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Federal authorities in Puerto Rico say they have seized $27 million in undeclared cash aboard a ship bound for the U.S. Virgin Islands

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday said Tropical Storm Karen has formed in the Atlantic Ocean, leading to warnings for some islands.

Tropical Storm Dorian’s center has reformed and is expected to continue strengthening as it moves through the eastern Caribbean Sea.

The bizarre blue-striped building on Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island was supposed to be a music pavilion with a strikingly different design, according to permit records viewed by NBC News. The building, shaped like a giant box and initially topped with a gold dome, has fueled rampant speculation and online conspiracy theories, NBC News reported. Drawings supplied by Epstein’s architects...

The winning ticket for Friday’s drawing of the Mega Millions jackpot, the seventh largest jackpot in the lottery game’s history, was bought in California, according to a press release. The winning numbers were: 17, 19, 27, 40, 68 and the Mega Ball was 2. The $530 million jackpot refers to the annuity option, paid over 29 years. A winner who...

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in Friday night’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Tuesday’s drawing will grow to $418 million.

No Powerball ticket matched all six winning numbers in the $562 million drawing Wednesday night, and the jackpot rose tens of millions of dollars more ahead of the next drawing. Saturday’s drawing will be an estimated $625 million, game officials said Thursday. That makes it the fourth largest in game history, and the seventh-largest in U.S. lottery history. The winning...

After more than six decades in the shoe business, Payless ShoeSource announced this week it will shutter all of its stores in North America, which includes 18 locations across San Diego County.

Two tickets were sold that match the winning numbers drawn for Powerball’s $688 million jackpot, one in a rural Iowa town and the other in New York City, lottery officials said Sunday. Powerball officials said the tickets matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing and will split the fourth-largest lottery grand prize in U.S. history. The jackpot was originally...

No one won the latest Mega Millions drawing, meaning the jackpot climbs to a staggering $1.6 billion. Mega Millions officials say no tickets matched all six numbers to claim the estimated $1 billion grand prize in Friday night’s drawing. The numbers were 15, 23, 53, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 7. The next drawing will be Tuesday.

Disabled and elderly people were discharged from overwhelmed hospitals with bedsores that led to fatal infections. Medical oxygen ran out. People caught lung infections in sweltering private nursing homes and state facilities. Kidney patients got abbreviated treatments from dialysis centers that lacked generator fuel and fresh water, despite pleas for federal and local officials to treat them as a higher...

Half a billion no more. The sole winning ticket for Tuesday night’s $522 million Mega Millions jackpot — the fifth-largest prize in the game’s 16-year history — was sold at a California liquor store, lottery officials said. It was not immediately clear who won the top prize. Kewal Sachdev and his family own Ernie’s Liquors in San Jose, where the...

Nearly a year after Hurricane Maria barreled into Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands, causing an estimated $100 billion in damage, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is admitting that it was unprepared to deal with the aftermath of the storm. FEMA found it “could have better anticipated that the severity of hurricanes Irma and Maria would cause long-term, significant damage”...

In a FIFA election where money could be key, Morocco tried to heap doubt on North American promises of multi-billion dollar 2026 World Cup profits on Monday.

A winning ticket for a giant lottery jackpot estimated at $521 million has been sold in New Jersey. Mega Millions says one winning ticket was sold in Friday night’s drawing. The winning numbers were 11, 28, 31, 46, 59 and Mega Ball 1. The New Jersey Lottery said Saturday on Twitter that the winning ticket was sold at a Riverdale,...