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Dodd and husband Rick Leventhal addressed the charges for the first time in a new video.

Dodd and husband Rick Leventhal addressed the charge for the first time in a new video.

US New Home Sales Tumbled In April As Prices Soared

With Case-Shiller reporting existing home price declines in half of America's largest cities, and after two straight months of rip-roaring demand, NAR reports that New Home Sales in April tumbled 6.2% MoM (almost twice as bad as the 3.2% MoM decline expected). March's 7.4% MoM spike was revised down bigly to just +3.4%, all of which left new home sales down 

Source: Bloomberg

Overall, new home sales have really gone nowhere for four years...

It seems lower mortgage rates did nothing to help new home sales...

Finally, while existing home prices are lower, median new home price rose 2.2% y/y to $422,500; average selling price at $508,800.

This was the biggest MoM jump in median new home prices since 2019...

Not great for affordability.

Tyler Durden Thu, 05/28/2026 - 10:07

Audio tapes featuring the man accused of killing Tupac Shakur allegedly boasting about the rapper’s murder have been discovered — and could become key evidence in his upcoming trial.

Can the Knicks blitz their opponent in Game 1 of the NBA Finals?

Get in, losers. We're going to Calabasas.

Thugs viciously wailed "Grab your guns and kill yourself," and "Every cop, every fed, shoot yourself in the head" at more than a dozen unfazed federal officers.

Paige Adams facies decades in prison if convicted.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced sanctions Thursday against Iran's new Persian Gulf Strait Authority and warned companies against paying tolls to cross the Strait of Hormuz.

Does X mark the final resting spot?

US Charges Google Employee With Pocketing Millions From Insider Trading Bets On Polymarket

Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com,

US authorities have charged a Google employee with allegedly using information from the company to make bets on Polymarket and profit $1.2 million.

The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it unsealed charges against Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo, accusing him of accessing unreleased internal information at Google and placing 25 bets worth $2.7 million on markets related to the most searched individuals on Google in 2025.

Prosecutors said Spagnuolo owned the Polymarket account “AlphaRaccoon”, which profited $1.2 million on “outcomes that the market treated as unlikely” when Google published information on the most searched individuals in December.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a twin complaint against Spagnuolo on Wednesday, making similar allegations of insider trading.

Prediction markets are facing growing scrutiny over insider trading, with Congress launching a probe into Polymarket and Kalshi on Friday, questioning the companies’ response to incidents of insider trading on the platform, with lawmakers concerned that government officials are using insider knowledge to make bets.

Manhattan US District Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement that the charges “reinforce a decades-old message: Corporate insiders cannot use confidential business information to turn a profit in our markets.”

Source: US Attorney Southern District of New York 

AlphaRaccoon account allegedly changed name 

According to the court documents, communities on Discord and X started discussing the possibility that AlphaRaccoon was a Google insider in December. Soon after, the username was allegedly changed to a wallet address.

Prosecutors alleged that the funds in the AlphaRaccoon account were also sent to a decentralized crypto swapping service and to an unnamed transfer service that offers privacy protection for blockchain transactions

The Justice Department charged Spagnuolo with commodities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, and could face a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison.

In its complaint, the CFTC seeks restitution, disgorgement, civil monetary penalties and trading and registration bans. 

CFTC Director of Enforcement David Miller said in a statement that “the division is a cop on the beat in policing the illegal use of inside information in the prediction markets and other markets within the CFTC’s jurisdiction.”

Source: CFTC

“We will continue to take action to protect markets from insider trading and other forms of fraud, abuse and manipulation,” Miller added.

It comes after the Justice Department charged a US soldier in April with using classified information to place bets on the US capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Tyler Durden Thu, 05/28/2026 - 09:50

Jannik Sinner is stunningly out of the 2026 French Open in the second around after one of the all-time collapses in sports.

The first Manhattanhenge of 2026 returns this week to New York City.

The famous exes, who also co-parent Seraphina and Samuel, were all smiles helping their eldest child after she seemingly suffered an injury.

The famous exes, who also co-parent Seraphina and Samuel, were all smiles helping their eldest child after she seemingly suffered an injury.

New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye was in disbelief when he was asked about his thickness during a press conference Wednesday.

The four-year old “AI on the Lot” conference put on by LA-based group AI LA turned into the Amazon MGM show this week. Not only was the conference welcomed onto the tech giant’s Culver City-based studio lot — (we were told last year’s conference was relegated to the Culver Theater, owned by Amazon, but outside...

There was some real romance behind the scenes of Netflix's upcoming film “Positano," we hear. 

Did a top NBCUniversal executive orchestrate an alleged smear campaign against former “Real Housewives of New York” Leah McSweeney?

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