America Is Polarized. It’s Why We Have to Start Listening to Each Other
Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had "gone Democrat" on us. My family came by it honestly. Hoovers didn't like Democrats because of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's libelous partisan attacks on my great-grandfather Herbert Hoover, tethering him to the Great Depression. This personalization of hard times transformed the humanitarian hero of World War I...
5m Oct 29, 2018
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What Salary Should You Ask For? Here’s How to Figure Out What You’re Worth
Whether you're nailing down the details of a new job offer or hoping to negotiate a raise in a current role, you probably want to make sure you're being paid fairly. One way to do that, according to experts, is to figure out your market value. Your market value is an estimation of how much you should be earning based on your job title, years of experience, skills and location.
7m Oct 29, 2018
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You Love Haunted Houses Because They’re Playing a Trick On Your Brain
Scary movies, haunted houses and other spooky activities send some people running, while others can't get enough. But what's actually going on in the brains of fear-loving folks? Less than you might think, according to a study recently published in the journal Emotion. After having a voluntary scary experience, the researchers found, people were in better moods and had decreased brain activity...
5m Oct 29, 2018
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The Real Reason People Carve Jack-O’-Lanterns for Halloween
A floating light. A ghost named Jack. An angry devil. And... a pumpkin? Though jack-o'-lanterns are now an American cultural icon of Halloween, their symbolism is quite recent — and the story of how they came to be is a complicated one.
5m Oct 28, 2018
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This New Trick Will Change How You Use Google Docs Forever
Google’s making it easier for everyone — especially power Google Docs users who spend their days in the company’s office software — to quickly start new projects right from the Chrome browser. In a tweet a Google account, the company announced a new list of shortcuts to create documents, slideshow presentations, spreadsheets, sites, and forms right from your web browser. The best part? It work...
2m Oct 28, 2018
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The Idea of a ‘DNA Test’ for Transgender People Is Part of a Long, Dark History
Science is too busy holding the universe together to care about politics. Greenhouse gases will continue contributing to climate change and vaccines will continue not causing autism, whether you believe it or not. None of that means that politicians and ideologues won't keep trying to drag science into their fights.
10m Oct 28, 2018
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Why a ‘Strong, Charismatic’ Leader Is Not the Solution to America’s Tumultuous Times
In the first weeks of 2010, Coalition Forces under my overall command launched an operation to retake the Taliban-controlled district of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. We possessed the firepower to utterly destroy any Taliban resistance. But in the days preceding, I had met with a group of Marjah’s tribal elders, who approved of our effort only on the understandable conditions that t...
7m Oct 28, 2018
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How Far-Right Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro Could Transform Brazil
Far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro is poised to become Brazil's next president on Sunday. Bolsonaro has spent decades on the fringes of Brazilian politics as a congressman for Rio de Janeiro state, but his popularity has surged in 2018; he has led the presidential race since he announced his candidacy for the tiny Social Liberal Party in July and fell just short of the absolute majority he need...
6m Oct 28, 2018
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What to Know About Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Suspect Robert Bowers
The man suspected of opening fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 and wounding six others, appears to be tied to an account with anti-Semitic posts on Gab, a social media platform favored by some conservatives. Federal authorities identified the suspect as Robert Bowers, who is in his mid-40s. Police say the gunman entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of ...
3m Oct 28, 2018
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FBI Warns More Explosives Could Be in Mail After Making Arrest
Federal authorities warned there could be more mail bombs in circulation as they announced they arrested a 56-year-old Florida man in connection with explosives sent to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump. At a Department of Justice press conference Friday afternoon, FBI Director Christopher Wray said while none of the 13 intercepted devices exploded, analysis has found t...
4m Oct 27, 2018
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‘Weed the People’ Explores Medical Marijuana for Kids With Cancer
Marijuana, both medicinal and recreational, is growing more mainstream. Medical marijuana is now legalized in a majority of states, and 62% of Americans support legalizing it outright — but in the political realm, the plant has long been controversial. Now, a new documentary called Weed the People, which opens in some theaters in October, explores the potential of medical marijuana for childho...
