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322 articles on United States, newest first. For the regulator, licensing, tax and legal status, see the United States profile.

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Prediction Markets

Tribal Gaming Opposes the Revised CLARITY Act Days Before a Senate Vote

Senator Cynthia Lummis narrowed the bill's decentralised finance provisions specifically to answer tribal worries about prediction markets. The Indian Gaming Association says that misses the point: what it wants is text saying federal commodities law does not preempt tribal gaming law, and that exchanges cannot list contracts on sports or casino games.

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Prediction Markets

Underdog Sues Five States, Days After Giving Up Fantasy Licences in Seven

The company has gone to federal court in Ohio, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Washington, asking each to rule that state gambling law cannot reach a CFTC-regulated contract. It is the first prediction-market operator to sue pre-emptively across a whole group of states rather than wait to be sued.

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Corporate

Station Casinos Hands 10,000 Employees $70m of Stock for Its 50th Year

Every full and part-time employee gets $1,000 of Red Rock Resorts stock for each year of service, announced without warning at a party most of them thought was just a party. It also arrives five days after the Supreme Court declined to spare the company an order to bargain with the Culinary Union, and it was announced at the property that order concerns.

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Sports Betting

Bank of America: Bettors Get Back 75 Cents for Every Dollar Deposited

The bank can see what its own customers pay into betting apps and what comes back out, and across seven months the ratio never reached break-even. The number that should worry the industry more is the one about balances: households that bet online hold 59% of the deposit balance of households that do not.

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Corporate

The Supreme Court Leaves Red Rock Facing an Order to Bargain With the Union

Chief Justice John Roberts denied Red Rock Casino's emergency application on Friday without comment, leaving in place a DC Circuit judgment that the resort must recognise and bargain in good faith with the Culinary Union. The dispute runs back to a 2022 finding that a fair election could not be held at a Station Casinos property.

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M&A

Primero Buys Win Systems' Gaming Division and 3,000 Positions in Latin America

The Georgia manufacturer has bought the gaming operations arm of Win Systems, including its Gold Club electronic-roulette business, taking on an installed base across Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Panama. Terms were not disclosed, and the deal turns a US regional supplier into a Latin American one overnight.

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Prediction Markets

Underdog Drops Fantasy in Seven States to Keep Its Prediction Markets Running

Told by regulators in Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania that it could not offer both, Underdog has chosen its CFTC-registered event contracts over the draft games that built the company. Drafts close in those states on Wednesday evening, after the NFL season kicks off.

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Corporate

Springfield Sues MGM, and MGM Says the City Is Blocking a Sale of the Casino

The City of Springfield has taken MGM Resorts to Hampden Superior Court over alleged breaches of the 2013 host community agreement, from employment levels to a downtown building left behind scaffolding for seven years. MGM calls the suit frivolous and says the real story is a proposed sale to a "well-qualified casino operator" that the mayor's office has stalled since early 2024.

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Regulatory

Nevada's Regulator Calls Kalshi's Contracts Bets and Kalshi Vows to Fight On

The Nevada Gaming Control Board used its first meeting after the Ninth Circuit ruling to say sports event contracts are sports bets, full stop. Kalshi's co-founder says the company will keep arguing for a single federal regulator, and New Jersey has now asked the Supreme Court to settle it.

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Regulatory

Massachusetts Creates an Exclusion List for Bettors Who Harass Athletes

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.

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Prediction Markets

Illinois Lawmaker Files a Bill to Repeal the State's Prediction Market Tax

HB 5811 would strike the exchange wager tax Illinois enacted in its budget less than three months ago, along with the definition that brought prediction markets inside the Sports Wagering Act. The tax is already being challenged in court by Kalshi and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the bill would not end that fight.

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Sports Betting

AGA: Legal NFL Handle Flat at $29.5bn as Prediction Markets Take the Growth

The American Gaming Association expects Americans to bet $29.5 billion legally on the 2026 NFL season, up barely at all on last year's $29.4 billion. Its chief executive says the reason is "backdoor sports betting" on prediction markets, and the numbers it cites for Novig, Rothera and Underdog explain why.

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