Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers.

I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it sparkled on their tongues. The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. The editor-in-chief once told us that the geographic distribution of our subscribers was nearly identical to Obama’s 2008 electoral map. Wherever I went in New York, I saw white people of nearly every description carrying the magazine’s tote bag around like a talisman, though what they thought they were warding against, exactly, I’m not sure. At work, it was surprising to be surrounded by demonstrably smart people who believed, for example, that Donald Trump’s election was somehow surprising, that meaningful wealth redistribution was beyond the political pale, or that individual human beings, and not systems, were history’s main actors. The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them. I insulated myself from this flavor of stupidity by rigorously avoiding news stories, though I knew that one day some Muslims who hated the West would kill some Westerners and I would have to bite my tongue and check some pieces that implied, but never outright stated, that Arabs were predisposed to bloodlust. I hated the West, too. I hated how Westerners were always asking to itemize the bill at dinner, how they never took enough responsibility for, say, inventing fascism and nuclear weapons, or for instigating the Bengal famine. They fought in stilted HR-speak, and shoved bland food into ruddy, clammy faces. My hatred never reached the level of murderousness, though it did put me in a tricky position. I couldn’t “go home” because I had no “home” to go back to; Egypt, where my family lived, was languishing under high inflation and military dictatorship, while the Emirates, where I’d grown up, was a land of indentured servitude. Besides, I wanted to become a novelist, and novelists lived in New York.

Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

New observations of a brown dwarf nicknamed The Accident, which is about 50 light-years from Earth, have found a cloud-forming molecule that hasn’t been seen on any other brown dwarf, exoplanet, or solar system object to date, helping scientists understand the hidden chemistry of Jupiter and Saturn and possibly other gas giant worlds. The discovery—detailed in the journal Nature and led by Associate Curator Jackie Faherty in the Museum’s Department of Astrophysics—shows evidence of a simple silicon molecule called silane. One of the most common elements in the universe, and thought to be key to the formation of clouds on gas giants, silane has gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn and in planets like them around other stars.

Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.

Stephen Wilkins pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2023 killing of Patricia Hall, a tenant he was trying to force out of his East Germantown property.

Man accused in killing of Brian Thompson will not face state charges of first- and second-degree murder but will still face other charges

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Investigators are searching for a man they say robbed a popular Disney Springs restaurant by swimming up in scuba gear and a wetsuit and then swimming away after he stole thousands of dollars. The robber hit the Paddlefish restaurant shortly after midnight Monday, after it closed to guests, according to a report released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

A massive photo of U.S. President Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was placed on the lawn outside Windsor Castle, where Trump is scheduled to stay Tuesday night as part of a state visit to the U.K. The British activist group Everyone Hates Elon claimed responsibility for the stunt in a post on Instagram. “Trump is coming to the UK to AVOID the EPSTEIN story,” the group posted alongside footage of the 400-square-metre banner being unveiled on Monday. “Unfortunately the British public just crowdfunded the WORLD’S BIGGEST PHOTO of Donald with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.”

This incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US

Many South Korean Ultium Cells employees in Spring Hill leave the country after Hyundai raid in southern Georgia.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.

'Fox and Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested euthanizing unhoused people with mental health issues who decline help, saying, 'Just kill 'em.'

Fourteen staff members at a US animal shelter have been taken to hospital after the FBI used an incinerator at the facility to burn two pounds of seized methamphetamine. Staff and some 75 cats and dogs were evacuated from the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter in Billings, Montana, when the building filled with smoke on Wednesday. The incinerator is usually used by animal control officers to dispose of euthanised animals, but local authorities said it can also be used by law enforcement to burn seized narcotics.

[CW photos/video of murder victim] Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

The sex offender was worth $600m when he died, but exactly how he acquired his wealth remains a mystery

The county health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.

Banning order comes after multiple complaints from residents of apartment block about feathers and droppings

Human rights report highlights crackdown on personal freedoms in most restrictive country in the world