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Barstool was humming and Portnoy had his first Nantucket house when state legislatures began to legalize online gambling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Polymarket has an advantage there: U.S. states with the highest Hispanic populations, namely Texas and California, have yet to legalize traditional sports betting.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Bernal added that delinquency rates for credit cards and car loans have jumped by 25% to 27% for borrowers under age 40 in states that legalize internet sports betting.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Is the federal government trying to push Minnesota to legalize gambling?

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

I write that America is my home in my heart, and how citizenship will legalize what I already feel.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

If the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage, India would become the second country in Asia, after Taiwan, to do so.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023

The 100-page "family code" legalizes same-sex marriage and civil unions, allows same-sex couples to adopt children, and promotes equal sharing of domestic rights and responsibilities between men and women.

From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed into law a bill that effectively legalizes the cryptocurrency sector in the country.

From The Verge ● Mar. 17, 2022

“If California legalizes sports gambling it becomes very unlikely that another state would arise as the consumer-oriented opposer of sports gambling.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

The act legalizes the deportation of people suspected of having “ties to terrorism.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

The effort legalized private enterprise, opened the country to foreign investment, and decollectivized agriculture, while maintaining single-party political control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Marriage equality was legalized in all 50 states by the Supreme Court 11 years ago in Obergefell v.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

In 2026, Idaho legalized starters-homes on small lots and Virginia allowed accessory dwelling units by right.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

The state’s supremacy in the sports-betting space is also noteworthy because New York only legalized online sports wagering in 2022.

From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026

Du Bois praised and embraced Washington’s emphasis on “thrift, patience, and industrial training for the masses,” but sharply disagreed with his public acceptance of segregation, disenfranchisement, and legalized discrimination.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In 2025, Texas passed bills legalizing housing on commercially zoned land and subdivisions of starter homes, which were rendered difficult or illegal to build by municipal zoning laws, large lot requirements, or other design requirements.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

He put his effort into legalizing people already here—nearly three million, the largest such legalization in U.S. history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

These arrests come as sports organizations grapple with a bleak new reality that has emerged since states began legalizing sports betting in 2018: Players at all levels are becoming entangled in betting schemes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025

But then he surprised everyone by swiftly legalizing political parties, appointing the reformist Adolfo Suárez as prime minister, and overseeing the creation of a new democratic constitution.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2025

And indeed, those early- legalizing states saw crime begin to fall earlier than the other forty-five states and the District of Columbia.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt