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Former Fort Bragg employee charged with leaking classified military information to journalist

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A former Fort Bragg employee with top-secret clearance is accused of leaking classified military tactics to a journalist, then admitting to her mother that she could be arrested for exposing sensitive operations, according to a federal complaint.. Courtney P. Williams,40, an Army veteran assigned to a Special Military Unit (SMU) at Fort Bragg in North Carolina,was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with unlawfully transmitting national defense information, including classified tactics used in covert missions, to an investigative reporter over a period spanning several years, federal prosecutors allege.. According to the complaint, Williams held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance and had direct access to highly sensitive operational details, including tactics, techniques and procedures — commonly known as TTPs — used by elite military units.. Williams allegedly violated 18 U.S.C. § 793(d) the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a news release Wednesday.. Investigators allege that between 2022 and 2025, Williams communicated extensively with a journalist, including phone calls lasting hundreds of minutes and roughly 180 text messages, while also sending documents and materials that were later published in an article and book identifying her as the source.. OUSTED HEGSETH AIDE RESURFACES IN INTEL ROLE AS IRAN WAR SPARKS INTERNAL STRAIN. FBI Director Kash Patel took to X on Wednesday after the arrest, saying the Bureau “will not tolerate” leakers of classified intel.. “Let this serve as a message to any would-be leakers: we’re working these cases, and we’re making arrests,” Patel wrote. “This FBI will not tolerate those who seek to betray our country and put Americans in harm’s way.”. The Associated Press reported that while the journalist is not named in the court filings, “dates and details match” both an article and book written by Seth Harp about the Army’s Delta Force.. An excerpt from Harp’s book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel” was published in Politico’s magazine last August under the title, “My Life Became a Living Hell: One Woman’s Career in Delta Force, the Army’s Most Elite Unit,” featuring Williams’ testimonials alleging sexual harassment while serving.. Harp released a statement to WRAL-TV about Williams, calling her a “brave whistleblower and truth-teller,” despite reported reservations she shared with the journalist after the book was published.. “Former Delta Force operators disclose `national defense information’ on podcasts and YouTube shows every day, but the government is going after Courtney for the sole reason that she exposed sexual harassment and gender discrimination in the unit. This is a vindictive act of retaliation, plain and simple,” Harp’s statement read.. The published materials, according to the government, contained classified information at the “SECRET” level with “NOFORN” restrictions, meaning it was not authorized for r  

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Weekly sports quiz: How much does a javelin cost?

​ByJoe Rindl. BBC Sport journalist. 30 minutes ago. 2 Comments. So much has happened over the past seven days, including javelin calamities, FA Cup quarter-finals and boxing knockouts.. About 12% of quizzers got full marks in last week’s edition. Will you make the grade this week?. After more quizzes? Go to our dedicated Football Quizzes and Sports Quizzes pages and sign up for notifications to get the latest quizzes sent straight to your device.. [embedded content]. What information do we collect from this quiz?. Play more quizzes. Quiz: Name every team who has played in the Premier League. 2 March. Can you name every FA Cup winner?. 16 February. Can you name every Women’s League Cup finalist?. 22 March. Can you name every player with 100 Premier League goals?. 23 February. Can you name every team to have played in the WSL?. 9 September 2025. Quiz: Can you name every EFL Cup winner?. 22 March. Check out our Sports Quizzes page. Fancy testing your memory? Play last week’s quiz.. Let us know your score and thoughts in the comments below – and be wary, it might contain spoilers!  

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Michigan woman arrested for allegedly starving, torturing disabled sister-in-law she locked in basement

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A Michigan woman was arrested and hit with felony charges after she allegedly kept her disabled sister-in-law locked in a basement for two years, where she nearly starved the victim to death and blasted a radio non-stop.. Tasha Beamon, 48, was charged with vulnerable adult abuse and unlawful imprisonment.. The victim managed to escape the basement and broke a neighbor’s window on March 15 as she sought to enter the home, alert police and flee captivity, according to MLive.. The neighbor called 911 and the victim told police that Beamon, the wife of the 58-year-old victim’s late brother, was holding her captive in the Saginaw home’s basement for two years before she found a way to free herself.. TWO ARRESTED IN NC AFTER POLICE FIND 13-YEAR-OLD KEPT IN DOG KENNEL, 5 OTHER KIDS IN ‘FILTHY’ HOME. “She told officers she was not fed very often and that she didn’t have any access to water,” Saginaw Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Doud told the outlet.. The victim said Beamon had kept her on an old mattress since March 2024 with a nearby radio constantly blaring.. Police went to Beamon’s house and observed a lock on the basement door, a mattress on the floor and a radio playing loudly. Police also said there was a 5-gallon bucket of urine in the basement.. “Usually, somebody was there. She didn’t believe anyone was home at the time, so she was able to force a door open and escape,” Doud said.. Emergency responders transported the woman to a hospital, where she was treated for severe malnourishment. Hospital staff told police the woman would likely die if she were discharged.. The neighbor told ABC 12 that he was shocked to find the victim suddenly in his living room with a metal pipe “almost as big as she is.”. “I don’t even know how she had the power to even break the window,” the man said. “I thought she was like 78. She was tall, skin and bones.”. “She asks me to call the cops at first, which was weird. But that was the first thing she said to me: Call the cops,” he added.. WISCONSIN COUPLE ALLEGEDLY STARVED SIX CHILDREN FOR YEARS, FORCING THEM TO EAT MOLD, BUGS AND DOG FOOD. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. Beamon later admitted to police that she kept the woman in her house without allowing her to leave. She also made 40 calls to the hospital where her sister-in-law was staying.. Investigators suspect that Beamon was keeping the woman captive to collect her disability payments, Doud said.. Beamon was arrested on April 2 and booked into the Saginaw County Jail on $100,000 bond, the amount ordered after prosecutors described her as a danger to the public.. She will appear for a preliminary examination on April 20.  

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Cooper to urge full and toll-free reopening of Strait of Hormuz

 Cooper to urge full and toll-free reopening of Strait of Hormuz. 7 minutes ago. Jack Fenwick,Political correspondentand. Tabby Wilson. EPA. The foreign secretary will call for the Strait of Hormuz to be fully reopened later on Thursday after ships in the Gulf were warned by the Iranian navy that those without permission to pass through faced attack.. In her annual speech on UK foreign policy priorities, Yvette Cooper will also call for Lebanon to be included in the US and Israel’s ceasefire agreement with Iran.. Cooper will add there cannot “be any place for tolls on an international waterway” as ships face uncertainty on possibly making payments to Iran to secure safe passage.. Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Abu Dhabi on the second day of his trip to the Gulf amid signs the ceasefire agreement is coming under strain.. Follow live updates on this story. Why the Strait of Hormuz matters so much in the Iran war. Starmer says much work remains to make US-Iran ceasefire hold. ‘Even if Iran war ends now, farmers’ costs will have to be passed on’. Why fuel and food prices could still be affected for months. On Wednesday night, Sir Keir also met the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who agreed on the need for a lasting peace.. This evening, Cooper is expected to say that the war has affected “every country on every continent”, driving up food and petrol prices in the UK.. She will call for shipping in the Strait of Hormuz to be toll-free and unhindered after reports that vessels could be forced to make payments to Iran in exchange for safe passage.. Ministers accept the real decisions lie in the hands of the US and Israel – and the foreign secretary will call on them to include Lebanon in the ceasefire deal.. “There is considerable work to do and we support the negotiations,” Cooper will say, outlining that there must be no return to conflict.. She will emphasise that the Strait or Hormuz must reopen as the “deliberate blocking of this critical artery of the global economy” is affecting British people, despite being more than 3,000 miles away.. “This is an international shipping route, a transit route for the High Seas,” Cooper will add.. “No country can close these routes – it goes against the fundamental principles of the law of the sea.”. The foreign secretary will also visit the International Maritime Organization on Thursday in a show of support for the organisation’s efforts to help ships and seafarers currently trapped in the waterway.. “The full and unconditional re-opening of the Strait must be a central part not just of the current ceasefire but of the long term future for the region,” she will reiterate.. Last week, the UK chaired talks involving more than 40 countries on how to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, with all participants agreeing that the war had to end first.. Cooper said Iran had been able to “hijack” the international shipping route to “hold the global economy hostage” following the virtual summit, which the US was not in 

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‘I don’t know how this happened’ – Bell on leading England’s attack

