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Lottery Winner's Cottage Hid $400M Drug Empire; Trump Denies Nodding Off

Elderly Lottery Winner Sentenced for Bankrolling $400M Drug Operation

John Eric Spiby, an 80-year-old man who won the lottery in 2010, was sentenced to 16 years in prison in England for using his winnings to finance a drug empire worth up to $400 million, Greater Manchester Police announced Wednesday. Spiby operated the business from his cottage with his son, John Colin Spiby, 37, who received a nine-year sentence, according to Fox News.

The Spibys, along with two accomplices, ran a "fully industrialized drug manufacturing business capable of producing millions of counterfeit tablets containing a highly dangerous substance," stated Detective Inspector Alex Brown, according to Fox News. The investigation revealed the scale of the operation, which produced counterfeit pills worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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In other news, more than five years after President Trump lost the 2020 election, he and his administration are still pursuing baseless conspiracy theories in an attempt to prove otherwise, according to the NY Times. On Wednesday, F.B.I. agents in Georgia searched an election center in Fulton County, Ga., which includes Atlanta, for ballots and other voting records from the 2020 contest, the NY Times reported.

President Trump said on Thursday that he had appeared to be fighting sleep during a cabinet meeting last month because it got pretty boring, no offense, according to the NY Times. Mr. Trump, at the start of his first cabinet meeting of 2026, maintained that he had not actually fallen asleep at Decembers meeting, but that he had closed his eyes because I wanted to get the hell out of there. He added, I dont sleep much, let me tell you.

The Trump administration has suggested it is planning to "draw down" federal forces in Minnesota if there is cooperation from officials, after the fatal shootings of two US citizens in the state, according to BBC World. At a press conference in Minneapolis, White House Border Tsar Tom Homan vowed to continue the immigration enforcement operation, but added he wants "common sense cooperation that allows us to draw down on the number of people we have here"."We are not surrendering our mission at all. We're just doing it smarter," Homan said, according to BBC World.

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