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A $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot was on the line Wednesday night after 40 straight drawings failed to produce a grand prize winner. The massive prize is the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot ever and the sixth-largest in U.S. lottery history. Interest was so high that the Powerball website briefly crashed as players rushed to check results. No…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promised to fully back Moscow after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Beijing, where the Russian president invited him to visit Russia soon. The two leaders sat down for more than two hours on the sidelines of China’s largest military parade, hosted by President Xi Jinping. At the end of…
Hurricane Lorena is gaining strength in the Pacific and could slam Mexico’s Baja California peninsula with heavy rain, flash floods, and dangerous mudslides later this week, forecasters warned Wednesday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said Lorena has just reached hurricane status with sustained winds of 75 mph. The storm could intensify quickly…
The Los Angeles Clippers are pushing back against claims that star forward Kawhi Leonard was secretly paid $28 million for a fake job. The allegations surfaced on Wednesday in journalist Pablo Torre’s podcast. Citing legal documents, Torre said Clippers owner Steve Ballmer used one of his companies to funnel money to Leonard in a way…
A Republican-led House committee on Tuesday released more than 33,000 pages of files tied to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender. The move comes as GOP leaders try to head off a bipartisan effort in Congress that would have forced a vote on making Epstein records public. Epstein’s case has long fueled…
Former WWE wrestler and Hollywood megastar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is making headlines after showing off a much slimmer frame, leaving fans wondering what happened. According to the Daily Mail, the 53-year-old actor stunned onlookers Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where he walked the red carpet looking noticeably leaner. Johnson was there to promote…
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has admitted she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat, a mistake that could cost her tens of thousands of pounds and put her political future at risk. Rayner confirmed she wrongly paid the lower rate of the property tax when she bought the flat in Hove in May…
The United States has revoked Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) license to ship advanced technology from the US to China, the company confirmed. The move could complicate operations at TSMC’s facility in China, which makes older-generation chips. Washington issued similar restrictions on South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix last week, making it harder for them…
Saudi Aramco and Iraq’s state oil firm SOMO have stopped shipping crude to India’s Nayara Energy after European Union sanctions hit the Russian-backed refiner, according to people familiar with the matter. The move forced Nayara, which is majority-owned by Russia’s Rosanne and other Russian entities, to rely entirely on Russian crude in August, shipping data…
Google shares jumped on Wednesday after a federal court delivered a decision that spared the company from one of its biggest antitrust threats. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, saw its stock surge more than 7% in after-hours trading after the ruling. The court rejected the government’s push to split off Google’s Chrome browser, a move that…
