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Prediction markets let people wager on just about anything — from basketball games to elections. And among more jarring bets recently, the fate of the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran. Shortly ahead of a fragile ceasefire agreement earlier this week, a new group of accounts on prediction market platform Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures against an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the U.S. said Thursday they settled the case with the Justice Department in a deal that would reverse some of the steps taken. The American Library Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal …
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — Gene Simmons visited Detroit Rock City on Thursday to celebrate the grand opening of a restaurant co-founded by him and his Kiss bandmate, Paul Stanley. “Everybody talks about Detroit, we owe our stuff to Detroit — first city that appreciated the band that I’m in,” Simmons said before cutting the …
PANAMA CITY, April 9 (Reuters) – Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday sought to calm tensions with China, striking a conciliatory tone a day after his foreign minister called out the Asian superpower for an increase in inspections of Panama-flagged vessels as a tit-for-tat response to China’s CK Hutchison losing its port concessions in …
Watch: NASA gives update ahead of Artemis II’s Friday splashdown – CBS News Watch CBS News Officials with NASA gave an update Thursday on the re-entry process for the Artemis II mission ahead of Friday’s planned splashdown.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday declared a 32-hour ceasefire in Ukraine over the Orthodox Easter weekend, following an earlier call from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a pause in some of the hostilities to observe the holiday. Putin’s decree, released by the Kremlin, orders Russian forces to observe a ceasefire starting at 4 p.m. …
While tax filing extensions are often positioned as a simple fallback, they’re not always the right move. Muhammad Aqib/Getty Images The tax filing season is reaching its peak, and for many taxpayers, the pressure to meet this year’s April deadline is colliding with incomplete paperwork, shifting income totals and lingering questions about what’s actually owed …
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man imprisoned for nearly 30 years before being exonerated won a landmark election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him. Now, Louisiana’s Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in. Calvin Duncan won 68% …
In early 2026, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department took an unusually rapid approach to animal welfare enforcement, as part of her push to use the criminal justice system to crack down on animal cruelty. Around New Year’s Eve, Bondi received a voicemail and a text from her friend Lauree Simmons, the founder of the …
A 14-year-old high school freshman is on Vermont’s gubernatorial ballot. The Iran War’s supply-chain disruptions mean less fluoride in drinking water for millions in the D.C. area. Iowa House Republicans consider using artificial intelligence to find government savings. A billboard backlash in Washington. As we mention here regularly, Decision Points primarily focuses on national and …