EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans will bring in Army officials to testify at a hearing next week on a training presentation that referred to pro-life groups as terrorists, Fox News Digital has learned.

The House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Military Personnel will hear Thursday afternoon from Agnes Schaefer, assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and Reserve affairs, and Lt. Gen. Patrick Matlock, Army deputy chief of staff.

Republicans led by Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Subcommittee Chairman Jim Banks, R-Ind., wrote a letter to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth demanding information about the slide deck. 

The Army recently wrote back, admitting that the slides “inaccurately referenced” pro-life groups like Right to Life and Operation Rescue, and a slew of pro-animal and green groups like PETA, as “terrorist organizations.” 

LAWMAKERS RIP ARMY BRASS FOR TRAINING SLIDES SUGGESTING PRO LIFE GROUPS COULD BE TIED TO TERRORISM

Schaefer wrote that the training deck, which was used to teach 9,100 Army soldiers at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, between 2017 and 2024, was “inconsistent with Army’s antiterrorism policy and training.” 

She said the slides had not been reviewed by Fort Liberty leadership and are no longer in use. Schaefer added there is “no evidence” to suggest the individual who created the slide deck did so to “deliberately subvert” Army policy or to “further a personal viewpoint.” 

The slides were used to conduct terror awareness training for soldiers assigned to guarding the gates at Fort Liberty. Schaefer said the slides were not shared outside of Fort Liberty. 

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The Republican letter in July said the slides indicated members of pro-life organizations could be threats to the safety of military installations and that regalia of such groups, like a pro-life license plate, could potentially indicate terrorism.

Officials at the Fayetteville, North Carolina, garrison said the person using the slides remains employed at the facility.

Iraqi Army soldiers secure streets in a village recently liberated from Islamic State militants outside Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

U.S. Army soldiers in North Carolina until this year were being trained to be skeptical of pro-life groups as “terrorists.” (Source: U.S. Army )

“It’s downright ridiculous to claim the slide deck doesn’t ‘further a personal viewpoint,’ but there have been no consequences for the employee who ran anti-life training sessions at Fort Liberty that clearly violated Army policy,” Banks told Fox News Digital. 

Rogers said the hearing will be held “to get answers on how this occurred and ensure it never happens again.”

In June, the Army revised some of its policies, with Wormuth announcing that “active participation in extremist activities can be prohibited even in some circumstances in which such activities would be constitutionally protected in a civilian setting.”

Service members are now prohibited from liking, sharing or engaging with content supporting extremism, according to the American Legion.

Fox News Digital’s Charles Creitz contributed to this report. 

A teen who killed his father in Oklahoma last year but claimed self-defense, thereby avoiding prosecution, faces first-degree murder charges in Florida for allegedly stabbing his mother to death.

The 17-year-old faces first-degree murder charges in the death of his 39-year-old mother. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a Wednesday press conference that he is pushing the state attorney’s office to try the teen as an adult and that he’s confident the teen would reoffend if released. 

“When you look at this, you see a kid,” Judd said. “When I look at him, I see a psychopath. I see totally erratic behavior to the point that he’s already, at 17 years of age, shot and killed his father and got away with it and stabbed his mother in the neck so hard that the knife went all the way through.

“Now he’s killed two people and killed his mother and father, and I can assure you – beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt – based upon his conduct, had he gone to live with his grandmother at the end of this, and she crossed him, she would be next.”

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The teen initially told 911 dispatchers that his mother “fell into a knife” after a “very long fight” on Sunday, Judd said. 

Deputies who arrived at The Hamptons – a 55-and-older community in Auburndale about 50 miles east of Tampa, where the teen’s grandmother is a resident – found him “calm, cool, collected – and he had blood on him,” Judd said.

The 17-year-old reportedly became “uncooperative,” showed “zero remorse” and had no sense of urgency about his gravely wounded mom. 

“He looked the deputy in the eye and said, ‘I know my rights, I want an attorney,’” Judd said.

Despite the teen’s claims of a protracted fight with his mother before her death, the home was “neat and clean [with] no evidence of any kind of long fight,” Judd said.

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Hewlett Drive in Auburndale, Fla., is where the incident took place. (Google Earth)

Witnesses allegedly saw the teen and his mother shouting at each other outside the residence before the teen grabbed his mother by the hair and dragged her inside as she repeatedly pleaded, “Let me go,” police said.

The teen’s grandmother, who was not present during the altercation, told WFLA that the teen had been verbally and physically confrontational with his mother on several occasions.

After his mother was pronounced dead, a medical examiner determined that the deep knife wound in her neck was inconsistent with an accidental injury.

“The medical examiner said it’s just not reasonable or plausible that she died the way that he said she did,” Judd said on Wednesday. “It just didn’t happen.”

Judd said that as investigators started “to peel back the layer of this onion,” they “[found] out that this is not just a singular event”; last year, the teen’s father also died by his hand.