8m Oct 27, 2018
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There’s Nothing Virtuous About Finding Common Ground
The first time I found myself facing a political dilemma was in the year 1976; I was 5 years old. My parents were what we used to call "movement people," veterans of the civil rights movement who leaned toward black nationalism and pan-Africanism. My name, Tayari, was brought back from a family friend's research trip to Kenya. Tayari means "ready" in Kiswahili, an East African lingua franca.
8m Oct 27, 2018
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Why Anger Is a Wasted Emotion
Civility is a style of argument that implicitly welcomes response. It's not often that an obituary goes viral, but this October a family chose to expose its immense pain for all the world to see, and the story of that pain rocketed around the Internet. Madelyn Linsenmeir was 30 when she died from her addiction. She first tried OxyContin as a teenager, a moment that "began a relationship with ...
7m Oct 27, 2018
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White Men Don’t Make Up the Majority of Democratic Candidates for Congress This Year. That’s a First
It took until 2008 for female senators to have access to a Senate swimming pool, until 2013 for female senators to have a bathroom with more than two stalls close to the Senate floor, and until this year for a female senator to give birth to a child while serving in office. Politics has a long history of being a man’s game, but things are changing, especially for Democratic candidates.
2m Oct 27, 2018
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Megyn Kelly Is Cancelled. But She Never Should Have Had the Job in the First Place
In her 14 months as an NBC morning-show host—a role that has come to an abrupt end—Megyn Kelly found a number of ways to alienate viewers. She kicked off Megyn Kelly Today, last September, with an ill-considered joke about Will and Grace turning one of its fans gay and a question about plastic surgery that instigated a year-long feud with Jane Fonda.
5m Oct 27, 2018
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How to Sound Smart About… Brazil’s Presidential Election
What Is Happening This Week: Brazil is bracing for the second-round of its presidential elections on Sunday, which pit far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro (colorfully nicknamed the “Trump of the Tropics”) against center-left Fernando Haddad, the torchbearer for one of Brazil’s most successful establishment parties, the Workers’ Party.
5m Oct 27, 2018
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Mail Bombs Rocked American Politics a Century Ago. Here’s What a Historian Thinks That Moment Has to Teach Us
After a week during which 13 packages containing explosive devices were intercepted on their way to prominent figures associated with the Democratic Party, authorities arrested suspect Cesar Sayoc on Friday. Although the apprehension may lead to some answers, authorities have warned that more mail bombs could still be working their way through the postal system, and the questions and anxiety th...
7m Oct 27, 2018
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Investigators Look to Florida Post Office for Clues About a String of Pipe Bombs
Miami-Dade Police said Thursday that they are assisting federal partners in their search of a U.S. Postal Service mail facility in Opa-locka, Fla. as part of the ongoing investigation into a series of pipe bombs sent to high-profile Democrats and the New York offices of CNN. Law enforcement officials have intercepted at least 10 explosive devices addressed to two former U.S. presidents, sittin...
2m Oct 26, 2018
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A Painting Made by Artificial Intelligence Has Been Sold at Auction for $432,500
An artwork made by an artificial intelligence program sold at a Christie's auction for $432,500, nearly 45 times its high estimate. Portrait of Edmond Belamy, a painting created by a Paris-based art collective called Obvious, was generated by using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th centuries.
2m Oct 26, 2018
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Meet the Afghan Kids Who Learned to Walk Again After Tragedy
All of the things you need to know now from the editors of TIME
8m Oct 26, 2018
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Chuck Grassley Asked the Justice Department to Look Into Michael Avenatti's Work on Brett Kavanaugh
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has referred attorney Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick to the Department of Justice for a criminal probe into whether they gave "materially false" statements to Congress during the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and intentionally attempted to obstruct the process. "I don’t take lightly making a referral of this nature," Grassley s...
4m Oct 26, 2018
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The Hidden Reasons Why Alzheimer's Caregivers Are So Stressed
When Nancy Daly was helping to care for her late mother, who had Alzheimer's disease, the stress was so great that she would often shut herself in a bathroom and cry into a towel. For more than two years, Daly regularly flew from her home in California to her mother's in Maryland, eventually to no recognition. "It was as if my entire childhood was erased, when she did not know me," says Daly, 5...
4m Oct 26, 2018
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A U.K. Billionaire Stopped the Press From Reporting Allegations of Harassment – Raising Questions of #MeToo in Britain
A British billionaire businessman was allegedly able to get a court order stopping the U.K. press from reporting allegations of sexual misconduct and racial harassment – a case that is raising questions of free speech and freedom of the press in the era of #MeToo. Sir Philip Green, the owner of Topshop, was named on Thursday as the businessman in question.
4m Oct 26, 2018
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This Week’s Attempted Bombings Raise Alarms. But Experts Say It Doesn’t Mean the Country Is More Violent
Suspicious packages containing suspected pipe bombs have been discovered across the country, targeting several critics of President Donald Trump. But historians and security experts say the packages aren't necessarily a sign that the country is getting more violent — and that our current climate is not as violent as other periods in American history. The FBI, along with local law enforcement, ...
6m Oct 26, 2018
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How the Gun Control Act of 1968 Changed America’s Approach to Firearms
This week marks 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968 into law on Oct. 22 of that year. It was the first major gun control measure in the United States in 30 years, but its passage earned this dismissive take in the pages of TIME: "better than nothing." "Forget the democratic processes, the judicial system and the talent for organization that have long b...
8m Oct 26, 2018
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Jamie Lee Curtis Is So Much More Than Just a Horror Legend
Pulling into the driveway of Jamie Lee Curtis' house on the west side of Los Angeles, I am met by her dog Runi, a rescue terrier-poodle that bounds down the stairs like an animated ball of fluff, tail wagging. Curtis is not far behind, striding down to meet me warmly as if we are already old friends. She's tall and trim, and her gaze is intense--in a good way. Upstairs in her kitchen, she fixes...
7m Oct 26, 2018
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Public Rage Won’t Solve Any of Our Problems
Recently a friend asked me, with what I thought was a hint of suspicion in his voice, why my writing was so "apolitical." It's not the first time it's happened, but it always surprises me. I've written about military policy under both President Obama and President Trump. I've questioned what we're doing and tried to write about what flawed policy looks and feels like to those tasked with carryi...
8m Oct 26, 2018
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Climate Change Is on the Ballot in Washington State. Here's Why It Matters for the Rest of the Country
From a glimpse of the television ads, campaign speeches and newspaper headlines, it might be hard to guess that climate change is on the ballot in the fast-approaching midterm elections. But climate activists and policy experts across the political spectrum say that, win or lose, a ballot initiative in Washington state that would create a first-in-the-nation carbon tax has the potential to sha...
7m Oct 26, 2018
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Rüfüs Du Sol Wants to Change the Way You Think About Electronic Music
Tyrone Lindqvist, Jon George and James Hunt may be just three musicians from Australia. But together, as the powerhouse electronic dance group Rüfüs du Sol, they've created a sound and experience that's won them a passionate fanbase, two platinum albums and appearances at major festivals around the globe, from Coachella to Electric Forest, where they play live.
1m Oct 26, 2018
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Here Are the Highest Paid Actors on TV in 2018
Jim Parsons has topped the list of highest-paid actors in the television industry for the fourth year in a row, after making a whopping $26.5 million before taxes in the past year. According to Forbes, the Big Bang Theory star took first place over his co-star Johnny Galecki (who clocked in at no. 2 with $25 million) with extra income from endorsements and his executive producer role on spinof...
2m Oct 25, 2018
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How the College Basketball Corruption Verdict Could Help End Amateurism
A little more than a year ago, federal attorneys and the FBI — to much fanfare — unveiled their findings from a two-year investigation into corruption in college basketball. Assistant coaches and sneaker company reps and aspiring agents were arrested. Officials shared tales of illicit money sloshing around the sport in order to attract certain players to certain schools. On Wednesday afternoon...
