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Purchased Powerball tickets ((Photo by Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- A $1.25 billion Powerball jackpot prize is up for grabs Wednesday night, with a cash value of $572.1 million, after no winners were selected Monday.This is the game's sixth largest prize ever, according to Powerball. The largest prize ever was $2.04 billion won on Nov. 7, 2022.The Powerball jackpot last rolled Monday night, when no ticket […]

(NEW YORK) -- When Alyssa Burkett arrived at her Texas workplace one fall morning in 2020, the 24-year-old mother of one didn't know a deadly plan against her was already unfolding.On the morning of Oct. 2 that year, Burkett pulled into the parking lot of the Greentree Apartments in Carrollton, where she worked as an assistant office manager, right before tragedy struck.A new "20/20" episode, "Ride or Die," airing Wednesday, […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The federal government released two major economic reports this week, easing a backlog of data pent up by the 43-day government shutdown.The data flashed some warning signs, showing the unemployment rate had ticked up to its highest level in four years and retail sales had stalled at the outset of the holiday season, some analysts told ABC News. Even so, the reports offered bright spots and elicited a […]

(NEW YORK) -- The FBI released a video timeline on Tuesday in the investigation of the mass shooting at Brown University that shows the individual wanted for questioning walking near police just moments after the deadly attack.Just after the shooting, which the FBI said occurred at 4:03 p.m. local time, a security video captured the individual emerging onto Hope Street from what investigators described as "lot 42" on the Brown campus. As […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- The second of two doctors who were convicted in connection with Matthew Perry's ketamine death was sentenced on Tuesday to eight months of home confinement for his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute ketamine to the "Friends" actor.Mark Chavez is one of five people charged and convicted in connection with Perry's 2023 overdose death. He pleaded guilty last year to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine, admitting […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Manhattan district attorney's office signaled Tuesday it would exclude statements that accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione made while in custody at the Altoona, Pennsylvania, Police Department following his following his arrest on Dec. 9, 2024. Mangione was in a New York City courtroom Tuesday for the eighth day of an evidence suppression hearing that will determine what evidence will used against him when he goes on trial on charges […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Nick Reiner will be charged with the murders of his parents, renowned director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, Los Angeles officials announced on Tuesday.The charges of two counts of first-degree murder, with special circumstance of multiple murders, will be filed on Tuesday afternoon, LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said at a news conference on Tuesday.The charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without […]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BOSTON) -- A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been shot and killed at his home, authorities said.Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was found Monday night at his house in the upscale Boston suburb of Brookline. He was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on Tuesday, the Norfolk District […]

(NEW YORK) -- A former Olympic snowboarder is one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, with authorities comparing the Canadian citizen to notorious drug lords like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Pablo Escobar.The alleged drug kingpin -- 44-year-old Ryan Wedding -- is accused of heading a criminal enterprise that traffics tons of cocaine, engages in murder to further their aims and retaliate, and uses cryptocurrency to conceal their illicit profits.Wedding […]