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The awnings of a store advertise the sale of lottery tickets, including Mega Millions, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, in New York.

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Mega Millions jackpot climbs to $1.25 billion after no one hits the top prize

1:05am August 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

Tuesday night's drawing was the 30th straight without a winner. The lottery drought is due to poor luck and terrible odds: the chance of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302.6 million.

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1 person dies, 8 others are seriously hurt in tour bus rollover at Grand Canyon West

12:53am August 02, 2023

One person was killed in a tour bus rollover involving over 50 people Tuesday in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon West Skywalk, authorities said.

In this undated photo provided by El Roi Haiti, Alix Dorsainvil, right, poses with her husband, Sandro Dorsainvil. Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse for El Roi Haiti, and her daughter were kidnapped on Thursday, July 27, the organization said.

World News

Aid efforts for Haitians suffer blow with kidnapping of American nurse and daughter

12:35am August 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

Gang warfare has increasingly plagued Haiti since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Criminal control has worsened and today the innocent are often killed, raped and held for ransom.

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday at a Department of Justice office in Washington.

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The charges facing Trump in the Jan. 6 investigation, explained

10:31pm August 01, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

Trump was charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, witness tampering, conspiracy against the rights of citizens, and obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.

Then-President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021.

Politics & Government

Trump charged with 4 felony counts for attempt to overturn the 2020 election

9:38pm August 01, 2023

Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to court documents.

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Special counsel Jack Smith arrives to give remarks on a recently unsealed indictment against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Politics & Government

Special counsel Jack Smith speaks about the latest indictment against Trump

9:09pm August 01, 2023

by Emily Olson

Special counsel Jack Smith spoke briefly about the indictment and praised the men and women who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Fitch cut the United States' rating by one notch, moving it from the previous top-rated AAA to AA+, just two months after the government avoided a devastating default.

The U.S. loses its top AAA rating from Fitch over worries about the nation's finances

8:58pm August 01, 2023

Fitch cut the federal government's top rating, citing rising deficits and a steady deterioration in governance over the last two decades. The action drew a sharp rebuke from the Biden administration.

Matthew DePerno, the 2022 Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general, speaks during a Trump rally in Warren, Mich. DePerno is being investigated for his involvement in an alleged scheme to tamper with voting machines.

Politics & Government

Former Michigan GOP attorney general nominee is charged in voting machine breach

8:35pm August 01, 2023

by NPR Washington Desk

Matthew DePerno, the most recent Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general, has been charged with undue possession of a voting machine and conspiracy.

A Bed Bath & Beyond sign is displayed in 2012, in Mountain View, Calif. Overstock.com is dumping its name online and becoming Bed Bath & Beyond.

National

Overstock.com is revamping using Bed Bath & Beyond's name

5:26pm August 01, 2023

Overstock bought Bed Bath & Beyond's intellectual property in bankruptcy court. Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson said the company wanted Bed Bath & Beyond's name recognition.

A painting of Henrietta Lacks by Kadir Nelson is displayed at the HeLa Project exhibit in New York City in 2017. Lacks' genetic material, taken without her knowledge in 1951, has helped facilitate numerous scientific breakthroughs. Her life was the subject of the popular nonfiction book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Henrietta Lacks' descendants reach a settlement over the use of her 'stolen' cells

5:25pm August 01, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

Her genetic material, taken without her knowledge in 1951, has helped facilitate numerous scientific breakthroughs, including the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines.