Author: Jack Bogart

NEED TO KNOW Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, acted alone, according to the FBICrooks, 20, shot President Trump and left him with a gunshot wound to his upper right ear during a campaign rally in July 2024Thirty-five accounts linked to Crooks were examined in the FBI’s investigation, including those of his bank and social media pages The gunman who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in July 2024 was working alone, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The law enforcement agency confirmed that no link was found between…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The man accused of randomly setting a woman on fire while on a Chicago transit train this week has been slapped with a federal terrorism charge, marking the latest instance of violence on public transit that continues to plague the country. Lawrence Reed, 50, is charged with one count of committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system, the Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Reed was riding on the city’s Blue Line L train at around 9 p.m. Monday when he approached a 26-year-old…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara apologized to the Somali community for a comment he made connecting “East African kids” to crime.”The Somali community here in Minneapolis has been welcoming and has shown love towards me, and I appreciate it,” O’Hara said at a news conference on Thursday. “Over the last three years we have been working together to try and address some of the real serious problems that we have in our community.””We have to be honest at times with the problems that we’re having in our community, and we need our…

NEED TO KNOW 11 women and an unborn child were found in a mass grave on Albuquerque’s West Mesa in 2009Joseph Blea and Lorenzo Montoya were named as suspects but never charged; Blea is serving time for unrelated rapes, while Montoya was shot dead in an altercation after allegedly strangling a teenage sex workerPolice call the burial site the largest crime scene in city history — eight women with similar backgrounds remain missing Sixteen years after 11 women and an unborn child were found buried on Albuquerque’s West Mesa in New Mexico, the so-called “West Mesa Bone Collector” is still unidentified…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Michigan home of Sen. Elissa Slotkin was targeted with a bomb threat just days after she appeared in a video telling troops to defy “illegal” orders. A spokesperson for the Michigan Democrat released a statement on X Friday night saying, “this evening, Michigan State Police responded to Senator Slotkin’s home in response to a bomb threat.” “The Senator wasn’t home at the time. MSP searched the property and confirmed no one was in danger,” the statement continued. “Senator Slotkin is deeply grateful for the swift and professional response by Oakland County and Michigan State…

NEED TO KNOW At least one person is dead after a pair of shootings occurred in Chicago’s downtown area on Friday, Nov. 21, near Millennium Park, where a Christmas tree lighting was heldIn the first shooting, which occurred near the Chicago Theatre, seven teenagers between the ages of 13-17 were transported to the hospital for gunshot-related injuriesIn the second shooting, which occurred on the 100 Block of South Dearborn Street, two people were found injured with gunshot wounds and one of them was pronounced dead at the hospital One person is dead and several others were injured after a pair…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX — Two federal inmates previously on death row, one a crooked New Orleans cop and the other the man behind a multi-state killing spree, have been transferred to a notorious “supermax” prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital. News of their transfers comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration’s sweeping clemency actions, especially those against violent crime. The former death row inmates were transferred Thursday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as “ADX,” Justice…

NEED TO KNOW Alex Murdaugh was a prominent South Carolina lawyer who was found guilty of murdering his wife and sonCurtis Edward Smith is a distant relative of Murdaugh, who was involved in a botched suicide-for-hire schemeSmith was arrested and spent 235 days in jail before being released in April 2023, and he continues awaiting pending charges Alex Murdaugh’s complicated web of secrets and lies entangled those around him, including immediate family members and distant relatives, like Curtis Edward “Eddie” Smith. In March 2023, Murdaugh was charged with the murders of his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, and their younger son, Paul…

The Truth About Guns has long tracked the federal government’s habit of pushing past constitutional limits in the name of law enforcement. Now we have another example of the FBI taking an interest in a gun-rights organisation for reasons that remain unclear and unexplained. Cato recently received a long-delayed response to a Freedom of Information Act request that shines a light on how the Bureau has been monitoring the Socialist Rifle Association. The SRA is a left-leaning group, but it is still a firearms training and civil rights organisation. Politics aside, the Second Amendment protects every American, including people the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The daughter of a woman killed in New Orleans during a carjacking in 2018 says the city still isn’t taking crime seriously enough as the Trump administration prepares to send federal agents into the Big Easy.Jeannot Plessy, 49, was killed in November 2018 after two men carjacked her while the mother was trying to pick up her children, according to FOX 8. Jontrell Robinson, 18, and Edwin Cottrell, 19, avoided a second-degree murder trial and pleaded guilty to manslaughter for Plessy’s death.Robinson was sentenced to 30 years in prison and Cottrell was…