The U.S. launched strikes on Iran in response to Iran shooting down a U.S. Army helicopter, escalating the conflict despite ongoing peace negotiations. Both pilots from the downed helicopter are safe.
US lawmakers are expressing anger and confusion over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to cancel a planned troop rotation to Poland. The move, which caught many by surprise, has fueled existing tensions between the Trump administration and Congress over security interests in Europe.
Army Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke pleaded not guilty to charges of using classified information to profit from prediction market betting on Polymarket. The 38-year-old soldier allegedly placed 13 bets totaling $33,034 between December 27, 2025 and January 2, 2026 on contracts predicting U.S. forces entering Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro being unseated. After the January 3 raid occurred as allegedly known, his bets generated $409,881 in profits. This marks the first federal prosecution connected to prediction market activity.
A U.S. Army major and nurse at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, has been charged with conspiring to provide financial and tactical support to the Ambazonia Defense Forces, a separatist group in Cameroon. Kenneth Chungag, 50, and co-defendant Mercy Akwi Ombaku, 38, were arrested Monday and released on their own recognizance. Chungag allegedly plotted to transfer money for AK-47 purchases and used his military training to assist the group.
U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, was arrested for allegedly using classified information to place $33,000 in bets on Polymarket about the military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Van Dyke won nearly $410,000 by betting on markets related to the Maduro mission he helped plan. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud.
Federal prosecutors have charged Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an active-duty U.S. Army soldier who the indictment says has served as a U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant, with allegedly using classified information about a military operation to make more than $400,000 in prediction-market profits. After months of online discourse around suspected insider trading on Polymarket and Kalshi, […] The post Trump “not happy” with prediction markets – says world is a “casino” as Special Forces soldier arrested for insider trading on Polymarket appeared first on CryptoSlate.
U.S. Army Special Forces master sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, was arrested for allegedly using classified information to win $400,000 on Polymarket prediction markets by betting on the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Van Dyke, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, participated in the planning and execution of the January 2026 operation that captured Maduro. He faces up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud and is charged with three counts of violating the Commodity Exchange Act and one count of unlawful monetary transaction. The CFTC also filed a civil complaint against him.
Federal prosecutors indicted U.S. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, for using classified information about a military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to make over $400,000 on prediction market Polymarket. He faces wire fraud, commodities fraud, and misusing non-public government information charges.
Two U.S. Army soldiers have been injured after encountering a brown bear during training in Anchorage
