Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Thousands of miles from the stalemate in Washington D.C., the effects of the government shutdown are being felt around the world. While President Donald Trump found a way to temporarily pay U.S. troops — others on base aren’t so lucky, including teachers and support staff.Donna Irwin, a substitute teacher at a naval base in Italy, says the impact is deeply felt. “It has been absolutely terrible to watch and the morale at the school, I mean it’s low,” Irwin said.LAWMAKER WARNS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN CHAOS POTENTIALLY LEADING TO BIG WASTE IN THE MILITARY, IMPACTING…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Nigerian pastor and other Christians have welcomed President Donald Trump’s pressure on the Abuja government to bring an end to the killing of Christians. The president recently designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern, and warned he is considering stopping aid and introducing financial and other sanctions against government officials.But the Christians Fox News Digital has talked to, while welcoming Trump’s support, say they don’t want U.S. Troops to be sent into Nigeria to stop the widespread murder of their co-religionists in one of the worst-affected areas, the Middle Belt of the West African…

NEED TO KNOW Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex offender linked to Jeffrey Epstein, is planning to seek a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald TrumpHouse Democrats wrote a letter to Trump on Monday, Nov. 10, that Maxwell plans to file a commutation application for the Trump administration’s review, according to reporting by NBC and CBSA source close to Maxwell tells PEOPLE that “nobody knows what the President will do” Ghislaine Maxwell is planning to seek a commutation of her prison sentence from President Donald Trump, according to multiple news reports. The disgraced 63-year-old former British socialite…

I grew up on a steady stream of books that contained not only really great information, but a lot of high-quality pictures. I could probably spend hours reading and looking at Stephen Biesty’s Incredible Cross-Sections. These days, however, I’ve come to really appreciate the more historically oriented coffee table books that Headstamp Publishing has been putting out. Their latest book, authored by Forgotten Weapons’ Ian McCollum, Forged in Snow: Finnish Small Arms 1917-2025, is available now through their Kickstarter campaign, which has already fulfilled its funding goal, a mere 6 hours into it. Forged in Snow: Finnish Small Arms 1917…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An illegal immigrant with a criminal history has been arrested following a weekend shooting in which U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot at in Chicago.The shooting happened Saturday in the city’s Little Village neighborhood as federal agents were conducting immigration enforcement operations. The unidentified suspect, a Mexican citizen, was in a Jeep that drove up near the agents and fired shots before driving away, federal sources told Fox News. At the time of his arrest, he was found with a firearm, sources said. “This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous…

NEED TO KNOW An Illinois middle school teacher has been charged with three felony counts stemming from allegations she sexually assaulted a former student who is underage DuPage County authorities said neighbors began calling police after noticing the underage boy making several visits to the home of 34-year-old teacher Jessica Bergmann Authorities allege Bergmann was a teacher at the boy’s former middle school and that the alleged sexual assault took place when he was a high school sophomore An Illinois middle school teacher has been charged with three felonies after she was accused in court last week of sexually assaulting…

NEED TO KNOW Barbara Bates allegedly told a 911 dispatcher that she had slit the throats of her husband and son before doing so to herself, per policeBarbara and her husband Neil Bates now face multiple chargesTheir adult son told police he panicked and changed his mind about the family’s alleged suicide pact after his mother allegedly slit his throat A Florida couple are under arrest after allegedly trying to kill themselves and their adult son in a suicide pact prompted by an eviction threat. Police responding to a 911 call in Lehigh Acres, Fla., on Nov. 3 found three…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A whistleblower has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice receives “concierge-style” treatment at the minimum-security prison camp she was recently transferred to.Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee revealed that a whistleblower came forward to them who claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell was receiving favorable treatment at the prison camp she was transferred to in August, according to NBC News.The whistleblower claimed Maxwell received “concierge-style” treatment at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, which includes after-hours permission to use the exercise area, customized meals, time to spend with puppies being trained to become service dogs…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Washington, D.C., saw three homicides on Saturday night in a mere six-hour time span as President Donald Trump declared victory over what he called a “crisis” of crime in the nation’s capital.A teenager and two adults were killed Saturday in three separate incidents that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is investigating as homicides, officials said. A teenager was shot in a fourth incident, but police have not said if it was a homicide.The spree is unusual as Trump’s crime crackdown in the district has seen a decrease in overall crime.”We have a…

NEED TO KNOW A New Mexico man is facing murder charges in connection with the death of two adult malesThe accused has been identified as 25-year-old Alexis Hernandez, per an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by PEOPLE and online jail recordsHernandez said that he’d also received “an encrypted message in a cockroach” that he “needed to kill” before the shootings, per the document A man in New Mexico is facing murder charges in connection with the death of two victims before telling authorities that a cockroach ordered him to do it. On Friday, Nov. 7 at approximately 10:27 p.m. local time,…