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Boston University School of Law students were offered therapy after three controversial Supreme Court decisions this week about affirmative action, religious freedom and student debt forgiveness. The BU Law Student Government Association's (SGA) statement, sent out to law students Friday afternoon, denounced the three Supreme Court decisions of the week: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 303 Creative LLC. v. Elenis and Biden v. Nebraska. In an email obtained by Fox News Digital, the student board began by lambasting the Supreme Court's decision in the Students for Fair Admissions case, which declared race-based affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional.  "[The assenting judges] went so far as to say that the race-based admission system uses race as a negative and operates it as a stereotype," the letter stated. "They may couch their opinion in legal jargon, but we all know what this opinion aims to do: advocate for a ‘colorblind’ adm...

Officials in New Jersey say that a man and a 13-year-old girl were attacked by a coyote on Friday afternoon. The Essex County Sheriff’s Office said that the coyote attack took place at around 3 p.m. in the Maplewood part of South Mountain Reservation around a dog park, according to PIX 11. In addition to the two people who were injured, a Maltese Shih Tzu dog was also attacked by the coyote. The teenager was taken to a local hospital and her condition is unknown. According to the report, the man's condition is also unknown. NEW JERSEY HELICOPTER CREW RESCUES FIREFIGHTERS WHOSE BOAT WENT OVER WATERFALL The dog is being treated for injuries by an emergency veterinarian. FORMER DEMOCRATIC NEW JERSEY POLITICAL CONSULTANT GETS 24 YEARS IN MURDER-FOR-HIRE Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo said that officials have closed the dog park, adding that people visiting the area should be very cautious. "An aggressive coyote has been sited in Essex County South Mountain Res...

A 37-year-old man was arrested and charged as a fugitive from justice in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood this week, the city's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday.  Taylor Taranto, 37, who had open warrant for his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 riot, was arrested Thursday following a pursuit by Secret Service agents just blocks from former President Obama’s home.  "Since January 6, 2021, the FBI has been investigating and identifying those individuals who illegally entered and committed offenses within the United States Capitol and its grounds," the criminal complaint against Taranto said. Investigators have determined that TAYLOR FRANKLIN TARANTO, a resident of the State of Washington, was one such individual." Taranto allegedly had weapons and materials to make an explosive device with him at the time of his arrest.  The MPD’s Explosive Ordinance Team also performed a sweep of Taranto’s van that was parked near w...

Some experts have raised concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) could have its own gender gap if more women aren’t involved in its development and dataset analysis. "It’s not just AI, but I would say engineering as a whole," Dr. Georgianna Shea, chief technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI), told Fox News Digital. "Whenever there’s any type of engineering process for anything, you don’t want to end up with bias-based engineers." Adding to the debate, Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently said in an interview that she was concerned there was a lack of women working in the field of artificial intelligence, which she said made her nervous about potential biases in platforms.  Shea said the problem is two-fold: Not only does the field require more women to help guide the development of AI platforms , the datasets used to inform and train the AI a...

A California social media influencer who falsely blamed a Latino couple for trying to kidnap her two children on a viral Instagram video was sentenced to 90 days in jail, prosecutors said Thursday.  On Dec. 7, 2020, Kathleen 'Katie' Sorensen, 31, accused the couple of trying to kidnap her children at a Michaels arts and craft store in Sonoma County and filed a false police report.  "Ms. Sorensen has been held accountable for her crime, and we believe the Judge handed down a fair sentence," District Attorney Carla Rodriguez said in a statement. "Our hope is that this measure of accountability will help provide some closure to the couple that was falsely accused of having attempted to kidnap two young children." FORMER CALIFORNIA DEPUTY ARRESTED ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS STEMMING FROM 2022 As part of her sentence, Sorensen will be allowed to serve 60 days of her jail time in a work release program. She was also placed on 12 months probation, durin...

A 74-year-old camp counselor in Florida was arrested after allegedly throwing a cup of water at a student who was playing aggressively. Susan O'Hara, 74 was working at a Surfside Elementary summer camp in Satellite Beach, Florida, when the incident happened on Monday, according to FOX 35. Witnesses told police that O'Hara was attempting to intervene when a student was aggressively playing with others and asked for help from another counselor. Police said that O'Hara tried to keep the student still by holding their shoulders, and the other counselor took the student out of the classroom.  FLORIDA JURY FINDS FORMER PARKLAND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER SCOT PETERSON NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS However, as the other counselor took the student out of the classroom, he continued to lash out and proceed to hit the classroom door. O'Hara, after continuously hearing the banging noise, left and came back with a cup filled with water and swung it aggressively at the student, polic...

