The Powerball jackpot is expected to rise to $1.9 billion for Monday’s drawing, according to the California Lottery, making it the largest lotto prize ever offered — just as organizers intended when they changed the odds in 2015. No winning tickets were sold for Saturday’s $1.6 billion drawing, already the highest lotto prize ever offered. The last Powerball jackpot was won on August 3 in Pennsylvania. This jackpot value is the amount a winner would receive if they took 30 annual installments, although the winner can also choose the cash option to receive a single lump sum of a smaller value....

Retail sales rose 1.2% in October, although they were down from 1.8% the previous month, the BRC said. The recent rise in prices means shoppers are spending more to buy less. As a result, they avoid luxury items such as clothes and home decorations and focus on the essentials. Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the BRC, said shoppers could also delay spending ahead of Black Friday sales. 5 things to start your day Bank of England calls for crackdown on money managers after mini-budget pension crisis – Central banks are increasingly being forced to use public money to bail out lightly regulated shadow banks, a senior policymaker warns....

Top Republicans in the House of Representatives say their path to a majority will run through the Empire State after redistricting left the historically blue stronghold with flip-flopping seats targeted to go red. “We think New York is a top battleground state. We have an opportunity to win a bunch of seats in New York, and we’ve invested nearly $10 million to make that happen,” said Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee....

Divisions in the Tory leadership campaign came back to the fore after Kwarteng’s statement, with critics claiming the chancellor was trying to avoid scrutiny by refusing to publish economic forecasts from the independent budget regulator. Kwarteng’s “plan for growth” was also compared by a senior party official to the ill-fated “Barber budget” of 1972, which emulated a similar aim but resulted in a boom, runaway inflation and the eventual demise of Ted’s premiership Heath....

The group’s net profit for the first half to the end of March was $ 2.7 billion, up 27 percent from last year, with the company trading a record volume in oil and metals, its two main divisions. The results provide the first taste of how some of the largest commodity traders did as a result of the rapid rise in prices and the redesign of trade flows following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February....

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to name career diplomat Jennifer May as ambassador to China, after previous appointments of the veteran political and corporate executive ended in controversy and accusations of soft-pedaling Beijing’s human rights abuses. Ms May, recently ambassador to Brazil, will become the first woman to be posted to Beijing, the second most important diplomatic mission after Washington, according to two senior government officials. Canada’s ambassador to the US, Kirsten Hillman, is also a career diplomat and the first woman to serve in that position....

J’ai grandi dans les années 1970, la plus belle décennie de l’histoire du Québec. Tout était possible, tout était à faire. TOUT A FAIRE Nous nous sommes levés le matin, et nous avons été poussés par la civilisation. Renée Claude a chanté ‘C’est le début d’un temps nouveau’, a proclamé le PQ : ‘A partir d’aujourd’hui, demain nous appartient ! », a déclaré Isabelle Pierre : « Il fait beau, le ciel est bleu » – trois magnifiques chansons du grand Stéphane Venne....

Some of those being asked to return were accidentally fired. Others were let go before management realized their work and experience might be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions, the report said, citing people familiar with the moves. Twitter recently laid off 50 percent of its employees, including employees in the company’s trust and security team. Twitter layoffs hit Canadian offices, involving at least two of the country’s top executives Tweets from the social media company’s staff said teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were among those destroyed, as were some product and engineering teams....

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said an extra 120,000 UK households, equivalent to 400,000 people, will be pushed into poverty when their current mortgage deal ends. The analysis assumes mortgage rates remain high and homeowners are forced to move to a 5.5% rate. With a current 2% rule, this change would mean they spend 54% of their monthly income on housing costs, up from 38%. In cash, this equates to an average increase of £250, from £610 a month to £860 a month....

Infolgedessen sollen Paris und Berlin Berichten zufolge seit einiger Zeit über einen gemeinsamen Besuch in Kiew verhandeln. Nach Angaben der Zeitung wollte Macron erst nach den französischen Parlamentswahlen führen, die am 12. und 19. Juni stattfinden. Die Übernahme des italienischen Regierungschefs als Drittpartei im Bündnis soll eine Idee Frankreichs gewesen sein. Solz, Macron und Draghi wollen mit ihrer Reise ein Zeichen der europäischen Einigung setzen. Hier finden Sie Inhalte von Twitter Damit die eingebetteten Inhalte angezeigt werden können, ist Ihre widerrufene Einwilligung zur Übermittlung und Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten erforderlich, da die Anbieter eingebetteter Inhalte als Drittanbieter diese Einwilligung benötigen [In diesem Zusammenhang können auch Nutzungsprofile (u....

Retour à la normale. A partir du lundi 7 novembre, les abonnés Canal+ pourront à nouveau regarder les chaînes du groupe TF1 en direct et en rediffusion. Concrètement : TF1, TMC, TFX, TF1 Séries Films, LCI… et donc des événements importants comme la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA et des programmes phares comme Late with Alain Chabat, Danse avec les Stars, Star Academy… Les deux entités ont finalement réussi à atteindre un accord, a annoncé vendredi soir dans un communiqué....

L’incident se serait produit vers midi près de la route de l’aéroport de Victoriaville. «Pour une autre raison inconnue, le parachutiste aurait eu de la difficulté à atterrir», a expliqué Alex Decelles, porte-parole de la Sûreté du Québec. Nous craignons pour la vie de l’homme, qui est dans un état critique. Une enquête est en cours pour comprendre les circonstances de cet incident, a précisé Alex Decelles.

Soupçonné de meurtre à répétition, “le prévenu est âgé de 59 ans”, a précisé le parquet de Rouen. “Il conteste les faits”, a ajouté le parquet, confirmant à l’AFP une information de Paris Normandie selon laquelle le prévenu est soupçonné de meurtre à répétition. Le corps poignardé d’une femme a été retrouvé jeudi dans son appartement de Rouen, provoquant l’ouverture d’une enquête pour homicide, a indiqué vendredi une source policière....

Toronto polls open at 10 a.m. ET Monday and are scheduled to remain open until 8 p.m. (no, you can’t vote online.) Expect results shortly after that — CBC Toronto will be calling you on that front. here’s how to watch. So, will you be voting today? If so, here’s what you’ll need, per Elections Toronto: How to vote in the 2022 Toronto municipal election Here’s everything you need to know to make the process smooth and simple on October 24....

Posté hier à 22h00. Joël-Denis Bellavance La Presse Justin Trudeau a laissé entendre à grands traits que les Canadiens auraient perdu leur chemise s’ils avaient suivi le conseil de son adversaire conservateur – donné lors de la course à la chefferie – d’investir leurs économies dans des crypto-monnaies pour échapper aux conséquences désastreuses de l’inflation. Le premier duel entre le premier ministre et le chef des conservateurs à la Chambre des communes a provoqué des échanges houleux et des réponses cinglantes....

Publié à 6h26 Jacob SerebrinLa Presse Canadienne La Direction de la santé publique (DSP) de Montréal, cependant, indique que des cas peuvent encore être importés par des touristes et d’autres visiteurs, et on ne sait pas encore combien de temps le vaccin restera efficace. Les médecins et les membres de la communauté LGTBQ+ de Montréal attribuent le succès du contrôle du monkeypox au lancement rapide d’une campagne de vaccination et à la coopération entre les responsables de la santé publique et les organismes communautaires....