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Federal regulators have opened an inquiry into so-called "mention markets" on prediction market sites, where people bet millions of dollars on what a speaker may or may not utter.
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Feds probe 'mention markets' amid White House Kalshi controversy
Bobby Allyn
Betting on what people say is becoming an increasingly popular category of prediction market sites. Now, federal officials have opened a probe examining whether those markets are a magnet for manipulators.
A photo of the exterior of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in June. For months, a tarp has covered the arts complex's facade, ever since a federal judge ruled that President Trump's name was unlawfully added to the center.
Alex Wroblewski
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AFP via Getty Images
Kennedy Center Board votes again to shut main building down — and add Trump's name back
Anastasia Tsioulcas
Actor Colman Domingo jumps at a challenge. "I love that things are coming to me right now," he says. "Opportunities to do things I've never done before ... I'm a 'say yes' person."
Emma McIntyre
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Getty Images for SCAD
'I'm a say yes person': Actor Colman Domingo is up for new challenges
Tonya Mosley
Luigi Mangione appears for a pretrial hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Aug. 11.
Steven Hirsch
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Pool New York Post
Mangione could plead guilty in federal case ahead of N.Y. murder trial
Brian Mann
Texas Standard
Officials say data centers can boost local economies. In Abilene, they have spurred a housing crisis
Abilene was sold on promises that data centers would transform their local economy. But some residents are wondering when the benefits will come.
Big tech’s data center PR problem
Meet Cooper Lutkenhaus, North Texas’ teenage track prodigy
Migrant kids are often being held in a South Texas detention center five times longer than a court order allows
Macro de besouro-tartaruga (Cassidinae, Stolas cf. conspersa) azul e laranja, no Parque Estadual da Serra do Papagaio, Vale do Matutu, Aiuruoca, MG
This beautiful beetle has some unique habits worth trying to spot
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