The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Lots of scribes are making predictions for 2020. Most will be wrong. So why not be really, really wrong, ...

As the U.S. heads toward November’s midterm elections, a growing number of investors and political observers are turning to prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket to gauge who might win.

Arrests for betting on the U.S. military operation that removed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Death threats from gamblers to a journalist reporting on an Iranian missile attack on Israel. Fears of ...