Minnesota's prediction market ban tests Kalshi, Polymarket, CFTC rules, state gambling laws, and user risk for 2026.

Welcome to the final edition of The Alternative Premier League Table in 2025-26, where each week, The Athletic has analysed ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Billions of dollars are changing hands each week on prediction markets, sites whose ...

XRP is trading above $1.42 and has held this level over the last week. The coin briefly traded above $1.50 on May 10, but selling pressure at the $1.44-$1.45 zone pulled XRP back to its current price.

Max Meizlish and I argued in these pages in February that prediction markets had become an intelligence asset, vulnerable to insider trading by those with classified knowledge of future events. Two ...

Gen Z and millennials are far more likely to get into prediction markets than their elders, but there's a good chance many aren't making money on the platforms. Nearly a third of Gen Zers (32%) and ...

The Senate unanimously agreed to a resolution Thursday barring its members from trading on prediction markets in the face of growing concerns about insider trading on the platforms. The resolution, ...

More than $2 billion in bets have been wagered globally related to the Iran war on Polymarket — the world’s largest prediction market — an NBC News analysis revealed. Subscribe to read this story ...

Prediction markets are being touted on social media as a lucrative side hustle for young Americans squeezed by rent and student loan bills. In reality, most traders are losing money, and a significant ...

The top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder look to complete the four-game sweep when they visit the eighth-seeded Phoenix Suns in Game 4 of their Western Conference first-round playoff matchup on Monday ...

A soldier betting on an operation to oust Venezuela's leader. Politicians gambling on their own elections. Massive bets on the president announcing a ceasefire with Iran right before he actually did.

Polymarket takes over a local bar for a pop-up experience in D.C. on March 20. (Alex Kent/For the Washington Post) Prediction markets are not a new idea. They existed five centuries ago, when people ...