A Texas judge ordered the state's Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) to start the process of releasing documents regarding police response to the Uvalde school shooting, which left 21 people dead last year. The 261st Civil District Court Judge Daniella DeSeta Lyttle granted the request to local outlets that have been attempting to get the documents from TXDPS over the past year, including the Texas Tribune, the outlet reported.  Lyttle ordered TXDPS to make a log of redactions to add to the public records by August 31, meaning that the records will not be immediately available. According to the Tribune, Lyttle said the court will have a hearing about the proposed redactions in September. Media outlets have filed Texas Public Information Act requests for more information about law enforcement response to the shooting, but TXDPS had refused to grant the requests so far. UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING: ACTING POLICE CHIEF ON DAY OF MASSACRE PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE On May 24, 20...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A Texas man suspected of killing his former girlfriend took his own life Thursday following a days-long search for him, police said.  Pasadena police officers had been searching for Juan Carlos Mata, 20, after 19-year-old Leslie Reyes was killed in an apartment complex parking lot Monday night, the department said. Officers were sent to the complex again on Thursday around 5:40 a.m. amid reports of a suspicious male at a makeshift memorial set up to honor Reyes, Fox Houston reported.  TEXAS APPEALS COURT DENIES NEW TRIAL FOR LONGTIME DEATH ROW INMATE RODNEY REED An officer approached the male, who went behind a vehicle, grabbed a shotgun and shot himself. Authorities identified him as Mata.  HUSBAND OF TEXAS WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN LAKE ARRESTED, POLICE SAY Investigators believe Mata was waiting for ...

A Nevada man was arrested earlier this month after allegedly posing as the owner of a downtown Las Vegas hotel and coercing employees to give him over $1 million, according to reports. FOX 5 in Las Vegas reported the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said an employee at the hotel, which is located on Fremont Street, was contacted by a man claiming to be the owner of the hotel. The man, who was later identified as 33-year-old Erik Gutierrez-Martinez, told the supervisor of the cashier cage to give him $320,000 to go toward "an emergency payment to the fire department for fire safety devices," according to the police report. SUSPECT IN VEGAS TRIPLE HOMICIDE CASE HELD WITHOUT BOND The supervisor complied and gave the money to the unknown man at a gas station. The supervisor then did the same thing two more times, the news station reported, bringing the total to $1,170,000, after meeting the person at two more businesses. The report notes that this incident is similar to anoth...

A Georgia man with an identical twin is being sought in the shooting death of an 18-year-old woman during a fight at a mobile home community over the weekend. The suspect, Devon Michael Gandy, 19, is considered "armed and dangerous," according to police. Deputies with the Paulding County Sheriff's Office said they received multiple 911 calls from residents of the Nebo Ridge Estates mobile home community in Hiram on Saturday night.  When they arrived, they found Katherine Maline Castillo-Martinez with gunshot wounds.  LOUISIANA MAN CRITICAL OF CHILD WELFARE OFFICIALS FACES MURDER CHARGE IN INFANT DAUGHTER'S DEATH She was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries.  Investigators determined there was a dispute before the shooting between several people at the mobile home community that morning.  The sheriff's office and the U.S. Marshals Service were looking for Gandy as of Wednesday night.  "It must be noted that Gandy does have an identic...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) on Wednesday encountered more than 100 illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally and trespassed on private property.  Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez told Fox News Digital the migrants crossed the Rio Grande and stepped onto private property after ignoring troopers' warnings not to enter.  The group consisted of families and single adults from Venezuela, Olivarez said.  Texas DPS officers arrested more than 40 single adults for criminal trespass after they refused to turn around and return to Mexico.  TEXAS DPS ARRESTS GULF CARTEL OPERATIVE FOR ALLEGED HUMAN SMUGGLING INTO US Some 66 family groups were referred to U.S. Border Patrol for processing. Razor-wire was being added to the private property, Olivarez said.  The incident comes after ten unaccompanied migrant children from Honduras were found abandoned near the Texas border in triple-digit temperatures .  Texas DPS said the minors were found at ...

