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Because no one won Wednesday’s estimated $500 million jackpot, the next Powerball drawing has pushed the prize to the biggest ever, beyond the previous record of $656 million in 2012.

The company plans to lay off approximately 4,500 workers: 3,000 in its stores, 165 senior executives, 600 back-office employees, and 640 in its call centers. It also said that, the company is considering some options for its real estate.

Powerball is taking attention away from Mega Millions, which features a rather impressive $165 million jackpot for Friday night’s drawing.

As of close of business Thursday, Powerball sales in Louisiana totaled more than $22 million for this jackpot run.

The Powerball jackpot for the Wednesday, January 6, drawing had rolled to a $400 million annuity value, or $244 million cash prize, after the drawing on Saturday, January 2, produced no jackpot victor. Not too shabby. Yes, you could argue that it’s a total waste of $2 (and...

He said one of the first things he would do if elected president would be to invite Netanyahu to Camp David for a long weekend so he could “vent” about Obama.

The ranking includes issues such as poverty levels in schools as part of its effort to look comprehensively at the factors having an impact on student achievement, and poverty profoundly affects the chances that the youngest students will be ready for school.

In the hour immediately before the rally, the Gannett-owned Free Press complained that “The Donald Trump campaign is refusing to admit anyone who isn’t a Trump supporter to his speech Thursday night in Burlington”.

He also said he would “be happy” to meet with the National Rifle Association – which has vocally opposed to the president’s gun control proposals – and that he had invited them to the White House multiple times.

Former President Bill Clinton arrives at a campaign rally for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in Nashua, New Hampshire, on January 4.

The department has now released 82 percent, or 43,148, of the 55,000 pages of emails Clinton turned over after she left office.

Donald Trump implemented a loyalty oath – not very effectively – to weed out hecklers and Bernie Sanders’ supporters at Donald’s his oversold rally Thursday night in Vermont. Trump released a statement saying he had to be “loyal” to his...

“You don’t want to be running and have that kind of thing over your head”. “We will build a wall that works and I’ll get Donald Trump to pay for it”, Cruz said in December.

Cruz made the connection Thursday afternoon when asked about the statement by another senator, John McCain, that he does not know if Cruz is eligible to become president.

Bonenfant said this blast was “small”, and that further investigation would determine its cause.