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Chicago's internal watchdog found the police department was unprepared for mass gatherings as the city prepares to host the Democratic National Convention this summer. On Thursday, Chicago’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a follow-up inquiry on the "Chicago Police Department’s Preparedness for Mass Gatherings." The report, which followed a critical review of the department in 2020 in response to the George Floyd protests and riots, warned that while some improvements have been made since then, there are still some concerns. "CPD has faced criticism for its response to large spontaneous gatherings, such as street racing and ‘teen takeover’ events," the report noted .  DEMOCRATS WORRIED WHETHER CHICAGO AUTHORITIES CAN KEEP THE PEACE AS ROWDY PROTESTS EXPECTED: REPORT It added, "The City and CPD have also faced criticism for shortcomings in responses to unsanctioned but regularly anticipated gatherings, such as weekend-long celebrations for Me...

Could Travis Kelce be in "Happy Gilmore 2"? As of now, his involvement in the newly announced sequel is a fan conspiracy.  On Wednesday's episode of the "New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce" podcast, the brothers discussed a fan theory circling on Reddit that predicts Travis will be part of "Happy Gilmore 2."  "Obviously, been a huge fan of the Sandman," Travis said on the podcast.  ADAM SANDLER'S FRIENDS AND THE FILMS THEY'VE STARRED IN OPPOSITE THE ACTOR  "Who knows? Theories can come true. Theories can be true, and people just don’t know about it. I might even be in the talking, and nobody knows about it, but I could also not be in the talking," the football star teased. Theories of Travis' involvement started flying mainly after he had sported a "Happy Gilmore" hat for the past couple weeks following the announcement of the film's upcoming sequel.  The 1996 comedic golf flick "Happy Gilm...

A former military police officer convicted in Brazil of multiple murders for his part in a 2015 massacre was indicted in Boston Wednesday for allegedly using a fraudulently obtained visa to enter the U.S. and then lying on his asylum application , the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts announced. Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, 30, never disclosed to immigration authorities his involvement in the murders of 11 people, mostly teenagers, in Brazil in an incident known as "The Slaughter of Curió or the "Curio Massacre." The incident was named after the neighborhood in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza where they occurred. According to prosecutors, De Abreu was convicted in 2023 by a criminal court in Brazil, along with three other military police officers, of 11 murder charges, charges of attempted murder and physical and mental torture.  Many others were seriously injured and tortured, and De Abreu was sentenced to nearly 276 years in prison for the crime...

A suspect with a gun and a bystander inside a grocery store near Cincinnati were shot and injured during a shootout with officers, police said. Officers in Colerain Township responded to a call about shots fired at a Kroger store Wednesday, and when they arrived the suspect pointed a gun at police outside the store, said Colerain Township Police Chief Ed Cordie said. VIDEO CAPTURES YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO BUILDING EXPLOSION THAT LEFT 1 DEAD, 7 INJURED After exchanging shots, the suspect retreated into the store and they continued the gunfight inside the store, he said. Both the suspect and bystander who were shot were taken to a hospital and are expected to survive, Cordie added. Police did not say who shot the bystander. Latashia Sawyer, who was inside the store with her daughter, told WCPO-TV that she heard shots and that an employee told them to "run for your life." "People just started scattering and going about everywhere," she said. "Then we heard more ...

A criminal court in Argentina has postponed to Oct. 1 the start of a trial in a criminal negligence case brought against eight people allegedly involved in the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona. The trial was set to start on June 4, but the criminal court in San Isidro, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires , said in a decision published by local media Tuesday night that "several questions have been raised" by all parts involved in the homicide case, adding that "at this date they are still to be resolved." The court did not elaborate further on its decision. ARGENTINE SOCCER LEGEND DIEGO MARADONA DEAD AT 60 The 1986 World Cup winner died at age 60 on Nov. 25, 2020 due to a cardiorespiratory arrest. The investigation started by request of members of Maradona's family days after his death. The eight people on trial, including doctors and nurses, are accused of being responsible for the death of the legendary footballer, who was being treated at a rented home...

