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ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The FBI searched the New York City home of Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan as part of a criminal investigation into the election betting platform, law enforcement sources told ABC News.The investigation, at least in part, involves whether Polymarket violated a prior settlement with the U.S. government by allowing American-based users access to its platform.The 2022 settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission required Polymarket to […]

(NEW YORK) -- Across hours of podcast and television interviews, Army veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth has articulated his plan for a "frontal assault" to reform the Department of Defense from the top down, including by purging "woke" generals, limiting women from some combat roles, eliminating diversity goals and utilizing the "real threat of violence" to reassert the United States as a global power.As President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for the Secretary of […]

(NEW YORK) -- The satirical website The Onion purchased InfoWars on Thursday, a capstone on years of litigation and bankruptcy proceedings following InfoWars founder Alex Jones' defamation of families associated with the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.Those families backed The Onion's bid to purchase InfoWars' intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The Connecticut families […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- As calls grow for the Menendez brothers to be released from prison, the incoming Los Angeles County district attorney says he has a lot of evidence to review before showing his support.Nathan Hochman won last week's election for DA, beating incumbent George Gascón in a landslide, will take office in December. The election came weeks after Gascón announced his recommendation that the Menendez brothers be resentenced and eligible for parole immediately.Hochman […]

(CRESCENT, Okla.) -- The 28-year-old lab worker investigated alleged wrongdoing at an Oklahoma nuclear fuel facility, and was on her way to meet with a New York Times reporter when she died in a fatal car crash.Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old plutonium plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma — a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation — shocked the nation.The official story was that […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Four individuals were arrested Wednesday for allegedly attempting to defraud their insurance companies by claiming a bear had damaged their vehicles -- when in fact it was a person in a bear costume attacking the cars.The suspects were all Los Angeles-area residents, according to a statement released Wednesday afternoon by the California Department of Insurance.The suspects varying in age, were Ararat Chirkinian, 39, of Glendale; Vahe Muradkhanyan, […]

(OWASSO, Okla.) -- The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced Wednesday that Owasso Public Schools in Oklahoma has "entered into an agreement to remedy violations of Title IX" concerning sexual harassment in its schools following the February death of LGBTQ+ student Nex Benedict.The OCR states that its investigation of the Owasso Public Schools district, which was announced in March, found "repeated instances over a three-year period […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Federal authorities are offering a $25,000 reward in connection with a series of arson incidents involving ballot boxes in Washington state and Oregon during early voting last month.The FBI said Wednesday it is seeking the public's assistance in identifying a suspect sought in three incendiary fires.The agency is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the suspect responsible.The first incident occurred […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A Bronx man who helped Daniel Penny restrain Jordan Neely on a New York City subway car last year ”jumped in and tried to help” so Penny could release his chokehold, according to the man’s testimony Wednesday at Penny’s manslaughter and negligent homicide trial.Eric Gonzalez, who is seen on video holding Neely by the wrist, boarded the subway at Broadway-Lafayette and noticed Penny […]