Express yourself.

Anthony Lynn cracks open a can of Coca-Cola. “I’m not sure what to do with myself right now,” he admits.

It all started with a conversation between siblings 10 years apart.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for states to legalize sports betting, the race is on to see who will referee the multibillion-dollar business of gambling on pro and college games.

By ruling Monday that any state can allow sports betting, the nation's highest court set America on track for what may be a historic expansion of its legal gambling offerings.

A Supreme Court decision Monday that could lead many states to legalize sports betting may provide some pocket change for those governments but not enough to help head off looming budget crises in a few years, experts say.

The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a federal law prohibiting sports betting outside of Nevada, opening up the practice to any other states that choose to allow it.

Odysseus, who voyaged across the wine-dark seas of the Mediterranean in Homer’s epic, may have had some astonishingly ancient forerunners. A decade ago, when excavators claimed to have found stone tools on the Greek island of Crete dating back at least 130,000 years, other archaeologists were stunned—and skeptical. But since then, at that site and others, researchers have quietly built up a convincing case for Stone Age seafarers—and for the even more remarkable possibility that they were Neanderthals, the extinct cousins of modern humans.