Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! On his visit to Israel this week, Ambassador-Designate for International Religious Freedom Mark Walker said meeting families of hostages and survivors of Hamas captivity left him “overwhelmed,” reaffirming what he called the “spiritual and historic bond” between the United States and Israel.Walker, a former Republican congressman and Baptist pastor from North Carolina, was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the nation’s top global envoy for religious liberty. He will officially assume the post once confirmed by the Senate, becoming the seventh American to hold the role since it was created by…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Coast Guard is bolstering its forces along western Texas’ Rio Grande to support President Donald Trump’s border security mission as part of a “surge operation,” according to the service. Trump declared a national emergency at the border in January, and his administration stood up Joint Task Force Southern Border in March to allow troops under the Department of War to assist with the Department of Homeland Security’s border mission. Dubbed Operation River Wall, the Coast Guard deployment aims to counter the influx of drugs into the U.S., and to deter and interdict illegal…

NEED TO KNOW On Sunday, Oct. 19, at about 9:30 a.m., four thieves pulled up to the side of the Louvre Museum, climbed a ladder to an upper floor and broke in to the landmark buildingThe thieves stole irreplaceable pieces from France’s historic collection of crown jewelsAmong the glittering jewels taken were tiaras belonging to former empresses, as well as a matching emerald set gifted by Napoleon to his second wife, Marie Louise, on their wedding day Authorities are intensifying their hunt for the thieves behind the brazen Louvre heist and the stolen French crown jewels once worn by Napoleon’s…

State firearms preemption laws are critically important to lawful gun owners, that’s why more than 40 states have such laws on the books. In a nutshell, these laws prohibit local jurisdictions from imposing gun control restrictions that are more severe than state law. That’s critical because if different municipalities had different laws, it would be nearly impossible for law-abiding gun owners to know what was legal as they traveled from city to city. One city might permit concealed carry, while another might not. Likewise, one city might allow open carry, while another might not. While these laws help protect the…