An Arizona man was arrested for allegedly recording a man inside a restroom stall to satisfy his "fetish," according to court documents. Tempe resident Jonathan Roy Jackson, 23, was apprehended at Scottsdale Fashion Square on Sunday afternoon. In court documents obtained by FOX 10 Phoenix, authorities said Jackson used a cellphone to surreptitiously record a victim in the mall's bathroom. "When [the victim] was in the bathroom stall, he noticed a clear bag (with a black object pointed in his direction) on the floor at the base of the stall door next to black crocks [sic] with a colorful design for about 2 minutes," the court documents say. ARIZONA STATE TROOPER HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING SHOT; SUSPECT FOUND DEAD "During this time [the victim] stood up, with his pants down exposing his genitals, and noticed the bag was still on the floor and believed he was being recorded," the documents added. The victim returned to the restroom around 45 minutes...

A jury in Florida will soon decide the fate of former Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson.  Jury deliberations continued for a third day Wednesday with no verdict reached in the historic trial involving the former Broward County deputy . The jury is set to resume deliberations 9 a.m. Thursday. A sheriff's deputy, teachers and students testifying during the trial of Peterson gave divergent answers when asked where they thought the shots were coming from during Nikolas Cruz's Feb. 14, 2018, attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Fourteen students and three staff members died. Peterson, 60, could face almost 100 years in prison and lose his $104,000 annual pension if convicted of felony child neglect, the most serious charge he faces. He is the first law enforcement agent in U.S. history ever tried for an alleged failure to act during a school shooting. He retired shortly after the shooting before being retroactively fired. "Every...

A federal judge on Tuesday pushed back the possible trial for Natalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot to fall. The order comes after Joran van der Sloot filed a waiver of his right to a speedy trial on Tuesday. Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the May 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba during a Mountain Brook High School, Alabama, senior trip. He's being charged with extortion and wire fraud after allegedly attempting to sell Natalee's mother, Beth Holloway, information regarding the location of her daughter's body. Federal prosecutors allege that the Dutch national asked for $250,000 — $25,000 upfront for the information, and the rest to be paid out when the body of Natalee Holloway was positively identified. JORAN VAN DER SLOOT CASE: BETH HOLLOWAY SAYS 'WHEELS OF JUSTICE' ARE BEGINNING TO TURN AFTER ARRAIGNMENT Prosecutors say that van der Sloot lied to Beth Holloway's lawyer, John Q. Kelly, about where her daughter's remains w...

A stash of illegal fireworks prompted authorities in Southern California to evacuate dozens of homes Tuesday.  The San Bernardino Police Department said officers responded to a complaint about residents possibly having illegal fireworks at the 1400 block of West Evans Street.  Officers eventually discovered 5,000 pounds of illicit fireworks, multiple firearms, manufacturing tools and several kegs of black powder, authorities said.  Investigators believe illegal fireworks were being made at the home. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office Bomb Squad was called to assist authorities.  PUNCHES THROWN AT CALIFORNIA SCHOOL IN PROTEST OVER LGBTQ+ CURRICULUM, PRIDE MONTH Around 48 homes were evacuated and five bomb trailers were used to remove the explosive materials found. A temporary shelter was set up at a nearby high school for those who needed assistance.  On Tuesday evening, authorities said the evacuated residents were allowed to return to their home...

Four Mexican citizens were arrested in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found abandoned last year inside a tractor-trailer in the scorching heat in San Antonio, Texas, federal prosecutors said Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the shocking discovery.  The Justice Department said the suspects knew the trailer’s air-conditioning unit was malfunctioning and would not blow any cool air to the migrants inside. They were identified as Riley Covarrubias-Ponce, 30; Felipe Orduna-Torres, 28; Luis Alberto Rivera-Leal, 37; and Armando Gonzales-Ortega, 53. "One year ago today, an unthinkable crime perpetrated by human smugglers at our southern border caused the death of 53 human beings," said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco. "But today’s arrests demonstrate that those who seek to profit from desperation will be brought to justice." DESANTIS ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE COALITION OF 90 SHERIFFS TO PUSH BACK AGAINST BORDER CRISIS All four are charged with conspira...

Hundreds of interfaith parents, including Christians and Muslims, rallied outside the headquarters of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland Tuesday to demand that their children be given the right to opt out of the district’s controversial LGBTQ curriculum .  MCPS, which is the wealthiest district in Maryland , announced last year efforts to include an LGBTQ-inclusive reading list as part of its English language arts curriculum.  Many parents requested a policy for their children to opt out of these books, but the school board insisted that students will be required to "engage" with these materials.  An MCPS policy stated that students and families "may not choose to opt out of engaging with any instructional materials, other than ‘Family Life and Human Sexuality Unit of Instruction’ which is specifically permitted by Maryland law. As such, teachers will not send home letters to inform families when inclusive books are read in the future."  The policy...

The CEO of a defunct California technical school was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of nearly $105 million, in what is considered the department’s largest post-9/11 GI Bill fraud case. The Justice Department (DOJ) announced the sentencing in a press release Monday, stating that between January 2012 and June 2022, California Technical Academy (CTA) founder and CEO Michael Bostock, 54, of Nampa, Idaho, and his co-conspirators — Eric Bostock and Philip Abod — falsely reported veteran enrollment numbers, posed as veterans on phone calls with regulators, and manipulated records to appear veterans were completing courses. Bostock pleaded guilty to the fraud scheme in September 2022. TWO MEN PLEAD GUILTY IN LARGEST POST-9/11 GI BILL FRAUD SCHEME EVER The defendant's school was VA-approved and offered technical training to veterans at three locations, including San Diego and Los Angeles. Bostock and his co-defenda...

A Chicago mother who was facing a murder charge for allegedly telling her 14-year-old son to shoot a man at a fast-food restaurant is suing the city a day after video that showed the man threaten and repeatedly punch her in the head prompted prosecutors to drop the charges. Carlishia Hood, 35, alleges malicious prosecution, false arrest and intentional infliction of emotional distress in her lawsuit filed in Cook County Circuit Court . "What happened to me was totally unnecessary," Hood said via Fox 32 Chicago . "Never in a million years would I have imagined being brutally attacked, beaten and being arrested." Hood was held on $3 million bail after she was charged last week with first-degree murder and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CHICAGO SHOOTING DEATH OF FOX NEWS ANALYST GIANNO CALDWELL'S BROTHER REACHES YEAR WITHOUT ARREST Hood, however, was released Monday from the Cook County Jail after the Cook County State's Attorney's Office...

Police in New Jersey are keeping a close eye on the roadways after a driver in Gibbstown was caught on camera tossing trash bags filled with adult diapers and urine pads. Over the past week, there have been multiple reports of trash bags containing adult diapers and urine pads being illegally dumped on the roadway in Gibbstown according to the Greenwich Township Police Department. Towns in the nearby area have also experienced the same type of littering, the department said. The driver's vehicle was captured by a surveillance camera, which appears to show a newer model gray Nissan Altima with no spoiler and a New Jersey license plate, police wrote on Facebook. BODY OF NJ SENIOR KILLED IN WASHINGTON STATE AVALANCHE FOUND Though the person(s) responsible has yet not been identified, Greenwich Township police have issued a strong public warning for whomever the culprit is and threatened the person with fines. "We don't know who you are. We don't know what you want....

Florida police arrested 12 people, some of whom span three generations of a family well known to law enforcement officials, for their alleged involvement in a drug trafficking operation in the Winter Haven area. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) said the Rogers family has a long history of illegal narcotics sales and was at the center of an investigation conducted between its deputies and the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office. The investigation led to the arrest of nine adults and three juveniles, as well as the seizure of 1,366 grams of methamphetamine, 980 grams of cocaine, 900 grams of MDMA (ecstasy), 224 grams of fentanyl, 158 grams of marijuana, 9 grams of Oxycodone, 202 prescription pills and a firearm. The sheriff’s office said the street value of the drugs was about $139,000, and the amount of fentanyl taken off the streets was enough to kill 95,500 people. FLORIDA POLICE DISMANTLE SQUATTERS' BOBBY-TRAPPED ‘METH ISLAND’ According to police, 38-year-old Kenneth ...

Defense officials have decided not to investigate an incident in which a balloon was seen flying across eastern Montana on Sunday night.  U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican who represents the area where the balloon was spotted, said several people in Dawson County were tracking a balloon flying across eastern Montana at 57,000 feet.  He immediately contacted the Department of Defense and was told the agency was aware of the incident and choose not to investigate because of the size of the balloon and the "low probability" that it was conducting any surveillance, he said.  "If the spy balloon in February taught us anything, it’s that Montanans are vigilant and want to know what is flying over our state and will expose the Biden Administration for not protecting us," Rosendale said in a statement.  MORE THAN 70 LETTERS CONTAINING 'SUSPICIOUS' WHITE POWDER SENT TO KANSAS LAWMAKERS, OFFICIALS, FBI SAYS Fox News Digital has reached out to the DOD and th...

NASA kicked off a 378-day mission on Sunday in which a crew of four volunteers will be locked in a ground-based simulation of the planet Mars, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The mission, NASA said, is the first of three year-long Mars surface simulations called Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA. The data acquired through the simulations is intended to help NASA prepare for human exploration of Mars. The four-person crew consists of Commander Kelly Haston, a research scientist with experience in stem cell-based projects; flight engineer Ross Brockwell, a structural engineer and public works administrator; medical officer Nathan Jones; and science officer Anca Selariu. NASA PREPARES MARS MISSION ON EARTH FOR 4 VOLUNTEERS With backgrounds in science and engineering, the crew members will be part of a simulated mission to Mars, where the crew will eat, drink and exercise while in simulation. The 1,700-square-foot, 3D printed facility is about...

The District Attorney’s Office in the Bronx has set a disposition date for Shellyne Rodriguez, a machete-wielding New York City professor who allegedly threatened to "chop up" a New York Post reporter, Fox News Digital has learned.  A spokeswoman for the DA’s office said a status hearing was held Monday to confirm that the DA’s office was in compliance with all the discoveries and evidence in the case.  The spokeswoman confirmed that everything was satisfactory and the date of Aug. 14, 2023, was set for a possible disposition.  The court also extended the order of protection until at least that date for the reporter, Ruven Fenton , and the photographer, Robert Miller, who were involved in the alleged machete incident.  CALIFORNIA PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO SEXUALLY LURE 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL WITH CHOCOLATE BAR AND DOLL Rodriguez, 45, turned herself in to police on Thursday, May 25 after allegedly threatening to chop up a New York Post reporter with a machete...

The victims of an apparent botched home invasion-turned-triple murder in Massachusetts on Sunday were identified by their church and friends as an elderly family, including a married couple that had just marked their 50th wedding anniversary. Jill and Bruno D'Amore were killed a day – maybe hours – before they renewed their wedding vows for their 50th anniversary. The couple and Jill's 97-year-old mother, Lucia Arpino, hadn't missed 10 a.m. Mass at their Newton, Massachusetts , parish in decades, their pastor said. Arpino and her husband reportedly sat in the same "North End" seats of Sacred Heart and Our Lady's Collaborative church for 60 years. So, when none of them were at Sunday Mass, everyone knew something was wrong, friends said. A family member called a neighbor to check on them, and the neighbor stumbled onto the bloody murder scene . All three were stabbed and beaten to death in what police believe was a random home invasion. 3 ELDERLY PEOPLE K...

Efforts to recover the remains of the Titan submersible that suffered a catastrophic implosion near the Titanic wreckage are currently underway, and as of Sunday, had descended to the seafloor for a fourth dive. Last Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed that a debris field located about 1,600 feet from the wreckage of the Titanic was in fact that of the missing Titan submersible. The underwater vessel was carrying five men on board when it lost contact with its surface ship about an hour and 45 minutes after descending to the Titanic. South Wellfleet, Massachusetts-based Pelagic Research Services (PRS) was contacted by OceanGate, the company behind Titan, for use of its remotely operated vehicles, or "ROVs," to assist with the search. MISSING TITAN SUBMERSIBLE FOUND: SEE THE KEY VESSELS THAT AIDED THE DESPERATE SEARCH The ROV, which is named Odysseus 6K, found the "debris field" in the search area for OceanGate’s missing submersible on Thursday, June 22. ...