“On Feb. 14, 2023, Valentine’s Day, in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, [he] said his dad pulled a knife on him, and he shot and killed his dad,” Judd said. “He shot him once in the chest and once in the head, and he claimed self-defense.”

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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is pushing for the teen to be tried as an adult, he said at a Wednesday press conference. (Polk County Sheriff)

Oklahoma authorities dropped charges against the teen less than a month after the shooting because they could not disprove his “assertion of self-defense,” Judd said.

The teen’s mother paid $50,000 to bail him out of jail, the New York Post reported. Then he moved into her Charlotte County, Florida, home and was involuntarily committed to a hospital for mental health reasons within a month. 

Around this time, Judd said, he made a threatening statement: “I’ll kill myself, or I’ll kill my mother by shooting or stabbing her.”

In November 2023, the teen “pushed [his mother] to the ground and … stomped on her” after she took away his video game privileges, Judd said. He was arrested and claimed self-defense again, but the argument failed that time, and he spent time behind bars, the sheriff said.

After another argument with his mother in February of this year, the teen fled to his grandmother’s house in Auburndale. The teen’s mother and grandmother both contacted the sheriff’s office around that time and said they felt unsafe around him, Judd said, and at that point, the teen was turned over to family services.

But despite making more threats to kill his mother, the teen was reunited with his family despite making threats to kill his mother again about two weeks later, Judd said.

According to the sheriff, the teen got into “an argument about home chores” that led him to “flee from his mother’s house and [go to] his grandmother’s house” on Sept. 6. The suspect’s mother drove to the grandmother’s house the next day, which is when she and the teenager got into the altercation that cost her life.

Judd said he will share any information uncovered in his department’s investigation that could incriminate the teen in his father’s death with authorities in Oklahoma.

“If Oklahoma had been able to act, [the teen’s mother] would be alive and well today,” he said. “But because she took him in and tried to do like a mother should do and took care of him, she’s now dead. Everybody that should be special to him in his life is dead when they cross him,” he added.

Former President Jimmy Carter is paying close attention to the election cycle while in hospice care and grieving the loss of his wife, Rosalynn Carter, their son revealed in a recent interview. 

“He does not believe Donald Trump should be president again,” James Earl “Chip” Carter III, the second child of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, told the Washington Post last week. 

Carter, the longest-lived American president at 99, entered hospice care in February of last year, but he has remained committed to following the presidential election, his son said. Last month, the 39th president watched the speakers of the DNC, who gathered in Chicago in support of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s presidential campaign. 

Carter’s son said the former president believed Harris’ speech was “great,” but noted another speaker stole the show. 

JIMMY CARTER, LONGEST LIVING US PRESIDENT, TURNS 99

“He thought Michelle Obama was the best, and he thought Kamala was great, too,” Chip Carter said. 

Before the DNC kicked off last month and Carter diligently watched the speakers, he typically spent his days watching baseball games streamed on his TV, as well as 1950s TV shows, such as “Leave it to Beaver,” and eating mini red velvet and caramel flavored cupcakes, his family told the outlet. 

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Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 20, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Carter watched President Biden officially drop out of the presidential race at the end of July amid mounting concern over Biden’s mental acuity and 81 years of age, his son told the outlet. Carter looked toward his son during Biden’s address and described the 46th president bowing out in favor of a younger Democratic generation taking the mantle as “sad,” the Washington Post reported. 

Vice President Kamala Harris is embraced by President Biden during a campaign event at IBEW Local Union #5 on Sept. 2, 2024, in Pittsburgh. (Getty Images)

The former president is four-square against Trump securing a second term, his son explained, saying his father believes Trump is not truthful when he speaks publicly. Chip Carter added that voting for Harris on Nov. 5 is a priority for the former president. 

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Carter will turn 100 on Oct. 1, with Chip Carter pushing back on speculation that his dad is staying alive to reach the milestone. 

“He said he didn’t care about that. It’s just a birthday. He said he cared about voting for Kamala Harris.”

​​”He is big-time interested in this campaign,” Chip Carter added.

Rosalynn Carter and former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential candidate, share a moment aboard his campaign plane. (Getty Images)

Carter suffered tragedy in November, when his wife of 77 years died after she was admitted to hospice care. Rosalynn Carter was 96 and surrounded by her family at their home in Plains, Georgia, when she died on a Sunday in November. 

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“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” President Jimmy Carter said in a statement after her passing. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.” 

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Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, told the Washington Post that the former president went through a “low period” after her death but has since perked up to discuss the election cycle.  

“After my grandmother passed, he had a pretty long low period when he wasn’t really engaging much at all,” Jason Carter said. “But now he’s talking about politics again.”

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn before the game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Cincinnati Bengals at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sept. 30, 2018, in Atlanta. (Getty Images)

Jimmy Carter and his immediate family visited Rosalynn Carter’s grave on her birthday last month, where the former president sat silently at her headstone for about 20 minutes. 

“He was looking at her tombstone, and I started talking, and he told me to be quiet,” Chip Carter said. “No doubt he was praying, but he could have been just having a conversation with Mom.”