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Monday’s (December 16) Powerball jackpot will be worth an estimated $55 million after zero players matched all six numbers during the $48 million drawing Saturday (December 14) night.
Results from Saturday’s Powerball game are listed below:
NUMBERS: 12-17-23-52-67
POWERBALL: 1
POWER PLAY: 2x
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are reported to be 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.com. The Powerball jackpot previously reset after one player in New York won the $256 million drawing on December 7. The Powerball jackpot reset after one player in California won the $44 million drawing on August 19.
One player in Pennsylvania won the $214 million Powerball drawing on August 12, exactly one week prior to another jackpot. The Powerball jackpot had previously reset after one player won the $139 million Powerball drawing on July 3.
One player in California matched all six numbers to win the $2.04 billion ($997.6 million) jackpot on November 7, 2022, the largest jackpot offered in U.S. lottery history, according to the official Powerball website. Powerball has had jackpots exceeding $1 billion five times.
Mega Millions games have also exceeded $1 billion six times, which includes its largest offering, a $1.603 billion jackpot that was one by a player in Florida on August 8. Both jackpots increase during each following game until there’s a jackpot winning ticket matching all six numbers drawn, which includes the additional Mega Millions Gold Ball or Powerball in each respective game.
Day: December 15, 2024
Georgia high school football championship previews: 8 games in 3 days, what to watch – The Atlanta Journal Constitution
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How To Watch No. 25 Georgia Tech vs No. 14 North Carolina: Tipoff Time, TV Channel, and Odds – Sports Illustrated
One of the top women's Basketball games in the country is going down in Chapel Hill today between No. 14 North Carolina and No. 25 Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets are 10-0 to start this season, while the Tar Heels are 10-1. It is the conference opener for both teams and getting a 1-0 start in ACC play would be huge for both teams. The Yellow Jackets are coming off of a 60-point win over ULM earlier this week and also had a dominant win over Mercer last Sunday.
The Yellow Jackets look to extend their win streak to 11 games after defeating Louisiana Monroe last Wednesday, 97-37. The 60-point rout was the largest margin of victory since 2011 as four different Yellow Jackets reached double-figures to help seal the win. Rusne Augustinaite led the way offensively with 17 points, connecting of five from three-point distance. For the fourth time this season, Tech finished with 10 or more three-pointers, draining 14 in the win.
North Carolina comes into Sunday’s matinee with a 10-1 ledger and its only loss coming against No. 2 UConn. The Tar Heels are 6-0 when competing at home and carry a seven-game win streak into ACC play. Alyssa Ustby leads UNC with 11.6 points and 9.2 rebounds per game on average.
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What to know about Syria’s new caretaker government – Al Jazeera English
The challenges ahead are myriad as the government seeks to keep Syria running while preparing for transition.
After toppling the regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader and commander-in-chief of the new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has appointed Mohammed al-Bashir to lead a caretaker government until March 1.
The move aims to stabilise the country by providing basic services to civilians and preventing a power struggle between armed groups over state resources and ministries, experts told Al Jazeera.
“[A caretaker government is needed] to ensure the state keeps functioning and that people have electricity, water sewage and the internet,” said Thomas Pierret, an expert on Syria for the Institute for Research and Study of the Arab and Muslim World.
However, the caretaker government – and HTS – could lose credibility if it refuses to share power after three months, experts have warned.
Here’s what we know about the caretaker government and its head:
The head of the caretaker government is a technocrat who headed the Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) in Idlib, a province in northwest Syria.
After the Syrian uprising erupted in March 2011, Idlib became an opposition stronghold. By 2017, HTS consolidated control and created the SSG out of civilian technocrats.
“Mohammed al-Bashir … has done a reasonably good job in Idlib,” said Robin Yassin-Kassab, an expert on Syria and the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and in War.
“I understand that it makes sense to scale [the Salvation Government] up to the whole of Syria, for now,” he added.
Al-Bashir’s background in electrical engineering, project management and administrative planning suggests he has the professional know-how to maintain basic services in the country, analysts said.
He first emerged as a minister in the HTS-backed Salvation government in 2021, according to the caretaker government’s official website
For two years, he served as the head of development and humanitarian affairs, according to Assaad Al Achi, executive director of Baytna, a non-governmental organisation that supported local civil society groups in Syria throughout the war.
