Pay $2, pick six numbers, and you could win $1.3 billion on Wednesday night. So at least promises the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball lottery. The jackpot is the fifth ...

Point: The Powerball lottery prize is past $1 billion. Counterpoint: Powerball players will probably lose close to $700 million, collectively, by playing. These 10 stocks could mint the next wave of ...

The Powerball jackpot hit $1 billion—the second biggest lottery prize of 2025 so far—after no tickets matched all six numbers drawn on Wednesday night, although the eventual winner will take home a ...

The headline number on the latest Powerball jackpot is designed to dazzle, but the tax code quietly slices that figure into something far more ordinary. An advertised $875 million prize can shrink by ...

WKYC: Peter Thomas, professor of mathematics at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed the odds of winning the Powerball lottery, as the jackpot exceeded $1 billion.

For those who match all five white balls and the red Powerball, the key numbers are the $1.5 billion jackpot, paid out over 29 years or as an immediate $930 million in cash payment. But 39.6 percent ...

The odds of winning Wednesday's jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. One math professor says those odds are equivalent to ...