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Nobody won the Powerball jackpot last night, which was estimated to be $130 million with a cash option of $101.1 million. In the next Powerball draw, which will take place on Saturday, March 21, the jackpot is an estimated $140 million with a cash option of $108.7 million. While nobody won the jackpot, a player in Washington matched five numbers and won $1 million. Additionally, 13 players matched four balls and the Powerball and won $50,000 each, while five of these players used the Power Play to multiply their prizes to $200,000....

No one has claimed the $20 million jackpot for the September 19 draw, according to the Powerball website, so it will now roll over to the next drawing on Thursday, September 24. The estimated jackpot then will be $22 million (with a cash value of $17.6 million). Although nobody won the jackpot in Saturday night’s draw, there were some big winners. Eight players matched four white balls and the Powerball correctly to win $50,000 prizes, while another four increased their winnings to $200,000 with the Power Play feature....

This year, as Americans contemplate making Sen. Hillary Clinton our first female president, it is instructive to look back at Elizabeth and other women who wielded power long before the age of speechwriters, personal stylists and YouTube campaigning. Cleopatra, for example, ruled ancient Egypt with fierce political savvy while giving birth to children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony (twins in the latter case). If she worried about balancing work and family, she left no record of it....

The Representative for Washington, the leader of the House Progressive Caucus, rejected calls to immediately splinter off climate change elements of the much-delayed $1.75 trillion BBB package in an effort to get it passed. Jayapal also told Newsweek that the landmark spending bill was the focus for the Democratic Party for the next few weeks, now that voting rights legislation had stalled. She said the goal “for the next four weeks” was to get as many of BBB’s goals “as we can into a bill that passes the Senate....

The “ReAwaken America Tour” rally began on Friday, and includes speakers who have backed QAnon conspiracy theories and spread falsehoods about how the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump in favor of Joe Biden. “Opening prayer today at Eric Trump and Michael Flynn’s QAnon event,” tweeted Ron Filipkowski, a former federal prosecutor who posted the video to Twitter, which has now been viewed more than 700,000 times as of Saturday afternoon....

Sportsbook.ag lists the Kentucky Derby winner at odds of -180, meaning a bettor would have to lay $18 to win $10. He’ll be challenged in the Preakness by Derby runner-up Exaggerator, who was a bad early trip from upending the unbeaten Nyquist at Churchill Downs last Saturday, and several other returning horses. MORE: Best Preakness finishes of all time | Preakness records The Preakness field is limited to 14 horses, with 13 expected to run in the 2016 race....

What will women voters do? Since the 19th Amendment prohibited the denial of voting rights on the basis of sex a century ago, the press, the public and especially politicians have sought to answer this question. Yet expectations for women voters are often more grounded in assumptions and stereotypes than in evidence, and predicting how women will vote requires looking beyond gender alone. In the years immediately following suffrage, the conventional wisdom was that women didn’t really want to vote at all....

With the coronavirus halting professional football in England since mid-March, there are question marks over how seasons will be completed and how champions, European places, promotion and relegation will be determined. Several teams have shown a willingness to finish the season in neutral locations, but only if the possibility of relegation is removed. MORE: Agent details bold plan to finish PL season in Perth Norwich, Aston Villa and Bournemouth are currently in the Premier League’s relegation zone, while Watford, West Ham and Brighton are all fighting to avoid the drop....

— The rehearsal dinner was Tuesday at a placed called Stanley’s Bar and Grill in Liverpool. “Ciara and Russell couldn’t keep their hands off of each other,” according to E! News. “The love was strong in the room.” Not too strong, we hope. MORE: NFC predictions | Ranking all 32 backup QBs — The ceremony itself is Wednesday at a castle of some sort. Their 100-ish guests are not permitted to bring cell phones and will travel to the castle from an undisclosed central location, according to TMZ....

The presumed front runner (not that anyone in Kiev trusts polls) is the incumbent, Leonid Kuchma. He is also the West’s favored candidate, mainly because under fierce pressure he gave up his country’s nuclear weapons. But the president is now running a campaign that is making his erstwhile friends avert their eyes. His most egregious sin, in what is supposed to be a fledgling democracy, has been the systematic abuse of an allegedly free press....

Ernie Els’ Internationals threatened to sweep all five foursomes at one stage on Friday before the seven-time reigning champion Americans rallied to win two of the final three matchups. Clutch birdies from Patrick Cantlay and Justin Thomas ensured Tiger Woods’ team ended the day only 6.5-3.5 adrift at Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Only once has a team come from behind after two sessions to win the Presidents Cup — the USA in 2005 when it trailed 6....

As it happens, Jerry Brown was grossly wrong about Clinton “funneling money” into his wife’s law practice. In fact, the Rose firm, the third largest in Arkansas, is 37th in state business. Hillary Clinton takes no share of state fees, but if she did, it would be peanuts. According to state records, since 1989 Arkansas has paid the Rose Firm a grand total of $4,226.75. That just about covers the bar bill for the couple dozen reporters holed up in Little Rock....

I’ve twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. It’s one-upmanship among parents. We see our kids’ college pedigrees as trophies attesting to how well–or how poorly–we’ve raised them. But we can’t acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So we’ve contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford....

Blood clots really are a very serious business and they don’t just hang out in the lower legs. They are particularly likely to develop in the postoperative period, when people tend to be relatively immobile, and may not be eating and drinking normally. So hospitals routinely take extra steps to prevent blood clots in people who have just had surgery. An embolism is the name given to a clot that breaks free from the area where it first started and begins to travel through the blood vessels of the body....

How to Prevent Keloid Formation You can prevent keloid formation by avoiding skin injuries like: Cuts Surgery Body piercing Infection Acne If you form keloids in response to acne, it is important to treat the acne quickly and use medications to help prevent its return. If you have acne, avoid shaving your neck and face, as doing so may irritate your acne and stimulate more keloid formation. Instead, use scissors to trim your facial hair....

On Wednesday, Matchday 3 of Group G in the 2017 AFC Cup will see Ceres–Negros FC of the Philippines hosting Malaysia’s Felda United FC at the Panaad Stadium in Bacolod City. The Busmen, who in the previous edition exploded onto the scene by reaching the round of 16 in their debut appearance in the competition, are currently leading the group after two matches. They first drew 1-1 away to Ha Noi FC, before trouncing Singapore’s Tampines Rovers FC 5-0 at home last week....

Prison killings are a staple of TV crime shows, and as victims go, a child rapist is hardly a sympathetic figure. But the gruesome details of Geoghan’s killing–and the seemingly common-sense measures that might have prevented it–have transfixed the public and energized prison-reform advocates. The Geoghan case is unfolding against a backdrop of nationwide prison budget cuts that even some wardens admit are making prisons more dangerous than they should be....