Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two years after Hamas carried out its brutal Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, 48 hostages are still in the Gaza Strip. Of those who remain, not all are alive. Some, including two U.S. citizens, are confirmed to be deceased and their bodies remain in the hands of their captors.Secretary of State Marco Rubio released a statement marking the anniversary as the U.S. seeks to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas based on President Donald Trump’s 20-Point Plan.”On this second anniversary of Hamas’s heinous October 7 attacks, the United States remains steadfast in…

NEED TO KNOW Krystal Sims, 30, allegedly tried to arrange a time for her and an underage student to have sexThe underage student recorded a call with Sims on Aug. 22 — but not an alleged subsequent video chat, during which the teacher allegedly spoke to the boy naked in the shower with her breasts exposed, according to the students’ statement to authoritiesSims claims that she spoke with the boy to arrange a time to meet so he could apologize for his behavior, and that the two never actually met up A teacher in Kentucky is facing criminal charges after allegedly…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Portland, Oregon, business owners sounded the alarm over the city’s crime crisis Tuesday as President Donald Trump faces legal roadblocks in keeping federal troops on the ground to help mitigate the problem.”We need help here,” said Amy Nichols, whose local business has been the victim of 10 break-ins.After years of struggle, Nichols believes the president’s push to keep National Guard troops in Portland could help shift things in the right direction and draw greater attention to the problems locals face.”Something needs to be done, and if this is what we need to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, who President Donald Trump nominated during his first term, is blocking the commander in chief from deploying National Guard troops in Oregon.The Senate confirmed her via voice vote in 2019.Immergut was involved in a probe pertaining to the salacious scandal that indelibly marked President Bill Clinton’s White House tenure.”I was hired by Ken Starr almost five months after Attorney General Reno sought to expand the OIC’s authority to investigate whether Monica Lewinsky or others suborned perjury,…

NEED TO KNOW Amine Mojito, the French internet personality known as Ilan M, was sentenced by the Paris Criminal Court on Oct. 3 for “violence with a weapon that did not result in incapacity for work,” reported French newspaper LibérationThe influencer went viral in June for a series of videos where he pretended to inject passersby with a syringe”I had the very bad idea of ​​doing these pranks by imitating what I saw on the Internet, in Spain, in Portugal,” said Mojito in court Amine Mojito, a 27-year-old French internet personality known online as Ilan M, was sentenced to six…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops in U.S. cities after a federal judge blocked his administration from sending National Guard units to Portland.”I’d do it if it was necessary. So far it hasn’t been necessary. But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. The 1807 law has not been invoked since the 1992 Los Angeles riots.”If I had to enact it, I’d do that. If people were being killed and courts were holding us up…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The criminal case against a California doctor accused of poisoning her estranged husband with Drano is facing a major setback this week after prosecutors told a court they need to dismiss the charges because a key witness wouldn’t be available at trial, according to a new report.They plan to refile the case, according to KCAL-TV, which first reported the dismissal.Dr. Yue “Emily” Yu, a 48-year-old dermatologist from Irvine, California, was accused of spiking her then-husband’s tea and lemonade with drain cleaner for months in 2022.CALIFORNIA DOCTOR SAYS HE CAUGHT WIFE DUMPING DRANO…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A diplomatic battle is being waged between leading Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Nigerian government officials. The Texas senator has warned he will hold them accountable for the reported “mass slaughter” of tens of thousands of Christians in Nigeria. The officials say Cruz is lying, with one claiming that despite even the pope publicly calling out the killings, there is religious harmony in the country.Nigeria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian, according to international Christian advocacy group Open Doors International’s 2025…

NEED TO KNOW Ed Gein admitted to killing two women, Bernice Worden and Mary HoganHe also exhumed local graves to collect body partsGein is the subject of Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story Ed Gein is one of the United States’ most infamous killers. In the 1950s, Gein, nicknamed “The Butcher of Plainfield,” was a killer and grave robber who used his victims’ skin and other body parts to make clothing, masks, chairs, a lampshade and more household items. Gein’s crimes are dramatized in the Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story, which premiered on Oct. 3. Gein was ultimately…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine defended his fellow Democrat, former Del. Jay Jones of Norfolk, Virginia, as the commonwealth attorney general nominee’s campaign unravels after texts surfaced depicting Jones envisioning the murder of a top state Republican.Pressed ahead of a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday, Kaine said Jones’ comments were “indefensible” but that he is “still a supporter” of his candidacy against incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares.”Jay has apologized,” Kaine said.”I’ve known Jay Jones for 25 years,” he said. “I think those statements were not in character, and he has apologized…