Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jeanine Pirro, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, said President Donald Trump’s decision to place the D.C. police under temporary federal control and deploy the National Guard to the nation’s capital was a first step toward cracking down on crime.”We are now in the process of bringing to the attention of law-abiding citizens, not just in D.C., but throughout the country, that we’re not going to tolerate crime that is out of control in the nation’s capital,” she said Monday on “Hannity.””This is the shining city on the hill that…

NEED TO KNOW A local Virginia councilman who was set on fire at his office has sustained second- and third-degree burns “over more than half his body”Lee Vogler, a husband and father of two children, is expected to remain in the hospital for at least six months, his family said this weekLocal police arrested Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, hours after the attack and alleged the incident was inspired by a personal, not political matter between the two men A Virginia elected official who was doused in gasoline and set on fire at his office last week sustained second- and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth elaborated on what President Donald Trump has “got the guts” to do, after they announced Monday Washington, D.C.’s police force will be federalized. “We’re going to work right alongside our law enforcement partners as force multipliers,” Hegseth told “The Ingraham Angle.” As part of the White House’s efforts to crack down on crime, Trump declared it was “Liberation Day” and officially placed the Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control. Hegseth also teased 800 National Guard troops will be deployed “in the coming week.”TRUMP’S PLAN TO DEPLOY NATIONAL GUARD…

NEED TO KNOW Austin police responded to a shooting on Monday, Aug. 11 outside a Target storeA suspect was arrested after stealing a car and fleeing the sceneThree people were killed, per local officials Three people have been killed in a shooting outside a Target store in Texas, per local officials. Austin Police Department responded to “a shooting incident” at the Target on 8601 Research Boulevard in North Austin, the department announced just after 2 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 11. Police said they were looking for a suspect in khaki shorts and a floral print t-shirt. Within the hour, they…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump challenged the liberal media during a press conference Monday when he announced that he would be taking control of the police in Washington, D.C., and deploying the National Guard.”I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but you don’t want to get — you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed,” Trump said. “And you all know people and friends of yours that that happened. And so you can be anything you want, but you want to have safety in the streets.…

NEED TO KNOW Ke’Torrius “KJ” Starkes, 3, died on July 22 after being left inside a hot car for over five hours by a woman who had been contracted by the state of Alabama to drive the childKJ was to be taken from daycare to a supervised visit with his father then returned to daycare, but instead was left inside a car outside the home of Kela StafordThe mother of KJ, who did not have custody at the time of the boy’s death, is suing Stanford and employees of the Alabama and Jefferson County Departments of Human Resources An Alabama mother…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Washington Post article published Sunday described D.C. as a safe city, even as one of its sources declined to be named due to “concerns of personal safety.””This is a safe city, but overhearing and witnessing gang threats and then watching the camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing,” said one resident quoted in the Washington Post article, titled, “Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows.” The resident, per the Post, was “speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety.”DC DEMOCRATS RISK LOSING…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In the months before her death aboard a yacht in Montauk, New York, swimwear designer Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra had recently finalized a divorce and previously resolved a legal dispute tied to her business dealings.According to documents processed by the New York County Supreme Court, viewed by Fox News Digital, the 33-year-old designer was in the midst of an uncontested divorce from her husband, Sam Ryan, as recently as April 8, 2025. The filings include a separation agreement, affidavits from both parties, and a certificate of dissolution, signaling that the couple’s marriage had officially ended…

NEED TO KNOW Holly Hatcher, 62, was fatally stabbed in a home invasion on Sunday, Aug. 3Kevin Moses Walker, 41, allegedly broke into the home she shared with her husband, who shot and killed Walker after a violent altercationPolice are still searching for a motive in the slaying The mother of a rising country music star was stabbed to death inside her Virginia home by an armed intruder, who was then shot and killed by her husband, according to police. Holly Hatcher, 62, was killed during a violent home invasion in Harrisonburg on Sunday, Aug. 3, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The national headquarters of the Israeli-American Council (IAC) in Los Angeles was targeted with antisemitic vandalism over the weekend, prompting a hate crime investigation by local law enforcement.The disturbing graffiti was found outside the Shepher Community Center in Woodland Hills, which houses the IAC’s L.A. regional offices and serves as a hub for local Israeli-American and American Jewish communities. Vandals spray-painted swastikas, SS symbols, and the word “burn” on the sidewalk in front of the building. A cardboard snowman near the entrance was also defaced with a swastika.Nearby, along an entrance to Highway…