A former morning news anchor with Fox affiliate KTVI has been charged with murdering her own mother, in what the former journalist claims was an act of self-defense.
Angelynn Mock, 47, was charged in the gruesome slaying of her 80-year-old mother, Anita Avers, on Halloween. A woman and her boyfriend became witnesses to a real-life horror movie when Mock approached them covered in blood, asking for help.
"There was a woman who approached our vehicle with like blood, like her hands were filled, her body was filled with blood, asking to call 911,” Alyssa Castro told KAKE.
Castro said Mock took her boyfriend's phone and ran back to the house, where Mock called 911 to report stabbing her mother to "save herself," dispatchers said. The cellphone was returned by police later on.
"I asked her if she was okay, and she was pretty shooken up and she seemed scared, and she just ran off,” Castro said.
The police responded to the scene around 8 a.m. on Friday and found Mock outside with bloody cuts on her hands. Her mother was found in her bed with multiple stab wounds. She was brought to a hospital, where she died.
Mock was also treated for her injuries and booked on charges of first-degree murder.
She was brought to Sedgwick County Jail, where she is being held on a $1 million bond.
"I'm just glad we were able to help you know what I mean. Like, we never know what anyone is going through. This happened randomly, but as long as we were able to get 911 and see what we can do, that's all I really care about,” said Castro.
Avers' husband told KAKE that she was a marriage and family therapist at Wichita Counseling Professionals.
Residents of St. Louis may recall seeing Mock on the morning news on local station Fox 2, where she was an anchor from 2011 to 2015.
But some could be forgiven if they have trouble recognizing Mock in her rather disheveled mugshot. Here's a before-and-after comparison:
Former morning news anchor at FOX 2 in St. Louis, Angie Mock, accused of fatally stabbing her elderly mother on Friday, police say.
A motive is unknown. pic.twitter.com/N9knFk5M3Y
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 3, 2025
Photos from Facebook show Mock and Avers looking happy together. It is unclear what led to this horrific incident, but more details are sure to emerge in the future.
The federal government has prevented a total of 6,525 known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) from coming into the United States since the fiscal year began in July, according to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
This number is three times higher than the previous high number of 1,903 KSTs apprehended during the entire Joe Biden administration, and twice the more than 3,000 KSTs apprehended during fiscal year 2025.
The probable reason for the unusually high number of KSTs is the designation of Tren de Aragua, MS-13, other transnational criminal organizations and cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) when Trump took office in January.
The NCTC identified nearly 1,200 KSTs inside the U.S. in the first 100 days of Trump's second administration, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said at the time.
Of that number, 750 were identified with MS-13, Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and others, according to reporting by The Center Square.
As of October, NCTC identified more than 35,000 KSTs and added them to the federal Terrorist Screening Dataset (TSDS), NCTC director Joe Kent said.
That action was key in preventing the 6,525 KSTs from entering.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. We're doing this and more every day,” he said, noting that the Biden administration would have let those KSTs in.
CBP, Border Patrol agents, and multiple other law enforcement agencies receive biographical and biometric data for all KSTs listed in the TSDS.
Most KSTs had previously been apprehended at the Northern border with Canada, but the latest figures show that the largest number, 2,782, were apprehended at the Southern border.
The difference is Trump's designation of the drug cartels as FTOs.
KSTs identified at land ports of entry “are most commonly found inadmissible to our country and immediately repatriated or removed,” CBP says. “They may also be turned over to another government agency for subsequent detention and law enforcement action.”
If they are identified between ports of entry, they are typically detained and removed by Border Patrol or turned over to other agencies for detention and/or law enforcement action.
At a White House event last week, Gabbard said some high profile arrests have been made, including Sinaloa cartel leaders, money launderers and cocaine traffickers, and a CJNG cartel affiliated baby trafficker, “La Diabla” (“the devil”).
A Virginia jury last week decided that a man who had encouraged violence against President Donald Trump and openly fantasized about his death was not guilty under the law, arguing that his free speech rights allowed him to do so.
Former Coast Guard Officer Peter Stinson wrote on social media that someone should "take the shot" at Trump and added, "Realistically the only solution is violence."
He also said he "would twist the knife after sliding it into [Trump’s] fatty flesh" and that he "would be willing to pitch in" to contract a hitman to kill him.
"He wants us dead. I can say the same thing about him," Stinson wrote during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite these comments, the jury said he was not guilty of soliciting a crime of violence, but the case has raised questions about how far it is permissible to go when making public statements about violence against someone.
Defense witness Professor Jen Golbeck of the University of Maryland said people "rooting for Trump to die online" is common.
"On one hand, I would not encourage anyone to post those thoughts on social media," Golbeck said, according to the Washington Post. "On the other hand, I can’t count the number of people who I saw post similar things. . . . It’s a very common sentiment. There’s social media accounts dedicated to tracking whether Trump has died."
Program counsel with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Brennen VanderVeen thought the acquittal might have had more to do with the fact that Stinson didn't actually solicit any one individual to carry out his wishes on Trump.
"Solicitation is when it’s directly tied to the crime. So, if he contacts an actual hit man and tries to arrange some sort of hit contract, that’s solicitation," VanderVeen told Fox News Digital. "Without more . . . that probably does not meet the elements of actual solicitation."
Stinson's attorneys characterized his comments as "political advocacy that the First Amendment was squarely designed to protect."
"They lack the ‘specificity, imminence, and likelihood of producing lawless action’ required to fall outside constitutional protection," the attorneys said.
Given Stinson's comments, there is some gray area about whether he was actually threatening Trump with violence.
The solicitation charge might have been a stretch, but surely a charge of making terroristic threats would have had a better chance.
The problem is, the left has dehumanized Trump, which makes it all too easy to engage in violence against him, whether real or in a fantasy. Until they realize this, nothing will change.
Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made improvements in energy and infrastructure key pillars of his Make America Great Platform.
Now that he is in office for a second term, Trump -- through his Department of Energy (DOE) -- is endeavoring to invest upwards of $100 million in the restoration of coal plants across the country, and reverse damaging Biden-era priorities, as the Daily Caller reports.
It was on Friday that the DOE issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity in this particular strategic realm.
According to the announcement, the effort is meant to support “practical, high-impact projects that improve efficiency, plant lifetimes, and performance of coal and natural gas use.”
The DOE noted the administration’s hope that the projects would help turn the tide away from harmful policies undertaken by Trump’s predecessors.
“For years,the Biden and Obama administrations relentlessly targeted America’s coal industry and workers, resulting in the closure of reliable power plants and higher electricity costs,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated.
He continued, “Thankfully, President Trump has ended the war on American coal and is restoring common sense energy policies that put Americans first. These projects will help keep America’s coal plants operating and ensure the United States has the reliable and affordable power it needs to keep the light on and power our future.”
The Energy Department added that the Notice of Opportunity seeks applications from those capable of launching projects that will “design, implement, test, and validate three strategic opportunities for refurbishment and retrofit of existing American coal power plans to make them operate more efficiently, reliably, and affordably.
One such opportunity area is the “development, engineering, and implementation of advanced wastewater management systems capable of cost-effective water recovery and other value-added byproducts from wastewater streams.”
Another involves the “engineering, design and implementation of retrofit systems that enable fuel switching between coal and natural gas without compromising critical operational parameters.”
The last realm of opportunity is the “deployment, engineering, and implementation of advanced coal-natural gas co-firing systems and system components, including highly fuel-flexible burner designs and advanced control systems, to maximize gas co-firing capacity to provide a low cost retrofit option for coal plants while minimizing efficiency penalties.”
The DOE’s push could not come at a better time, given the administration’s recent release of a report documenting the risk of grid failure currently plaguing the nation.
This summer, the DOE report revealed that “blackouts could increase by 100 times in 2023 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources and fails to add additional firm capacity."
As such, the DOE's Friday announcement underscores not just the urgent energy challenges facing America, but also Trump’s willingness to address them.
A lightning rod for controversy since entering the public eye, South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has made headlines again, this time because of a bizarre airport meltdown.
As the Daily Caller reports, security cameras captured the events that led to Mace’s outraged reaction, apparently prompted by what she said was a failure by police to swiftly spot her vehicle and escort her to her flight
The kerfuffle began when Mace arrived at Charleston International Airport on Wednesday morning, showing up in a vehicle different from the one for which local officers customarily watch.
