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The federal government has more or less successfully kept online gambling out of the U.S. by making it illegal for banks to process credit card payments for online gaming across state lines. Now, however, state budget shortfalls have caused some states to consider allowing online gambling, limited...

With casinos sprouting like kudzu across the U.S., many states are looking to gaming taxes to help fill the hole poked in their budgets by the recession. Now, the federal government has raised the stakes by taking the first step toward legalizing online gambling. According to Bloomberg...

Online poker in the U.S., despite regulations against it, has grown in lockstep with cable programs devoted to poker. A new investigation by the Washington Post and the CBS show 60 Minutes revealed how two online sites were hacked, resulting in the scamming of millions of dollars in poker...