This DC-Area Lawyer Wants More Americans Betting on Elections

I t’s a springtime Thursday night at Nanny O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Northwest DC, and up on the TVs, the University of Maryland men’s basketball team is struggling against the University of Florida. The ... Read More

Americans Are Able to Bet on the US Elections Again After Legal Fight ...

An appeals court lifted a ban on bets on congressional election outcomes, making Kalshi the only legal option for Americans to bet on elections. Read More

US Traders Flock to an Election-Betting Site They're Banned From - MSN

Some bettors told Bloomberg News they’ve been placing wagers despite being US-based traders. They asked not to be identified for fear of crimping their income from the platform. Read More

Election-Betting Site Polymarket Says Trump Whale Identified as ... - MSN

A trader who spent more than $45 million on Polymarket bets that Donald Trump will win the upcoming US presidential election has been identified as a French national, following an investigation by ... Read More

Betting on US Elections Gets Fresh Green Light From Court - MSN

Americans can again legally wager millions of dollars on the outcome of congressional races after a US appeals court set the stage for a deluge of bets just five weeks before the November election. Read More

Kalshi rolls out more betting markets ahead of US elections - MSN

Prediction marketplace Kalshi has rolled out more political betting markets in an eleventh-hour bid to woo users ahead of the United States presidential election on Nov. 5. Read More

US elections 2028: Betting odds say this person is currently the ... - MSN

And with that, he has now become the President-elect, but it now looks like the focus of the betting markets has already shifted from the 2024 US elections to the 2028 Presidential polls. Read More

US election betting: Bets are everywhere but are they right? - BBC News

The director of the longest-running election betting market in modern US politics used to work in a relatively sleepy field, presiding over what he called a “connoisseurs' market”, where bets ... Read More

Appeals Court Halts Legal Betting on US Elections - MSN

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order on Thursday night to temporarily stop legal betting on the upcoming election. Read More

Ready your bets: Election gambling is going mainstream in the US

It’s a striking reversal of fortune for the election-betting complex in the US after a three-year crusade by regulators against the prediction markets. Read More

Should Betting on Elections Be Legal? - The New York Times

Permitting election betting would raise difficult questions for regulators. Should a contract on a small local race have a different position limit from one on who controls Congress? Read More