CHICAGO — Cardi B was part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. What she did exactly, well, that turned into a perplexing question for two major prediction markets. At least one Kalshi trader filed a complaint with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over how the prediction market handled Sunday’s appearance by the Grammy-winning rapper. The result of a similar ...
The operator of roughly 180 Eddie Bauer stores across the U.S. and Canada has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming declining sales and a litany of other industry headwinds. The bankruptcy filing marks the third time in a little over two decades for the storied-but-now-tired brand that began as a Seattle fishing shop, later outfitted the first American to ...
A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to life in prison Thursday for leading an insurrection after declaring martial law in December 2024. Yoon was found guilty of abuse of authority and masterminding the insurrection. Yoon, 65, denied the charges and argued that he had presidential authority to declare martial law and that his action was aimed ...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is stepping in to stop what it calls an “onslaught” of state-level regulation of prediction markets. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said Tuesday in a video posted on X that the agency has filed a “friend of the court brief” in support of Crypto.com in its escalating legal battle with regulators in Nevada. The move ...
The Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) made concessions in its latest CBA proposal submitted to the WNBA, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about ongoing negotiations. The source confirmed Tuesday the players’ union submitted a counterproposal in response to the ...
Los Angeles Lakers center Deandre Ayton was briefly detained Tuesday, Feb. 17 at an airport in the Bahamas before being released, according to Ayton’s lawyer Devard Francis. Francis said Ayton was detained on suspicion of being in possession of a ‘very small amount of marijuana’ while at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, Bahamas. Ayton, a native of the Bahamas, ...
MILAN — Amber Glenn shared a message of optimism hours after her tough performance in the women’s short program that likely will keep her out of medal contention at the 2026 Winter Olympics. ‘The world has ended for me many times and yet tomorrow still comes,’ the post read. ‘Keep going.’ One of the highly touted members of the U.S. ...
LIVIGNO, Italy — The ones who know, they’ll talk about the words for a long time. Yet, if you didn’t know better – and let’s be honest, most of us would not – they’d sound like some complicated play call an NFL quarterback relays in the huddle: Left nose butter triple cork 2160 safety. In freestyle skiing, this is known ...
However, the 37-year-old 3-point specialist isn’t feeding into that type of talk and says he hasn’t given any thought about it in his 17th season. Curry told People Magazine that he’s ‘not really putting too much pressure on that.’ ‘Thinking about the end robs you of the now,” Curry said. “I’m enjoying the journey of competing and all the work ...
An 88-year-old billionaire businessman and former Victoria’s Secret chief is the latest person to fall within the House Oversight Committee’s investigative crosshairs. The crimes of late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are well-known, having gained new media attention in recent months after Congress forced the Department of Justice (DOJ) to disclose millions of pages of documents. But less is known ...