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A federal judge has temporarily blocked Minnesota's first-in-the-nation law banning prediction markets just days before it was to take effect, the latest clash between President Donald Trump's administration and states over who regulates operators such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Monday's decision is the latest setback for states trying to outlaw or regulate fast-growing prediction market platforms. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez in Minnesota found that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Kalshi and Polymarket were likely to succeed in their challe

Minnesota's first-in-the-nation law banning prediction markets is halted in federal court

eBay agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask

Families demand answers as 150+ residents remain displaced after assisted living roof collapse

Blanche nomination uncertain as key GOP senator says DOJ ‘radio silent’ on demand to spike controversial fund

The fate of Todd Blanche’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general is up in the air, with a key GOP senator indicating Tuesday he has not yet received the assurances he needs to vote in support.Sen. John Cornyn said he hasn’t received an update from the Justice Department on his and Sen. Thom Tillis’ demand that the “anti-weaponization” fund be formally killed before they vote in favor of advancing Blanche’s nomination.Both Republicans sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote Thursday morning on whether to move forward on Blanche’s no

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica beats estimates as tariff refunds boost profit

Mexico to pay Vulcan Materials less than 1% of arbitration claim

Democratic socialism is poorly understood as Michigan contest looms, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

American leftists aligned with the democratic socialist movement have been defeating moderate Democrats in primary elections this year but large swaths of the country still don't know what the movement stands for, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who says he is a progressive candidate and not a socialist, will face moderate Democrat Haley Stevens next Tuesday in a party nomination contest. El-Sayed has been endorsed by democratic socialists like U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.The winner of that contest will face former Republican Representative M

BIS says AI boom risks clouding central banks' inflation signals

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DNC Chair Ken Martin’s supporters dismiss concerns about the party’s debt and his leadership

A growing number of Democrats are calling for Ken Martin to step down as head of the Democratic National Committee, arguing that the party’s debt and the bungled release of the party’s 2024 election autopsy make him unfit to lead the committee ahead of a crucial midterm.But within the committee, Martin’s core base of supporters — state party leaders and rank-and-file members — appears to be sticking beside him.In interviews, Martin’s supporters said they agreed with his approach to spend more money early to invest in organizing, new technology and building up state parties, even if

Key points from the first day of testimony in Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial

The former husband of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three young children, took the stand Monday as the prosecution’s first witness in her triple-murder trial.His testimony – expected to continue when court resumes on Wednesday – followed opening statements from both parties, who previewed some of the evidence jurors could see in the coming weeks.Lindsay Clancy does not deny she killed their children, but she has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder, arguing she should not be held criminally responsible for fatally strangling them. Her attorney

Before funeral, US lawmakers recall Lindsey Graham as persuasive, funny and hawkish

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‘Extremely dangerous’ tornado rips roofs off homes and knocks out power for thousands in northeast Wisconsin

A tornado carved a path of destruction through parts of Menasha and Appleton, Wisconsin, with little advanced warning on Monday afternoon, damaging homes, uprooting trees and knocking out power to thousands.⛈️ Track the storms in the CNN Weather appThe tornado had estimated peak winds of 140 mph and received a preliminary EF3 rating, the National Weather Service said, citing its damage survey and drone video.Tornadoes were not expected to be a significant threat to the area on Monday. A severe thunderstorm warning mentioning damaging winds was issued at 11:13 a.m.; the possibility of a tor

Fact check: Trump is approaching 10 years of telling his Michigan ‘Man of the Year’ lie

For three consecutive presidential campaigns, President Donald Trump regularly told the same lie when he spoke in the swing state of Michigan. Before he even entered politics, he claimed, he was named “Man of the Year” in the state.The problem: CNN and other media outlets repeatedly noted that this award did not exist. But Trump revived the tale once more near the end of a falsehood-filled economic speech in Michigan on Monday — and added an additional lie claiming that an initially skeptical media had eventually discovered the award story was correct.“I was here 25 years ago, I got Ma

New York City, Philadelphia are at the center of a serious Northeast flash flood threat

Trump and Netanyahu meet for the first time since launching the Iran war

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A 7.1 magnitude quake hits Japan's southern Kyushu island and dozens are injured or missing

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook Japan ’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday, leaving dozens of people injured or missing after part of a shopping center and a huge chimney at a paper factory collapsed, officials said. A tsunami advisory was issued but quickly lifted. There were fears that at least two people were dead. In Kashima Town, the quake collapsed the second floor of the Aeon Mall shopping center, trapping an unknown number of people there, according to the fire department in the prefectural capital of Kumamoto. Four people were pull

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Behind a haze of smoke, dreamlike portraits of queer Muslim life

How do you capture the essence of someone who wishes to remain anonymous? This was one of the challenges French Algerian photographer Camille Farrah Lenain faced as part of her series on queer Muslim life in France. In her cinematic and dreamlike portraits, we see a figure partly obscured in a translucent pink veil, gazing into an ornate mirror. Elsewhere, a tightly-cropped image captures a transgender man’s mid-section, revealing a vertical scar and hand calmly resting against patterned pants.The snapshots are part of Lenain’s new photobook, “Made of Smokeless Fire,” released by Loose

The new Air Force One just got a big update - and price tag

Peru's Fujimori takes power, extending Latin America's rightward tilt

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Florida puts ex-police officer to death for girl's murder, first of 2 executions set for single day

A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the second-oldest inmate executed in modern U.S. history. It has been nearly a decade since any state carried out two executions in a one day, when Arkansas had back-to-back executions in 2017. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has stepped up executions over the past 18 months at a pace unseen in the state since 1976 when the U.S. reinstate

Several feared trapped in collapsed shopping mall after Japan quake

Several people are trapped inside a shopping mall that partially collapsed in an explosion after a large 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Japanese city of Kumamoto on Tuesday, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK.It is unclear how many people were trapped inside when the second floor of the building collapsed, NHK reported, citing fire officials. About 50 people were injured in the blast, NHK reported.The earthquake struck the city of Kumamoto, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) east of Nagasaki in southern Japan, on Tuesday afternoon local time, causing a highway bridge to buckle, and

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Major quake hits southern Japan, workers missing after mall blast

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Mediators have made progress in efforts to bring the United States and Iran back to negotiations and prevent an all-out war in the Middle East

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Oil prices settle at lowest in over a week, as US pauses attacks on Iran

Oil prices fell on Monday, settling at their lowest levels in over a week, after the U.S. abruptly suspended a campaign of air strikes against Iran over

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls