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Google employee accused of making over $1.2M on Polymarket through insider trading

May 27, 2026 / 11:00 PM EDT / CBS News

A software engineer at Google is facing federal charges after allegedly betting on confidential company information on Polymarket, netting more than $1.2 million in profits, the second insider trading prosecution against a user of the popular prediction market service in recent months.

In court papers released by the Justice Department, Michele Spagnuolo was accused of using an internal company tool late last year to look up data on Google’s top-trending searches of 2025. He then allegedly placed millions in bets on Polymarket on whether or not various celebrities would rank among the most searched people on Google that year, weeks before the company released that information publicly in its annual Year in Search report.

The most widely searched person of 2025 ended up being D4vd, a singer who drew nationwide attention last year after a 15-year-old’s dismembered body was found in the trunk of a car registered to him. Using the Polymarket username “AlphaRaccoon,” Spagnuolo was accused of correctly betting hundreds of dollars that D4vd would show up in the most widely searched people, at a time when the market assessed the odds of D4vd appearing as fairly slim.

Days after the Year in Search data was publicly announced, Spagnuolo’s Polymarket account allegedly transferred millions of dollars in cryptocurrency to a crypto wallet.

Spagnuolo was charged with commodities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission also sued him in civil court on similar grounds.

The charges against Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen who lives in Switzerland, were unsealed on Wednesday. He was arrested in New York on Wednesday and appeared before a magistrate judge who released him on $2.25 million bond, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York confirmed to CBS News.

CBS News has reached out to Spagnuolo and his attorney for comment.

A Google spokesperson said Spagnuolo has been placed on leave, and the tech giant is working with law enforcement.

“The employee accessed our marketing material using a tool available to all employees, but using such confidential information to place bets is a serious breach of our policies,” the spokesperson said.

Polymarket said on X that it flagged the trader. A spokesperson said the company worked closely with federal authorities, calling Polymarket “the only prediction platform to date whose cooperation has led to insider trading charges in the United States.”

The charges against Spagnuolo came one month after a U.S. special forces soldier was arrested for allegedly winning over $400,000 by betting on the raid to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro before news of the raid was made public. The soldier pleaded not guilty.

The cases have highlighted concerns about the potential for insider trading on prediction markets, which have surged in popularity in recent years. Earlier this year, a data analyst told “60 Minutes” he has spotted other cases of Polymarket accounts raking in millions by correctly betting on U.S. military operations, sometimes achieving an unbelievably high win rate.

Polymarket has said insider trading is prohibited on its platform, and it polices misconduct and refers illegal acts to federal authorities.

“Blockchain trading is transparent, traceable, and bad actors leave footprints,” the company spokesperson said. “We are committed to maintaining accurate, fair, and transparent markets as well as enforcing our rules and working with our regulators and law enforcement.”

与特朗普“撞脸”水牛 哈芝节前豁免宰杀

2026年5月28日 10:15 / 联合早报

这头重约700公斤的孟加拉水牛因外形神似美国总统特朗普而在网上爆红。 （法新社）

孟加拉一头患有白化症的水牛因外形神似美国总统特朗普而在网上爆红，它也因此避过在哈芝节被宰杀的命运。

路透社报道，这头重约700公斤的水牛，饲养于首都达卡附近的农场。由于额前一撮金色长毛造型独特，被网民及农场主戏称为特朗普。

随着哈芝节临近，大批民众每天到农场参观及拍摄短片，有人甚至跨区前来，只为与这头“特朗普水牛”合照，相关影片也在社交媒体迅速走红。

孟加拉内政部一名官员星期三（5月27日）告诉路透社，这头水牛此前已被售出，准备用于哈芝节祭祀仪式，但由于水牛近日引发高度关注，当局决定出于安全考虑介入此事。

该官员说，内政部长艾哈迈德已下令饶恕这头水牛，退还买家款项，并将水牛送往达卡国家动物园。“由于安全隐患和公众异常高的关注度，最终决定在最后一刻饶恕这头水牛，使它免遭祭祀。”

农场主米里达说，这头水牛性格温驯，属白化品种，因此外表较一般水牛更为浅色，加上金色毛发及粉红色鼻头，在当地众多祭祀牲畜中格外抢眼。

与特朗普“撞脸”水牛 哈芝节前豁免宰杀

2026年5月28日 10:15 / 联合早报

这头重约700公斤的孟加拉水牛因外形神似美国总统特朗普而在网上爆红。 （法新社）

孟加拉一头患有白化症的水牛因外形神似美国总统特朗普而在网上爆红，它也因此避过在哈芝节被宰杀的命运。

路透社报道，这头重约700公斤的水牛，饲养于首都达卡附近的农场。由于额前一撮金色长毛造型独特，被网民及农场主戏称为特朗普。

随着哈芝节临近，大批民众每天到农场参观及拍摄短片，有人甚至跨区前来，只为与这头“特朗普水牛”合照，相关影片也在社交媒体迅速走红。

孟加拉内政部一名官员星期三（5月27日）告诉路透社，这头水牛此前已被售出，准备用于哈芝节祭祀仪式，但由于水牛近日引发高度关注，当局决定出于安全考虑介入此事。

该官员说，内政部长艾哈迈德已下令饶恕这头水牛，退还买家款项，并将水牛送往达卡国家动物园。“由于安全隐患和公众异常高的关注度，最终决定在最后一刻饶恕这头水牛，使它免遭祭祀。”

农场主米里达说，这头水牛性格温驯，属白化品种，因此外表较一般水牛更为浅色，加上金色毛发及粉红色鼻头，在当地众多祭祀牲畜中格外抢眼。

美国大使告诫西班牙深化对华关系要谨慎处理

2026年5月28日 11:54 / 联合早报

美国驻西班牙大使莱昂告诫西班牙，在深化与中国的关系时，必须以非常谨慎的态度处理此事，以避免中国涉足北京试图主导的数据、国防、电信等关键领域。

据路透社报道，2月上任的莱昂（Benjamin Leon）在星期三（5月27日）的公开讲话中，对与华为合作的企业获得公共合同表达关切。美国指华为对美国国家安全构成不可接受的风险。

莱昂说：“如果西班牙能确保中国被排除在关键领域之外，为什么不能（与北京）进行谈判。然而，我看到的是，他们已经开始渗入关键领域，西班牙对此必须非常谨慎。”

莱昂指中国试图主导关键技术，并利用不公平的贸易行为和经济胁迫扩大中国的战略影响力，“而这对我们的供应链、研究和安全构成真正的风险”。他呼吁欧洲保护自身的研究、知识产权和民主价值观。

由于西班牙拒绝遵守北约成员国作出的承诺，将国防开支提高到占国内生产总值的5%，并不允许美国在针对伊朗的战争中，使用西班牙军事基地和领空，美国与西班牙政府之间的关系变得紧张。

美国总统特朗普去年10月称，可能会因西班牙未提高国防开支，而对西班牙实施经济制裁。

莱昂称，西班牙的做法触怒了（frustrated）特朗普，并说如何应对完全由总统决定，但莱昂淡化了美国实施经济或军事制裁的可能性。

Justice Department investigating whether Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll committed perjury, sources say

May 27, 2026 / 11:18 PM EDT / CBS News

The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into whether author E. Jean Carroll committed perjury in connection with her civil lawsuits against President Trump, sources familiar with the matter said.

The investigation is being led out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, one of the sources added.

Carroll sued Mr. Trump in two civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault and defamation. In 2023, a jury found Mr. Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation for comments he made in 2022. Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages.

A second jury in 2024 found him liable for defamation in connection with comments he had made about Carroll in 2019, awarding her $83.3 million in damages. Both judgments were upheld on appeal.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Mr. Trump on some of the litigation, is recused from the case, one source added.

The investigation was reported earlier by CNN. The theory of the case hinges on whether Carroll lied when she said in a 2022 deposition that she received no outside funding for her lawsuit, a source told CBS News.

It was later revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, helped pay for some of her legal expenses.

CBS News has reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois for comment on the investigation, as well as to Roberta Kaplan, the attorney who represented Carroll for the two lawsuits.

Carroll accused Mr. Trump of sexually assaulting her in a New York City department store dressing room during an encounter in the mid-1990s, an account which she published in a 2019 story for New York Magazine. In 2019, Carroll sued Mr. Trump for defamation, but the case stalled in court.

She then filed a second defamation lawsuit in 2022, adding a claim of rape under New York’s Adult Survivors Act.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly denied the sexual assault allegations.

Hoffman’s financial backing for Carroll’s lawsuit was first revealed in legal papers filed by Mr. Trump’s attorneys in April 2023, just ahead of the trial in the first defamation lawsuit, according to the New York Times.

When Mr. Trump’s attorneys brought the issue up on appeal, the appeals court found that Carroll had “plausibly represented” in her deposition “that she had forgotten about the limited outside funding counsel obtained.”

“Rather, it showed that Ms. Carroll simply was not involved in the matter of who was or was not funding her litigation costs,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District wrote in its 2024 ruling.

In a May 2023 interview with the Washington Post, Hoffman explained why he chose to help fund Carroll’s legal action, saying that “we didn’t encourage the lawsuit to happen, we only got on board after she’d already filed.”

“My team looked at it, thought that her voice should be heard because she was challenging someone who was so much more wealthy and powerful, it shouldn’t be squashed,” Hoffman said.

本月20日，波斯湾海峡管理局发表声明，明确伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的管理和监督范围，并附上划定这一范围的地图。 （路透社）

美国财政部周三宣布，已将伊朗新设立的波斯湾海峡管理局列入制裁名单。

美国媒体报道指，这一制裁行动是美国在军事行动之外，再次试图利用经济杠杆迫使伊朗达成协议，以结束战争并重新开放霍尔木兹海峡。

伊朗新设的波斯湾海峡管理局（Persian Gulf Strait Authority，简称PGSA）已在霍尔木兹海峡划定管控区，管控范围延伸至阿联酋富查伊拉港以南海域，引起阿联酋谴责。

本月20日，波斯湾海峡管理局发表声明，明确伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的管理和监督范围，并附上划定这一范围的地图。

声明强调，船只在通过霍尔木兹海峡前，须与管理局协调并获得许可。

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特朗普：霍尔木兹海峡不归任何人管辖 盟友阿曼不守规矩也会被炸 中东五国表明不接受伊朗管控霍尔木兹海峡

美国总统特朗普周三强调，霍尔木兹海峡是国际水域，不归任何人管辖，他并警告波斯湾盟友阿曼，如果“不守规矩”同伊朗联合控制海峡，就会被炸毁。

美财政部将伊朗波斯湾海峡管理局列入制裁名单

2026年5月28日 10:50 / 联合早报

美财政部将伊朗波斯湾海峡管理局列入制裁名单

本月20日，波斯湾海峡管理局发表声明，明确伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的管理和监督范围，并附上划定这一范围的地图。 （路透社）

美国财政部周三宣布，已将伊朗新设立的波斯湾海峡管理局列入制裁名单。

美国媒体报道指，这一制裁行动是美国在军事行动之外，再次试图利用经济杠杆迫使伊朗达成协议，以结束战争并重新开放霍尔木兹海峡。

伊朗新设的波斯湾海峡管理局（Persian Gulf Strait Authority，简称PGSA）已在霍尔木兹海峡划定管控区，管控范围延伸至阿联酋富查伊拉港以南海域，引起阿联酋谴责。

本月20日，波斯湾海峡管理局发表声明，明确伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的管理和监督范围，并附上划定这一范围的地图。

声明强调，船只在通过霍尔木兹海峡前，须与管理局协调并获得许可。

特朗普：霍尔木兹海峡不归任何人管辖 盟友阿曼不守规矩也会被炸
中东五国表明不接受伊朗管控霍尔木兹海峡

美国总统特朗普周三强调，霍尔木兹海峡是国际水域，不归任何人管辖，他并警告波斯湾盟友阿曼，如果“不守规矩”同伊朗联合控制海峡，就会被炸毁。

YouTube taking steps to make clear when realistic videos are made by AI

May 27, 2026 / 5:20 PM EDT / CBS News

By Megan Cerullo

Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to discuss her reporting.

YouTube is updating its policies to more clearly identify when a realistic-seeming video was made using artificial intelligence.

The change comes as social media platforms are flooded with AI-generated videos, images and music.

In response, Alphabet-owned YouTube said Wednesday it will more prominently feature an existing label on videos that discloses if they have been altered or generated with AI. For long-form videos, the label will appear directly below the player, right above a video’s description. For shorter content, the disclosure will appear as an overlay on the video.

“If it looks real but was made with AI, viewers will know immediately,” Rene Ritchie, a YouTube creator, said in a video describing the changes.

YouTube already requires creators to disclose their use of AI for realistic content. The platform is also adding tools to automatically identify and label AI material.

YouTube said it’s making the changes “to balance transparency with creator control” and that a disclosure label alone will not affect how a video is recommended or whether it can be monetized.

Other major online content players are also moving to respond to the proliferation of AI “slop.” In April, audio streaming service Spotify added a certification badge, called “Verified by Spotify,” that indicates whether a song was created by AI or a person.