Pulling up in gray or silver BMW, instead of the white model officers anticipated, the lawmaker was not recognized immediately at the curb, sparking the profanity-laden confrontation.
A subsequent incident report from the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department stated that officers were waiting for Mace before 6:30 a.m. at the ticketing area in order to escort the congresswoman to her flight, but did not see the white vehicle for which they had been instructed to watch.
By 7:00 a.m., Mace had reportedly made her way to the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) checkpoint, but was in a “very irate” state of mind.
The report quoted Officer A. Reed as recalling, “She immediately began loudly cursing and making derogatory comments to us and about the department. She repeatedly stated we were ‘fuc*ing incompetent’ and ‘this is no way to treat a fuc*ing U.S. Representative.’”
Though Mace was reported as having said that “[Sen.] Tim Scott would not be fuc*king treated this way,” authorities at the airport later suggested that if she had been any ordinary citizen, she would likely have been dealt with rather more harshly.
A gate agent working for American Airlines said he was in “disbelief” over the lawmaker’s conduct, with TSA Supervisor Johnny Lynch decrying the manner in which she spoke to agents and declaring plans to report her behavior up the chain of authority.
Also weighing in was current South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who is challenging Mace in the Republican gubernatorial primary, and he took to X to express his disdain for the congresswoman’s actions.
Wilson wrote, “Law enforcement and TSA agents show up every day to protect the public, and right now they’re not even getting paid. They deserve respect and appreciation. Not profanity. Not threats. Not tantrums.”
Not hearing a word of it, Mace also ventured to X to defiantly declare, “I wish Alan Wilson spent as much time prosecuting pedophiles as he does spying on me at the airport.”
Despite the controversy surrounding her airport dust-up, the news for Mace has not been all bad in recent months, as she notched a key court win in late August, according to The Hill.
A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought against Mace after she used a speech made on the House floor to accuse a former romantic partner of being a sexual predator, noting, “Congress has weighed the risks and benefits…and concluded that libel and related claims against federal officials acting within the scope of their employment are barred under federal law. It is this Court’s duty to uphold the rule of law.”
President Donald Trump is taking steps to address the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, and he's not pulling punches.
Trump has officially designated Nigeria as a "country of particular concern" and directed the House Appropriations Committee “to immediately look into this matter,” while being clear that the U.S. will not stand by idly while Christians are slaughtered.
Essentially, the Nigerian government is staring down the barrel of a gun as it has been rumored that Trump is considering military measures to crush Nigeria's radical Islamic terrorist groups.
Trump's decision seems to have been spurred by a letter from Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV), who called on Trump to take “immediate action to address the systematic persecution and slaughter of Christians in Nigeria."
This is the kind of foreign policy that Americans want to see out of the Trump administration. No more nation-building in the Middle East, just precise and surgical application of military force to decapitate terrorist groups.
Trump made an announcement on Friday via Truth Social where he emphatically proclaimed that, "Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a “COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN” — But that is the least of it. When Christians, or any such group, is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria (3,100 versus 4,476 Worldwide), something must be done!"
One can't help but wonder if the former Biden administration would have cared about the slaughter of Christians in a nation that doesn't hold strong geopolitical relevance.
Trump continued in his post by saying, "I am asking Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, to immediately look into this matter, and report back to me. The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!"
According to Moore's letter to Trump, over 7,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in 2025 alone, with hundreds more kidnapped, tortured, or displaced by Muslim terrorist groups like Boko Haram.
Moore issued a statement saying, "The United States cannot stand idly by while believers are slaughtered. We must acknowledge the religious nature of this scourge of anti-Christian violence from radical Islamic terrorists. It’s time for the United States to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ, and designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern will provide the diplomatic levers to do just that. I urge Secretary Rubio to designate Nigeria as a CPC without delay.”
With that CPC designation secured, the conversation now turns to what measures the Trump administration could take to crush terrorists and protect Christians in Nigeria.
