Who will control Congress in 2026? Latest polls show a tight midterm race, with Democrats eyeing gains and Republicans fighting to hold power.

As prediction markets stir debate over betting on politics, the Los Angeles mayoral race raised a new question: What happens when people wager on elections?

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Following national elections, voters rewrite their memories of the political event and distort their initial expectations to ...

States have raced to regulate so-called "prediction markets," especially betting around elections, after it became legal to ...

Maryland residents wagering on the outcome of elections using online prediction markets could find themselves on the wrong ...

WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Prediction market watchdogs may struggle to police betting on the U.S. midterm elections, with thousands of races offering ever more ways for insiders to make a quick ...

Davina Hurt is director of government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University. Views are her own. A hundred dollars on the game, a twenty-five-dollar office pool, a ...

CNBC’s Emily Wilkins reported last week that House lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit members of ...

Prediction markets are moving into the mainstream, giving investors a new way to watch crowd expectations – and a risky way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polymarket advertisements predict a victory for Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election in November 2025. (Olga ...