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The sixth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history is up for grabs Tuesday night. Lottery officials say the jackpot reached $470 million, with a $265.3 million cash payout option. Check your tickets! Mega Millions winning numbers 20, 22, 39, 54, 60 and Mega Ball 18 If nobody matches all six numbers in Tuesday's drawing, Mega Millions will hold another drawing Friday night. Other record jackpots from Mega Millions Mega Millions says there were more than 1.35 million winning tickets sold in the Oct. 5 drawing, but none matched all six numbers, driving up Tuesday's jackpot. A press release says a record Mega Millions jackpot of $656 million was won March 30, 2012, and shared by people in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland. Another record $648 million jackpot was won in California and Georgia on Dec. 17, 2013. How to play Mega Millions Mega Millions tickets cost $2 per play and there are a total of nine ways to win a prize, ranging from the jackpot down to $2. You can play Mega … [Read more...] about Mega Millions winning numbers: 20, 22, 39, 54, 60 Mega Ball 18 — 6th-largest Mega Millions jackpot

The South Carolina lottery says a single winner has stepped forward to claim the $1.5 billion Jackpot from a drawing in October. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File) COLUMBIA, S.C. — The mystery surrounding the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from October is partly over as lottery officials announced Monday that a South Carolina resident had stepped forward to claim the prize but elected to remain anonymous. A lottery commission statement said the person submitting the claim for what was the second-largest lottery in U.S. history has chosen the cash option, a one-time payment of nearly $878,000,000. That’s the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in United States history, it said. “We are delighted that the winner is a South Carolinian and has come forward to claim this remarkable prize,” said Hogan Brown, the Commission’s Executive Director. The winning ticket was sold between Oct. 20 and Oct. 23 of last year at a convenience store in Simpsonville, a … [Read more...] about South Carolinian claims $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot

The South Carolina lottery says a single winner has stepped forward to claim the $1.5 billion Jackpot from a drawing in October. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins, File) COLUMBIA, S.C. — The mystery surrounding the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from October is partly over as lottery officials announced Monday that a South Carolina resident had stepped forward to claim the prize but elected to remain anonymous. A lottery commission statement said the person submitting the claim for what was the second-largest lottery in U.S. history has chosen the cash option, a one-time payment of nearly $878,000,000. That’s the largest jackpot payout to a single winner in United States history, it said. “We are delighted that the winner is a South Carolinian and has come forward to claim this remarkable prize,” said Hogan Brown, the Commission’s Executive Director. The winning ticket was sold between Oct. 20 and Oct. 23 of last year at a convenience store in Simpsonville, a … [Read more...] about South Carolinian claims $1.5B Mega Millions jackpot

Manuel Franco of West Allis, Wis., winner of second-highest Powerball lottery in history, attends a news conference at the Wisconsin Department of Revenue in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. At right is Peter Barca, state secretary of revenue, and at right is Cindy Polzin, state lottery director. Franco claimed the cash option payout of the prize, totaling approximately $477 million before taxes. The overall jackpot of the prize, drawn March 22, was $768,400. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)Manuel Franco of West Allis, Wis., winner of second-highest Powerball lottery in history, appears during a press conference at the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, in Madison, Wis. Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Franco claimed the cash option payout of the prize, totaling approximately $477 million before taxes. The overall jackpot of the prize, drawn March 22, was $768,400. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP) MADISON, Wis. — A 24-year-old Wisconsin man stepped forward … [Read more...] about Powerball winner steps up to claim $768M prize

Rich corporations with money offshore want a tax holiday; Sen. Carl Levin says, 'I want them to pay their taxes like the rest of us' Shoppers in Shanghai try the Apple iPad. Apple sales in China top $13 billion. APGoaded by battalions of corporate lobbyists, members of Congress are working to give a select group of U.S. multinational firms like Apple, Oracle and Pfizer a lavish tax break on a trillion dollars stashed offshore.The avowed goal is to generate jobs and investment, but the offshore tax holiday was tried before, in 2004, and the lion’s share of the benefits went not to unemployed workers and their families, but to corporate shareholders and executives.With today’s high unemployment, and soaring costs for college, health care and other family essentials, critics are asking why an elite class of corporations and their shareholders should get a huge tax break on overseas profits.The proposed tax holiday could cost the Treasury from $40 billion to $80 billion over … [Read more...] about Wealthy Corporations with a Trillion Dollars Stashed Offshore Lobby for a ‘holiday’ from U.S. Taxes