Final Oscar voting will take place from Feb. 26 to Mar. 5. The 98th Oscars will be held March 15 and will air on ABC, hosted by Conan O’Brien. The first out-of-the-gate winner guesses are below.

This breakdown of the best actor race weighs the strengths and vulnerabilities of each contender as SAG and BAFTA voting are underway. What does each one have going for them, and against them.

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College football is nothing if not unpredictable, and that's exactly the spirit behind these bold predictions for every team in Brandon Marcello's way-too-early top 25 in 2026. The goal here isn't to ...

Now that we know which teams who will play one another in the 2026 World Cup group stage, it’s time to predict who will make it through to the knockout rounds. There are 100 days to go until the 2026 ...

Gambling has taken over the country. But it’s not just sports betting that’s emptying wallets. Now, the rise of prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi to bet on almost any conceivable outcome, ...

To live in time is to wonder what will happen next. In every human society, there are people who obsess over the world’s patterns to predict the future. In antiquity, they told kings which stars would ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Stefano Costantino/SOPA Images/ZUMA Press/Jim West/Zuma Press/U.S. FDA via ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is stepping in to stop what it calls an “onslaught” of state-level regulation of prediction markets. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said Tuesday in a video ...

Somewhere between a Las Vegas casino and the Wall Street stock market, a new way to make money by betting on future outcomes is taking the world by storm. Prediction markets are trading platforms ...

Our expert World Cup picks for today’s matches and futures, updated daily with the best betting value across player props, matchups, and tournament markets. This page features our top World Cup best ...

The offseason wait is over. MLS is Back. As has become tradition, we asked Apple TV talent to predict how the Eastern Conference and Western Conference standings could finish (averages below). There ...