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

Kalshi published campaign-style updates on his odds, and Polymarket hosted multiple active markets on whether Pratt would finish first or second in the city’s nonpartisan primary. On Kalshi alone, the ...

States have raced to regulate so-called "prediction markets," especially betting around elections, after it became legal to do so in 2024.

The significant boom of prediction markets is pushing U.S. elections into uncharted territory, prompting concern and scrutiny about the risks and regulation of betting on political outcomes. Kalshi, ...

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 ...

A handful of states currently have election betting restrictions.

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 ...

Bodog reports that prediction markets, especially on Kalshi, reflect public obsessions with events like elections and sports, ...

WASHINGTON — As Spencer Pratt fell behind in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, an unexpected group began claiming election fraud: people tracking the Republican’s success on prediction markets, the ...