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A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was arrested on Thursday after allegedly betting on Maduro’s removal from office before news of the raid was made public, a law enforcement source and a senior military official told CBS News.Federal investigators believe U.S. Army Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke made bets of more than $33,000 on the prediction market Polymarket within hours of President Trump’s announcement in January that Maduro had been captured, the source said. The bets hit and resulted in winnings of more than $409,000.According to an indictment unsealed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A grisly discovery in a remote Southern California desert has sparked a homicide investigation after a hiker stumbled upon a human skull.San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies responded around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday to a rugged area near Adobe Road and Baseline Road in Twentynine Palms after the remains were reported.Authorities said the skull appears to be an adult’s and had likely been exposed to the elements for an extended period of time.POLICE INVESTIGATING AFTER HIKER FINDS BADLY DECOMPOSED BODY HUNDREDS OF YARDS DOWN CALIFORNIA CLIFFSIDE Joshua trees and towering rock formations in Joshua…

Defence lawyers for Baljeet Dhaliwal, a Mississauga transit bus driver on trial for dangerous driving causing death told a Brampton, Ont., judge Thursday that there is ample reasonable doubt and the judge should find their client not guilty. On June 8, 2023, around 9:25 a.m., police were called to Derry and Rexwood roads where there was a multi-vehicle collision involving a MiWay bus.Fifty-year-old Sharron Williams, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of a Nissan Rogue, was killed as a result of the collision which was caught on dash camera. The bus could be seen plowing into two rows of…

Australian swimming great turned Channel 7 commentator Ariarne Titmus says a second 50m freestyle world record is on Cameron McEvoy’s radar at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games later this year.The 31-year-old McEvoy set a world record of 20.88 seconds in March at the China Open in Shenzhen on the back of a personally tailored “less-is-more” training approach.“He wants to break it again at an event like the Commonwealth Games and he has never actually won a Commonwealth Games individual gold medal. That’s one thing Cam wants to tick off,” said Titmus, who will join the Channel Seven team as a mixed…

BANGKOK: A Thai court decided on Friday (Apr 24) to hear a case against 10 MPs, including the leader of the largest opposition party, for trying to reform the royal insult law, but refrained from suspending them.The progressive People’s Party, led by Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, came second in February’s general election.An earlier iteration of the organisation had put forward draft legislation to amend the strict lese-majeste law.The National Anti-Corruption Commission referred their actions to the Supreme Court, alleging a potential breach of ethics. The court said on Friday it accepted the case, but decided not to exercise its power to immediately…

Press freedom advocates have warned of hostile rhetoric towards journalists and increasingly restrictive policies under Milei.The administration of Argentina’s Javier Milei has restricted access to the presidential palace, the Casa Rosada, as part of an escalating feud with the country’s journalists.Accredited journalists reportedly arrived at the Casa Rosada on Thursday and attempted to enter the building through fingerprint scanning, as they usually would.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listBut they were unable to pass the scan. As confusion hit the news corps, the head of Argentina’s Secretariat of Communication and Press issued a clarification that their press accreditation had…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! None of the Democratic candidates running to replace outgoing California Governor Gavin Newsom gave him below a B-minus grade on combating homelessness, a moment that Republicans sharing the debate stage on Wednesday evening called a laughable evaluation of the state’s problem.”My goodness, of course it’s an F,” Republican candidate Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, said.”It shames our state, the situation with homelessness. We have about 10% of the U.S. population, around 50% of the country’s homeless.”The moment forced the four Democratic candidates to weigh in on efforts to unwind a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of a Long Island PTA mom accused of siphoning more than $50,000 from an elementary school over a three-year span while she was employed as a New York Police Department officer.Jodi Scarlatos, 43, of Centereach, served as treasurer of the Jericho Elementary School PTA when she allegedly began using association funds to bankroll personal expenses and outings around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said.According to a lawsuit filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court, Scarlatos allegedly made the troubling transactions as…

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin speaks during the Semafor World Economy Summit 2025 at Conrad Washington on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kayla Bartkowski | Getty ImagesCitadel rebuked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for singling out Chief Executive Officer Ken Griffin in a push for a new pied-à-terre tax, escalating a public dispute over how aggressively New York should target wealthy non-resident homeowners.In a social media video filmed outside Griffin’s residence at 220 Central Park South and timed to tax day, Mamdani unveiled a proposed levy that would impose an annual surcharge on one- to three-family homes, condominiums and…

“Giant,” which is now on Broadway, dramatizes a real-life scandal that stained the legacy of world-famous children’s author Roald Dahl. Anthony Mason spoke to John Lithgow, who stars in the play, and playwright Mark Rosenblatt.