At least four people have died in flooding in the US state of Kentucky, according to local authorities, after torrential rains caused rivers to burst their banks and submerged homes. Emergency services declared a state of emergency and evacuated more than 60 residents; several victims were trapped in flooded basements. The death toll remains provisional as rescue teams continue to search affected areas.

On the same day, the CBS programme 60 Minutes broadcast two investigations that cast light on the intersection of conflict, crime and cultural plunder. One segment detailed Cambodia’s 14-year effort to recover thousands of sacred stone, bronze and gold artefacts looted from temples during decades of genocide, civil war and political instability. American lawyer Brad Gordon, who works for the Cambodian government, described the pieces as “blood antiquities”, telling the programme that people were killed over the objects. The investigation traced a network of thefts, many allegedly orchestrated by the late British dealer Douglas Latchford, to prestigious museums and private collections in the United States. Cambodian officials regard the statues as living deities; Culture Minister Phoeurng Sackona said the government is committed to bringing them home.

A second 60 Minutes report examined a new form of insider trading: wagers placed on online prediction markets concerning US military operations. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged an Army master sergeant, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, with using classified intelligence to bet on the timing of the January raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The soldier allegedly netted more than $400,000. The case, described by a former Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawyer as an unprecedented betrayal of trust, has raised questions in Washington about the regulation of platforms such as Polymarket, where users can bet on dates of attack or the fate of world leaders.

Elsewhere, the CBS weekend news bulletin reported that three firefighters were killed battling a wildfire on the Colorado-Utah border, and that the death toll from earthquakes in Venezuela had surpassed 1,400. The Kentucky flooding, the wildfire and the Venezuela quake toll are all based on provisional figures, with investigations and recovery efforts continuing across multiple states and countries.