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Lottery players are getting another shot at a Powerball jackpot that has grown to an estimated $1.3 billion after more than three months without a winner

The average price paid for a ticket on the resale market this week was twice as high for the NCAA women’s Final Four compared with that for the men’s semifinals

March Madness 2024 women's final four is starting on this Friday with final set to be held on Sunday. Women's basketball's big ticket event is here and the schedule shows that the The Final Four will be in Cleveland on Friday night, April 5, with the championship game on Sunday afternoon.

Student journalists across the United States have done their bit to cover small town news for years, but a college paper in Iowa is taking a bigger swing at it

A Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $975 million after no one matched the six numbers drawn, continuing a nearly three-month stretch without a big winner

Lottery players will have another shot at a $935 million Powerball jackpot that has been growing larger and larger since the last winner nearly three months ago

Conservatives are calling for a boycott of Tyson Foods after false claims spread online that the company planned to hire 52,000 people who came to the U.S. illegally

The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.1 billion after no one matched the game’s six numbers, continuing a stretch of more than three months without a big winner

A nearly $1 billion Mega Millions jackpot is up for grabs, offering the prospect of instant riches for a lucky player after more than three months without a big winner

The NCAA entered into its first NIL licensing deal allowing the use of the March Madness logo to Topps trading cards featuring basketball stars Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, Zach Edey and Tristen Newton

Alyssa Nolte, a 33-year-old consultant, was on a somber business call a couple months ago. A client was sharing news about coming layoffs. The client raised her hands and suddenly her screen was filled with balloons.

Tyson Foods will continue streamlining its operations by closing a pork plant in Iowa that employs 1,200 people and eliminating the largest employer in the town of Perry

the choice seems to be simple. Both political parties already have clarity over who their nominees will be, as Joe Biden (Democrat leader) and Donald Trump (Republican leader) have cruised through the early voting states. Super Tuesday is the primary election day the most states hold their primaries and caucuses and decide on the bulk of delegates for candidates in their respective parties.

(Reuters) — U.S. refiner Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO) is joining Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions' proposed carbon-capture and storage project, the private company said on Monday. Valero has agreed to transport greenhouse gases from eight of its ethanol plants on Summit's proposed pipeline, which will lead to the capture of 3.1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, Summit said.

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political turmoil, numerous voices have advocated for boycotting products, services, brands and even nations as a mark of protest. Take the BDS — boycott, divestment, sanctions — movement, which wants to pressure Israel to change its policies towards Palestinians through various forms of economic and political actions. It first gained international attention in the early 2000s. It has targeted global business entities such as Nestle, Burger King, Disney, Siemens, HP, Puma, Carrefour and others for supporting Israel, covertly or overtly. Many governments have also taken this route. Last year, Turkish parliament withdrew Coca-Cola and Nestle products from restaurants in parliament for supporting Israel. India has done things more subtly. It used BJP's social media arm to mobilise people to boycott Chinese products after border skirmishes, and to boycott the Maldives as a tourist destination after a minister made uncharitable remarks about India.

Caitlin Clark’s final regular-season home game at Iowa is likely to bring one of the priciest tickets in women’s college basketball history

A group of state attorneys general has challenged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) authority in the ongoing lawsuit against the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. 

The U.S. government is threatening to sue PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, to recover nearly $1 billion of costs related to the 2020 wildfires in southern Oregon and northern California

Nikki Haley says it's not «the end of our story» despite Donald Trump's easy primary victory in South Carolina, her home state where the onetime governor had long suggested her competitiveness with the former president would show. Defying calls from South Carolina Republicans to exit the race, Haley planned to travel Sunday to Michigan, which holds its primary on Tuesday.