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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission headquarters in Washington, Dec. 23, 2022.Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA coalition of 44 state attorneys general wrote in a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday that the agency doesn’t have the power to regulate sports-related event contracts on prediction market platforms. The letter was sent as the public comment period for the CFTC’s first proposed rule on prediction market regulation expired Monday evening. The measure primarily focuses on exchanges’ sports offerings.”The Proposed Rule goes beyond the CFTC’s statutory powers, is in tension with the Constitution, and would otherwise be arbitrary and…

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Ardent anti-vaccine activist and current US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly on thin ice with Trump for not being anti-vaccine enough for the president’s liking, according to a report late Monday from The Wall Street Journal. Trump has become fixated on the completely false, thoroughly debunked claim that vaccines cause autism, the Journal reported. People familiar with the president’s scattered thinking say Trump wants an autism remedy to be part of his legacy and thinks scaling back childhood vaccinations is a way to secure that achievement. As such, he has grown frustrated and disappointed that Kennedy hasn’t…

President Donald Trump speaks during the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual President’s Dinner at Union Station in Washington, March 25, 2026.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesWith fewer than 100 days to go before the 2026 midterm election, Republicans see an opportunity to score points on their Democratic colleagues on an unlikely issue: tariffs.The National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday launched a digital advertising campaign — shared exclusively with CNBC — that targets vulnerable House Democrats and Democratic candidates in competitive districts who oppose President Donald Trump’s tariffs against China and other countries.The ads attempt to link Democratic opposition to Trump’s…

Novo Nordisk must face fraud lawsuit over CagriSema trial, judge rules Source link

EBay headquarters in San Jose, California.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEBay and several former executives have agreed to pay nearly $56 million in a settlement with a Massachusetts couple who were the target of a bizarre harassment and stalking scheme. The couple, Ina and David Steiner, had been subjected to a “terror campaign” in 2019 that was “designed to stop their reporting,” attorneys for the Steiners said in a release. The Steiners run EcommerceBytes, a website closely followed by online sellers, which had angered eBay executives who didn’t like its tone and content. Communications revealed in a 2024…

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18, 2026.Jill Connelly | Getty ImagesMeta is set to report earnings after the market close Wednesday, and traders on prediction market platform Kalshi think the Instagram parent will use its conference call to highlight its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and push into the cloud market, while steering clear of social media policy debates. In a “mentions market” — where speculators on Kalshi are asked to place trades on whether specific words will be used during a call or speech — for the Meta earnings call, traders place 90% odds…

UPS hikes full-year forecasts after Amazon delivery reductions, shares drop on investor skepticism Source link

However, according to a new analysis by Rasky and two other space industry officials, former NASA astronaut Charles Camarda and the head of the NASA transition team for the Trump-Vance White House, Charles Miller, significant challenges remain for rapidly reusing Starship. A need for rapid reuse Following Flight 13 last week, the experts noted that only a few of Starship’s ceramic tiles were lost during the flight, obviously a good thing. And the heat shield protected Starship during the reentry process such that it made a controlled descent and landing. However in SpaceX’s drone footage of the landed Starship in…