When Gov. Gavin Newsom unveils his first draft of the state’s 2026-27 budget next month, he’ll reveal whether he intends to deal squarely with its chronic, multi-billion-dollar deficit or punt the ...

Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, holds the record for largest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Powerball win from November 2022. For Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, $1 million Powerball ticket was ...

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At the height of WikiLeaks’ power, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki received what he describes as “shattering evidence” of a coordinated international campaign to bring down Julian Assange. “Five years ago, ...

ByteDance Ltd. is on track for profits of roughly $50 billion in 2025, capping a record year for a Chinese social media leader making major inroads into e-commerce and new markets. The Beijing-based ...

Nabor Herrera was not aware his California store sold a winning billion-dollar ticket until he saw media gathered in front of his store the next morning. Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, is the ...

Though less prolific, Jarecki is master documentarist Gibney’s equal, as previously shown in his soberly angry expose of America’s racist war on drugs, The House I Live In (2012). He is similarly ...

NEW YORK, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Nasdaq expects a jump in initial public offerings next year driven by several large startups aiming to tap U.S. capital markets in coming months, a top company executive ...

Prices are reaching record levels across a group collectively worth $353 billion, but a familiar franchise lassos the top spot in the ranking once again, at $13 billion. Six years ago, the world’s ...

Gower Street Analytics has projected that the global box office will reach $35 billion in 2026, marking a second consecutive year of growth with a 5% increase over current estimates for 2025. The ...

The first jackpot to exceed $1 billion was won in 2016. If more lottery jackpots seem to be hitting new heights in recent years, it's not your imagination. After no ticket matched the winning numbers ...