On Aug. 12, 2026, an Illinois ticket-holder won $1.04 billion Powerball lottery jackpot. What we know about taxes, cash ...

Here are Wednesday's winning lottery numbers: The estimated Powerball jackpot is $332 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $141.7 million.

The Powerball jackpot will top $360 million on Saturday, Sept. 26, after no one matched all numbers in the Wednesday, Sept. 23, drawing. The winning numbers on Wednesday were 5, 15, 26, 29 and 30. The ...

Most Powerball winners pick their payout option for emotional reasons and discover the tax consequences the following April. The two paths to the same jackpot produce very different IRS bills, and the ...

The billion-dollar claim follows another anonymous Illinois win reported earlier in the year. A DuPage County man using the ...

Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots have reached $1 billion 14 times in history. Here's a look at the wins.

Mark Cuban says, Don't take the lump sum. Choosing annual payments might prevent a lottery jackpot winner from blowing it all away. Powerball made history Jan. 11, 2016, the first time a lottery ...

With the Powerball for Wednesday, Aug. 12, up over $1 billion, it's conceivable that one person could win the whole shebang. Which brings up the age-old question that people in Florida talk about ...