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Kalshi Hearing Tests Texas Authority Over Prediction Markets

Kalshi Hearing Tests Texas Authority Over Prediction Markets

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Lead The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee heard testimony Tuesday on whether online prediction markets such as Kalshi should be treated as federally regulated financial exchanges or as gambling platforms subject to state oversight and restrictions. The hearing documented a continuing policy debate over how Texas might address the platforms and the limits that federal regulation could place on state action. The committee heard from Kalshi, gambling-policy experts, and gaming-industry representatives. Kalshi describes itself as the first CFTC-regulated exchange dedicated to trading on the outcome of future events. The company offers contracts tied to elections, sports, weather, and pop culture, and says it charges a flat fee of about one cent per transaction. Action Detail Kalshi head of enforcement and legal counsel Robert DeNault told the committee that the platform offers Texans a regulated financial product for trading and managing financial risk. He compared prediction-market contracts with derivatives and argued that products can have similarities to insurance or sports-related risk management without being regulated as gambling. DeNault also argued that an effort to prohibit a …

Port Authority of NY and NJ, CALSTART launch M electric truck plan

Port Authority of NY and NJ, CALSTART launch $45M electric truck plan

Published by skeptic

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is working with leading transportation nonprofit CALSTART to roll out a $45 million incentive program to help electrify the port’s operators’ heavy truck fleets. CALSTART hopes this latest incentive push will act as a catalyst for change at the Port of New York and New Jersey, helping scale up zero-emission terminal and drayage trucks and the associated charging infrastructure from exploratory pilot programs to more mainstream choices for the busy port’s tenants. “Deploying zero-emission trucks at scale requires pairing accessible vehicle incentives with reliable, high-capacity charging,” said CALSTART Executive Vice President of Regional Market Acceleration Alycia Gilde. “By combining flexible financial support with streamlined program administration, our partnership with the Port Authority lowers the barrier to entry for drayage operators, modernizing the East Coast supply chain while delivering immediate, tangible air quality improvements to local port communities.” Dubbed the Clean Truck Incentive (CTI) Program and Green Drayage Accelerator (GDA) the $45 million funding includes $39 million in point-of-sale vouchers for the purchase of zero-emission drayage trucks, …

6 Ways People With No Respect For Authority Make Things Harder For Themselves Than They Have To Be

6 Ways People With No Respect For Authority Make Things Harder For Themselves Than They Have To Be

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some people have a healthy skepticism when it comes to authority. They ask questions and want to understand why a rule exists rather than automatically assuming someone is right. This can be a valuable quality, and social pioneers and change-makers often have this trait.  There’s a difference between questioning authority and refusing to show respect as a reflex. They may think they’re protecting their freedom. But sometimes they just make their own lives unnecessarily difficult.  People with zero respect for authority often make these 6 things harder than they have to be: 1. They turn simple instructions into unnecessary arguments Karola G / Pexels Some rules are ridiculous, but not every instruction requires a debate.  Asking for clarification can prevent mistakes, and is generally a good thing. The problem comes when the person isn’t actually looking for an answer, they’re looking for a fight. They may continue arguing even after the reasoning has been explained. Eventually, a five-minute task becomes a thirty-minute confrontation. Sometimes the person even ends up doing exactly what they were originally …

9 Phrases Kids With Zero Respect For Authority Say In Public

9 Phrases Kids With Zero Respect For Authority Say In Public

Published by Jenni Sidey

Most kids have a natural tendency to push back and test exactly how much they can get away with, and that’s not always a bad thing. However, there’s a big difference between having a strong personality and treating adults with blatant disrespect. When kids don’t play nicely with the authority figures in their lives, it’s often revealed in the way they talk, especially when they’re being corrected in front of others. The comments they make can turn a minor moment of discipline into a full-on power struggle where no one truly comes out on top. Kids who have zero respect for authority tend to say these specific phrases in public 1. ‘I’m not listening’ PreciousJ | Shutterstock This comment is pretty much the verbal equivalent of a child putting their hands over their ears and walking away. Rather than hearing an adult out, they make it clear they’ve already decided that the conversation is over. Openly defiant kids tend to shut down the moment they hear something they don’t like by simply refusing to participate. …

Sanctioned by EU, Israeli settler steals and kills Palestinian donkey | Palestinian Authority

Sanctioned by EU, Israeli settler steals and kills Palestinian donkey | Palestinian Authority

Published by Sam Flores

Toggle Play Sanctioned by EU, Israeli settler steals Palestinian donkey, drags it to death A donkey belonging to a Palestinian farmer was reportedly stolen and dragged to death behind a vehicle by Israeli settlers, including Avichai Suissa, an Israeli settler sanctioned by the EU, according to local reports. Published On 22 Aug 202622 Aug 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

Bundesliga’s 50+1 ownership rule permissible under antitrust laws, competition authority says

Bundesliga’s 50+1 ownership rule permissible under antitrust laws, competition authority says

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BERLIN, Aug 12 : The Bundesliga’s 50+1 ownership rule that blocks major investors from taking over control of clubs in the top two German leagues is permissible under current antitrust laws, the country’s federal competition authority Bundeskartellamt said on Wednesday. The rule has been in place for more than a quarter of a century and means clubs – and, by extension, their fans – hold a majority of voting rights, protecting against single investors coming in and buying a controlling stake at clubs as is the case in Spain, Italy, France or England. There are some exceptions, such as factory-owned clubs Bayer Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg as well as Red Bull-owned RB Leipzig. The rule is hugely popular among fans of many clubs, but critics say it stops necessary investment to fuel football growth and keep German football competitive with the other major European leagues. “The 50+1 rule can continue to be justified on the grounds of preserving the club-based character of the sport and ensuring member participation,” said Bundeskartellamt President Andreas Mundt in a …

Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority

Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority

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Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are different problems, and most enterprises are only solving the first one. An AI agent can follow its instructions perfectly and still take an action the business never sanctioned. In commerce environments, I have seen this pattern emerge in practical ways. A service workflow calculates the correct refund amount but lacks a boundary preventing credits above what the business approved for autonomous action. An order agent correctly applies a requested change but overlooks a financing or fulfillment condition. A procurement agent identifies the lowest-cost supplier, but nobody has defined whether it can accept contractual terms or only recommend the option. The agent keeps working. The problem may not surface until something downstream breaks. These are not necessarily AI reasoning failures. They are failures to separate technical capability from business authority. As enterprises move from copilots that recommend to agents that call tools and …

Appeals Court Says Trump Lacks Authority to Build Ballroom

Appeals Court Says Trump Lacks Authority to Build Ballroom

Published by Jenni Sidey

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to build a $400 million ballroom at the White House without congressional approval. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with historic preservationists who sued to halt construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the site where the White House’s East Wing stood before its demolition last fall.   In response to the ruling, President Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that he “will be immediately appealing to the United States Supreme Court” and described the decision as “horrendous, politically motivated, and unlawful.” Related Articles Friday’s ruling marks the second legal setback this week for the president’s construction plans. A recent National Park Service assessment concluded that the 250-foot triumphal arch proposed by Trump could compromise the historical integrity of dozens of landmarks within the Memorial Avenue Corridor, such as breaking the symbolic alignment between the Lincoln Memorial, Memorial Bridge and Arlington House.  In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court affirmed a lower court’s finding that the …

Loose Women star Judi Love: ‘I was banned from social housing for bringing container of maggots into authority office’

Loose Women star Judi Love: ‘I was banned from social housing for bringing container of maggots into authority office’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Judi Love has revealed that she was previously banned from her local social housing authority after confronting them with a tupperware full of maggots. The Loose Women star, 46, lived in social housing in London with her two children before finding success as a comedian. While Love has spoken about her past living conditions before, she’s now revealed that she was banned from receiving social housing for over a year after a row over an insect problem led to her walking into the local authority’s office with a tupperware full of dead flies and maggots. Speaking on The Romesh Ranganathan Show, Love said: “I got banned from the local housing. They lifted it after three or five years, or was it a year? Judi Love on Romesh Ranganathan’s podcast (The Romesh Ranganathan Show) “Basically, my last house that was social housing, …