There are no such things as coincidences. What are the odds that a Polymarket user pockets a hefty profit by betting on the exact moment Nicolás Maduro would cease to be president of Venezuela? And what are the odds that others walk away with more than $35,000 for predicting the temperature in Paris on an ordinary day? These are always‑winning wagers inside the booming prediction market, which is built entirely on binary outcomes — A or B. Fast, easy money.

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After concessions from the government about its limits, the Supreme Court appeared open to backing the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) setup for imposing massive fines at oral arguments on Tuesday. The justices are reviewing more than $100 million in combined penalties against Verizon and AT&T over their use of customers’ location data. The companies say...