President Trump’s teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on more than a dozen of Trump’s speeches on the prediction market Kalshi, federal investigators with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

ABC News’ Katherine Faulders reports.

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It’s more than 100 degrees in Washington, D.C., on this July 4th.

ABC News’ Olivia Rubin is at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, where some visitors told ABC News they waited more than an hour to get inside the grounds.

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Video shows the moment a former U.S. soldier attempted to set fire to the federal building in New York, sending flames and smoke crawling up the facade in lower Manhattan.

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One person is dead and three others are missing after a boat with more than a dozen passengers aboard capsized and sank near Alcatraz Island on Tuesday, according to local authorities.

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U.S. forces completed a seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iran, U.S. Central Command announced. ABC News’ Steven Portnoy has the latest.

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