Amjad Youssef is one of most-wanted fugitives in relation to slaughter of estimated 288 civilians under Assad

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/24/syria-arrests-suspected-leader-of-tadamon-massacre

A U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant was arrested for allegedly using classified information to make extremely profitable bets on the Polymarket prediction market related to the American military mission that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, the Department of Justice said Thursday.

The sergeant, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, “was involved in the planning and execution of Operation Absolute Resolve,” which apprehended Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in early January, the DOJ said.

Van Dyke, 38, wagered a total of about $33,000 in 13 or so bets in the week leading up to that operation, with the knowledge that the United States was secretly planning military action against Maduro, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

The bets won Van Dyke nearly $410,000, the indictment alleges.

The arrest of Van Dyke, who has been on active duty in the Army since 2008, comes as Polymarket and Kalshi have grown in popularity and as concerns have grown about people with inside information making wagers on those prediction market platforms.

James Giovansanti is supposed to protect New Yorkers, but endangers them with impunity.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-protect-and-swerve-nypd-cop-has-527-speeding-tickets-yet-remains-on-the-force

https://apnews.com/article/texas-army-soldier-wife-detained-ice-3ce1b8b2d18e3ce1c1d1c2cc5e88087d

https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-cia-brennan-investigation-russia-trump-e6f29e0e084c72bb54de74466b3d4c5d

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/federal-appeals-court-upholds-texas-law-requiring-ten-commandments-in-classrooms/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deaths-disappearances-scientists-staff-government-labs/

Coinbase Financial Markets and Gemini Titan are the latest to face a state lawsuit.

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/new-york-attorney-general-sues-two-prediction-markets-on-illegal-gambling-allegations-192012225.html

ChatGPT has been connected to at least two mass shootings in the last year.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/florida-ag-opens-criminal-investigation-into-openai-and-chatgpt-190200227.html

A Canadian woman was killed in an attack from atop the Pyramid of the Moon that authorities have linked to the “Columbine effect”

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/21/teotihuacan-site-mass-shooting?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Tiktok and Instagram influencer Klaudiaglam - real name Klaudia Zakrzewska is fighting for her life following the crash.

A man in his 50s, who was unlocking his e-scooter at the time, also sustained life-changing injuries in the same crash and was taken to hospital.

A third woman, aged in her 30s, was treated for minor injuries.

The Metropolitan Police said the incident is not being treated as terror-related.

Carrington has been remanded in custody and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court tomorrow.

Ms Zakrzewska, who has more than 250,000 followers on Instagram, had posted videos from the nightclub on Sunday.

As a teenager, Carrington, also known as RIELLEUK, made it through to the live finals of The X Factor in 2013 as part of girl group Miss Dynamix after impressing Gary Barlow and the other judges.

More recently, she has become an influencer, with 362,000 followers on Instagram.

A video circulating online showed the terrifying moment a black vehicle drove into a group of people.

Detective Chief Inspector Alison Foxwell, of Specialist Crime South, previously said: 'As our enquiries continue, our thoughts are with those injured and their loved ones.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has condemned two NYPD detectives who were captured on video brutalizing a man in a liquor store during an arrest in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon.

The detectives are part of the Brooklyn North narcotics division, according to their officer profiles on the NYPD's website. They incorrectly believed the suspect had just made a drug sale because he matched a description, the NYPD told the Daily Mail.

Police said that the man was wearing similar clothes to a described dealer, but that he 'was not charged with any offense related to the sale of narcotics because it was later determined that he was not involved in the drug sale.'

In the video, posted on Instagram by user Sinistratm, the detectives can be seen punching the suspect in the face and torso, pushing him into a shelf of wine bottles, dragging him by the legs and kicking and stomping him while he's on the ground.

The wine bottles shattered and slashed the man's leg, causing a deep cut that began bleeding profusely. A pool of blood can be seen growing on the floor in the video.

'The violence used by NYPD officers in this video is extremely disturbing and unacceptable,' Mayor Mamdani wrote on X.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/us-news/bomb-threat-before-d4vd-murder-arraignment-forces-evacuation-at-courthouse/

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/3-people-dead-crash-shooting-detroit-mcnichols/?intcid=CNR-01-0623

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d4vd-charged-with-celeste-rivas-hernandez-tesla-body-found/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=930872070

Five people were wounded in a mass shooting near the University of Iowa campus after a large brawl that broke out early Sunday, police confirmed — as they shared a photo of five “persons of interest” in the carnage.

“One victim is in critical condition and the other four victims are in stable condition,” Iowa City Public Safety wrote in a Facebook post Sunday afternoon.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/19/us-news/shamar-elkins-named-as-louisiana-gunman-who-murdered-8-kids/

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-murder-trial-cameras-bb791cb4c22168a6e1dd9bc106d81215

https://apnews.com/article/d4vd-suspect-celeste-rivas-hernandez-f58e2983916aaf3340cc48b7e711118f

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/luna-accuses-ruben-gallego-conduct-denies/

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48506401/court-rules-smu-theodore-knox-28m-judgement

Los Angeles (AP) — Singer d4vd has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was found last year in an apparently abandoned Tesla registered to him that was towed from the Hollywood Hills, police said Thursday.

Los Angeles police said in a brief statement that the 21-year-old Houston-born alt-pop singer whose legal name is David Burke was being held without bail. Police said investigators would present a case to the District Attorneys Office for consideration of charges on Monday.

The singer had been under investigation by an LA County grand jury looking into the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The probe was officially secret, but its existence — and the designation of d4vd as its target — was revealed on February 25 when his mother, father and brother filed an objection in a Texas court to subpoenas demanding they testify.

Emails seeking comment from an attorney and a publicist who have previously worked with d4vd were not immediately returned. His representatives have not responded to multiple previous requests from The Associated Press for comment on the case.