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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission will use its existing exclusion powers to bar bettors found to have harassed or threatened athletes from every licensed sportsbook and casino in the state. Leagues, players' unions, colleges, venues and athletes themselves can report incidents to a new portal, and the commission's enforcement bureau can subpoena operators to identify anonymous accounts.

Housekeepers, slot attendants, waitstaff and drivers left at 7am after their contract with Wynn Resorts expired. The unions say the company wants health care costs taken out of the wage increase.

The Ringer founder said on his own podcast that he gave his sportsbook login to his daughter's boyfriend. Massachusetts requires operators to log every IP address an account is accessed from, and it still took a podcast.

A federal appeals court has rejected the argument on which the entire prediction market industry rests, holding that a sporting result is not the kind of event the Commodity Exchange Act was written to cover. It is the clearest defeat Kalshi has suffered, and it points directly at the Supreme Court.

The Dodgers, Red Sox, Braves, Padres and Giants are Kalshi partners, and had been for weeks before anyone said so. Three of the five are in California, where no state lawsuit has been filed and the lobbying has already started.

Wynn Resorts posted a stronger-than-expected second quarter, with group revenue climbing 7% year-on-year to $1.86 billion and net income more than doubling, but a six-month delay and $600 million budget overrun at its UAE resort cast a shadow over the results. The headline numbers confirm that Macau's mass market, not VIP, is now driving the company's Asian growth.

A federal judge in Utah has ruled against Kalshi's latest attempt to prevent a state from enforcing its gambling laws against the prediction-market operator, extending a string of legal setbacks that have repeatedly undermined the company's federal-preemption strategy at the state level.

Nevada's landmark lawsuit against Polymarket marks a pivotal shift in the war between state gaming regulators and federally licensed prediction markets, as the "Silver State" seeks to protect its licensing monopoly from Silicon Valley's latest financial innovations.

Three plaintiffs have filed a federal complaint against DraftKings and affiliated entity Gus III, LLC in the District of Massachusetts, the latest legal challenge to land against a major US operator as prediction markets reshape the competitive landscape. The filing adds to a growing body of litigation testing the legal boundaries of sports-event contracts under US gambling law.

A King County judge has granted a preliminary injunction barring Washington residents from accessing Kalshi, ruling the platform likely operates as an "illegal gambling operation" under state law. It makes Washington the fifth state in active litigation against the exchange.

North Carolina's newly signed budget lifts the online sports-betting tax from 18% to 23% of gross wagering revenue and creates a 6% tax on prediction-market operators, the first state levy of its kind. The higher rate makes North Carolina one of the costlier US markets for licensed sportsbooks.

From MLB bribery charges to NBA match-fixing allegations, proposition betting's integrity problem has arrived in New York's legislature. A new task force bill signals the state is running out of patience with inaction.

The CFTC is no longer just defending prediction markets in court. It is now going on the offensive against the states trying to shut them down. New York is the latest target in a rapidly expanding federal legal campaign.

A congressional hearing has exposed deep uncertainty at the heart of American prediction markets regulation. When the CFTC chair cannot tell a prediction market contract apart from a sportsbook bet, the regulatory gap becomes impossible to ignore.

Washington's derivatives regulator has named the team that will help shape the future of prediction markets, cryptocurrency and AI regulation. The appointments signal where the CFTC's priorities lie.

From Robinhood's selective product choices to Europe's blanket bans, the prediction markets industry is facing a moment of reckoning over market integrity. The question is whether the sector can regulate itself before regulators do it for them.

Kalshi insists its products are financial instruments. State regulators insist they are bets. A Nevada judge has sided firmly with the regulators, and the fight is now playing out in courtrooms across the country.

A Nevada federal judge has remanded disputes involving Kalshi and Polymarket back to state court, a shift that clears the way for Nevada regulators to pursue rapid orders that could restrict prediction market contracts offered to residents.

A Massachusetts judge has granted a preliminary injunction against prediction market Kalshi, prohibiting the platform from offering sports related contracts to residents without a state licence. The ruling, which follows a lawsuit by Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, marks the first successful state level block of the company’s sports business and challenges its claim that federal CFTC regulation preempts local gambling laws.

DraftKings is set to ban the use of credit cards for deposits on its US sportsbook and online casino platforms from 25 August. The company has framed the move

Massachusetts’ sports betting market showed strong year-on-year growth in July, although the monthly figures reflected a predictable seasonal dip due to a

Sports betting revenue in Massachusetts surged to $80.7 million in May, marking the highest monthly figure recorded since January of this year. This

PENN Entertainment’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday saw the expected election of two new board members, Johnny Hartnett and Carlos Ruisanchez,