The California Lottery announced Tuesday that Edwin Castro was the sole winner of the record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot. Joe Chahayed, the business owner who sold the winning ticket, was rewarded with a bonus of $1 million. The lottery said it will continue to support the state's public education system with the proceeds from the Powerball jackpot.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced Tuesday that she will not seek reelection in 2024, ending her more than 30-year tenure in the Senate. She intends to focus on her 2018 campaign priorities of preventing and combating wildfires, mitigating the effects of record-setting drought, responding to the homelessness crisis, and ensuring all Americans have access to affordable, high-quality health care until 2021. Feinstein is the first woman to serve as a U.S. senator from California and is the longest-serving female senator in American history, and her announcement has already sparked a competitive primary race for her seat in 2024.
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On Monday night, tragedy struck Michigan State University when a gunman opened fire on campus, killing three students and injuring five others. The shooter, identified as 43-year-old Anthony McRae, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Students recounted harrowing moments of terror as they ran for their lives during the chaos and confusion across the campus. The tragedy has left the Michigan State University community in shock, with the university offering counseling services and asking for thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families.
A Pentagon memo revealed that the unidentified flying object shot down in Canadian airspace on Saturday was a “small, metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it.” Army Gen. Mark Milley confirmed that a missile fired by a U.S. fighter jet at a high-altitude object detected over Michigan on Sunday missed its target and landed in Lake Huron. Defense officials told lawmakers that the object shot down over Lake Huron “subsequently slowly descended” into the water after impact, and crossed near “US sensitive sites” before it was shot down.
The Biden administration is offering to brief former national security adviser John Bolton on Chinese spy balloon incidents that took place during Donald Trump's presidency. The administration has not commented on the briefing, but it is likely to focus on the observations of the objects by US military pilots and their flight patterns before they were shot down. A senior administration official said that it would be "extremely difficult" to determine what the objects were if the debris cannot be recovered.
The Indian Income Tax Department has searched the offices of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in New Delhi and Mumbai, weeks after the BBC released a documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rights groups and opposition politicians have denounced the move as an intimidation tactic, and the BBC's employees have asked not to be identified. The Indian government's actions have raised serious questions about the freedom of the press in the country.
After nearly 50 years, the death of Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is set to be investigated by forensic experts from Canada, Denmark and Chile. Maria Reyes, a family member of Neruda, has revealed that the experts have determined that Neruda was poisoned with a substance not available in Chile at the time, and that there was evidence of a third-party presence in the poet's hospital room. The report is set to be released on Wednesday, and it is hoped that it will provide closure to Neruda's family and fans.