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Meta is planning to release its own prediction market app to compete with popular sites like Kalshi and Polymarket.
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Meta plans to release AI-powered prediction market app, documents show
Bobby Allyn
The company is building an app separate from Facebook and Instagram where people can wager on the outcome of real-world events, using "play money."
A tarp covers the facade of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on June 13. A federal judge has asked the arts complex's leadership to explain the purpose of the tarp and the surrounding scaffolding.
Alex Wroblewski
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A judge says the Kennedy Center must update him on its plans — and address that tarp
Anastasia Tsioulcas
U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Marc Jacques makes a delivery in Miami in March.
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Postal Service says its cash crisis is delayed until at least 2031, but problems loom
Hansi Lo Wang
Texas state Rep. Nate Schatzline is seen during a committee hearing on Oct. 21, 2024.
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Will Texas' new top voting official be a 'disruptor'? Locals are preparing for it
Miles Parks
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Maternal healthcare ‘deserts’ leave thousands of Texas women to their own devices
Cash-strapped rural hospitals in East Texas and beyond are closing their labor-and-delivery units.
Camp Mystic files for bankruptcy after months of investigations, lawsuits on flood deaths
Introducing ‘After the Flood,’ a podcast about the 2025 disaster in the Texas Hill Country
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Texas Standard for June 24, 2026: The growing challenge of maternal healthcare deserts
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