Author: Jack Bogart

Transgender troops have between 30 and 60 days to self-separate from the military after a court order allowed the ban on their service to move forward, according to a Thursday memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.”After a SCOTUS victory for @POTUS, TRANS is out at the DOD,” Hegseth wrote on X, along with a video announcing the new deadline. Approximately 1,000 service members have self–identified as having gender dysphoria and will begin the voluntary separation process, according to the Pentagon. Active duty service members have until June 6, one month after the court’s ruling, to leave the military. Reservists have until July 7. SUPREME…

A former college football player who played for the University of Miami and the University of Maryland has been arrested on a charge of second-degree murder, PEOPLE can confirm. Avantae Williams, 24, was taken into custody on Monday, May 5 and charged with second-degree murder, according to Volusia County inmate records reviewed by PEOPLE. He is currently being held without bond. Williams’ arrest comes days after police allege the former college football player opened fire at McCabe’s Bar in DeLand, Fla., on Saturday, May 3, killing a 32-year-old man. Williams allegedly fled the scene after the shooting, which also injured…

The prosecuting attorney in the case of Bryan Kohberger, accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, notified the court in a recent filing that the state does not intend to call lay witnesses during the penalty phase of the trial, if he is convicted. The prosecution wrote in the filing obtained by Fox News Digital that it “hereby provides notice that the State does not intend to call any lay witnesses during the penalty phase.”The document was filed late last week in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District in the State of Idaho. JUDGE RULES DEATH PENALTY TO…

The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said Andre Stephon-Curtis Broadenax faces several felony charges in connection with a home invasionHe also faces charges related to inducing a minor to commit a felony after allegedly forcing his 11-year-old daughter to help him break into a homeBroadenax was reportedly caught inside the home and fled without his daughter A man has been charged with breaking and entering — and allegedly forcing his 11-year-old daughter to help, prosecutors says. On Monday, May 5, Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office in Michigan announced that Andre Stephon-Curtis Broadenax, 29, faces several felony charges in connection with a home…

A Texas district attorney is calling for stricter bail amid a manhunt for a murder suspect who allegedly cut off his ankle monitor and fled before his trial was scheduled to begin on Monday.Kaufman County authorities have been searching for Trevor McEuen, who allegedly admitted to shooting and killing his neighbor, horse trainer Aaron Martinez, in 2023, since early this week.”As our community continues to await the apprehension of Trevor McEuen, the individual indicted for the capital murder of Mr. Martinez, Kaufman County District Attorney Erleigh Wiley expresses her strong support for Governor Abbott’s proposed bail reform legislation,” the Kaufman…

EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, has proposed a 15% workforce reduction with a goal of cutting 80,000 jobs at the VA. Retired Lt. Col. Jim Whaley, CEO of Mission Roll Call, a veteran advocacy non-profit, said such VA reform is necessary to improve veterans’ lives across the United States. Whaley told Fox News Digital that veterans want to see less bureaucracy at the VA and more “community care” to cut wait times and increase services at local VA hospitals, but “if it was easy, somebody would have solved it.””Every American and politician, from both sides of the…

NEED TO KNOW Teenage best friends Kiea McCann, 17, and Dlava Mohammed, 16, were laid next to one another “holding hands” after they were killed in a car crash in July 2023, according to testimony during a sentencing hearingThe victims had been traveling to a high school prom at the time of the incidentAnthony McGinn, 61, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing the deaths of the teenagers and is set to be sentenced next week, per reports Two teenage best friends were laid next to each other “holding hands” after they were killed in a car crash in Ireland, one…

Vice President JD Vance suggested the U.S. will not intervene in the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, arguing the dust-up is “fundamentally none of our business.” “We can’t control these countries,” Vance told Fox News’ Martha McCallum on “The Story” Thursday. “We’re not going to get involved in the middle of a war that’s fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America’s ability to control it.”Vance’s comments came after President Donald Trump offered his help to repair relations between the two neighbors in Asia.”Oh, it’s so terrible. My position is, I get along with both,” Trump told…

NEED TO KNOW Roksana Lecka is on trial for allegedly mistreating 23 children under her care at the Riverside Nursery in South London between January and June 2024CCTV footage shown in court showed her allegedly pinching several children and even grabbing one by the neckLecka denies mistreating the children and said she “adhered” to policies with “handling” them A childcare worker accused of child cruelty was allegedly caught on CCTV hurting children at her workplace. Roksana Lecka, 22, who is on trial for allegedly mistreating 23 children under her care at the Riverside Nursery in South London between January and…

Columbia University has temporarily suspended 65 students after anti-Israel agitators took over a campus building and handed out pamphlets that glorified an alleged terrorist this week.The protesters stormed into Columbia University’s Butler Library on Wednesday evening, claiming to have renamed the building “Basel Al-Araj Popular University.” According to the NYPD, 80 arrests were made, with 19 males and 61 females being taken into custody by police. Seventy-eight of those individuals were issued a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespass, and the other two arrested protesters were issued a summons. Homeland Security Investigations is requesting fingerprints and the names of those…