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Bally’s Corporation is changing finance chiefs as the casino company pours money into major developments, deals with financial pressure and fights over video gambling terminals in Chicago. Mira Mircheva told Bally’s she plans to leave her jobs as executive vice president and chief financial officer for personal reasons, according to the company’s Thursday announcement.

Three members of Congress have renewed their pressure on FanDuel, saying the betting operator still has not explained how its VIP program handles customers who may be struggling with gambling problems. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Reps. Paul D. Tonko and Valerie P. Foushee wrote to FanDuel CEO Christian Genetski on Thursday (September 3), following an August 14 response from the company that they considered insufficient. Sen. Blumenthal and U.S. Reps.

The NFL is again asking designated contract markets to pull several types of football-related prediction contracts, making another push as the 2026 season gets underway. A September 3 letter says exchanges are still listing contracts the league flagged in an earlier March 29 request. NFL officials argue those markets could undermine game integrity while exposing players, coaches, officials and exchange participants to additional risks.

Prospect Park Councilman Anand Shah has resigned after roughly a decade in public office, months after admitting his role in an illegal gambling operation investigated by state authorities. His resignation became effective August 28, 2026. Shah disclosed the decision in a letter addressed to the municipal clerk and shared publicly on Facebook. “Writing this letter is one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do,” Shah wrote.

A Michigan judge has temporarily shut Kalshi’s sports contracts out of the state, handing Attorney General Dana Nessel a preliminary injunction while her lawsuit against the prediction-market company moves forward. Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie E. Aquilina signed the order September 1, barring Kalshi and related parties from activities tied to sports wagering in Michigan until the court issues a final order.

New Jersey is taking its fight with Kalshi to the US Supreme Court, asking the justices to decide whether federally regulated prediction markets must also follow state sports betting rules. The state has petitioned for review after a divided Third Circuit prevented New Jersey from enforcing its wagering laws against KalshiEX LLC. At issue is whether Dodd-Frank blocks states from regulating sports contracts offered through Commodity Futures Trading Commission-regulated markets.

Churchill Downs Incorporated has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to order an independent review of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, escalating scrutiny of the regulator days before HISA provisionally suspended trainer Angel Quiroz over a series of alleged medication and horse-welfare violations.

FanDuel has voided wagers placed on behalf of Bill Simmons and taken action against his account after the sports media personality admitted using his daughter’s boyfriend to make bets for him in Massachusetts. The sportsbook said it also reported the matter to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC), which is reviewing Simmons’ admission.

Today in prediction market news, we’re following a fresh wave of legal and regulatory developments, including Kalshi urging the Tenth Circuit to block Utah enforcement while its federal appeal plays out, and Ohio and Rhode Island pointing to recent Ninth Circuit rulings as they defend state authority over prediction markets.

The Ninth Circuit has called Kalshi’s contracts what its advertising already did: sports betting. Kalshi’s marketing department wrote the opening line of its own legal defeat. “KalshiEX, LLC advertises itself as ‘the first app for legal sports betting in all 50 states’,” Judge Ryan Nelson wrote in the first sentence of the Ninth Circuit’s 50-page opinion. It appears to be a rough way to learn that ad copy can become evidence.