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They say that too much choice causes just as many problems as not enough.

Doreen Lawrence was 'conned' into joining a legal claim against newspapers, a key witness in the case said on Monday.

'It is tricky because of the monarchy. Her role in Suits was very sexy,' the casting director said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail. 'Her making love with another man...'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced (PDF) a bill on Monday that could prevent prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket from allowing users to wager money on sports events or play casino-style games. This bipartisan bill would not apply to FanDuel and DraftKings, which are subject to state-by-state gambling laws, rather than federal ones. "Sports prediction contracts are sports bets -- just with a different name. And yet, these contracts are currently offered in all fifty states in clear violation of state and federal law," Schiff said in a statement. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are regulated under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which is why Schiff and Curtis are able to address them under federal jurisdiction, rather than leaving them to state-regulated sportsbooks. But these senators argue that there isn't much of a difference in practice between betting on sports via federally or state-regulated apps. Kalshi's Super Bowl trading volume, for instance, reached over $1 billion this year -- a 2700% increase year-over-year. "Too many young people in Utah are getting exposed to addictive sports betting and casino-style gaming contracts that belong under state control, not under federal regulators," Curtis said in a statement. The report notes that Kalshi is temporarily banned in Nevada and is facing criminal charges in Arizona. "Kalshi may brand itself as a 'prediction market,' but what it's actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law," Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement last week.

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While thousands of Marines are arriving in the Middle East, senior military officials are considering deploying an Army paratrooper division to the region as the Iran war stretches into week four.

US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in

US data miner Palantir has quietly landed inside the UK's financial watchdog, plugging into a trove of sensitive data as Whitehall simultaneously insists it wants to wean itself off exactly this kind of dependency.…

Customers are 'excited' says one solution provider

Snowflake is putting cash and kinetic energy behind the idea that AI works best in its platform.…

The victim had returned home covered in blood after allegedly being stabbed in a village park in Whittington, Worcester, at around 7.40pm September 21 last year.

A remote formation buried deep beneath in a remote part of the world appears to mirror Egypt's Giza pyramids, igniting theories of a lost global civilization.

Almost two-thirds of young adults are swapping shots for their sofas, according to research.

Perrine's social media accounts announced the loss, stating she 'faced Parkinson's disease with incredible courage and compassion.'

Chukwuemeka Ahanonu, 23, launched a vicious assault on 56-year-old mother Nila Patel moments after flipping his BMW on its roof in broad daylight in Leicester city centre last June.

Ruth's sister Julia Johnson, who had battled depression for years, was found dead at the age of 62 by her husband Paul at their home in Lingfield, Surrey, in June 2019.

Wing is expanding its drone delivery service to the San Francisco Bay Area. "The drone delivery startup has been rapidly expanding to metro areas across the US, but is now targeting the tech-friendly Silicon Valley region," reports Engadget. From the report: Going back to its inaugural deliveries, Wing ferried office supplies across Google's Mountain View campus in the Bay Area with its automated drones. It was still a startup out of Google's X, The Moonshot Factory incubator at the time, but early users were already asking for home delivery services, according to Wing. Now, Wing's latest delivery drones can deliver groceries, food, or whatever else fits in a small package weighing up to five pounds in 30 minutes or less to Bay Area residents. Earlier this year, Wing expanded its service to an additional 150 Walmart stores across the U.S. Service began recently in Atlanta and Charlotte, and it's coming soon to Los Angeles, Houston, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Miami and other major U.S. cities to be announced later. "By 2027, Walmart and Wing say they'll have a network of more than 270 drone delivery locations nationwide."

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Maria Alanis Ruiz, 78, was picking up her granddaughter at Beaverton Sky Zone when she was struck in March of 2024.

Gary Reynolds was first struck by the massive electric discharge in 2007 and most recently in 2022, leaving him with several traumatic physical and emotional injuries.

Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year

Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …

Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia shared unverified footage of the ambulances burning with their logo pasted over it, hours after the fire.

Video swept social media on Monday showing a woman being aggressively detained by agents in the lobby of the airport, sparking anger from liberals complaining about ICE agents at airports.

Bradley Dack cut a sombre figure as he was spotted without his wedding ring while leaving training in Gillingham, Kent on Monday.