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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — If there are any big winners in Saturday's Powerball drawing they'll share in the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history — roughly $675 million. No one matched all the numbers in last night Powerball drawing.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrats in Nevada are getting ready for their caucuses on Feb. 20. They gathered last night in Las Vegas to hear what presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley had to say. Clinton promised that if she becomes president Nevada will "always have a friend in the White House." Sanders was greeted by a loud cacophony of horns and in his cheering section. Former Maryland Gov. O'Malley has trailed Clinton and Sanders by a wide margin but also won cheers from the crowd.
UNDATED (AP) — A major survey says progress has stalled on reducing the number of uninsured Americans under President Barack Obama's health care law. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds that the share of U.S. adults without health insurance was 11.9 percent in the last three months of 2015, essentially unchanged from the start of the year. The GOP-led Congress just passed a bill to dismantle the health care law, which Obama will veto.
BEIJING (AP) — Eleven workers trapped underground in a coal mine in central China have died. Authorities say the miners were found today, a day after the mine in Shaanxi (shan-chee) province collapsed. The rest of the 49 miners who had been working in the privately run mine escaped.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A foundation run by the heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton says it'll spend $1 billion over the next five years to improve public education by backing new charter schools and helping programs already up and running. The foundation has spent more than $1 billion on K-12 education over the past 20 years, including $385 million to help start charter schools in poor communities. The new money will be spent in places where the foundation already operates.
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