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The Mega Millions jackpot has inched just short of $1 billion, offering an estimated $977 million top prize in Friday night’s drawing. Friday’s jackpot would be the lottery’s sixth largest. Mega Millions’ five largest jackpots all exceeded $1 billion, the lottery said. The drawing will take place at 11 p.m. ET Friday. The jackpot has a lump-sum option of an estimated $413.5 million. The jackpot has been growing since December 8, when two tickets in California claimed a $394 million prize. Though 29 consecutive drawings have passed with no grand prize winner, lower-tier prizes have been won in that span, including 37 prizes of…

Manager Robert Page believes Wales are in a stronger position for Tuesday’s Euro 2024 play-off final against Poland than when they qualified for the 2022 World Cup via the same route. Wales beat Finland 4-1 in Thursday’s semi-final to set up the Poland tie. They defeated Ukraine in a play-off final to reach the World Cup despite several players not playing regularly. Asked if Wales are in a better position now that issue has been resolved, Page said: “I’d say so.” He added: “We are in a healthy position because we’ve got everybody playing. “The gap in the World Cup play-offs [between…

An astronomer is set to use the most powerful telescope ever created to get a “game-changing” view of Saturn’s northern lights. Dr James O’Donoghue from the University of Reading is part of a team that has been awarded time with the James Webb Telescope (JWST). They hope to work out what is causing the planet’s northern lights and will also observe Uranus. Dr Henrik Melin, who is from the University of Leicester School of Physics and leading the research team, said it could “fundamentally shape our understanding” of both planets. University of ReadingAn infrared image of Saturn, taken by the…

A tunnel constructed high in the mountains of northeastern India has become the latest flashpoint in a simmering border dispute between New Delhi and Beijing. The Sela Tunnel, inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this month, has been hailed in India as a feat of engineering – blasted through the Himalayas at an elevation of some 13,000 feet (3,900 meters) – and a boon for the military, enabling faster, “all-weather” access to a tense de facto border with China. That’s caught the attention of Beijing, whose long-running dispute with New Delhi over their contested 2,100-mile (3,379-kilometer) border has seen the…

Get ready everyone because the ghost with the most is back in town. Warner Bros. Pictures released the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” on Thursday, a followup to the 1988 Tim Burton classic starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder. (Like CNN, Warner Bros. Pictures is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.) Even in the brief minute-plus clip, much of the DNA that made the first movie so captivating can be seen and felt, from Harry Belafonte’s calypso classic “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” being heavily featured – along with the unmistakable and unsettling deep synth chords of Danny…

“Buy your mom an iPhone.” That was Apple CEO Tim Cook’s famous response at Vox’s 2022 Code Conference, when a reporter complained that her mother couldn’t see the videos she texted to her mom’s Android phone because they were grainy and slow. It’s also a quip that US Attorney General Merrick Garland quoted – and sharply criticized – Thursday at a press conference announcing the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple, in which the Biden administration and 16 states allege Apple is illegally abusing the iPhone’s monopoly power in the smartphone market. The massive lawsuit against one of the world’s largest companies claims Apple is…

A federal judge has dismissed an indictment against seven Twitter users and a podcaster accused of running a $100 million stock manipulation scheme over social media. The Securities and Exchange Commission did not do enough to describe the influencers’ activities as a “scheme to defraud,” wrote District Judge Andrew Hanen of the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, in an order dated Wednesday. In the lawsuit, the SEC had alleged a lucrative “pump-and-dump” scheme in which the social media influencers used the messaging app Discord to promote certain stocks to “hundreds of thousands of followers,” and then quietly sold their positions…

Harry Maguire has thanked England boss Gareth Southgate for his support as “there’s loads of people who probably don’t think I should be in the squad”. Maguire continues to be selected for his country despite struggling to nail down a regular starting place in Manchester United’s team this season. “I think I’ve been in every single squad I’ve been available for, I’ve played every competitive game that I’ve been available for,” said the defender. “It gives me great confidence.” Maguire, who was given his England debut by Southgate in 2017, added: “There’s loads of people out there now who probably…

The US central bank has left its key interest rate unchanged again, while it looks for more evidence that inflation is coming under control. The decision kept the target range for the Federal Reserve’s influential rate in the range of 5.25%-5.5%, the highest in more than two decades. The Fed is debating whether higher borrowing costs have done enough to ease the pressures pushing up prices. Officials said they still expected to cut rates by the end of the year. But after raising borrowing costs aggressively in response to soaring prices in 2022, the bank is proceeding cautiously. “We want…

Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink has shown its first patient moving a cursor on a computer using an implanted device. In a nine-minute livestream on X, formerly Twitter, Noland Arbaugh uses the cursor to play chess online. Mr Arbaugh was paralysed below the shoulders after a diving accident and received the chip implant in January. The company’s goal is to connect human brains to computers to help tackle complex neurological conditions. “The surgery was super easy,” Mr Arbaugh said during the presentation. Mr Arbaugh also said that he had used the brain implant to play the video game Civilization VI. Neuralink…