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CNN has opened up a Pandora’s box that’s worse than any fake news hoax the outlet could ever possibly peddle. On Tuesday, the network announced an “official partnership” with the online platform Kalshi, which allows users to wager on anything from a sports game to whether J.D. Vance will be the GOP nominee in 2028, to how much money Darth Vader’s lightsaber will fetch at auction. Kalshi is a “prediction market,” and users are trading “contracts” on future events. So, somehow, it is legally distinct from gambling. “As part of the partnership, CNN will get access to Kalshi’s data through...

Warning: Winning a superbowl maybe hazordous to your Gov. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review One look at what the elected officials have wagered on their state's Super Bowl representative provides the answer. If the Steelers triumph over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL a week from today, Gregoire will send Rendell a bushel of Washington apples, some Seattle clam chowder and an apple and apricot candy known as applets and cotlets in the Pacific Northwest. Should the Seahawks win, Rendell will provide Gregoire what can only be described as an artery-clogging array of victuals. We can only imagine the horror on

The organizers of the Long Bets foundation ask you to come up with a claim about the future and $1,000.00 to kick it off.Others can then make counter bets: all porceeds go to charity.Some of the more intriguing bets:By 2030 commerical airliners will routinely fly in pilotless planes.The universe will eventually stop expandingAt least one human born in the year 2000 will still be alive in 2150.