Nigeria's government is firmly at fault for this growing crisis, which Moore explained thoroughly saying, “The government in Nigeria is complicit in the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Christ. If I should give some numbers really quick here: there have been 50,000 to 100,000 murdered Christians in Nigeria. This is an astounding number nobody is talking about."
Nigeria's Muslim President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has even flatly denied that a genocide is occurring by saying, "There’s no religious persecution in Nigeria. It’s a lie from the pit of hell.”
The "lie from the pit of hell" actually comes from Tinubu, who clearly endorses the slaughter of his own citizens because of his denial of Christian genocide. While regime change has a bad track record, the Trump administration could certainly consider such an option to remove Tinubu for being complicit in a genocide.
Martha Layne Collins, the lone woman to ever hold Kentucky's governorship, has left an indelible mark on the Bluegrass State, passing away at 88 on Saturday.
Her tenure from 1983 to 1987, marked by bold economic moves and education reforms, alongside personal controversies, defined a historic chapter for Kentucky as she shattered barriers in a male-dominated political landscape, NBC News reported.
Born in Bagdad, Shelby County, Collins graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1959 and cut her teeth as a junior high teacher before diving into politics at the precinct level.
Her ascent was steady—working at state Democratic headquarters, securing a role as clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1975, and clinching the lieutenant governor spot in 1979 before her landmark election as governor in 1983.
As a Democrat, she took the national stage in 1984, chairing the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco and even being considered as a vice-presidential pick for Walter F. Mondale, though the nod went elsewhere.
Her governorship, limited to a single term by state rules at the time, became a lightning rod for both progress and scrutiny, especially with her focus on industrial growth and schooling improvements.
Collins’ most tangible achievement was landing the Toyota auto assembly plant in 1986, a $800 million project employing 2,500 to build Camry sedans, tying Kentucky to the global market.
At the groundbreaking, she declared Kentucky had “entered a new age” of global economic ties, a statement that rang true but came with a hefty price tag—state incentives officially pegged at $125 million, though critics argued the real cost ballooned past $300 million with debt factored in.
That deal wasn’t without drama; a Kentucky Supreme Court ruling was needed to affirm the legality of those incentives, showing just how far Collins pushed to secure jobs over progressive fiscal caution.
On education, Collins was relentless, working tirelessly to revamp Kentucky’s public schools, a cause she held dear. “When I became governor, education always came back as the first thing you have to start with,” she reflected in a 1992 interview with the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky.
Her passion for learning wasn’t just talk—her reforms aimed to uplift a state often lagging in academic metrics, a practical antidote to the feel-good rhetoric of modern social agendas.
Gov. Andy Beshear’s office hailed her as a “powerhouse” who made an “undeniable difference,” a rare bipartisan nod to a Democrat in today’s polarized climate—though one wonders if her education push would survive today’s culture-war curriculum battles.
Yet, Collins’ story isn’t all rosy; her husband Bill’s financial scandals cast a long shadow, with his 1993 conviction for extorting funds from state bond underwriters during her term.
Collins maintained she knew nothing of his dealings, stating at his trial, “He was doing his business, and I was running government,” a defense that rings hollow to skeptics of political spouse ignorance in an era craving accountability over excuses.
While her son Steve declined immediate comment, and funeral details remain pending, her passing—announced by Beshear’s office—prompts reflection on a legacy of barrier-breaking marred by personal controversy, a reminder that even conservative-leaning folks can respect grit while questioning unchecked power.
CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell had quite a week after it was announced that President Donald Trump would sit down for an interview with her on "60 Minutes" this Sunday.
According to the New York Post, for the first time since he filed a lawsuit against the network over an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump agreed to a sit-down -- a huge get for O'Donnell and her team.
The interview was filmed at the president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, "just weeks after Bari Weiss took the helm of the network," the Post noted.
Many have high hopes that Weiss will bring the network back to the middle after a long time in the leftist trenches, which is mostly the reason why the ratings were in the tank before Weiss took over.
The interview with Trump touched on a wide range of topics, as the Post reported.
The outlet noted:
According to CBS, O’Donnell’s conversation with the president spanned a wide range of topics, including his recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, US relations with Venezuela and Israel, the ongoing government shutdown and the administration’s new immigration and National Guard policies.
