Prediction market betting on clinical trials is coming

Kalshi plans to let people place bets on the outcomes of some late-stage clinical trials. A father whose young son is undergoing cancer treatment calls that ‘unconscionable’ — and potentially dangerous. 

As UN experts condemn new US sanctions on Cuba, we reach a woman in the countryside who tells us the ongoing blockade has made an already unreliable power system unbearable for many.  

People in Spokane, Washington had already been grappling with devastating wildfires. And, now police say a man has admitted to lighting one of those fires intentionally.

We reach a woman in Yellowknife who’s attempting to solve an unusual mystery: where the time capsule her high school class stashed away decades ago has gone. 

150 years ago, Charles Darwin had a hunch that one particularly sticky plant he’d studied was actually carnivorous. For years, that theory went unconfirmed...until now. 

Look before you sleep. A television anchor in Memphis, Tennessee was so exhausted from mom duties that she had a nap, live on air. But viewers don't appear to mind her sleeping on the job. 

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