US Soldier Charged for Alleged $400K Polymarket Insider Trading on Maduro Removal

In brief U.S. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke was charged with five federal crimes, including commodities fraud and unlawful use of classified information Van Dyke allegedly profited $409,881 from 13 Polymarket bets totaling $33,034 between December 26, 2025 and January 2, 2026. The bets involved classified intelligence about Operation Absolute Resolve targeting former Venezuelan…

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    Trump, Xi Slated for Beijing Summit Amid Iran Conflict

    President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week as the US focuses on the war in Iran. The summit is also expected to cover trade frameworks for Boeing aircraft, soybeans, and AI semiconductors. Bloomberg’s Stephen Engle reports on what is at stake in the meeting. (Source: Bloomberg) Source…

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    Johnson backs states redistricting ahead of November midterms

    House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that other states should redraw their congressional maps in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. “The Supreme Court said that in Louisiana’s case it was blatantly unconstitutional,” Johnson told CNN’s Manu Raju in……

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