Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When we hear the term “thought police,” we think about the book “1984” or maybe recall the horrors of the old Soviet Union and its client states, where citizens were afraid to ever speak the truth.Unfortunately, now when I hear the term, I think of England. I am a lifelong anglophile, the product of watching tons of British television and movies from “Monty Python” to the bawdy and irreverent “Countdown.” I’m a descendent of at least three parts of what used to be called the empire, so its history has always held…

NEED TO KNOW Multiple people were stabbed on a train service from Doncaster to London King’s Cross in England on Saturday, Nov. 1Two British nationals were arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murderThe British Transport Police said in a press conference on Sunday that two victims remain in a life-threatening condition following the incident At least 10 people were rushed to the hospital after a stabbing spree on a train in the UK. At around 7:42 p.m. local time on Saturday, Nov. 1, the British Transport Police (BTP) received reports that multiple people had been stabbed on a…

NEED TO KNOW In October 1994, South Carolina mother Susan Smith claimed that a Black man had carjacked her and kidnapped her childrenDays later, she confessed that she’d let her car roll into a lake with sons Michael, 3, and Alexander, 14 months, insideShe began serving a life sentence for the murders one year later and was denied parole in November 2024 Thirty-one years after Susan Smith confessed to the murder of her two young children, she continues to serve a life sentence in prison. Smith, a young South Carolina mother, claimed a Black man had carjacked her and had…

NEED TO KNOW Teresa Halbach disappeared on Halloween day in 2005 after showing up to an assignment at an auto salvage yardThe owner of the shop, Steven Avery, and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, were later accused of her murderThough they maintain their innocence, they are both serving life sentences for her death Teresa Halbach died on Oct. 31, 2005, but questions about exactly what happened to her still remain 20 years later. The 25-year-old photographer disappeared from an auto salvage yard belonging to a Wisconsin man, Steven Avery, while on assignment. Days later, her remains were found in a firepit…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. military has launched another strike on what it calls a narco-terror vessel in the Caribbean, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday, underscoring a widening campaign against drug-linked militants.The attack killed three suspected smugglers, Hegseth said, adding that it was carried out “at the direction of President Trump.””Today, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Caribbean,” Hegseth wrote on X.He continued: “This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics…

NEED TO KNOW A Baltimore police officer seemingly tried to run over a pedestrian in a shocking videoThe incident was filmed by a friend of the man being chased by the officerThe officer has been suspended by the Baltimore Police Department A shocking video appears to show a Baltimore police officer trying to run over a pedestrian with his car. The video begins with the man filming the incident telling a police officer that he had no reason to stop his friend, who had begun walking away down an alley. The officer then gets into his squad car and rapidly…

NEED TO KNOW Ronald O’Bryan was a church deacon who would later be known as the Candy Man KillerO’Bryan mixed poison into Pixy Stix and gave them to his children on Halloween in 1974He was found guilty of killing his son, Timothy, and sentenced to the death penalty Ronald Clark O’Bryan had other priorities in mind when he killed his son, Timothy, on Halloween. As his family prepared for the fall holiday, the optician came to terms with his financial situation. O’Bryan and his wife, Daynene, were raising their two young children near Houston, but they weren’t stable. Despite having…

NEED TO KNOW A young boy’s parents and grandmother have been charged with his murder and tortureThe boy, identified as 8-year-old Isaiah H., was found dead “in a cooler filled with ice” in a Lynwood, Calif., apartment complex on Oct. 28Isaiah’s mom, Destiny Luckie Harrison, hid her face while appearing in court in Compton, Calif., on Oct. 31 The parents and grandmother of a young boy in Lynwood, Calif., have been charged with his murder and torture. The boy’s father and grandmother didn’t show up to their first court appearance. His mother did, but she obscured her face from view.…

NEED TO KNOW A teenage boy has been charged in connection with the death of his grandmotherOllie Hamilton, 73, was found dead inside her local church in Athens, Ga., on Oct. 29Her grandson, 17-year-old Jadynn Hamilton, allegedly confessed to the crime later that day A Georgia woman was allegedly killed by her teenage grandson inside her local church. The alleged incident occurred on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Smith Chapel Holiness Church in Athens in Monroe County, per The Monroe Journal, The Independent and WTVA. Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley said the victim was 73-year-old Ollie Hamilton, according to The Monroe…

NEED TO KNOW Aileen Wuornos confessed to killing seven men in Florida from 1989 to 1990She was working as a prostitute at the time and claimed in her trial that she was acting in self-defenseWuornos received six death sentences and was executed in 2002 Aileen Wuornos was working as a prostitute in Florida when she killed seven men from 1989 to 1990. She committed her first known murder in November 1989 when Richard Mallory approached her in Clearwater, Fla. The store owner was later found shot to death. After she was convicted of Mallory’s murder years later, she alleged that…