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The winner, whose name is not yet known, overcame steep odds of 1 in 302.6 million, which led to three months of drawings without a claim on the jackpot.

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan on Sunday, just over a week after strong quakes killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same region.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, reversed a lower court decision that had struck down a South Carolina congressional district as a racial gerrymander.

A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning as members of Congress were playing baseball in Alexandria, Va. At least five victims were shot, including Republican Congressman Steve Scalise.

U.S. employers added just 245,000 jobs last month as the runaway pandemic continued to weigh on hiring. The unemployment rate fell to 6.7% from 6.9% in October.

The CDC has updated its guidance for schools, saying it "now recommends that, with universal masking, students should maintain a distance of at least three feet in classroom settings."

Ripon, Wis. — where the Republican Party began — was the backdrop for a Harris campaign speech from former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney. She said former President Donald Trump is not fit to serve.

President Donald Trump says he’ll meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this Friday in Alaska to discuss a deal for ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. // Searchers on Saturday found the body of an Alaska Native man in Fairbanks who’d been missing since Wednesday. // Hunters from the North Slope community of Point Lay will collaborate with a UAF anthropologist from Russia this summer, to document traditional knowledge about walruses. // Alaska will get $6.7 million from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to clean up contaminated sites on land owned by Alaska Native corporations and villages. // U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday they were monitoring two Chinese research ships transiting through American waters in the Bering Sea. // More than 2,000 people bought tickets to the first Midnight Sun Scottish Highland Games on Saturday at the Mushers Hall on Farmers Loop Road in Fairbanks.

Some of the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 believed in the QAnon conspiracy theory. In the aftermath, social media platforms ramped up efforts to push QAnon content off their sites. Four years later, the QAnon movement has morphed into something else.

On a ship that saves lives at sea, Ruth Sherlock speaks with Syrian migrants about the risks they took escaping their country and their hopes for a new life in Europe.