Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/america-polymarket-disaster/685662/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689143 Points: 8 # Comments: 1...
The spike in Polymarket odds comes just days after United States President Donald Trump said “we’re probably going to end up in another Democrat shutdown.”...
Regulatory actions are ramping up globally even as prediction market companies claim they’re not offering gambling services....
The moves highlight the growing uncertainty over whether crypto prediction markets are treated as finance or gambling....
Washington’s allies are looking for a new strategy after a week that has demonstrated what some see as the risks of subordination and coercion...
Article URL: https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/canada-announces-divorce-from-america Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705385 Points: 9 # Comments: 0...
There is no precedent of a dominant power abandoning its primacy, as Trump is doing...
Dozens of suspected online scammers have been returned aboard a chartered flight to face investigation. The cases include deepfake scams, with public anger growing over fraud rings operating out of So...
The continent must strive to disentangle itself from the US...
Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos covered topics such as Greenland, windmills, NATO, and shifting global power. These were the moments that mattered most and ...
Article URL: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683205 Points: 49 # Comments: 4...
Advance in northern Syria marks dramatic escalation of clashes between government and militia...
America for Americans: That was James Monroe's message to European colonial powers in 1823, to respect the independence of new nations of the Americas. Trump is reinterpreting this doctrine....
Forget the road to Damascus; Trump’s conversion has happened on the jet to Davos...
Article URL: https://www.kentik.com/blog/from-stealth-blackout-to-whitelisting-inside-the-iranian-shutdown/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713444 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
The administrator previously offered $1,000 for those who self-deported....
Article URL: https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2026/01/europe-has-a-lot-to-learn-from-mark-carney Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705402 Points: 5 # Com...
Organisation’s executives including chair Larry Fink discuss future of annual shindig for political and business elites...
Reduction has been planned for months but comes amid tension with European nations over Greenland...
The preliminary injunction against the predictions market platform came at the request of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell....