Who will win 2026 Ballon d'Or Feminin? Clear favourite emerges ahead of ceremony There is a clear favourite for the 2026 Ballon d’Or Féminin Evening Standard · 23h ago
Attention LaMelo Ball: only losers boast about avoiding diaper duty The basketball star seems proud to leave the job to his partner. That’s so last century The Guardian - US · Oct 24
'Existential Threat': Prediction Market Firms Pour $5M Into Politics as Regulators Close In Kalshi and Polymarket have given at least $5 million to US political groups as state and federal regulators contest where prediction markets can operate. International Business Times UK · Oct 23
Ramaswamy sees betting odds plummet over controversial ad using opponent’s mother Amy Acton, Ramaswamy’s Democratic rival in Ohio’s race for governor, has called her estranged mother ‘abusive’ The Independent UK · Oct 21
Polymarket Pulled a $451K Assault Case Bet — Now Celebrity Endorsers Face the Backlash Polymarket removed a $451K rape case betting market after backlash — now LeBron James and its celebrity campaign face uncomfortable questions. Latin Times · Oct 21
Texas Police Say Being 'Bizarre' Is Not a Crime After Biden-Masked Man Shows up Eating Banana at Family's Door Police in Watauga, Texas, found no evidence of a crime after doorbell footage showed an unidentified person in a Biden-style mask eating a banana outside a family's home. International Business Times UK · Oct 21
Trump Reportedly Wants Reporters Out So Badly He May Replace the Historic White House Press Room With a Pool The White House has declined to rule out moving reporters from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and restoring the historic indoor pool built for Franklin D. Roosevelt. International Business Times UK · Oct 21
Polymarket halts bets on fate of Cornell students accused of gang rape A woman identified in court documents by the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month alleging that seven fraternity members sexually assaulted or exploited her in October 2024 The Independent UK · Oct 20
Polymarket removes contract allowing users to wager on fate of Cornell students accused of rape Polymarket has removed a contract from its prediction market platform that allowed users to wager on whether any of the seven men accused of raping a Cornell student in 2024 will be charged with a felony sex crime The Independent UK · Oct 20
Rays vs Brewers World Series Polymarket Prediction Payout: Value Gauge Polymarket leans on the Milwaukee Brewers over the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series. Sports Illustrated · Oct 20
Kalshi vs Polymarket: Which Site Has a Better Super Bowl Payout Potential? Super Bowl prices differ between Kalshi and Polymarket. The 49ers, Chiefs, Ravens, Rams, and Bills all sit at the top of the board. Sports Illustrated · Oct 19
Brutal First Runoff Debate Between Lula and Bolsonaro Shows How Brazil's Election Could Reshape the Americas Brazil's first runoff debate aired Oct. 18 on Band TV. Rare earths, Trump ties, and a $2T debt divide Flávio and Lula before the Oct. 25 vote. Latin Times · Oct 19
Traders Give Google a 70% Chance of Having the Best AI Model. Most People Can’t Even Use It Yet. Google may have a high chance of having the best AI model this month, but its lead rests on Gemini 4 Argon, a model few people can use yet. Barchart · Oct 19
Players are experiencing safety threats from ‘vitriol’ of prediction market users, 11x WNBA All-Star Nneka Ogwumike warns “It’s not a safe place for athletes,” Ogwumike, the president of the WNBA Players Association, told Fortune. Fortune · Oct 16
Sports Illustrated · Oct 16 Polymarket NFL Prediction Market for Packers-Cowboys The Green Bay Packers are favored over the Dallas Cowboys on Polymarket for Sunday Night Football.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 15 Kalshi vs Polymarket for Seahawks-Broncos: Which is Offering the Better Market? Both Kalshi and Polymarket are leaning on the Seattle Seahawks to win Thursday Night Football in Week 6.
We Got This Covered · Oct 14 Polymarket opens betting on when White House press secretary Katie Zacharia will be fired after her first briefing: ‘a train wreck’ 'What's the over/under that she doesn't last a Scaramucci?'
Sports Illustrated · Oct 14 Polymarket World Series Market Flips: New Favorite on Top for First Time All Season Polymarket leans on the Milwaukee Brewers to win the World Series for the first time this season.
International Business Times UK · Oct 14 Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Faces Exit Bets After Disastrous Debut as Polymarket Traders Eye Her Ouster Katie Zacharia faces early exit speculation after a rocky White House debut, as prediction-market traders invoke Anthony Scaramucci's infamous short tenure.
The Independent UK · Oct 14 Bets open on when Trump’s new press secretary will be fired after disastrous debut IN FULL
Fortune · Oct 12 Most Americans oppose election betting. Prediction-market odds are coming to their TVs anyway. Networks are adding prediction-market prices to their midterm coverage, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows most of the public draws a line at wagering on politics.
The Guardian - AU · Oct 12 A handful of fans but $350K in bets: low-stakes cricket match exposes new threat to Australian sport Millions of dollars are being wagered via largely unregulated overseas sports prediction platforms, prompting legal experts and law enforcement to meet this week in Melbourne
The Guardian - UK · Oct 12 Nobel prize for economics awarded to two Americans, Hall and Woodford, for work on New Keynesian models – as it happened The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford for developing the “microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”
The Guardian - US · Oct 10 LeBron James is everything Philadelphia wants. And everything it can’t stand The city has embraced its new superstar with open arms, even as he choppers in from Manhattan and makes no secret of the fact that Philadelphia was never his first choice
The Guardian - US · Oct 9 Targeting Trump: how Democrats plan to investigate the president if they win Congress Control of Congress after the 2026 midterm elections would give Democrats power to subpoena documents and testimony