Notably, the president's interview came only months after its parent company, Paramount, paid out a staggering $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the Harris interview.
See President Donald J. Trump's FULL interview on @60Minutes — all 73+ minutes, without the network's edits and cuts.
WATCH IN FULL: pic.twitter.com/i95cQ3Gqei
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 3, 2025
The Post noted:
Though the settlement included no apology or admission of wrongdoing, it paved the way for a truce between the White House and CBS News.
In the wake of settling the lawsuit, the network had agreed to show interviews in full, without edits.
Users across social media reacted to the news of Trump agreeing to the interview with the network he had just sued.
"CBS undoubtedly edited this to make President Trump look bad. It’ll be interesting to see what they cut out," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "She was SO disrespectful it was hard to watch!"
It'll be interesting to see what comes out of that interview.
Turning Point USA founder and major conservative influencer was assassinated by a whackjob leftist in early September, and his death shook not only the foundation of this country, but it also sent reverberations across the entire globe.
According to the Daily Mail, the outlet reported that conservative activist Candace Owens recently revealed that Kirk had texted her in 2018 reportedly concerned about the possibility of being assassinated.
Owens said Kirk, who was a close friend of hers, would often speak of a recurring dream in which he would be assassinated. The dreams, understandably, haunted him.
She revealed a number of texts regarding what Kirk would call a "prophecy" regarding his ultimate death by assassination.
The text messages Owens revealed were not only disturbing, given what ultimately happened, but also scary and sad.
"If I tell you the true prophecy I know in my gut it's really sad," Kirk allegedly texted Owens at one point. "But I hope its wrong."
"Anyway I am not sure if I will live to see the end of this revolution," he said in a text. "Since the beginning of TPUSA I knew in my gut that I might get wiped out at any time."
Kirk would reportedly later tell Owens that he was "not really afraid" of his eventual murder, but told her he was "just telling you what I know to be true."
The Daily Mail noted:
Kirk also compared himself to Moses, the prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and delivered the Ten Commandments.
'I might be Moses tho. I might not see this whole thing through lmao,' he wrote, according to the messages published by Owens.
Owens served as TPUSA's communications director from 2017 to 2019.
The two were tight for some time, but reportedly had a "professional" break up, according to TPUSA advisory board member Eric Bolling.
Bolling explained that while Owens and Kirk remained friends, their professional relationship was stretched because Owens went a little too far into conspiracy land for Kirk's liking.
"Charlie, to his credit, kept a cordial friendship with her for years, but it hasn't been a communication pipeline between the two for many years," Bolling said during a podcast interview earlier this year.
Tyler Robinson, 22, a left-wing college dropout, was charged with Kirk's assassination. He's currently awaiting trial.
It'll be interesting to see what else is revealed as the investigation into Kirk's shocking murder unfolds.
President Donald Trump's military strikes in the Caribbean Sea are causing ripples through Washington D.C., but it doesn't appear that it's fazing the president at all, because he just authorized another one.
According to the New York Post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced over the weekend that the United States military eliminated another batch of drug smugglers in the Caribbean.
While the War Secretary revealed that it hit a US-designated terrorist organization, he didn't specify which organization the administration hit. Many in Washington D.C. have called on the strikes on drug vessels to end, but President Trump doesn't really give a rip.
The latest strike marks the 15th known strike on drug vessels in that area, and the administration hasn't indicated that it plans on stopping anytime soon.
Secretary Hegseth provided some details in his weekend announcement.
“This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics," Hegseth said.
Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea.
The vessel was known by our… pic.twitter.com/lVlw0FLBv4
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 24, 2025
At least 64 narco drug runners have been killed since the Trump administration began deleting them from the planet.
The New York Post noted:
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States. He has asserted the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Some members of Congress are demanding that the Trump administration provide more details on their justification in continuing the strikes.
Users across social media reacted to Hegseth's statement regarding the latest strike.
"Our choices are to destroy the drug traffickers or let the drug traffickers destroy tens of thousands of people a year. Easy choice," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "America is respected again! Drugs = Dead."
It'll be interesting to see how many additional strikes will be carried out in the coming weeks and months.