Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein broke his silence over the murder of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train after facing heated criticism over the weekend for not speaking out earlier despite the release of a brutal video of the attack. “I am heartbroken for the family of Iryna Zarutska, who lost their loved one to this senseless act of violence, and I am appalled by the footage of her murder. We need more cops on the beat to keep people safe,” Stein posted on X on Monday morning after a weekend…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. ramped up its fight against Caribbean drug cartels Monday as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine touched down in Puerto Rico to bolster military operations.Puerto Rican Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón and First Gentleman Dr. José Yovín Vargas welcomed the pair, framing the visit as the Trump administration’s show of support for troops training on the island.”We thank President Trump and his administration for recognizing Puerto Rico’s strategic importance to our national security, and for their commitment to combat drug cartels and the narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro,”…

NEED TO KNOW The jury foreperson in the Donna Adelson trial took to TikTok to reveal how the jury came to find the 75-year-old family matriarch guilty of murderDonna Adelson was convicted of murder, conspiracy and solicitation in the 2014 death of her former son-in-law, Daniel Markel, 41Adelson was angry that Markel refused to allow her daughter to move 400 miles away to be closer to her and her family, prosecutors said during the trial Jurors only needed three hours to convict Donna Adelson — the matriarch of a wealthy Florida family — of murder in the death of her…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! GoFundMe said that it removed multiple fundraising campaigns created on behalf of Decarlos Brown Jr., the ex-convict accused of stabbing and killing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a Charlotte, North Carolina, light-rail train.”GoFundMe’s Terms of Service explicitly prohibit fundraisers for the legal defense of anyone formally charged with a violent crime. Consistent with this long-standing policy, all fundraisers for Decarlos Brown Jr.’s legal defense have been removed from the platform, and any donors have been fully refunded,” a company spokesperson told Fox News Digital.According to information reviewed by Fox News Digital, the…

NEED TO KNOW Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein gave the House Oversight Committee a copy of the birthday note he allegedly received from Donald Trump in 2003The letter, framed by the outline of a naked woman, features imagined dialogue between Trump and Epstein about how they have “certain things in common”Trump recently sued The Wall Street Journal for $10 billion after the outlet reported on the birthday message, calling their description of the letter “fake news” and insisting it did not exist An image of an apparent birthday letter from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein has been publicly released by members…

On Tuesday, September 2, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an Illinois concealed carry ban on the CTA and Metra public transportation lines is not unconstitutional, reversing a previous federal judge who found the law in violation under current Supreme Court standards. The original ruling came after four concealed carry permit holders sued the state over part of its 2013 Firearm Concealed Carry Act, claiming the law prevented them from carrying weapons for self-defense. When the initial ruling was issued in 2024, U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston found that the state failed in its obligation to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chicago Democrat Raymond Lopez tore into his own party for turning a blind eye to crime, accusing leaders like Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson of whitewashing the issue while standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s crackdown.”History will prove the Democratic Party wrong in this moment,” Lopez said Monday on “Fox & Friends.””There are very few of us who are standing up to say, ‘No, we do not need to move the goalpost that far to the left to be relevant,’ and, unfortunately, we have a small segment of…

NEED TO KNOW In 1985 and then in 2000, the bodies of a woman and three children were found in drum barrels in the New Hampshire woodsFor years authorities tried to identify the victimsThis is one of the first cases that used genetic genealogy to identify unknown victims Her tiny body was found stuffed in a barrel in the New Hampshire woods, one of four victims of the so-called Chameleon Killer. No one knew who she was, where she was from or how she got there, until now. On Sunday, Sept. 7, authorities announced that the final unidentified victim in…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former University of Kentucky student-athlete Laken Snelling was seen performing with her school’s STUNT team months before detectives say they found her newborn infant inside a closet wrapped in a trash bag.Snelling, 21, was taken into custody on Aug. 31 by Lexington Police Department officers who were responding to a call regarding an unresponsive infant, officials said. Police said the infant was “pronounced deceased at the scene,” adding that Snelling was the infant’s mother.An autopsy on the male infant was inconclusive, the Fayette County Coroner’s Office, noting that extensive microscopic analysis would…

NEED TO KNOW Cara Northington said at an event on Sept. 6, that she forgave Bryan Kohberger, the man who murdered her 20-year-old daughter Xana KernodleShe said that she came to this place while serving a 10-month sentence for a probation violation after her daughter’s murder, during which time she said that she rediscovered her faithNorthington also shared fond memories of her daughter, calling her a ‘beautiful soul’ and saying: ‘She was funny. She just had a way of making you feel special’ The mother of one of the four University of Idaho students murdered by Bryan Kohberger delivered a…