{
  "id": 17125018,
  "title": "Polymarket and Kalshi Turn Midterm Elections Into a Multimillion Dollar Market",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/polymarket-and-kalshi-turn-midterm-elections-into-a-multimillion",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-29T21:08:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/technology/polymarket-kalshi-midterm-election-betting-wagers.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have transformed America’s democracy into a new kind of casino.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}