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Powerball might have Mega Millions to thank for its latest $1 billion jackpot

Whether or not anyone wins the billion-dollar Powerball jackpot on Saturday, at least one of the losers might already be known: Mega Millions.Powerball tickets, priced at $2 apiece, are selling briskly, as lottery tickets tend to do around ten-figured advertised prizes. In contrast, the next Mega Millions jackpot on Tuesday is a comparatively paltry $80 million.The two jackpots might differ by hundreds of millions — but the number that helps explain why is much smaller.Three dollars. That’s how much Mega Millions hiked its ticket price in April, more than doubling from $2 to $5.And it look

A $1 billion Powerball jackpot – the year’s second largest – is up for grabs tonight

Free child care for all? New Mexico is putting the theory to the test

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Democrats want to win back Congress. First they need to weather their primary battles

At least a dozen US House Democrats are already facing primary challenges, as progressives seek to transform a party regaining its footing after 2024 by tapping into voters’ frustration with its leaders ahead of next year’s midterm elections.Unlike past intraparty battles, this current fight is less about policy differences and more about style. A steadily growing group of challengers, backed by groups such as Justice Democrats and former DNC vice chair David Hogg’s Leaders We Deserve, argues the party needs to replace incumbents in safe districts with more inspiring candidates who can b

Higher cost, worse coverage: Affordable Care Act enrollees say expiring subsidies will hit them hard

Expert tips to ease financial pressure and avoid holiday overspending

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Belarus frees Nobel Prize laureate Bialiatski, opposition figure Kolesnikova as US lifts sanctions

Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and other prominent political prisoners, a human rights group confirmed. Their release comes as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko seeks to improve relations with Washington. The U.S. earlier on Saturday announced lifting sanctions on the country’s potash sector. In exchange, Lukashenko pardoned a total of 123 prisoners, the Belta state news agency reported. A close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced Western isolation and sanctions

2 killed in Russia while Ukraine's energy infrastructure is targeted as peace talks press on

CNN speaks to man who exfiltrated Venezuelan opposition leader

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Spurs' Victor Wembanyama set to return for NBA Cup semifinals vs. Thunder after 12-game absence

Victor Wembanyama is finally ready to play again. It just so happens that his return coincides with his San Antonio Spurs being in the NBA Cup semifinals against the defending league champion Oklahoma City Thunder. Wembanyama will be on a minutes restriction Saturday night when he and the Spurs take on the Thunder in the Cup semifinals. It'll be Wembanyama's first game back after he missed 12 contests with a strained left calf; the Spurs went 9-3 in those games, including a Cup quarterfinal win in Los Angeles against the Lakers earlier this week. He wanted to come

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Commander in charge of US military operations in the Caribbean retires after clashes with Hegseth over boat strikes

Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command who reportedly clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the legality of US military strikes in the Caribbean, officially retired on Friday in a ceremony in Florida where he handed the reins of the command to his deputy.Holsey thanked his wife, his sons — one of whom is a currently deployed Naval aviator — and others who attended the event.“I’m reminded that in life, we don’t remember days, we remember moments. Those we lead don’t follow titles, they follow courage, and they remember the moments and how you made the

Trump sued over East Wing demolition

New coins will commemorate 250th anniversary of American independence. Here's how they'll look

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Guardsman wounded in shooting can now breathe on his own as doctors hail ‘miraculous’ recovery

More than two weeks after being shot in the head in Washington, DC, National Guard Staff Sargent Andrew Wolfe, 24, is breathing on his own and can stand with assistance, according to MedStar Washington Hospital Center.Those are “important milestones that reflect his strength and determination,” said Dr. Jeffrey Mai, a neurosurgeon at the hospital.Mai called Wolfe’s progress extraordinary and said in a statement, “Based on these improvements, he is now ready to transition from acute care to inpatient rehabilitation as the next step in his recovery journey.”While the guardsman is still

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Bodycam footage shows the moment police confront Luigi Mangione at a McDonald's last year

For two weeks now, a rotating cast of police officers have arrived to a Manhattan courtroom to lay out exactly what happened the day Luigi Mangione was arrested and accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Two questions are at the heart of this lengthy pre-trial suppression hearing: Was the search of Mangione’s backpack in Altoona, Pennsylvania, last year legal? And did officers properly read him his Miranda rights?If the judge rules for the defense, prosecutors may not be allowed to show the jury key pieces of evidence in the case, including the 3D-printed firearm, loaded maga

House Democrats release photos of Trump, Clinton and Andrew from Epstein's estate

New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people

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Democratic states sue Trump administration over new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas

A coalition of blue states is suing the Trump administration over its fee of $100,000 for H-1B Visas, several Democratic attorneys general announced on Friday.The Trump administration announced in September that it would be implementing the fee for H-1B visas, citing that the program for the visas is overused. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, joined by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and New York Attorney General Letitia James and others, is leading the suit.H-1B visas allow foreign professionals to seek work in professions that are considered to be more specialized. A

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Flu season in the US is heating up, driven by new subclade K variant

The latest data on respiratory illness in the United States shows that shoppers and merry-makers are spreading more than just holiday cheer: They’re also passing around germs. In many cases, it’s a new virus variant that’s been causing early and busy flu seasons in Asia, Australia and Europe.The US is on the cusp of finding out what this flu variant, called subclade K, will do. For the week ending December 6 — the first full week after the Thanksgiving holiday — the proportion of doctor’s visits for symptoms including fever plus a cough or sore throat rose to 3.2%, according to the

Justice Department sues Fulton County, Georgia, for 2020 ballot stubs and other election records

Justice Department asks appeals court to block judge's contempt inquiry in mass deportation case

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Trump says he's sealed Thailand-Cambodia ceasefire, but fighting continues

President Donald Trump said Friday that Thai and Cambodian leaders had agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes, even as Thai and Cambodian officials suggested there is still work to do to get the ceasefire that the U.S. administration had helped broker earlier this year back on track. Trump announced the agreement to restart the ceasefire in a social media posting following calls with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet. “They have agreed to CEASE all shooting effective this evening, and go back to the origi

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Special forces veteran who rescued Machado begs her not to return to Venezuela

The US special forces veteran whose rescue team spirited Nobel laureate María Corina Machado out of Venezuela has begged her not to return to the country, after a perilous extraction mission that lasted nearly 16 hours and was carried out largely in the middle of the night through rough waters.“Overwhelmingly, this is the hardest, most high profile, most delicate operation we’ve conducted,” Grey Bull Rescue Foundation founder Bryan Stern told CNN on Friday.Stern told a virtual press conference earlier that Machado had boarded a boat that set sail from the Venezuelan coast to a rendezvou