LAS VEGAS — Nevada gaming regulators say they have reached an agreement with a leading prediction market that prevents it from writing contracts involving sports results, elections or entertainment-related propositions.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board late Friday announced that it had reached an agreement with New York-based Kalshi to stop ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket notched an early legal victory Monday in fighting a state law meant to ban Minnesotans from making certain wagers.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez granted a preliminary injunction that pauses the state law banning the markets temporarily while legal challenges brought by ...Read more

The United Kingdom shared its “Stone Cloak” technology capable of jamming Russian air defense systems with Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy became the first foreign leader to visit Britain for talks with new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Burnham told broadcasters that the meeting aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen ...Read more

NEW YORK — The family of a teenage tourist killed in a Central Park horse carriage crash said Monday during a memorial for the victim that it plans to sue the city over the teenager’s.death.

Romanch Mahajan’s family has already expressed public support for a legislative bid to ban the carriages in New York City after Mahajan fell from a ...Read more

WINDSOR, Canada — Motorists driving over the Gordie Howe International Bridge Monday were bored — but in a good way.

Gone was the rumble-strip bumpiness of the Ambassador Bridge, the death-defying swaying of the Mackinac Bridge, the phalanx of traffic lights that await other crossings.

On its opening day, the Gordie Howe bridge performed ...Read more

James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida governor, will stay on the ballot despite questions about his state residency, a Tallahassee judge ruled Monday.

One of Fishback’s opponents, Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, sued, arguing that the former investor is ineligible to be Florida governor because of time he spent in Washington, D.C.

Florida...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed it has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with a Kentucky-based drug treatment provider to resolve allegations the company defrauded the state’s Medicaid program.

Addiction Recovery Care announced July 16 it had agreed to settle with the DOJ over claims of Medicaid fraud. However, at that time, ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie wants her mother’s kidnapper to know “there’s always a way home” for her missing mom as well as whoever’s responsible for the 84-year-old woman’s disappearance. The NBC News personality’s plea follows a message of hope from a public figure who’s an expert on abductions.

“It has been months since our mom was ...Read more

Former FBI Director James Comey Jr. is asking a federal judge to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump, arguing that the prosecution endangers free speech by treating a political message as a criminal threat.

“While the indictment fails on its face to allege a true threat, the background to this ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami said on Monday they will seek permanent detention of brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, the infamous social media influencers wanted on rape charges in England, setting the stage for their bond hearing on Aug. 13 as they await extradition to the United Kingdom.

The brothers’ defense team will confront a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Robert Barclay’s two daughters moved from Africa to live with him in Delaware County, getting them up-to-date on their vaccines was top of his list.

His daughters, 14-year-old Albertine and 20-year-old Ruth, were among the first clients at Delaware County Health Department’s new mobile clinic, which launched earlier ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city-run grocery stores the Mamdani administration is spending $70 million to set up will provide a 30% discount on essential foods like produce, eggs and milk, the mayor said Monday.

“No exceptions, no gimmicks,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at an East New York press conference. “Savings will last for the entire month. That...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to lift a judge’s order and clear the way for state-by-state lists of citizens who are eligible to vote by mail.

Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer filed an emergency appeal and said judges in Boston had wrongly intervened too soon.

In March, Trump ordered the U.S. Postal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Celeste Rivas Hernandez told the singer D4vd she would destroy his career and ruin his life roughly 24 hours before prosecutors say he killed the teenager, according to text messages made public Monday morning in court.

After an argument about a relationship between another woman and the singer, whose legal name is David Anthony...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago police investigators have closed a probe into former Chief of Patrol Jon Hein’s actions in the hours that followed a high-profile shooting by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, newly released records show.

Records obtained by the Chicago Tribune in a Freedom of Information Act request show the Bureau of Internal...Read more

SEATTLE — A King County judge decided to hold a 15-year-old boy in detention in connection with the Seattle Center shooting that left three dead and four others injured, including a toddler.

Police believe two people were shooting at each other at the annual Bite of Seattle food festival, and a police report filed with the court on Monday ...Read more

The Trump administration is making it harder for immigrants in the United States to win asylum, a process that was already difficult amid a large backlog and high refusal rates.

Under a new rule the administration announced Monday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers will be allowed to bypass interviews with applicants and...Read more

During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing last week on Haiti’s security crisis, Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast repeatedly claimed that giving Haitians in the U.S. temporary protected status had significantly weakened the Haiti National Police and impeded the country’s fight against terrorist gangs.

Mast, the committee’s ...Read more

For decades, terrorism researchers have generally distinguished terrorism from other forms of violence by one defining feature: the intention to intimidate a wider audience beyond immediate victims.

That distinction has shaped both academic research and criminal prosecutions in the U.S. Yet scholars have long debated a deceptively ...Read more