“He was definitely interested in humanitarian work because that’s where the money was,” Al Achi said, referencing the SSG’s policy of taxing aid organisations.
On January 13, 2024, the Shura Council in Idlib elected al-Bashir as prime minister of the SSG.
Al-Bashir has told Al Jazeera Arabic that, for the time being, the ministers from the SSG would take over the national ministerial portfolios. The current ministerial lineup is:
Despite al-Bashir’s prominent role, Al Achi does not believe the caretaker prime minister has ambitions to consolidate power over Syria.
“What worries me is if [this caretaker government] extends [its term] for more than three months, but if it just for three months … then that’s alright,” he said.
Experts are concerned that HTS will try to rule all of Syria with an iron fist.
According to a report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, HTS subjected critics and opponents to enforced disappearances and tortured people to death.
Al Jazeera asked the HTS media office to respond to these allegations, but they had not commented by the time of publication.
The caretaker government and HTS could ease concerns of a power grab by proposing a roadmap detailing when negotiations with other stakeholders would begin ahead of forming a broader coalition, Yassin-Kassab told Al Jazeera.
He added that a plan should aim to implement UN Security Council Resolution 2254, which calls for a transitional period of 18 months, during which an inclusive coalition will draft a constitution and prepare for elections under United Nations supervision.
“[HTS] need to say this is the beginning of a process that will involve every aspect of society and all political leaderships,” said Yassin-Kassab.
“That would reassure Syrians and the international community and give the new government much more legitimacy.”
Syria’s economy is in tatters – the World Bank ranks its gross domestic product (GDP) at 129 out of 196 states.
HTS managed to raise revenue during its rule in Idlib by taxing residents, as well as goods and relief passing through from the Turkish border. However, it is unclear whether the group has enough finances to bolster the economy and supply basic provisions in the short to medium term.
Experts believe HTS can be incentivised to share power by linking sanction relief to political reforms.
Syria is on the United States list of “countries that sponsor terrorism” and, on top of that, HTS is considered a “foreign terrorist organisation” by the European Union, Turkiye and the US.
The EU and US have also sanctioned much of the Syrian economy, including the energy sector and the trading of goods related to technology or electricity provision, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
It’s imperative that HTS shares power with other stakeholders and civil society in order to convince Syrians and the international community that the group has changed, argues Yassin-Kassab.
“[I]t remains to be seen if this is the beginning of a power grab by HTS and HTS-aligned civilian bodies,” he told Al Jazeera.
“I certainly hope not.”
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Philadelphia Eagles Come Up Short in COVID Insurance Case – Sportico
By Michael McCann
Legal Analyst and Senior Sports Legal Reporter
The COVID-19 pandemic may seem like a distant memory, but pandemic-related insurance litigation lives on. Last Friday a judge denied the Philadelphia Eagles’ motion for reconsideration in their case against Factory Mutual Insurance.
Sportico detailed the lawsuit in 2022. Like other NFL teams in 2020, the Eagles were forced to close or modify operations on account of the pandemic and government lockdown orders. The Eagles had an insurance policy with Factory Mutual for Lincoln Financial Field, which seats about 67,000 plus features a standing room section. Although the NFL managed to play the 2020 regular season in spite of the pandemic, the Eagles initially played games without fans, then could allow 7,500, only to see fans prohibited again when COVID-19 rates surged in mid-November. The Eagles filed an insurance coverage claim for the pandemic-related financial losses, which Factory Mutual denied. The Eagles, in turn, sued.
As Factory Mutual saw the policy, an eligible loss “must directly result from physical loss or damage.” Although COVID-19 is a disease caused by a virus that can be seen under a microscope, Factory Mutual insisted its presence does not constitute physical loss or damage in a logical sense. The Eagles disagreed, asserting that viral droplets “expelled from infected individuals could have been present in the air” and then landed on and attached to surfaces. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson granted Factory Mutual’s motion to dismiss.
The Eagles motioned Baylson to reconsider, but he denied the motion in Friday’s order.
The judge stressed that a “physical alteration” to an insured property is a threshold requirement for the policy to apply. Baylson reasoned the Eagles “have not plausibly pled physical disappearance, physical deterioration, or absence of physical function of the insured properties.” The team has shown it sustained economic loss—revenue from hundreds of thousands of fans who would have attended games and paid for parking, merchandise, concessions etc.—but not in a way that sufficiently connects to insurance coverage. Prohibiting or restricting attendance at games and related government orders “had nothing to do with the physical attributes” of Lincoln Financial Field, the judge wrote in quoting an analogous court ruling.