5m Oct 25, 2018
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President Trump Addresses Bomb Threat Saying the Media Must ‘Stop the Endless Hostility’
During a rally Wednesday, President Donald Trump blamed partisanship and the media for fostering the political environment that led to suspicious packages and explosive devices being sent to public figures and organizations this week. Speaking in Mosinee, Wis., Trump called for civility in politics saying, "The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostili...
2m Oct 25, 2018
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The FDA Approved a New Flu Treatment, Just In Time for Flu Season
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new antiviral influenza treatment. The agency on Wednesday approved Genentech's drug Xofluza, which can be taken via a single oral dose to help patients recover more quickly from the flu. It's the "first new antiviral flu treatment with a novel mechanism of action approved by the FDA in nearly 20 years," FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb ...
3m Oct 25, 2018
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'This Is Surveillance.' Apple CEO Slams Tech Rivals Over Data Collection
(Bloomberg)—Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook lashed into Silicon Valley competitors that collect user data, equating their services to “surveillance,” provoking defenses by Facebook Inc. and Google of their advertising-based business models.
4m Oct 25, 2018
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Honoring a Fijian War Hero. Here’s What to Know About Him
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are well on their way through their 16-day whirlwind tour of the Pacific. After a three-day stop on the island of Fiji, the expectant parents made their move to the neighboring island of Tonga on Thursday. But before they did, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex unveiled a statue of a Fijian solider named Talaiasi Labalaba, who was a war hero to his peers but whose nam...
4m Oct 25, 2018
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Every U.S. Public Library and YMCA Will Soon Get Narcan for Free
Every public library and YMCA in the U.S. may soon be equipped with Narcan, in an effort to combat drug-related deaths by expanding access to the opioid-overdose-reversing naloxone nasal spray. Emergent BioSolutions, which this month completed its acquisition of Narcan maker Adapt Pharma, will provide a free kit including two doses of the nasal spray, as well as educational materials, to each ...
3m Oct 25, 2018
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Review: Google’s New Pixel 3 Has One of the Best Cameras You Can Get Right Now
Leak after nearly unbelievable leak gave the world a good look at Google’s newest pair of smartphones, the $799 Pixel 3 and larger, $899 Pixel 3 XL, well before the company’s official October 9 announcement. Still, the company that introduced Android to the masses knows how to make a smartphone, and the Pixel 3 is an impressive device. It’s fast, takes great photos, and uses Google’s treasure t...
10m Oct 25, 2018
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Here's Why This Forest Looks Like It's 'Breathing' in That Viral Video
No, it's not special effects: this video really does capture a section of a forest in Quebec heaving to and fro, looking like it's a living, breathing, sentient woodland. But no, there's no mysterious magic at work here, even if it is suspiciously close to Halloween. No giants are asleep under those rocks; no spooky forest spirits are at play.
2m Oct 25, 2018
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Why Politicians Are Texting You So Much — And It’s Only the Beginning
Eleni Kounalakis, a Democrat running for lieutenant governor in California, is sitting on a couch in San Francisco, introducing herself to about one voter per second. Stylus in hand, she’s hosting a “text bank” with volunteers and using an app called Hustle to rapid-fire her platform — along with appeals for support — straight to voters’ cellphones. “You get my vote just for reaching out,” one ...
9m Oct 25, 2018
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South Carolina Store That Sold Winning $1.5 Billion Lottery Ticket Will Get $50K Payout
(SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.) — A flimsy little piece of paper that crossed the counter of a convenience store on a country road in South Carolina is now worth $1.537 billion, so lottery officials could hardly be blamed Wednesday if anxiety tinged their excitement. They said a single ticket sold at the KC Mart in Simpsonville, South Carolina, matched all six numbers to win the Mega Millions jackpot. A...
