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Saturday's Powerball jackpot stands at $126.3 million, with a cash value of $56 million after no one took home the top prize on Wednesday, Jan. 7. The most recent jackpot-winning numbers were revealed ...

Amazon is sending claim notices to Prime customers as part of a $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement in September 2025 requiring ...

The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday, Jan. 2, stands at an estimated $157 million. The winning numbers for the Tuesday, Dec. 30, drawing were 18-43-49-63-69 and the Megaball was 6. No one won the ...

After the Powerball drawing on Monday, Jan. 5, the jackpot stood at an estimated $88 million with a cash value of $39.8 million. Monday’s drawing comes about a week and a half after one lucky ticket ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) – Powerball ticket sales on Christmas Eve pushed a massive Powerball jackpot to $1.817 billion — and early Christmas morning, lottery officials announced there is a winner! According ...

An estimated $1.6 billion is up for grabs in Monday’s Powerball draw. It's time to check your tickets. Here were the winning numbers in the Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, drawing: 3-18-36-41-54 Powerball: 7 ...

The numbers are in from Saturday night’s Powerball drawing. The winning numbers from Saturday’s drawing are 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and 20. There is a 3x Power Play. The jackpot reached an estimated $1.5 ...

The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday, Dec. 19, is an estimated $90 million. No one won the jackpot in the previous drawing on Tuesday, Dec. 16. Drawings are held on Tuesdays and Fridays at ...

The Powerball jackpot just keeps on climbing! No one matched all six numbers in the Wednesday, Dec. 17 drawing so the jackpot will increase to an estimated $1.5 billion for Saturday, according to the ...

The president cited misleading statistics to insist, wrongly, that prices were coming down. By Linda Qiu Reporting from Washington President Trump praised what he portrayed as the economic gains under ...