A prosecutor declined to file charges Tuesday against a police officer who struck and killed a western Michigan teenager while the boy was running from a stolen vehicle. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker instead charged the teen driver with causing death while fleeing from police. Riley Doggett, 17, was hit by a patrol car driven by a sheriff's deputy at the end of a high-speed chase in Kent and Ottawa counties on April 8. He died from head injuries on May 9. DRUNK, PREGNANT MICHIGAN MOM OF 4 SMASHES INTO 16 PEDESTRIANS, KILLING 2: POLICE Doggett and another teenager, who was driving, were fleeing on foot from a stolen Range Rover after the vehicle crashed into parked cars in a business area, investigators said. Becker said the deputy believed Doggett was dangerous, though the teen was holding a phone, not a gun. "He was not trying to use deadly force against a fleeing felon. He was trying to cut him off," the prosecutor said. The deputy caught Doggett's le...

Several days ago, Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon imported the media to "back off" any notion that WNBA veterans dislike Caitlin Clark . "We love Caitlin Clark. I think she’s amazing. I watch every time I possibly could. Our league loves her," Hammon began . She then took a swipe at a race narrative — her own star player in A'ja Wilson said that race was a "huge thing" in Clark's popularity. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "Even the Black and White thing — knock it off. It's not there. It's not there. So shut down the noise, and Black and White, what is she, 22? She's a 22-year-old woman with a lot of pressure. She's not perfect. She's a rookie in this league. Back off," Hammon said. Many took that as a swipe at Wilson, who had actually been standing right next to Hammon during that plea. Hammon was asked about those comments, with a reporter saying it had been "miscontrued a couple ...

An Arizona high school biology teacher had his last week of teaching after becoming exasperated with his students’ constant smartphone usage in the classroom. Sahuaro High School’s Mitchell Rutherford spoke to a local Tucson NBC affiliate early last week, saying that he has done everything he can to try and get his students to break their "addiction" to their phones, and is now giving up. "I have been struggling with mental health this year mostly because of what I identified as basically phone addiction with the students," Rutherford told the news station. CHRISTIAN TEACHER LOSES JOB AFTER REFUSING TO DECEIVE PARENTS ON KIDS' GENDER TRANSITIONS: 'FROM THE DEVIL' This past Thursday was the 35-year-old public school educator’s last day in the profession after 11 years. Rutherford said that he has employed a variety of lesson plans throughout the last few years to get his students to understand the harms of constant cell phone usage in their daily li...

NBA commissioner Adam Silver isn't quite ready to name a winner in the race to secure the league's media rights. Multiple reports have surfaced in recent days suggesting that TNT's parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), is on the verge of losing its broadcasting rights deal to competitors. TNT and the NBA have been partners for the past few decades. However, a potential new media deal could include Disney/ESPN, NBC and Amazon, which would possibly leave TNT on the outside looking in. Earlier this week, the Sports Business Journal reported that the NBA is expected to begin formalizing deals with Disney, Amazon and NBC. However, before the contracts receive final approval, WBD leadership will have the opportunity to match the "total value" of other offers, per the report. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM No official announcement about the future home of NBA games has been made, and Silver cautioned that negotiations for the broadcast...

Attendees at former President Trump's South Bronx rally Thursday came from a variety of backgrounds, but many said they had the same two issues at the top of their minds when choosing a candidate for 2024. The economy and illegal immigration. In a sea of red hats, American flags and pro-Trump banners, supporters of all stripes said they came for very similar reasons. Tyrone, from the Bronx, said the 2024 election is a chance "for us to get our country back." TRUMP VOWS TO ‘SAVE’ DEEP-BLUE NEW YORK CITY IN HISTORIC BRONX RALLY "I'm proud to see that people are waking up and seeing that we need this change for this country," he said. Illegal immigration was his top concern, he said, made worse by taxpayer money the government spends on housing and aid for migrants. "Do it the right way so we know who's who, and we know that we're not letting [in] murderers, rapists … ex-cons from different countries," he said. Illegal immigration ha...

Two dozen Republican governors don't want the World Health Organization (WHO) to call the shots in the case of another global pandemic, according to a letter they sent to President Biden this week. Currently, there are two proposals under negotiation that would grant WHO "unprecedented and unconstitutional" authority in the U.S., according to the Republican Governors Association. "If adopted, these agreements would seek to elevate the WHO from an advisory body to a global authority in public health," the letter stated. "Under the proposed amendments and treaty, the WHO’s Director-General would supposedly gain unilateral power to declare a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ in member nations, extending beyond pandemics to include a range of perceived emergencies." WHO DIRECTOR CALLS FOR WORLD PANDEMIC TREATY TO PREPARE FOR DISEASE X The two proposals aim to amend the WHO's existing International Health Regulations and establish...

FIRST ON FOX : House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is investigating the circumstances surrounding two Jordanian nationals who breached a military base in Virginia after they were both revealed to be illegal immigrants. Jordan has written to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the May 3 incident when, officials say, the two nationals in a box truck were stopped at a gate. The driver allegedly told military police officers they were making a delivery to the post office and worked for a company subcontracted by Amazon. "It was at that time, one of the military police officers noticed the driver, ignoring the direct instructions of the officers, continued to move the vehicle past the holding area and attempted to access Marine Corps Base Quantico," spokesperson Capt. Michael Curtis said in a statement.  ICE CONFIRMS JORDANIANS WHO ATTEMPTED TO BREACH MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO WERE BOTH IN US ILLEGALLY  Officials later turned them over to ICE after their arrest...

Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, said that if President Biden is still "struggling" by the end of the summer, he should consider dropping out of the presidential race.  "If Biden is still struggling in August he needs to consider stepping aside," the polling guru wrote Thursday on X. "It's not a great situation for Ds either way, but you have to do due diligence on the question. It's an important election, obviously. It shouldn't be taboo to talk about." Recent polls have shown former President Trump leading in several key swing states as Biden continues to get low favorability ratings.  But a new poll this week shows the race deadlocked nationally.  WARNING SIGNS FOR TRUMP AND BIDEN AS THEY CAREEN TOWARDS NEXT MONTH'S FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE The Democratic president stands at 48% among registered voters, with his Republican predecessor in the White House at 47%, according to a Quinnipiac University survey released on ...

A liberal professor and a Republican strategist both agree that former President Trump and the GOP are taking advantage of disappointment with the Democratic Party's leadership in New York. "There are a lot more Republicans and dissatisfied Democrats in the state of New York than we’d like to admit," City College of New York professor Christina Greer said. She recalled the surprising amount of support Republican Lee Zeldin received while running for governor in 2022. "I don’t know if New York is definitely a blue stronghold. All states are red states, we just have blue cities in red states," Greer said. "New York is the reason why Joe Biden didn’t have a unified government in 2022. We’re the ones who lost the four members of the house who went over to the Republican Party." Panelists on MSNBC’s "Ana Cabrera Reports" discussed Trump’s Thursday campaign rally in the South Bronx of New York City. They agreed New York is not turning red anyt...

A Catholic service organization has sued the Biden administration for religious discrimination after it was stopped from holding its longstanding Memorial Day mass at a national cemetery. Attorneys for the Knights of Columbus filed a motion for a temporary restraining order against the National Park Service in Petersburg, Virginia, on Tuesday, after officials refused to grant a permit for the religious service at the Poplar Grove National Cemetery. This is the second year in a row the religious group has been denied a permit at the cemetery where they had been holding the Memorial Day mass for the past 60 years. "The policy and the decision blocking the Knights of Columbus from continuing their long-standing religious tradition is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act," McGuireWoods partner John Moran, who is suing the NPS on behalf of the Knights, said in a press release. "We urge the court to grant our restraining orde...

Have you ever wondered what your pet was thinking? For Gabrielle Pelfrey, a resident of Dayton, Ohio, it's apparently easy to tell since her beagle, Winston, often shows his emotions. Pelfrey adopted Winston six years ago when he was eight weeks old and for as long as she could remember, the pup has always been her "sensitive little guy," she told Fox News Digital. 'LONELY' DAD, 86, GOES VIRAL ON TIKTOK AFTER HIS DAUGHTER GIFTS HIM A POMERANIAN PUP Winston's sensitive side specifically comes out when he's watching certain movies. When Winston was a puppy, he was recovering from a sickness and Pelfrey would sit by his side with the TV on. That's when Pelfrey started to notice that Winston would engage with what was being shown on the screen, she said. CALIFORNIA WOMAN GOES VIRAL FOR 22-YEAR FRIENDSHIP WITH TORTOISE SHE RECEIVED FOR CHRISTMAS AS A CHILD The movie that truly sparked a reaction from the pup was Disney's 2019 live-action versio...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Monday for seeking to fundraise from her dust-up with the Georgia Republican during a chaotic House hearing last week. Crockett’s campaign filed a trademark application on Sunday for the phrase "bleach blonde bad built butch body," to be used for hats, hoodies, socks, and t-shirts, among other things, according to a document viewed by Fox News Digital. "I’m very happy with myself. I turn 50 on Monday, and I’m so excited that I’m still alive and healthy and have done so much in life. And I think no matter what shape, size or how we look, we need to be ourselves, not telling women the only way to be attractive or accepted is to have fake boobs, fake hair, fake lashes, and injected faces," Greene told Fox News Digital. "I mean, we all wear makeup and do lashes and stuff sometimes, but it’s out of control. Women need a better message for women." Tensions ran high at last week’s late night Hou...

