Booming..

 

Prediction market volumes are booming in 2026, on pace to more than quadruple this year alone and reach an estimated $1 trillion in the next four years, according to Bernstein.

Volumes have already surged in the first few months of this year, the investment bank wrote in a report Tuesday, with Kalshi and Polymarket, the two largest platforms, seeing about $60 billion in market volume year-to-date — more than the $51 billion in total prediction market volume in all of 2025.

Growth rates for the platforms rival the artificial intelligence boom, according to Bank of America. Analyst Julie Hoover in a note last week called Kalshi one of the “fastest growing non-AI companies” in the U.S. 

Weekly trading volume on Kalshi — which controls more than 90% of the U.S. prediction market — has surged to more than $3 billion today from about $100 million a year ago, she wrote.

While prediction market volumes initially jumped in 2024 around the U.S. presidential election, they eventually surpassed those levels in 2025 as sports, cryptocurrency and macroeconomic contracts became popular.

Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani now estimates that total market volumes in 2026 will reach $240 billion, a 370% increase compared to last year. At a compound annual growth rate of roughly 80% between 2025 and 2030,  

Money..

 

As of April 26, 2026, protesters in New York have occupied the office of Governor Kathy Hochul demanding that she "tax the rich". 

The Action: Demonstrators targeted the New York Governor's office on Thursday, April 23, 2026, with messages regarding tax policies.

• The Target: Governor Kathy Hochul, the 57th Governor of New York.
• The Goal: Protesters are demanding increased taxes on high-income earners to address economic and social issues, including the potential impacts of the Trump administration, as reported in. 

The Governor's office typically handles policy, state laws, and budgeting. 

This is a developing story from April 2026.

Comment:

The real issue here is to reduce spending and wasting money.  Just a thought.

Wanted..

 

Federal immigration agents got a tip on the whereabouts of fugitive accused killer and drug trafficker Alejandro Perla Cruz, 37, of El Salvador on April 7 and set up a trap to nab him, officials said.
Cruz had been wanted for years, they said.

The agents finally were able to pull Cruz over near Newburgh under the ruse of a traffic stop at 6 a.m. April 13 and took him into custody, where he is now awaiting proceedings to send him back to face justice in El Salvador, authorities said.

ICE New York City will not allow violent criminals to evade justice within the United States, and we will never waver in our mission and mandate to remove them from our country,” said Kenneth Genalo, director of the ICE New York City Field Office, in a statement.

Reason..

 

Murder..

 

                                                             Earlier.

More than a decade after Dan Markel was gunned down outside his Florida home, there are still many twists and turns in the case involving several members of the same family.  

Dan Markel, 41, a Harvard law grad, was a prominent Florida State University professor who shared custody of his two toddlers with his ex-wife, Wendi Adelson. 

Charlie Adelson was convicted for orchestrating the 2014 killing of his brother-in-law amid a contentious child custody battle.   

His mother called him in jail and revealed that she was about to flee the country.

Donna Adelson was charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in the 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, Florida State University law professor Dan Markel. 

Following a high-profile trial, she was convicted on all counts and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Comment:

 What a story.  Just a thought.

Autopsy..

 

Private..

 

• A federal judge has been disciplined for having sex in their chambers with a high-ranking law enforcement officer within earshot of staff, attending a partisan political event and for lying to superior judges who investigated the claims.
• But the identity of the judge is being kept private by the Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability of the Judicial Council of the United States in its decision issued Friday.
• The judge was ordered to write letters of apology to six former law clerks who were interviewed in the probe; foregoing service as the chief judge in the federal district where they sit; and refraining from sitting on any Judicial Conference committee.

• The 11th Circuit imposed sanctions on the judge, who agreed to them, which included ordering that they write letters of apology to six former law clerks who were interviewed in the probe; foregoing service as the chief judge in the federal district where they sit; and refraining from sitting on any Judicial Conference committee.

  Comment:

• Glad its kept private.  Just a thought.

Lost..

 

Move..

 

Study..