Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As U.S. forces carry out strikes abroad and policymakers prepare to release a new national defense strategy, the Trump administration has chosen to revive a name not heard in Washington since 1947: the Department of War. Friday’s executive order has opened a debate over whether words shape policy, or whether the symbolism matters less than the capabilities behind them.Supporters argue the shift restores honesty to the Pentagon’s identity, acknowledging that America’s armed forces have long been engaged in conflicts that stretch beyond “defense.” Critics counter that the change risks glorifying war, unsettling allies…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! DENVER – A South Carolina attorney who testified in the criminal case against convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh says the former attorney and local power broker is no different from serial killer Ted Bundy. Mark Tinsley represented the family of Mallory Beach, who died in an alcohol-fueled boat crash at the hands of Murdaugh’s son and eventual victim, Paul Murdaugh, in 2019. He later secured a $15 million settlement for the Beach family from a convenience store chain that was accused of selling booze to the underage Paul in the hours leading up to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The deadly U.S. strike in the Caribbean this week is being cast by experts as the latest move in a broader campaign to dismantle Iran and Hezbollah’s growing narco empire in Venezuela.U.S. officials say Tren de Aragua works closely with the Cartel of the Suns — a network of Venezuelan military elites long accused of moving cocaine in collaboration with Hezbollah.White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told Fox News Digital that “President Trump has taken numerous actions to curtail Iran’s terrorist proxies like Hezbollah, such as sanctioning senior officials and financial facilitators. The President…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrats are criticizing President Donald Trump for a social media post that appeared to threaten Chicago with deportations and the U.S. military.Trump posted on Truth Social an AI image of himself styled as Robert Duvall’s character in “Apocalypse Now,” a Vietnam War epic about a decorated U.S. officer who has gone rogue deep in the Cambodian jungle. The words “Chipocalypse Now” were also seen on the image.”‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…'” Trump wrote in the post on Saturday morning, a play on a famous quote from the 1979…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Texas woman was sentenced to six years in prison in connection with a 2023 arson attack on a church in Washington state, according to federal prosecutors.Natasha Marie O’Dell, 38, was sentenced Thursday on three felonies for the arson of Seattle Laestadian Lutheran Church in Snohomish County, Washington, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced.O’Dell pleaded guilty earlier this year to arson, damage to religious property and obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs.”This offense was devastating and dangerous,” U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead said…

NEED TO KNOW Donna Adelson, 75, was found guilty of murder, conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder in the 2014 death of her ex-son-in-law, Daniel MarkelProsecutors said she was the mastermind behind a murder-for-hire plot to kill Markel, 41, when he refused to let her daughter move across the state of Florida with their two young sonsAdelson faces a sentence of life in prison The matriarch of a wealthy Florida family has been convicted of murder for the death of her former son-in-law, who was gunned down by hired hitmen in 2014. On Thursday, Sept. 4, after a dramatic, weeks-long…

NEED TO KNOW Alexee Trevizo was charged with first-degree murder in May 2023 after she allegedly gave birth to a newborn in a hospital bathroom and put the baby in the trashThe New Mexico Fifth Judicial Court ruled that her confession and all video taken from the hospital that night, including police body camera footage, was inadmissible in courtProsecutors argued in front of the New Mexico Supreme Court on Sept. 4, hoping to reverse the district court decision, which states that police violated doctor-patient privilege Alexee Trevizo, the high school cheerleader who was charged with first-degree murder after she allegedly…

NEED TO KNOW A California native may face child endangerment charges after disappearing into the Brazilian wilderness with his 13-year-old son for almost a week, per multiple outletsMark Alexander Cummings Rogers, 48, was reportedly attempting to undertake a cellphone-free digital detox and emulate the conditions of the survival show Naked and AfraidRogers and his son were found “very tired” and the boy was “very hungry,” a local media outlet reported A father may face legal charges after reportedly disappearing into the Brazilian wilderness with his teen son for an alleged tech detox. California native Mark Alexander Cummings Rogers, 48, and his 13-year-old…

Former PEOPLE reporter Natasha Stoynoff opens up about her decades-long friendship with psychic medium John Edward in an exclusive first-person piece. “I’m connecting with your mother,” the psychic told the woman on the phone, “and she’s telling me to mention the chocolate.” It was early 2003, and I was on a three-way conference call for a book I was co-writing —After Life: Answers from the Other Side — with psychic John Edward, whose Syfy show, Crossing Over with John Edward, was the first-of-its-kind back then. After spending an intense three months following the famous medium around the tri-state area and…

NEED TO KNOW University of Kentucky senior Laken Snelling has dropped out of school after being accused of hiding her dead newborn baby in her closetA university spokesperson said she withdrew from the Lexington-area school and is no longer a member of its cheerleading teamSnelling was arrested on Aug. 31 after her newborn was found “wrapped in a towel inside of a black trash bag” University of Kentucky senior Laken Snelling has dropped out of school, just days after she last appeared in court for allegedly hiding her dead newborn baby in her closet. According to the Lexington Herald Leader, university…