6m Oct 25, 2018
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Woman Who Invented Green Bean Casserole, Campbell's Most Popular Recipe, Dies at 92
(HADDONFIELD, N.J.) — The woman who created a Thanksgiving staple enjoyed by millions — the green bean casserole — has died at age 92. Dorcas Reilly died on Oct. 15 of Alzheimer's disease, said Ken Tomlinson of the Hinski-Tomlinson Funeral Home in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Campbell Soup officials said the New Jersey resident was the driving force behind the popular dish, made with green beans ...
3m Oct 25, 2018
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‘Everybody Has to Do More.’ How Chef José Andrés Is Serving Millions of People Displaced By Hurricanes
José Andrés refuses to turn his back on survivors of natural disasters. The Michelin-starred chef from Spain had opened critically acclaimed restaurants across North America, and helped to popularize "small plates" dining in the U.S. But since Andrés started mobilizing volunteers to feed people in the wake of disasters, he's been celebrated for his humanitarian work as well as his tapas. On ...
3m Oct 24, 2018
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WHO Director-General: What Must Be Done to Create a World Without Polio
Thirty years ago, the world united under a bold promise: a future free from polio. In the decades since, organizations from across the world have worked alongside dedicated governments and health workers to make good on that promise. In addition to developments like improved access to clean water, vaccination efforts like those led by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have yielded an inc...
7m Oct 24, 2018
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The Wife of White Nationalist Richard Spencer Says He Physically Abused Her for Years
The wife of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer has accused him of physically, verbally and emotionally abusing her throughout their eight-year marriage. In a court filing for the couple's divorce proceedings in Montana, Nina Koupriianova said Spencer once left her with bruises after dragging her out of bed and down stairs in 2011. She also said he "attacked" and bruised her again in 2014...
3m Oct 24, 2018
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Vietnam Begins Life Under New Strongman President Nguyen Phu Trong
Hanoi’s notorious traffic was its usual bedlam Wednesday morning, as swirling eddies of motorbikes and taxis raced past harried commuters with psychotic abandon.
7m Oct 24, 2018
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A Virus Outbreak Has Killed 6 Children at a New Jersey Health Center. Here’s What to Know
A viral illness outbreak has killed six children and infected 12 others at a medical facility in New Jersey, state health officials confirmed Tuesday. Eighteen cases of adenovirus, six of them fatal, have been confirmed among pediatric residents at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, according to a statement from the New Jersey Department of Health. An investigation i...
6m Oct 24, 2018
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The Trump Administration Wants to Define a Person’s Sex at Birth. It’s Just Not That Simple
A memo circulating through the Trump Administration proposes that several government agencies should define sex as “a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth,” according to the New York Times. This definition is a blunt instrument that, along with its cruel dismissal of the transgender population, fundamentally misunderstands the sc...
6m Oct 24, 2018
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The Beards, the Pitchers and a Rivalry Reborn. Here’s Your Guide to the Red Sox-Dodgers 2018 World Series
Let's face it: the 2018 World Series, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, doesn't exactly ooze charm. This matchup of coastal metropoles features the team with the highest team payroll in the league — Boston, at around $228 million — against a club clocking in at number three — the Dodgers, who shelled out nearly $200 million to win the National League pennant.
7m Oct 24, 2018
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Nationalism Has Gotten a Bad Reputation. But It’s What America Needs Right Now
Today, we hear the sloppy, misconceived term “white nationalism” more often than we hear about American nationalism. And whenever the term nationalism is raised, it is often quickly conflated with racism. For instance, at an Oct. 23 rally, President Donald Trump declared that he was a nationalist. He used the term in contrast with globalist, who he called “a person that wants the globe to do we...
9m Oct 24, 2018
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South Carolina Ticket Wins Record $1.6 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot
(DES MOINES, Iowa) — Lottery officials say someone has won the record $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Mega Millions officials said a ticket purchased in South Carolina matches all six numbers in Tuesday night's drawing. The massive jackpot is the world's largest ever lottery grand prize. The winning numbers were 5, 28, 62, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 5. No details on where the winning ticket was...
3m Oct 24, 2018
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