicole Jackson Staples was arrested and charged with willful abuse of a child under the age of 18 on Nov. 16Staples worked as a teacher at Cottage Hill Christian Academy in Mobile, Ala., where she was previously named Teacher of the YearStaples was arrested after a video went viral that purports to show her allegedly beating her son with a belt Former Alabama teacher of the year Randi Nicole Jackson Staples has been arrested after a viral video purports to show her allegedly beating her son with a belt. Staples, 44, a resident of Grand Bay, Ala.,…