The parents of a seven-month-old boy who has been missing for nearly two weeks in Southern California have been charged with his murder.

Jake Haro, 32, and his wife, Rebecca Haro, 41, were each charged with felony murder with malice on Tuesday in the death of their son Emmanuel, according to the Riverside County District Attorney’s office. They were also charged with filing a false police report, which is a misdemeanor. 

The Haros initially reported that their son had been kidnapped on Aug. 14, though investigators later determined that did not happen. Authorities believe the child is dead, though his remains have yet to be recovered as of Tuesday.

The couple appeared in court on Tuesday with their public defenders, but their arraignment was delayed until Sept. 4. Each was being held on $1 million bond, according to online jail records. 

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Riverside County prosecutors said they would not release additional information until a press conference on Wednesday.

Emmanuel was reported missing on Aug. 14. His mother told investigators that she had been attacked while changing Emmanuel's diaper in the parking lot of a store in the San Bernardino County community of Yucaipa, authorities said. She claimed that someone said "Hola" to her, after which everything "went blank."

"I woke up on the floor, and my son was gone," she said in an interview last week with FOX Los Angeles. 

The couple spoke to news outlets, making pleas to the public to help find their son.

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Over the weekend, investigators said the couple had stopped cooperating, adding that there were "inconsistencies" in the mother's story. Investigators declined to discuss what these inconsistencies were.

On Friday, the Haros were taken into custody on suspicion of murder at their home in Cabazon, 90 miles east of Los Angeles. 

Authorities searched the family's home, and over the weekend they searched for the boy's body near a freeway while his father, wearing a jail jumpsuit, was present. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said it wouldn't describe Jake Haro's presence during the search as "providing assistance," but declined to elaborate.

Jake Haro previously pleaded guilty to child cruelty charges in Riverside County in a separate case in 2018, Fox Los Angeles reported. At the time of Friday's arrest, he was on probation after he was convicted of those charges and jailed in 2023. 

Rebecca Haro told Southern California’s Press-Enterprise in a jailhouse interview last weekend that her husband wouldn't hurt an infant, and that she wanted to find her son.

"I want to be out looking for my baby," she said. "I will not give up. I will not give up on my baby."

Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

While it is still uncertain whether President Donald Trump's dismissal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who is preparing a legal challenge, will succeed, her potential departure gives him another chance to install a nominee more attuned to his monetary priorities.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, commonly known as the Fed board, is composed of seven members, or governors, who are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. 

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If Trump replaces Cook, he would have named the majority of the Fed's governors, strengthening his influence over the panel that guides U.S. monetary policy.

Former President Joe Biden appointed Philip Jefferson, Michael Barr and Cook to the Fed board in 2022. Trump's picks include Michelle Bowman in 2018, Christopher Waller in 2020 and Stephen Miran in 2025. 

Former President Barack Obama nominated Jerome Powell to the Fed board in 2012, Trump nominated Powell to his current role as Chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2017, and Biden reappointed Powell in 2022.

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When asked about replacing Cook, Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that he has some "very good people for that position." 

"We’ll have a majority very shortly," Trump said. "So that’ll be great."

Tensions between Trump and the Federal Reserve over monetary policy have intensified in recent months. Trump has placed the blame squarely on Chairman Jerome Powell for not lowering the federal funds target rate, which he says could save the nation "hundreds of billions of dollars." 

Meanwhile, Powell has kept the central bank’s key borrowing rate target within a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, maintaining a measured, wait-and-see approach as officials gauge the economic effects of Trump’s tariffs.

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Cook's ascension marked a historic first, as she became the first Black woman to serve as a governor on the Fed board. Now, her potential removal from that same role could mark another historic first.

As it stands, Trump says Cook is fired, effective immediately. But Cook and her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, argue that Trump has no legal authority to remove her. Her term on the Fed board runs until January 2038.

The Federal Reserve acknowledged Cook's potential legal action and said in a Tuesday statement that the U.S. central bank will "abide by any court decision."

"Lisa Cook has indicated through her personal attorney that she will promptly challenge this action in court and seek a judicial decision that would confirm her ability to continue to fulfill her responsibilities as a Senate-confirmed member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System," a Federal Reserve spokesperson wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital.