Mega Millions jackpot nears $1 billion for Christmas Eve lottery drawing
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A lucky lottery player may get a big present on Christmas Eve: The Mega Millions jackpot is nearly $1 billion.
Tuesday's drawing is for an estimated $944 million, or $429.4 million in cash, according to the lottery. The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won at $810 million in Texas on Sept. 10.
No ticket matched all six numbers during the last drawing on Friday night, with white balls 2, 20, 51, 56 and 67, plus the gold Mega Ball 19.
Luigi Mangione due in court on state murder, terrorism charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination
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President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, and to have purchased — and used — illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen was hospitalized after being bucked off a horse he was riding on Sunday, according to a statement from his office.
Several small drones collided and then fell into a crowd at a holiday drone show in Florida on Saturday night, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
President-elect Donald Trump is filling out his National Security Council with several officials who served in his first administration.
The congressional office of Republican Rep. Kay Granger of Texas denied she is in a memory care facility after a report in the Dallas Express said she has not been in Washington in months and that she had been found at Tradition-Clearfork in Fort Worth, which offers assisted living and memory care, in addition to independent living for seniors.
A former researcher at OpenAI was found dead inside of his California apartment last month, authorities said. Suchir Balaji, 26, had in recent months become a whistleblower against OpenAI, speaking publicly about the company's practices and questioning whether or not they were legal.
Washington — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said as his time at the helm of the nation's immigration enforcement comes to a close that "a really terrific solution was killed by irresponsible politics" when the bipartisan border deal fell apart earlier this year.
Troublesome weather throughout the country could cause delays as forecasts show areas of rain and snowfall ahead of the holiday.
Dating back a month now, you've either seen them in the sky, or you've seen them on the news: Drones seem to be everywhere. By all accounts, alleged drone sightings are multiplying exponentially, with more than 5,000 reported in just the past few weeks alone.