​Image source, Getty Images. ByMatthew Henry. BBC Sport journalist. 18 minutes ago. Time has moved fast for England bowler Lauren Bell.. There was a breakout in the first season of The Hundred in 2021, before England debuts the following year, and three World Cups and two Ashes series since.. Becoming a £140,000 signing in The Hundred and a Women’s Premier League winner with Royal Challengers Bengaluru helped boost her Instagram following to 2.2m – more than Joe Root and Harry Brook combined – and she has become an increasingly senior member of England’s side.. A position that was filled by iconic seamers Anya Shrubsole and Katherine Brunt, and latterly by Kate Cross, is now Bell’s.. Aged 25, she is the leader of England’s pace attack.. “I hadn’t really comprehended the fact that maybe I was,” Bell tells BBC Sport.. “With Crossy leaving, Katherine and Anya, slowly I just filled into that spot and I guess now I am.. “It does feel crazy.. “I don’t know where the time has gone or how this has happened.. “It is exciting and cool and a job that I really love.”. England appoint Smith as spin-bowling coach. 6 days ago. England fitness issues put to bed – Edwards. 30 March. Bell’s ascension was accelerated by England dropping seamer Cross last summer.. It left Bell as the most experienced of a pace group that includes Issy Wong and Lauren Filer, plus all-rounders Danielle Gibson, Em Arlott and Freya Kemp.. “I played a lot with Crossy,” says Bell.. “She was like a big sister when I came to England and took me under her wing.. “I would still go to her with anything if I was struggling.”. Bell’s role as a senior player has come to the fore since Christmas, despite England’s lack of competitive matches since their 50-over World Cup campaign ended in the semi-finals in October in India.. In their place, coach Charlotte Edwards took a 30-strong group to South Africa, the established internationals plus a smattering of the best youngsters, and split the players into two squads for a five-match series which marked the start of the serious build-up to this this summer’s T20 World Cup at home.. Edwards has since likened the quality to full internationals.. “It was a really exciting camp,” Bell says.. “We had a meeting and plan at the start and Lot [Edwards] said we want it to be as competitive as it can possibly be.. “Playing against your team-mates and friends, you do have that extra bit of competitiveness and it is really hard because they know exactly what you are thinking.”. Image source, Tom Shaw/ECB. England’s players have further T20 camps over the coming weeks, as well as their fitness testing which Edwards introduced after taking over last year – a topic much discussed after criticism during last year’s Ashes but former captain Edwards believes has now been put to bed by improvements.. Around those camps, Bell, whose Hampshire side play Essex on Saturday, and England’s other players, will be made available for the early rounds of the domestic 50-over comp  

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Thunder see off Clippers to seal Western top spot

​Image source, Getty Images. ByElizabeth Botcherby. BBC Sport journalist. 1 hour ago. Defending champions Oklahoma City Thunder clinched top spot in the Western Conference and home court advantage through the NBA play-offs with a 128-110 win against the Los Angeles Clippers.. The comfortable victory ensured the Thunder held off the San Antonio Spurs to secure the NBA’s best regular-season record of 64-16 and claim the Western Conference’s number one seed for the third consecutive season.. Thunder’s Chet Holmgren led the way with 30 points and 14 rebounds while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander contributed 20 points and 11 assists to extend his record for the most consecutive games with 20 or more points to 140.. The Clippers, who had won eight of their past nine matches, face a key trip to Portland Trail Blazers on Friday with the two sides battling for eighth place in the Western Conference.. The team that finishes in eighth will only require one win in the play-in tournament to advance to the play-offs, while the team finishing ninth will have to beat 10th seeds the Golden State Warriors and the loser of the seventh against eighth match to keep their season alive.. Elsewhere, the San Antonio Spurs beat the Trail Blazers 112-101 to extend their record in their past 20 games to 18-2. Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox starred with 25 points, five rebounds, and seven assists.. The Denver Nuggets won their 10th consecutive match to tighten their grip on third place in the Western Conference. Jamal Murray scored a team-high 26 points in the 136-119 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.. The Atlanta Hawks failed to guarantee a play-off spot after losing 122-116 to the Cleveland Cavaliers but can still secure a top-six finish in the Eastern Conference with victory in one of their final two regular-season matches.. Eastern Conference top seeds Detroit Pistons demolished the Milwaukee Bucks 137-111 while the Orlando Magic beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 132-120.. Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker scored 37 points in 37 minutes to lead his side to a 112-107 win over the Dallas Mavericks.. Related topics. Basketball  

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