Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Navy veteran who successfully sued CNN for defamation earlier this year didn’t have as much luck with lawsuits against the Associated Press and other media outlets. Judge William Henry of Florida’s 14th Judicial Circuit, who also presided over Zachary Young’s successful CNN trial, granted two motions on Friday to dismiss defamation lawsuits against The Associated Press and Puck. The judge compared Young’s follow-up lawsuits to movie sequels that “should not be made.” In January, a Florida jury found that CNN defamed Young by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the “black…

NEED TO KNOW A former gastroenterologist at New York-Presbyterian Queens was sentenced to 24 years in prison last weekZhi Alan Cheng, 35, pleaded guilty on June 30 to four counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree sexual abuseQueens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Cheng “committed a series of heinous acts against women” A New York City doctor was sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape and sexual abuse against sedated hospital patients and other women, authorities said. Zhi Alan Cheng, 35, pleaded guilty on June 30 to four counts of first-degree rape and three…

Hawaii might be an island paradise, but the state’s gun laws are nightmarish to those who live there. One such law, which imposes a 30-day time limit to purchase a firearm after receiving a permit and then requires police inspection of a legally purchased firearm within five days, is particularly onerous and arguably unconstitutional. A lawsuit, Yukutake v. Lopez, challenges the law and has already met with some success in the courtroom. In fact, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional. Upon appeal, however, the full 9th Circuit is now set to hear the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former Ohio State long snapper Michael Roen McCullough was arrested in Columbus early Friday morning after allegedly punching his girlfriend and strangling her during an argument, according to police records. McCullough, 25, was arrested by Columbus police just after 1:30 a.m. and booked into the Franklin County Corrections Center, where he is being held on one charge of strangulation, according to online records.  Police responded to a domestic violence call in which a woman alleged that she was attacked by McCullough after the two had gotten into an argument. According to court records obtained by The Columbus…

NEED TO KNOW An 11-year-old boy has died after being shot at while playing “ding-dong-ditch” in Houston, Texas, officials have confirmedThe shooting took place at around 10.55 p.m. on Saturday, Aug 30 with the child being pronounced dead the following day”Ding-dong-ditch” involves ringing the doorbell on a property and running away before the door is answered An 11-year-old boy has died after being shot at while playing a common childhood prank in Houston, officials have said. The child was with friends and playing “ding-dong-ditch,” which is a game that revolves around ringing a doorbell and then running away before someone…

NEED TO KNOW Vanessa Esquivel of Dallas was arrested on Aug. 20 in relation to the death of her 15-month-old childPolice accused her of “intentionally” leaving the baby behind in the car as temperatures reached “at least 95 degrees” The Texas mom’s baby was left in the car for more than two hours A Texas woman is accused of leaving her 15-month-old baby to die in a car while she went to work. On Thursday, Aug. 28, the Frisco Police Department confirmed in a press release that they had arrested 27-year-old Vanessa Esquivel after she allegedly left her baby in…

We’ve chronicled several times over the past few years how young adults under 21 years of age have their Second Amendment rights infringed in many states, as well as at the federal level. Due to that injustice, several gun-rights groups have made a concerted effort to challenge laws discriminating against these young adults in the courtroom. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has distributed a case involving a Pennsylvania state law that prohibits 18-, 19- and 20-year-old adults from carrying firearms during a declared state of emergency. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Firearms Policy Coalition-backed case, Madison Lara v. Commissioner of the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The death of a man found in a “pool of blood” as a giant human-shaped effigy began to burn on Saturday at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the northwestern Nevada desert is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said.The body was discovered just before 9:15 p.m. when a festivalgoer flagged down a deputy at the desert gathering and reported seeing a man “lying in a pool of blood,” the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.Deputies and rangers with the Bureau of Land Management immediately responded to the campsite…

NEED TO KNOW Wendi Adelson took the stand in the trial of her mother, Donna Adelson, who is charged with allegedly masterminding a hit on Wendi’s husband, Dan MarkelWendi admitted that at times her ex-husband “frustrated” her and that she referred to him as an “STD”Donna, 75, allegedly orchestrated the hit because Markel, a law professor, wouldn’t allow Wendi to move with their two children from Tallahassee to Miami, where Donna and the rest of Wendi’s family lived, per prosecutors Wendi Adelson admits that she has called her law professor ex-husband derogatory names including an “emotional terrorist,” a “dark lord”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is aiming to combat crime involving homelessness throughout the country, with cities such as Las Vegas seeing a crisis surrounding encampments overtaking communities and crippling the local area. Sin City has seen an uptick in homelessness throughout the community, with a 20% increase within Clark County in 2024, according to the most recent data from the Southern Nevada Homeless Continuum of Care. “It’s progressively gotten worse and worse and worse,” Robert Marbut, the former federal homelessness czar under Trump’s first administration, told Fox News Digital. “And there was…