With the first round of the H-1B cap lottery completed in late March, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service ...

Indiana is responsible for the most with 39 Powerball winners. But while the vast majority of states run their own lotteries, there are some who do not and whose residents are therefore must go ...

When Congress created the Diversity Visa Lottery, it put our nation’s population growth at the service of a random lottery ...

A Powerball player in Texas won $150,000, just missing the $106 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The ticket matched ...

The odds to match all five white balls are 11,688,053-to-1. The major lotteries in the United States offer two jackpot payout options: annuity and cash. The annuity option is paid out over time.

Puerto Rico, which established the oldest modern state lottery in the United States in 1934 (first authorized by the King of Spain in 1814), participates in the Powerball, but not Mega Millions.

The odds of winning the jackpot are 290,472,336-to-1. The major lotteries in the United States offer two jackpot payout options: annuity and cash. The annuity option is paid out over time.

James Bickerton is a Newsweek U.S. News reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is on covering news and politics in Texas, as well as other general news across the United States. James joined ...