A US appeals court on Friday ruled against the prediction markets operator Kalshi, saying states can regulate its so-called event contracts under their gambling laws. The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals said Kalshi has not shown that its sports event contracts are “swaps” that should be regulated exclusively by the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It also said federal law did not preempt Ohio’s or Tennessee’s gambling laws. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Disney’s top lawyer warned staff of “hard choices” ahead as the House of Mouse’s legal and government affairs division prepares to become a “much smaller organization” while the entertainment giant mulls layoffs across other parts of the company. Horacio Gutierrez, Disney’s chief legal and global affairs officer said in a memo the department would “start with a blank slate” as technology changes how legal and other professional work gets done, Deadline first reported. “How should LGA reinvent itself to best serve the Disney of tomorrow?” Gutierrez wrote in the memo, using the acronym for his department. “To find the answer…

President Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping during their closely watched summit in Washington, DC, to stop supporting Iran in its war against the US, according to a US official. US Ambassador David Perdue told CNBC on Friday that Trump informed Xi any direct — or indirect — support for Tehran was “totally unacceptable.” “We have made it very clear to them weeks ago that any help that they would give Iran, whether it be direct or indirect, whether it be intelligence or parts or military equipment, was totally unacceptable. President Trump made that very clear again yesterday,” Perdue said…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A member of Code Pink, the far-left group known for confronting elected officials, disrupted a Climate Week event in New York City on Thursday, blaming the U.S. military for its perceived role in the climate crisis.The disruption targeted an event hosted by The Nature Conservancy, which the group claims refuses to address the U.S. military’s “massive carbon footprint and massive environmental degradation from U.S. military bases and U.S.-driven wars and occupations.””There is an elephant in the room that The Nature Conservancy does not want to address,” said a man identified by Code…

The tinier the dog, the bigger the man. In her upcoming book “Yap! A Short History of Small Dogs,” animal historian and pug owner Stephanie Howard-Smith says that for the modern man, touting around a “small, ‘tiny’ dog in public can demonstrate [his] absolute confidence in his masculinity.” “[They] have no need to overcompensate by owning a typically macho dog,” Howard-Smith writes in the book, which covers the last 2,500 years of the relationship between man and his pint-sized best friend and explores the history of famous small pups of the past. It is set to be released by Granta…

The latest season of Ryan Murphy‘s American Horror Story kicked off by playfully mocking Taylor Swift‘s fans. During the season 13 premiere on Thursday, September 24, Madelaine Petsch took on the role of a fictional Swiftie whose boyfriend, Ben (Joey Pollari), has triskaidekaphobia — a.k.a the fear of the number 13. (At this point, the whole world knows 13 is the singer’s lucky number.) “Are you not a Taylor fan? You lied to me? You’re not a Swiftie?” Kira asked Ben in a scene from Thursday’s episode. “I have 13 of my best girl friends going on this trip and…

As the NFL world anticipates the first game held in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, concerns continue to grow surrounding the playing conditions the Ravens and Cowboys will be encountering. Maracaña Stadium’s grass is being actively worked on, and fiber stitching is being added to the grass to improve “resistance and safety” for the players. NFL Players Association executive director JC Tretter spoke out about the upcoming game in a written statement. “The concern heading into this week was that the field would be loose, patchy, and lead to excessive slipping,” Tretter said. “Those conditions are generally more of a…

Instagram allegedly made hats for its employees with the phrase “attorney-client privilege” – an “utterly sick” joke about using legal loopholes to conceal explosive legal documents about kids social media addiction, according to critics. A photo of the company’s “swag” hats – baseball caps that displayed the legal lingo “a/c priv,” shorthand for “attorney-client privilege” — surfaced this week in California federal court, where a coalition of school districts have accused Meta of fueling a teen mental health crisis. The hats were printed up to celebrate the 2024 launch of Instagram’s Teen Accounts, known internally as “Project Nido,” a bid…

A prominent PR firm with ties to AI doomsayers worked for Jacob Coxon as the ex-Anthropic researcher made national headlines for sounding the knell of the apocalypse about artificial intelligence — even as he denied working with third parties in going public with his concerns — according to a report. DEY. Ideas + Influence helped book interviews for Coxon on Sept. 9 — a day after he announced his resignation and warned that people building advanced AI believe the tech “could kill us all by the end of the decade” — Pirate Wires reported Thursday, calling DEY. a “doomer” PR…

Xavier Becerra looks like he’ll run away with the California governor’s race in a matchup with Republican Steve Hilton — but voters aren’t exactly thrilled about it. A new poll commissioned by Hilton’s campaign found Becerra, a career politician of more than three decades, leading the governor’s race 52% to 37%. And yet, just 32% of likely California voters viewed the Democrat favorably, which was the same figure as Hilton’s favorable rating. Echelon Insights’ poll this month — obtained exclusively by The California Post — found that Becerra had a higher unfavorable rating, at 37% to Hilton’s 30%. The numbers…