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UNDATED (AP) — The buying frenzy is likely to accelerate this week ahead of Wednesday night's Powerball lottery drawing for a jackpot that's at least $1.3 billion. No ticket matched all six Powerball numbers following the drawing for the already record Saturday jackpot of nearly $950 million. The winning numbers were 16-19-32-34-57 and the Powerball number 13.
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's claim that it tested a hydrogen bomb has prompted a show of force by South Korea and the United States. A powerful U.S. B-52 bomber flew low over South Korea today as a Cold War-style standoff with the north deepens. Some experts remain skeptical of the North Korean claim.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Visions of his life up on the big screen may have helped in the search for two-time prison escape and notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. A Mexican official says a secret meeting with actor Sean Penn last year helped authorities track down and recapture Guzman. Guzman was unapologetic over his life in a Rolling Stone interview with Penn published late yesterday.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death of a Syrian journalist in southern Turkey has culminated with the arrest of three people. Turkey's state-run news agency says police arrested a suspect and two people believed to have aided him in killing Naji al-Jarf, the editor-in-chief of pro-opposition Hinta Magazine. He was shot in the street. He's the third Syrian journalist to be killed recently.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis continues to lay out his pastoral vision of the Roman Catholic Church in his first book. "The Name of God Is Mercy," a 100-page conversation with Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli, is being published this week in 86 countries being published this week. Francis condemns what he calls the "scholars of law" who challenge Jesus' message of unconditional love and mercy, calling them hypocrites using the law to hide their own "deep wounds."
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