Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal grand jury was weighing whether to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James in Virginia federal court with mortgage fraud.Two sources confirmed to Fox News that the charges were related to potential mortgage fraud. This story is breaking. Please check back for updates.  Read the full article here

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Mired in controversy over the past week after it was revealed that the school hosted a panel weighing the merits of political violence, Harvard University has several times ignored opportunities to condemn it. The Ivy League school has been under the microscope after it was reported that its Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights hosted a panel in early 2018 where a guest lecturer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made his case for potential armed political violence. Three Harvard faculty members participated in the panel. Since then, Fox News Digital…

NEED TO KNOW David “Heavy D” Sparks was arrested after failing to pay fees related to a 2017 environmental lawsuitA federal judge ordered Sparks’ arrest after ruling he was in contemptSparks starred on the Discovery Channel’s Diesel Brothers One of the stars of the Discovery Channel’s Diesel Brothers was arrested after a federal judge issued a bench warrant linked to an environmental lawsuit. David “Heavy D” Sparks is in custody in Salt Lake City, according to county jail records, which indicate that he was arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The arrest comes days after a federal judge in Utah issued…

Nearly a year after ruling that the case could go forward, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit blaming firearm companies for a 2019 mass shooting in California. On July 28, 2019, 19-year-old Santino William Legan opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. He killed three people and wounded 17 others before killing himself after a shootout with responding police officers. The case, Towner v. Century Arms, was filed by more than a dozen survivors of the attack and sought to hold Century Arms partly responsible since the murderer used one of the Vermont company’s WASR-10 rifles…

Robert Roberson, the Texas man convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter but whose conviction had been called into question by many, was granted a stay of execution by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Roberson has been on death row for more than 20 years after he was convicted of murder in 2003. Prosecutors have claimed his daughter, Nikki Curtis, had died of shaken baby syndrome and that Roberson had killed her, the Associated Press previously reported. The court ruled Thursday, Oct. 9 that Roberson had satisfied his relief claim after his attorneys cited a previous Court of Criminal Appeals ruling that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The suspect charged with causing the deadly Palisades Fire in Southern California will remain in the custody of U.S. marshals without bail ahead of trial.U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathan W. Hill cited 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht’s mental health, unsteady income and complicated relationship with his family as reasons for the decision on Thursday in Orlando, Florida.Three of Rinderknecht’s siblings – two sisters and one brother – sat in the second row during the hearing. One of his sisters started crying after the judge made his ruling. Federal officials said during a news conference on Wednesday…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! TEL AVIV: Two years of pain were drowned out by tears of joy at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on Thursday, as Israelis celebrated President Donald Trump’s announcement of the first phase of a deal aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hamas.”I am overjoyed, overwhelmed, happy — all the good feelings in the world,” Daniel Lifshitz told Fox News Digital at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square.Lifshitz’s grandfather, Oded Lifshitz, was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023, and was later killed in Hamas captivity. His remains were returned to Israel in Feb.…

NEED TO KNOW Stacy Payne was brutally murdered in July 2001 by Roy Lee Ward while at home with her sisterWard, now 44, was sentenced to death for raping and murdering StacyWard is set to be executed Friday, Oct. 10, after exhausting all possibilities of challenging his sentence Content warning: An Indiana man convicted of murdering a teen in 2001 after gaining entry into her home using a ruse of a lost dog is set for execution on Friday, Oct. 10. The victim, 15-year-old Stacy Payne, was raped and killed by Roy Lee Ward in her Dale, Ind., home on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! There will be no end to the war in Gaza if Hamas does not hand over all 48 living and deceased hostages and completely disarm per the terms of the agreement finalized overnight between Hamas and Israel, Jerusalem’s ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, warned in an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday. The Israeli government is expected to approve the peace deal first presented by President Donald Trump late last month, and then agreed to by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu. But concerns remain over Hamas’ commitment and ability to return all the…

NEED TO KNOW The Palisades Fire started on Jan. 7, 2025, and became one of the deadliest wildfires in California’s historyOver nine months later, Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested and charged with destruction of property by means of fireRinderknecht could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison if he is convicted Jonathan Rinderknecht has been arrested in connection with the devastating Palisades Fire. The deadly event began on Jan. 7, 2025, and continued to spread across Southern California for a month, becoming one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in the state’s history. According to a report…