UCLA prevented conservative students on campus from hosting the founder of Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer, for a pro-Israel event, according to the student group.  "I am deeply disappointed in UCLA’s failure to protect our First Amendment rights," Matthew Weinberg, chairman of UCLA Young Americans for Freedom chapter, said in a YAF press release . "All we wanted was a successful Pro-Israel event where people of all backgrounds and viewpoints can engage in the free exchange of ideas and hear a different perspective not heard across university campuses, and the school made that impossible. This is nothing but an act of pure cowardice." The Young American's Foundation, a nonprofit conservative youth organization, invited Spencer to deliver a speech on Wednesday, but "the doors of the Bruin Viewpoint Room were locked," according to YAF.  Fox News Digital previously reported that UCLA has not responded to the YAF chapter's request to host Spencer, desp...

In case you didn't realize, it is not hyperbole when people call Juan Soto a "generational talent." He's one of just six players ever to have an on-base percentage of .400 and a slugging percentage of .500, and to have hit 150 home runs through the age of 24. The others are Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Mike Trout, and Albert Pujols. But as talented as he is, there was still something he had yet to accomplish in his already incredible career. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM The 25-year-old is enjoying his first (and possibly final) season in New York Yankees pinstripes, and it sure sounds like he is open to extending with them before he hits what should be a fascinating free agency. And what he did Saturday is exactly why he'll be in the running to pass Shohei Ohtani's $700 million contract . Soto blasted two home runs on Saturday, both into the Yankee Stadium right field bleachers, in the Bombers' 6-1 win over the lowly ...

Baltimore's former top prosecutor, who was one of the biggest voices advocating for police accountability and transparency, is asking the White House for a pardon ahead of her sentencing for her perjury and mortgage fraud convictions. The bid from Marilyn Mosby is being backed by the Congressional Black Caucus, which wrote President Biden a letter to advocate for her cause. Mosby has asked to be sentenced to probation, though prosecutors are seeking 20 months in federal prison.  "As a nation that leads by example, our justice system must not be weaponized to prevent progress toward a more perfect union," wrote U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., who chairs the caucus. FORMER BALTIMORE PROSECUTOR MARILYN MOSBY FACES POSSIBLE DISBARMENT AMID ONGOING LEGAL BATTLES Mosby, 44, who served two terms as state's attorney for Baltimore, was convicted in February of one count of mortgage fraud after she testified that she unintentionally made false statements on loan appli...

Sometimes there is an issue so important to a voter that it alone decides whether they can back a candidate or not.  In 2024, three issues meet that criteria more than others:  abortion, border security, and the economy all fight for the top "deal-breaker" spot, with different groups of voters citing each. At 15%, abortion edges out the economy and border security/immigration (each at 14%) as the biggest deal-breaker issue. DEMS PUSH BIDEN TO ACT ON FOOD PRICES WITH INFLATION RANKING AS TOP ISSUE AHEAD OF ELECTION Abortion is the biggest single issue among self-described Democrats (24%), suburban women (24%), self-described very liberals (23%), Black voters (17%), those with a college degree (17%), and voters under age 30 (16%).  Border security is buoyed by being the number one deal-breaker among self-described very conservatives (28%), Republicans (25%), White men without a college degree (20%), voters ages 65+ (17%), and rural voters (17%).   The economy ...

The Los Angeles Chargers used the 2024 NFL schedule release to troll Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker in a social media post following his remarks from a commencement speech at Benedictine College over the weekend, when he encouraged female graduates to embrace their "vocation" as a "homemaker."  The Chargers posted a video on social media poking fun at each of their opponents for the 2024-2025 season using the popular computer game, "The Sims," as inspiration.  The video depicted Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce leaving with girlfriend Taylor Swift on a private plane and even made reference to Xaviar Michael Babudar, the Kansas City Chiefs superfan known as "ChiefsAholic," in the video.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM However, in the final clips of the video, they depict Butker, wearing his No. 7 jersey, cooking and cleaning in the kitchen.  The video takes aim at a commencement speech Butker gave over the week...