Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polymarket advertisements predict a victory for Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election in November 2025. (Olga ...

The significant boom of prediction markets is pushing U.S. elections into uncharted territory, prompting concern and scrutiny about the risks and regulation of betting on political outcomes. Kalshi, ...

State laws on election betting could be a problem for prediction markets, particularly with the approaching midterms in the fall. As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, Wisconsin regulators have ...

Arrests for betting on the U.S. military operation that removed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Death threats from gamblers to a journalist reporting on an Iranian missile attack on Israel. Fears of ...