Baylson also wasn’t persuaded by the Eagles’ argument that its losses were connected to a physical condition at the stadium. The Eagles insisted “the actual or threatened presence of COVID-19 at its stadium nearly eliminated or destroyed the stadium’s core function,” but the judge reasoned that depiction doesn’t establish a connection to the property’s physical attributes.
Baylson highlighted precedent from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit regarding physical loss or damage from COVID-19. In 2023, the court found that “loss of use caused by government edict and untethered to the physical condition of the premises” doesn’t count as a “physical loss or damage to the properties.” Even when a property owner loses the ability to use property for its intended purpose, that doesn’t necessarily render the property “useless or inhabitable,” the Third Circuit stressed.
To that point, Baylson noted that Lincoln Financial Field reopened for the 2020 NFL season with limited attendance. The judge reasoned that development is consistent with the idea that government orders, rather than COVID-19 itself, “were the source seriously affecting the property’s functionality.” Along those lines, while COVID-19 might have been in the air or on surfaces, that didn’t make it so “physically dangerous” to be inside Lincoln Financial Field that the building became useless.
The Eagles can appeal Baylson’s order. The team has enjoyed more success on the field in 2024 than in its litigation against Factory Mutual. The 11-2 Eagles are first place in the NFC East and host the 10-3 Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. A full house is expected at Lincoln Financial Field.
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Spiritual Significance: CM Bhupendra Patel's Visit to Gayatri Ashram – Devdiscourse
In a significant spiritual engagement, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel attended the Guru Puja ceremony at Gayatri Ashram located in Gadhethad, Rajkot district. During his visit, the Chief Minister participated in prayers at the Gayatri temple and received blessings from Mahant Shri Lal Bapu, emphasizing these interactions strengthen public service morale.
Patel accentuated the state government’s unwavering commitment to enhancing the lives of its citizens, elucidating that the blessings from revered saints are pivotal in fostering their resolve towards public welfare. The timing of his visit aligned with the auspicious Magshar Purnima, underscoring the meaningfulness of seeking Guru’s blessings.
Commending the organizing team for the meticulous arrangements of the Guru Puja ceremony, he echoed the sentiments of Mahant Lalbapu who stressed that nurturing societal values through spirituality holds more significance than material wealth in sustaining society and the nation. Memories of Patel’s previous visit during medical treatment in Ahmedabad were fondly recalled. (ANI)
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Dan Morehead Unveils Pantera Capital’s Crypto Holdings, Says Firm Owns Bitcoin and Other ‘Interesting’ Altcoins – The Daily Hodl
The CEO of digital assets-focused investment firm Pantera Capital says his firm owns a handful of other crypto in addition to Bitcoin (BTC).
In a new CNBC interview, Dan Morehead says that he thinks Bitcoin and crypto still have more room to the upside this cycle.
Morehead notes that his firm has accumulated positions in three altcoins including the layer-1 protocol Solana (SOL).
“The fun thing about crypto is we’ve been doing this for 11 years, and Bitcoin has a little bit more than doubled this year…
On average, it has done that for 11 years in a row. So crypto going up double is not remarkable. We’re normally long because the markets are going to go up another huge amount, another order of magnitude possibly.
We’re typically long. We’re always just looking at which other tokens are interesting. We have a big position in TON, Telegram’s token, Solana, ONDO. Those are some of ours.”
In May of this year, Morehead revealed that Toncoin (TON) is Pantera Capital’s “largest investment ever.” According to Morehead, TON is in a unique position to leverage Telegram’s 900 million monthly active users.
“99.999% of blockchain projects are a tech idea trying to create a community – from nothing. According to CoinMarketCap, there are more than 23,000 cryptocurrencies. That’s a hard road for most.
Telegram is a community integrating blockchain technology. That’s just got to be easier.”
At time of writing, TON is trading for $6.25.
ONDO is the native asset of Ondo Finance, a decentralized exchange protocol focused on tokenizing real-world assets (RWA).
At time of writing, ONDO is trading for $1.85.
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