Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pentagon unveiled a new overhaul of grooming standards to further ensure service members are ‘clean-shaven’ this week. War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops needing a medical exemption can retain facial hair for one year as long as they are following a plan to treat the condition. After that, they must remove facial hair or face separation. “The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos,” Hegseth wrote in an Aug. 20 memo made public on Monday. Leadership will also be required to conduct a review of…

A New York gun shop owner who was simply trying to help his daughter’s school volleyball team raise money for the upcoming season has come under anti-gun attack from several directions. Joe Oliver, who runs JJ Armory in Riverhead, announced plans to raffle a Ruger firearm in late September, with funds raised going to the Riverhead High School varsity volleyball team, which includes his daughter. However, according to a report at newsday.com, school officials have decried the raffle and pledged that they won’t accept the money because it would be raised through a gun raffle. “Under no circumstances would the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Researchers are sounding the alarm about a rise in “assassination culture” — the same thing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk warned of months before a sniper’s bullet took his life as he spoke in front of a crowd of students on a Utah college campus last week.The Network Contagion Research Institute and the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab teamed up in a recent intelligence report on the issue, warning that arsons targeting Tesla cars and the idea of “killing billionaires” has become a “meme aesthetic for political violence” — especially among…

NEED TO KNOW Tyler Robinson allegedly discussed shooting Charlie Kirk in texts with his roommate and romantic partner following the shootingAsked why he did it, he allegedly responded “I had enough of his hatred.”Robinson is charged with aggravated murder and 6 other counts, including witness tampering for allegedly instructing his roommate to delete incriminating texts Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with killing Charlie Kirk, allegedly left a trail of texts to his roommate and partner in which he seemingly admitted to the crime, the Utah County Attorney said on Tuesday in announcing charges. The disclosures came on Tuesday as County…

NEED TO KNOW A doctor was reprimanded by a U.K. medical tribunal but avoided the most serious consequences over a 2023 incident in which he left a patient under anesthesia to have sex with a nurseDr. Suhail Anjum, a married father of three, was fired from his job months later after the hospital launched an internal investigationThe Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found Dr. Anjum was at a “very low risk” of repeating the incident as he told the tribunal the incident was “quite shameful” A doctor who left his patient under anesthesia to go have sex with a nurse will…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! OREM, Utah — Tyler Robinson’s mother told investigators she had watched her son change dramatically in the year leading up to the Utah college shooting of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.Once a college scholarship recipient with a promising future, Robinson had “become more political,” leaning left and supporting “pro-gay and trans rights,” his mother said, according to court documents.She also recounted heated arguments between Robinson and his father, who held sharply different views and regularly sparred over their competing ideologies.At one point, she told police, her son dismissed Kirk’s Utah Valley…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Those who dismiss celebrations of Charlie Kirk’s murder as harmless free speech may have forgotten that the Pentagon’s crackdown on extremism began in 2021 after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.That year, the then-Defense Department, which was renamed the Department of War under the Trump administration, rewrote its standards for “extremism” within the ranks, making clear that even liking or retweeting certain content could prompt discipline. At the time, the initiative largely targeted right-wing extremism.Now, Pentagon leaders are once again scouring social media — this time suspending officers who appear to cheer on…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Raphael Lemkin was a Jewish lawyer, scholar, and refugee who gave the world a vocabulary for one of humanity’s greatest evils. Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, in which nearly 50 members of his family were murdered, he coined the very word genocide to describe the Nazi attempt to annihilate the Jewish people and other targeted groups. His life’s work was to prevent such crimes, culminating in the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948. For this, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 10 times.Today, more than six decades after…

NEED TO KNOW Sheila Marie Hunter, 58, is accused of ordering her pit bull to attack her neighbor, Eli Santos BlancoThe pit bull mauled the man and caused puncture wounds in both arms before being shot dead by a bystander, per court documentsHunter, whose criminal history dates back 40 years, is charged with assault with intent to cause great bodily harm, cruelty to animals and intoxicated and disruptive behavior A North Carolina woman with a criminal history that stretches back 40 years is accused of directing her pit bull to attack her neighbor. Sheila Marie Hunter, 58, allegedly set her…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man drove a car into a metal gate at the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office early Wednesday in what authorities described as an intentional “act of terror.”The suspect, identified as Donald Henson of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, allegedly rammed an entrance gate at around 2:40 a.m. with a white Toyota sedan before getting out and then grabbing an American flag from inside the vehicle and throwing it over the gate, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Giordano said at a press briefing. Henson fled on foot after the crash and may be dangerous, Giordano…