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

Lottery hopefuls are taking their shot at Saturday night’s estimated $1 billion Powerball jackpot – the 14th US lottery prize to ever reach $1 billion and the second to do so this year.The jackpot rose after nobody won Wednesday night’s $930 million drawing.This is the second jackpot to hit at least $1 billion this year. Two winners – in Texas and Missouri – split Powerball’s $1.787 billion prize in September. That was the second largest jackpot in US lottery history; the largest, a $2.04 billion Powerball prize, was won in 2022.Billion-dollar jackpots have been in the US only for

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

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

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

For one Wisconsin couple, the loss of government-sponsored health subsidies next year means choosing a lower-quality insurance plan with a higher deductible. For a Michigan family, it means going without insurance altogether. For a single mom in Nevada, the spiking costs mean fewer Christmas gifts this year. She is stretching her budget already while she waits to see if Congress will act. Less than three weeks remain until the expiration of COVID-era enhanced tax credits that have helped millions of Americans pay their monthly fees for Affordable Care Act coverage

Expert tips to ease financial pressure and avoid holiday overspending

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

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

At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Russia’s southwestern Saratov region and parts of Ukraine went without power following targeted assaults on energy infrastructure, local authorities said Saturday, as U.S.-led peace talks on ending the war press on. The drone attack damaged a residential building and several windows were also blown out at a kindergarten and clinic, said Saratov regional Gov. Roman Busargin. Russia’s defense ministry said it had shot down 41 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight. In Ukr

CNN speaks to man who exfiltrated Venezuelan opposition leader

Fighting rages on Thai-Cambodian border despite Trump's ceasefire claim

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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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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

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

The Justice Department sued Fulton County, Georgia, on Friday, seeking records related to the 2020 election as efforts continue to prove President Donald Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen from him.In the lawsuit, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division alleges that the Atlanta-area county did not comply with a federal subpoena for its “used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election.”County officials previously told the Justice Department those records were under seal and co

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

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

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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

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Trump honors 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’ Olympic team with a new gold medal

The 1980 US Olympic men’s ice hockey team defied nearly insurmountable odds to defeat the Soviet Union, the world’s largest hockey superpower, propelling them to win a gold medal and the nation’s adulation.And now 45 years later, the “Miracle on Ice” team reunited in the Oval Office Friday for another medal ceremony as President Donald Trump signed a bill to award the players congressional gold medals.The remarkable game remains iconic among sports fans and those who lived it for the 4-3, come-from-behind upset victory — but also the patriotism it generated amid a moment of nationa