A Kentucky woman who was charged with shooting an Uber driver in El Paso, Texas, after believing she was being kidnapped, has been charged with murder after the driver died from his injuries. On June 16, Phoebe Copas, 48, of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, was in an Uber driven by 52-year-old Daniel Piedra Garcia. The El Paso Police Department said a preliminary investigation found Copas was heading to El Paso’s Mission Valley, and at some point, she thought she was being taken into Mexico. According to an arrest affidavit, Copas began seeing signs to "Juarez, Mexico," which is located across the U.S.-Mexico border from El Paso . DALLAS POLICE SEARCH FOR SUSPECT WHO ALLEGEDLY KILLED 7-ELEVEN EMPLOYEE: VIDEO Fearing she was being kidnapped and taken to Mexico, the affidavit notes, Copas allegedly grabbed a handgun from her purse and shot Piedra in the head. Piedra’s vehicle came to a stop after crashing into barriers on a freeway, though it was not close to a bridge or port of...

Eight puppies were discovered by a "Good Samaritan" in a garbage bag during a heat wave in Austin, animal rescue officials said. The puppies, who were only two or three days old, were all in critical condition on Thursday. One of the puppies passed away, but the other seven are recovering. "We received a call that a Good Samaritan had brought in a litter of puppies that were found in a garbage bag right next to a dumpster," President and CEO of Austin Pets Alive! Ellen Jefferson told FOX 7 Austin. "They probably saw them writhing around in the bag and did something, and that is huge." Veterinarians and medical experts worked around the clock to heal the puppies, who were sweltering in the triple-digit heat. The pups were hungry and under extreme stress, which made them hypoglycemic. POLAR BEAR IS SNAPPED STANDING UPRIGHT IN CANADA'S BAFFIN ISLAND: 'GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS' Jefferson said that the puppies were probably left at the dumpster the...

A majority of Americans support an increase to the U.S. military's presence around Taiwan as the democratic island faces an increased threat from China, a new poll indicates. More than half of Americans, 56%, said that they would support an increase in U.S. military presence as a way to discourage China from invading Taiwan and 30% indicated they would oppose such a move, according to the results of a Reagan Institute poll shared with Fox News on Sunday. The poll comes as tensions between China and the self-governing island of Taiwan have continued to increase over the last year, with China staging multiple military drills in the Taiwan Strait in response to meetings between Taiwanese and American officials. AMERICANS BECOME LESS INTERVENTIONIST EVEN AS THEY PREFER STRONG MILITARY, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: POLL Tension has continued to increase this month as Taiwan's air force scrambled fighter jets after a group of 10 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Str...

A Detroit man was caught on video Tuesday setting a convenience store on fire with the clerk trapped inside after the pair exchanged words, according to police. The stunning surveillance footage shows the alleged arsonist enter the gas station's convenience store June 20 at about 2:50 a.m., clutching a blue blowtorch in his right hand and dumping the contents of a trash bin on the floor. Wearing a white T-shirt and shorts, the firebug can be seen speaking to the clerk, who is outside the frame, at the West Seven Mile Road gas station, the footage shows. FLORIDA MAN ARRESTED AFTER INTENTIONALLY SETTING FIRE TO HIS HOME WITH FOUR CHILDREN INSIDE: POLICE The suspect is seen pointing to the trash pile on the floor and says something to the clerk before bending down to light the refuse on fire with the blowtorch, as he stands with his back halfway out the door.  MICHIGAN COLLEGE STUDENT'S FAMILY PLEADS FOR ANSWERS ON MYSTERIOUS DEATH AFTER PARTY The man flees as a burst of ...

Three teenagers, including a 13-year-old girl, were shot at two apparent Airbnb parties in Philadelphia in the latest violence linked to illegal use of the vacation-rental platform, police said. Philadelphia police told Fox News Digital that the violence broke out as dozens of young people attended separate parties booked through the service on the same night, although the company hasn't confirmed one of the shootings was tied directly to the reservation. The first shooting took place at 9:59 p.m. on Amber Street in the Kensington neighborhood, where a male 18-year old was shot twice in the abdomen at a party that included between 50 and 100 underage, according to Fox 29 News Philadelphia.  The wounded teen was taken to Temple University Hospital to be treated and was in stable condition, police told Fox News Digital. The company is investigating the link and has removed the listing from its platform pending the completion of the probe. The shooter or shooters are still on th...