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What to know about the Christmas Eve Powerball jackpot in Arkansas worth $1.8 billion 12/26/2025 04:34pm • Christmas came early for someone who purchased a Powerball ticket at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, worth more than $1.8 billion. The lone winner in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing matched all five winning numbers and the Powerball to capture the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S Student loan borrowers in default may see wages garnished in 2026 12/23/2025 07:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year. The department said it will send notices to approximately 1,000 borrowers the week of January 7, with more notices to come at an incre Big donation helps keep students in Montgomery County fed 12/23/2025 02:12pm • Montgomery County school leaders are celebrating a big donation that will help families in the Maryland county who struggle to afford school lunch. About half the county’s 160,000 students receive assistance through the Free and Reduced-Price Assistance Program. Even with that help, according Colombia declares an economic emergency in a criticized effort to raise more taxes 12/23/2025 11:19am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia ’s government has declared an economic state of emergency that enables President Gustavo Petro's administration to issue taxes by decree, as the nation struggles to finance hospitals and the military while paying off record debts. Petro issued the decree late Mon Takeaways from AP's report on a beef plant closure that threatens to unravel a small Nebraska town 12/22/2025 09:19pm • LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — A small town in rural Nebraska is losing its biggest employer, a Tyson Foods' beef plant, which will be laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of around 11,000 people. Lexington, Nebraska, is expected to lose hundreds of families who will be forced to move away in sea An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs 12/22/2025 09:17pm • LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town. A pall hung over the room just as it hung over the holiday season in Lexing Most US adults aren't making year-end charitable contributions, new AP-NORC poll finds 12/22/2025 03:27pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Most Americans aren't making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar's final month to reach budget targets. The survey, which was conduc Larry Ellison guarantees $40.4 billion in Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery 12/22/2025 12:09pm • Paramount is sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with an “irrevocable personal guarantee” from Larry Ellison, who is putting up billions of dollars to back the deal for his son’s company. On Monday, Skydance-owned Paramount announced that Larry Ellison — the founde Saudi Arabia awards Pakistan's powerful army chief highest national honor after defense pact 12/22/2025 04:28am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Saudi Arabia has awarded its highest national honor to Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, during his visit to Riyadh, Pakistan’s military said Monday, underscoring deepening ties between the two countries, including cooperation on counterterrorism. Munir received Iraq's political future in limbo as factions vie for power 12/21/2025 03:31am • BAGHDAD (AP) — Political factions in Iraq have been maneuvering since the parliamentary election more than a month ago to form alliances that will shape the next government. The November election didn't produce a bloc with a decisive majority, opening the door to a prolonged period of negotiations Minnesota Twins and first baseman Josh Bell finalize $7 million, 1-year contract 12/21/2025 12:53am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — First baseman Josh Bell and the Minnesota Twins have finalized their $7 million, one-year contract. The sides agreed to terms Monday, pending a physical exam, and the Twins announced the deal Friday. Bell gets a $250,000 signing bonus payable by Feb. 1 and a $5.5 million salary Sri Lanka tea workers struggle in poverty. Flooding cost many their lives 12/19/2025 10:13pm • CRAIGHEAD ESTATE, Sri Lanka (AP) — Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works. That same November evening, tea worker Kumaran Elumugam's small home was crushed by a landslide, killing six fa Judge nixes conviction of 1 of 2 men found guilty of killing Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay 12/19/2025 06:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A judge Friday voided the conviction of one of the two men found guilty of the 2002 killing of Run-D.M.C. star Jam Master Jay, ruling that there wasn't enough evidence that the man had a motive to kill the hip-hop luminary. The reversal, which came as the judge upheld the other man Bolivia's largest cities brought to standstill by transportation strike over fuel price hike 12/19/2025 10:51am • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The streets of Bolivia's largest cities, La Paz and Santa Cruz, were brought to a standstill on Friday as public transportation workers went on strike against a 100% fuel price increase ordered by the new government in the South American country. Food and transportation pric What to know about the EU's new $106 billion loan to Ukraine 12/19/2025 08:39am • BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years. The 27-nation bloc's heads of state had planned to use some of the 210 billion euros ($246 billion) worth of Russian assets tha