About a week before Illinois passed its law classifying prediction markets as sports betting operators, the CFTC proposed new rulemaking that lays out how the commission would manage its exclusive control over regulating these markets.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
The British meteorological service has issued a rare red warning for extreme heat in the days forward, classifying the coming wave as a risk to life.
The 2015 staff report recommended indexing the thresholds to inflation on a go-forward basis.
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Matt Stephens,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
Rather than guessing how a frame might look, shoppers can use digital tools to get a better sense of fit and appearance before ordering.
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Connie Etemadi,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2026
The place was largely filled with Japanese families and folks in their late 20s, all ordering bowls of spaghetti infused with interesting flavors like cod roe, shiso leaves and seaweed.
Detecting bots requires analyzing patterns in user data, including transaction and payment signals, purchase speed, buying patterns and credit card activity, rather than relying on just a single indicator.
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Sydney Goh,
CNBC,
27 June 2026
Vaughn Dalzell and Drew Dinsick look at USA's odds for the stage of elimination, analyzing how far Mauricio Pochettino's squad can go.
Witter is Desert Vintage’s longest-serving employee, save for its current owners, Roberto Cowan and Salima Boufelfel, and is in charge of categorizing and dating the rare and glorious treasures that come through the shop’s doors.
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Max Berlinger,
Vogue,
11 June 2026
The reforms also open up the possibility of categorizing gangs and drug cartels as terrorist groups.
Groff, who worked for Epstein for nearly two decades, was a central point-person in arranging the bookings with Amex, documents released by the Justice Department earlier this year indicated.
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Emmet Lyons,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
The libraries that spent two years arguing that AI companies could not take their work without paying are now arranging to be paid for appearing inside the products built on top of them.
Congress is considering codifying a similar provision into law.
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Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
Following the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good at the hands of federal agents in Minnesota earlier this year, Democrats sought to block additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol—at least not without codifying reforms to immigration enforcement.
This outpost from the same family of Central and Kjolle fame—renowned for both cataloguing and reimagining obscure ingredients found throughout various altitudes of Peru—has become the home base for their culinary research arm, Mater Iniciativa.
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Paola Miglio,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 June 2026
Archaeologists have been cataloging dump sites since at least the early 19th century, when Danish scientists began pawing through heaps of mollusk shells that had been discarded by their Stone Age ancestors.
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