Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Students at the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers University have launched a petition to remove what they call an “Antifa aligned” professor. “Our petition is to call on Professor Mark Bray to be fired from Rutgers,” Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter, told Fox News Digital Friday in an interview. “We believe that conservative students and political violence are very prominent now,” Doyle added. “And it puts conservative students at risk from such political violence. And when you have a teacher that so often promotes…

NEED TO KNOW Tyrese Gibson was arrested on Friday, Oct. 3, after his four mastiff dogs allegedly mauled his neighbor’s pet to death weeks earlierThe actor was previously given a deadline to turn himself in to authorities after they issued an arrest warrant, but he failed to comply initiallyGibson was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia and charged with one count of cruelty to animals Tyrese Gibson’s legal trouble, tied to an incident involving his dogs, continues. The actor, 46, turned himself in to police and was arrested on Friday, Oct. 3, after his four mastiff dogs allegedly mauled his neighbor’s pet…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The United Kingdom’s government and police urged organizers of a planned anti-Israel protest to cancel the event following this week’s deadly synagogue attack, saying demonstrators should “respect the grief of British Jews.””I know that planned protests over the weekend, just a few days before the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, as well as in the shadow of the Manchester attack, will cause distress,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrote in an opinion piece for The Jewish Chronicle. He called on the protest organizers to reconsider and to “respect the grief of…

NEED TO KNOW At least six people were injured in a shooting on Saturday, Oct. 4According to local news outlets, minors are among those injured, but no one sustained life-threatening injuriesA teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the incident At least six people were rushed to the hospital after being struck by gunfire during a shooting at a busy city center. Shortly before 2 a.m. local time on Saturday, Oct. 4, police received reports of gunfire on a street lined with shops and restaurants in central Gävle, Sweden, local news outlets Aftonbladet, Sydvenskan and Goteborgs-Posten reported. Authorities arrived…

NEED TO KNOW Mary Cecilia Rogers, 20, known as New York’s “Beautiful Cigar Girl,” vanished in July 1841 and was found dead in the Hudson River days laterA handkerchief with her initials and rumors of a botched abortion fueled speculation about her mysterious deathEdgar Allan Poe reimagined her case in “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” his only true-crime detective story When the body of 20-year-old Mary Rogers was found in the Hudson River in 1841, New Yorkers were transfixed. Known citywide as the “Beautiful Cigar Girl,” Mary’s mysterious death set off a media frenzy — and later captivated Edgar Allan…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! DENVER – The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is sounding the alarm over a surge in financial sextortion schemes that are targeting teenage boys at unprecedented levels, often with devastating consequences.Callahan Walsh, son of child safety advocates John and Revé Walsh and a key leader at NCMEC, says the surge in cases is unlike anything they’ve seen.”We saw a massive shift in sextortion after COVID,” Walsh told Fox News Digital. “Teenage boys were now being targeted at a much higher rate for financial gain, often by overseas criminal enterprises.”These…

NEED TO KNOW Two 17-year-old girls were fatally struck while riding an e-bike on Monday, Sept. 29, in Cranford, N.J.Neighbors said the driver had been stalking one of the girlsA 17-year-old teen has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection their deaths A 17-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of two 17-year-old girls who were fatally struck while riding an e-bike on the evening of Monday, Sept. 29, in Cranford, N.J., authorities announced Wednesday. The driver of the vehicle that struck the girls has been taken into custody by members of…

NEED TO KNOW Lizbeth Hurtado-Breton was arrested after a case worker noticed severe injuries on her infant and called police Hurtado-Breton allegedly taped her 4-month-old’s mouth shut with a tape because the child wouldn’t stop crying Her husband allegedly told police she was cruel to the child because she wanted a baby boy, and was not as “awful” to her older children Content warning: This story contains disturbing details of alleged child abuse. A Utah woman has been arrested on child abuse charges after she allegedly burned her infant daughter’s face and taped her mouth shut, per authorities. Lizbeth Hurtado-Breton,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Utah taxpayers are on the hook for Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin’s defense team, which has the potential to reach eight figures, criminal defense attorneys told Fox News Digital.After the shooting on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Kirk was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he died, officials said. Tyler Robinson was charged with aggravated murder, two counts of obstruction of justice and felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, two counts of witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Multiple police union leaders have requested or supported federal law enforcement assistance to counter rising rates of violent crime in their cities, including in Charlotte, where the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska drew national attention. But, at least one union leader reversed course after city officials rejected the idea as illegal and unnecessary. On Thursday, the Fraternal Order of Police in Charlotte’s Mecklenburg County became the latest police union to invite the National Guard, having sent a letter to city leaders requesting federal law enforcement assistance after the city faced 15 murders in…