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The badge is designed to give audiences “more insight and transparency into the music and artists” they listen to, the company said in a statement.

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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dems slammed for demanding ‘five-star accommodations’ for illegal immigrants at ICE facility

May 27, 2026 5:41pm EDT / Fox News

Republican state Rep. Paul Kanitra called Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s visit to Delaney Hall a ‘performative stunt’ to distract from Democratic policies

By Charles Creitz, Peter Pinedo Fox News

Assemb. Paul Kanitra, R-Toms River, spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital during a visit to Delaney Hall in Newark where he said Democrats created the crisis that has led to protests.

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NEWARK – EXCLUSIVE:Speaking with Fox News Digital at the site of a multi-day confrontation between anti-ICE protesters and federal law enforcement, Republican state lawmaker Paul Kanitra ripped into Democrats for demanding what he described as “five-star accommodations” for illegal immigrants.

Just days after many top New Jersey Democrats, including Gov. Mikie Sherrill and Sen. Andy Kim, joined protesters outside of ICE’s Delaney Hall, Kanitra called Democrats’ handling of illegal immigration a “disgrace.”

“Democrats created this chaos with all their laws. Gov. Sherrill was in office for a couple of weeks before she passed three radical protective illegal immigration bills, taking the masks off of ICE agents, protecting their [illegal immigrants’] status here, giving them more benefits, and here she is out here knowing full well she wasn’t going to get in,” he said.

Democrats and protesters allege that detainees in the Newark ICE facility, known as Delaney Hall, have gone on a hunger strike in protest of inhumane conditions.

ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS CLASH WITH AGENTS OUTSIDE NEW JERSEY DETENTION CENTER AS GOV. SHERRILL DENIED ENTRY

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and U.S. Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., outside the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark.(Sen. Andy Kim ; X)

On Monday, Sherrill posted on X that she had attempted to enter Delaney Hall after hearing “heartbreaking” reports of unsafe and unconstitutional conditions. She wrote that her request to access the facility was “denied this morning, raising even more questions about what they are trying to hide from public view.”

The Department of Homeland Security has shot down the claims of bad conditions and denied the hunger strike.

Kanitra asserted that Sherrill’s appearance “was a performative stunt to try to change the focus from their policies, which have created this chaos, to try to make some sort of sensational news story out of it.”

He taunted Democrats, saying, “The food service provider here at Delaney Hall is actually the same food service provider that services the $150,000 to $500,000 suites at Met Life Stadium.”

“It seems to be good enough for those guys, so I assume it’s good enough for our illegal invaders behind us,” he said, pointing back to the facility.

The lawmaker said he actually agrees that “every public official should be allowed to see what’s going on inside [the ICE facility] for themselves,” which he said, “will debunk these crazed claims that they have.”

“We already heard from Secretary Mullin himself and DHS saying that these were baseless allegations,” he continued. “I don’t know if they’re expecting the Ritz Carlton behind us, but these people are either here illegally or they were here as part of a privilege, with a visa or other procedure, and then they broke the law and are getting that revoked.”

“They shouldn’t be expecting five-star accommodations here in New Jersey,” he concluded.

MARKWAYNE MULLIN GOES OFF ON DEMS’ ‘GARBAGE’ MEMORIAL DAY ‘POLITICAL STUNT’ AT ICE FACILITY

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Meanwhile, a protester named Diana Tabor told Fox News Digital that she believes the conditions inside the ICE facility are “very unfair.” Tabor, who is Black, also noted that the protesters have been questioning the ethics of ICE agents who “look like us,” saying, “it feels like betrayal.”

She said that protesters, who have been camping outside the facility for several days, are with various advocacy groups and nonprofit organizations and are prepared to keep it up for weeks or months “until justice is served.”

Tabor said she was present on her own “on the behalf of constituents in Union County who have suffered due to the misfair treatment of Delaney Hall.”

“We’ve come here from different backgrounds, different organizations, we came here with different objectives, but ultimately, we formed a big family, and we have one goal, and we’ve all come together to make that goal,” said Tabor.

She agreed, “There is credibility in protecting the American people,” but emphasized, “I do believe that there are different ways to go about it, not kidnapping people, not putting them in overcrowded detention centers, I would say that we need to find a better way to mitigate that.”

ANTI-ICE PROTEST LEADER DEMANDS RELEASE OF INMATES, SHERRILL APPEARANCE

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“I do think that there are obviously people that come here and do commit crimes, and there are murders and there are rapes and there are robberies and there are people being harmed with the loose borders, and that should be taken care of accordingly, but I think that if we start using our resources adequately and we start using it to actually go against criminals who are hurting people within these borders that we’d get a lot more done,” she said.

“So, I would say that we need to start focusing more on actual crime, and not just profiling people based on what they look like,” Tabor added. “I think that there is a happy medium between protecting human rights and also protecting the country.”

ICE agents detain a protestor outside the Delaney Hall detention center after demonstrators protested the transfer of detainees in Newark, N.J., on May 26, 2026.(Andres Kudacki/AP)

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DHS responded to the protests by publishing a statement stating that certified dietitians evaluate meals and that all detainees are provided with three meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries.

The agency added that detainees “also have access to phones to communicate with their family members and lawyers” and that “ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Sherrill and Booker for comment.

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Uganda closes its border with Congo over Ebola outbreak

May 27, 2026 / 7:23 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Uganda on Wednesday ordered the closure of its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare type of Ebola are surging, and as cases have been confirmed at home after Ugandan health workers were exposed to the disease from Congolese patients.

The measure, which goes against the guidance by the World Health Organization, underscores growing fears of contagion in East Africa from Bundibugyo, a rare type of the Ebola virus that is behind this outbreak and that has no approved medicines or vaccines.

According to numbers compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the WHO, there were 121 confirmed Ebola cases in Congo and 17 confirmed deaths, with at least 1,077 additional suspected cases of the virus and 246 suspected deaths from the disease.

In Uganda, there were seven confirmed cases, including one death from the virus, the CDC and WHO said.

Like Congo, Uganda has faced Ebola outbreaks in the past. A local Ugandan task force made the decision on the border closure. The Ugandan health workers were exposed to the virus by Congolese patients who had crossed the border before the outbreak was declared in eastern Congo on May 15.

Sophia Mulei, a laboratory technologist, wearing protective equipment as she prepares to enter the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory at Uganda Virus Research Institute on May 26, 2026, in Entebbe, Uganda. Hajarah Nalwadda / Getty Images

Border crossings will be authorized only in emergency cases, including for the outbreak response, cargo or security reasons, Dr. Diana Atwine of the Ugandan Ministry of Health, told journalists. Anyone entering from Congo under emergency circumstances will be taken into mandatory isolation for 21 days.

Tracing and isolating Ebola contacts is seen as key to stopping the spread of the disease, which usually manifests as hemorrhagic fever. The virus is spread through close contact with sick or deceased patients’ bodily fluids. Experts say healthcare workers and family members caring for patients face the highest risk.

On Wednesday, Congolese authorities said that the first person who recovered from the Bundibugyo virus has been released home from a treatment center in Rwampara, one of the towns in eastern Congo at the heart of the outbreak.

WHO has discouraged border closures with Congo while acknowledging that neighboring countries are at high risk of contagion. The U.N. health agency has declared this outbreak a public health emergency of international concern.

Closures “push the movement of people and goods to informal border crossings that are not monitored, thus increasing the chances of the spread of disease,” the agency said.

The Uganda-Congo border is several hundred miles long and crossed by numerous footpaths beyond formal border posts. Many people come and go in the course of a day to visit families or to trade.

Congolese health authorities are struggling to contain the outbreak, which WHO says is outpacing them. The rare type of Ebola was confirmed weeks late as tests were carried out for a more common type. Challenges also include the threat from armed groups in eastern Congo, a large number of displaced people and poor infrastructure.

WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on Wednesday for a ceasefire in eastern Congo to allow safe access for responders and others, saying on social media that “attacks on health facilities make tracking cases and their contacts nearly impossible.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. is working to set up a facility in Kenya for Americans who were exposed to Ebola or infected with the deadly illness, multiple CDC officials confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday.

A U.S. doctor who contracted Ebola while working with a missionary group in Congo was previously airlifted to Germany for treatment earlier this month. Six other Americans have been transported to Germany and the Czech Republic for monitoring.

All American citizens who have recently been in Congo, Uganda or South Sudan must enter the U.S. through one of only three U.S. airports — Houston Bush International, Washington Dulles International or Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International — to undergo mandatory enhanced screenings. John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York will be added to the list of approved airports Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced.

Houston’s airport said it expects to average up to 50 screened passengers per day.

U.S. green card holders and foreign nationals who have recently been in one or more of those three countries are currently barred from entering the U.S., according to CDC guidelines.

“We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Wednesday during President Trump’s Cabinet meeting at the White House.