Mysterious drones have been reported near military bases in Hawaii and by installations in Utah, California, Maine and Florida — among other facilities scattered throughout the country.

The Post previously identified 19 military bases that lie close to farmland bought up by Chinese-owned companies — a situation that has worried China analysts, who feared the Communist country would use the land to spy on US military operations.

All of those facilities apart from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis in Texas had reports of drones either attempting to fly over their bases or nearby, according to local reports.

It comes as residents in New York and New Jersey have reported thousands of sightings of unexplained mystery drones in the night skies. […]

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“We want answers but the response I’m getting is we don’t know whose drones these are,” McCaul (R-Texas) told reporters before executive-branch officials offered a classified briefing to members of the House intelligence committee.

“I was with the NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, he said that these drones have been reported over military sites, military bases. I would not think those are friendly. I would think those are adversarial,” McCaul said.

“We need to identify who is behind these drones,” he said. “My judgment based on my experience is that those that are over our military sites are adversarial and most likely are coming from the People’s Republic of China.”

“I believe they’re spy drones and the PRC and communist China is very good at this stuff. We know they bought land around military bases. This would be very consistent with their policy over the past couple years,” McCaul added. […]

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The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it “one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed” in her 20 years of reporting.

But “independent and unbiased” fact-checkers Verify-Sy published a detailed report Sunday saying that the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian air force intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.

“We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity,” CNN acknowledged to The Post. “We are continuing our reporting into this and the wider story.”

The CNN story last week showed Ward and a camera crew, escorted by a rebel fighter, visiting a former Syrian air force intelligence headquarters in Damascus and freeing the man who was found under a blanket locked in a windowless cell. […]

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A sultry 23-year-old Colombian woman known as “The Doll” and labeled a “dangerous hitwoman” was arrested in connection to several targeted gangland killings — including the recent ambush murder of her ex-lover, according to local reports.

Karen Julieth Ojeda Rodriguez — known to police by the alias “La Muneca” (“The Doll”) — was cuffed for her alleged involvement in several high-profile murders in the municipality of Barrancabermeja allegedly carried out at the behest of the Los de la M gang, Spanish-language outlet Libertad Digital reported Thursday.

Rodriguez was reportedly in the midst of a career expansion, leading a small cadre of hitmen conducting a reign of terror in the region prior to her arrest, according to a report from Spanish outlet Infobae.

Rodriguez was picked up by police after the July 23 ambush assassination of her ex-boyfriend in a rural area of Colombia known as Piedecuesta, according to Magdalena Medio police.

The femme fatale called her ex, Deyvy Jesus, and invited him to meet so the two could supposedly resolve a money dispute, police said.

But the unsuspecting beau was riddled with bullets when two men drove by on a motorcycle, allegedly at the behest of “The Doll,” the report recounted.

Rodriguez was arrested alongside an accomplice, Paula Valentina Joya Rueda, 24, who is known under the alias “Gorda Sicaria” (“Fat Hitwoman”), according to Libertad Digital.

Another accomplice, identified as “Leopoldo,” was taken into custody at the same time as “The Doll” — with police saying they seized a revolver and a 9-millimeter pistol during the arrest. […]

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Thompson — who was killed in what police called a targeted shooting outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown — exercised stock options and sold shares worth $15.1 million on Feb. 16, less than two weeks before news of the federal antitrust probe went public, according to a Crain’s New York Business report from April.

The stock price dropped sharply after the revelation that the DOJ was investigating whether the company had made acquisitions that consolidated its market position in violation of antitrust laws, a source familiar with the probe told the outlet.

Thompson’s stock options reportedly had several years until expiration, and the sale of shares was his first since assuming the helm of parent company UnitedHealth’s insurance division in 2021.

Thompson, 50, along with UnitedHealth Group chairman Stephen Helmsley, Chief People Officer Erin McSweeney and Chief Accounting Officer Tom Roos, sold a combined $101.5 million in shares, with Helmsley personally netting just shy of $85 million, according to the report. […]

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The unidentified general was reportedly wounded in a military strike in Russia’s Kursk region, officials told the Wall Street Journal.

It’s not exactly clear how or when he was wounded.

Some 10,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to the front in Kursk, where Russia has suffered heavy losses of late forcing back Ukrainian troops who launched a massive offensive there and reclaimed much territory in August.

North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un could deploy as many as 100,000 troops to assist Russia in the war, which could bolster Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fighting force by 20%. […]

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Brandon Simosa, 25, who has apparent ties to the vicious prison gang, was nabbed outside the Row Hotel migrant shelter in Midtown Manhattan Tuesday night over the sick ordeal, the sources said.

He is accused of robbing the 38-year-old assistant district attorney when she arrived home to her 44th Street pad at about 2 a.m. Sunday and busted him midway through the lewd act in the building’s hallway.

Simosa, who was hit with a slew of charges — including sexually motivated robbery, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property — was spotted smirking as he was hauled away in handcuffs by cops ahead of his pending arraignment Wednesday.

It wasn’t immediately clear when Simosa arrived in the Big Apple, or where he’d been living. At one point, one of his addresses was listed as one of the city’s taxpayer-funded migrant shelter in Queens, sources said. […]

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That, at least, is what the FBI raid against Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan looks like.

At 6 a.m. Wednesday, agents stormed his home to demand his phone and other devices.

Was the Polymarket raid a political hit?

Why? Officially, as part of a criminal probe into the platform for allowing US users to bet on politics via VPN, in contravention of a previous agreement Polymarket made with regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

That, at least, is what the FBI raid against Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan looks like. […]

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Men are breathing a sigh of relief, as this self-defeating gesture by the Trump-deranged bodes well for natural selection, especially since conservative women are having more babies.

But the joke is on the Trump-hating femmes. It was supposed to be the gender gap election, which women would win for Democrats because more of them vote.

Kamala “Brat” Harris was banking on the sisters to make her the first female president in history.

Except that’s not what happened. Women do historically vote Democrat, but this time Harris did worse with the female vote than both her Democratic predecessors — five points worse than Joe Biden and three points worse than Hillary Clinton. […]

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The 40-year-old upstate Republican, who helped force out two Ivy League presidents with her sharp questioning on campus antisemitism, will the lead Trump’s “America first” and pro-Israel message in Turtle Bay.

“I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter,” Trump, 78, said in a statement to The Post Sunday night.

Stefanik, the No. 4 House Republican, has been a close Trump ally, including serving on his ceremonial defense team in 2020 during his first impeachment trial for pressuring Ukraine to investigate alleged Biden family corruption.

The Harvard grad worked to turn the tables on what she called the “Biden Crime Family” and has regularly appeared on TV to drive home the Republican positions on issues — setting up a likely a contrast from the outgoing UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who rarely courted media attention. […]

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