Monday, September 11, 2023

The Daily Money: Powerball at $522 million; White House may have violated First Amendment

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ALL THE MONEY NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Mon Sep 11 2023

 

Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria Investigative Reporter, Consumer Watchdog

@AmritpalKSL

This is Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria with your Daily Money headlines for Monday.

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Blank forms for the Powerball lottery sit in a bin at a local grocery store in Des Moines, Iowa.

Charlie Neibergall

No one has won the Powerball jackpot since July, and it's now up to $522 million, which will give a single winner the chance to walk away with $252.4 million in cash. While the odds of winning the Powerball are 1 in 292,201,338, you can still make a little bit of cash on the lowest prize of $4, where the odds of winning are 1 in 38.32.

Grab your ticket fast, because the next drawing is tonight at 10:59 p.m. ET.

Misinformation or 'viewpoint suppression?'

A federal appeals court ruled that the White House, health officials, and the FBI may have violated people's First Amendment Rights by pressuring technology companies to suppress or remove social media posts about elections fraud, the Covid-19 pandemic, and Hunter Biden's laptop.

The judges with the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said while officials engage with social media companies when it comes to misinformation and election interference, "the government is not permitted to advance these interests to the extent that it engages in viewpoint suppression." 

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