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Trump Pushes for Federal Control Over Prediction Markets, Citing Global Competition

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U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Tuesday for federal regulators to keep control over prediction markets, calling it a "critically important" issue as states move to treat the fast-growing sector as gambling under their own laws. ... (Full article text preserved with paragraph breaks)

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