If you or someone you know may have a gambling problem, call the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-MY-RESET. To find a live Gamblers Anonymous meeting happening now, click here. When Andrew needed money for a flight with friends to Greece this summer, the 18-year-old high school senior turned to prediction markets. With a $500 cash advance from his credit card company, Andrew sat in a Starbucks for more than six hours, trading on live tennis matches on Kalshi. He left with a $2,200 profit.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/28/economy/prediction-markets-kalshi-young-adults
A medieval manuscript featuring an early version of the tales of King Arthur and Merlin, which has been in private hands for about 700 years, is going under the hammer in a rare sale this summer. Expected to fetch up to $2.7 million, the illuminated manuscript, which dates from the 13th or 14th century, is one of the earliest documents to narrate the legend of King Arthur and the search for the holy grail. Written sometime between 1290 and 1310, the Clermont-Tonnerre Grail is the highlight of an upcoming Valuable Books and Manuscripts auction at Christie’s in July.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/28/style/medieval-king-arthur-manuscript-auction-scli-intl
A Chinese lawyer who fatally poisoned the billionaire gaming tycoon who helped produce the Netflix sci-fi hit “3 Body Problem” has been executed, according to Chinese state media. Xu Yao killed his boss Lin Qi in 2020 by gifting him what he said were probiotic pills, but in fact contained lethal toxins which he bought off the dark web and mixed in his own lab. Earlier that year, the high-flying lawyer had helped Lin secure the rights to adapt Liu Cixin’s celebrated trilogy of sci-fi books, which starts with “The Three-Body Problem.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/28/china/china-netflix-crime-execution-intl-hnk
The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its namesake Ohio city. “Steel. Strength. Power,” acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao posted on social media to mark the occasion. Critics of the littoral combat ship (LCS) program had some other descriptions.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/27/us/us-navy-last-littoral-combat-ship-hnk-intl-ml
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The investigation is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury in testimony tied to her two civil lawsuits against the president – one alleging he sexually abused Carroll in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, and a second for defaming her when in 2019 he repeatedly denied the assault, said she wasn’t his type and claimed she made it up to boost sales of a book. Prosecutors’ theory hinges on a 2022 deposition statement by Carroll, 82, that she received no outside funding for her lawsuit, though it was later revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman had paid some legal fees and expenses.