Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers were widely projected to be the No. 1 overall pick of the 2024 and 2025 WNBA draft, respectively. Unlike the previous two drafts, 2026 is wide open.
The biggest names in women’s college basketball started the season this week and the next step for the collegiate superstars is the WNBA. Will UCLA senior Lauren Betts be the first player off the board in April? Or will UConn produce back-to-back No. 1 overall picks with the selection of senior guard Azzi Fudd?
The possibilities are endless, but who will get the first pick?
That will be determined in the 2026 WNBA draft lottery, which features five teams — the Dallas Wings, Minnesota Lynx, Seattle Storm, Washington Mystics and Chicago Sky — vying for the overall first pick.
Here is what you need to know about the 2026 WNBA draft order and more:
The 2026 WNBA draft lottery will be held Sunday, Nov. 23 at 6:30 p.m. ET.
The draft lottery will be broadcast on ESPN, marking the 14th consecutive year the network has televised the event.
The five teams that missed the playoffs last season are entered into the draft lottery and each team’s odds are determined by their cumulative record the past two seasons. The Dallas Wings finished with a combined 19-65 record in the 2024 and 2025 seasons, followed by the Chicago Sky (23-61), Los Angeles Sparks (29-55), Washington Mystics (30-54) and Connecticut Sun (39-45).
However, things get a little tricky as several teams don’t own the rights to their first round pick in the upcoming draft. Minnesota, for example, could walk away with the No. 2 overall pick despite finishing with a league-leading 34-10 record. The Lynx acquired the Sky’s 2026 first round pick following a trade made in April.
The Sparks traded their 2026 first-round pick to the Seattle Storm in exchange for Kia Nurse and the Sparks’ fourth overall 2024 WNBA draft pick (Rickea Jackson) in January 2024. The Sky acquired the right to swap first-round picks with the Sun in 2026 in a July 2024 trade that involved Marina Mabrey going to Connecticut.
Here’s how the chances for the No. 1 pick stack up, according to the WNBA:
The WNBA released the guidelines for the 25th annual WNBA draft lottery on Friday:
Fourteen balls numbered 1-14 will be placed in a lottery machine and mixed.  Four balls will be drawn to determine a four-digit combination.  The team assigned that four-ball combination will receive the No. 1 pick. The four balls will then be placed back into the machine and the process will be repeated to determine the second pick.  Of the three teams not selected in the drawings, the team with the worst cumulative two-year record shall select third; the team with the next worst record will select fourth; and the remaining team shall select fifth.
The 2026 WNBA draft will be held on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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The Mega Millions jackpot has now climbed to $900 million. The cash option of $415.3 million.
What’s next:
The next drawing will be Tuesday, November 11 at 11 p.m. ET. 
No one claimed the prize after Saturday night’s drawing and now the Powerball jackpot has risen to $1.1 billion. The next drawing will be on Monday at 10:59 p.m. ET. LiveNOW’s Andy Mac spoke to attorney Kurt Panouses about what to do if your ticket has the winning numbers.
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What you can do:
Mega Millions tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Tickets are $5 each and include a randomly assigned multiplier, multiplying the base prize levels by 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 10X. Half of the proceeds from the sale of each Mega Millions ticket remains in the state where the ticket was sold, with the money supporting designated good causes and retailer commissions.
The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.
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Ricciardo was spotted in the stands for Sunday’s London clash between Brentford and Newcastle.
The Bees stormed to a 3-1 win at home thanks to the brilliance of striker Igor Thiago.
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The Mega Millions jackpot has now climbed to $900 million. The cash option of $415.3 million.
What’s next:
The next drawing will be Tuesday, November 11 at 11 p.m. ET. 
No one claimed the prize after Saturday night’s drawing and now the Powerball jackpot has risen to $1.1 billion. The next drawing will be on Monday at 10:59 p.m. ET. LiveNOW’s Andy Mac spoke to attorney Kurt Panouses about what to do if your ticket has the winning numbers.
RELATED: Nevada player turns $3 bet into $1M jackpot on 'Wheel of Fortune' progressive slot machine
What you can do:
Mega Millions tickets are sold in 45 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Tickets are $5 each and include a randomly assigned multiplier, multiplying the base prize levels by 2X, 3X, 4X, 5X or 10X. Half of the proceeds from the sale of each Mega Millions ticket remains in the state where the ticket was sold, with the money supporting designated good causes and retailer commissions.
The overall odds of winning any Mega Millions prize are 1 in 23; the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336.
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Bingo!
This November, Buda is turning its downtown into a retail playground, one bingo card at a time. Buda Bingo is happening now and runs through November 30, inviting residents and visitors to support local businesses in a fun, rewarding way.
The event is presented by Buda EDC, the Greater Buda Chamber of Commerce, and Discover Buda, with an eye on building excitement toward Shop Small Saturday on November 29.
Here’s how it works: Pick up your official Buda Bingo card at any participating merchant, or stop by the Greater Buda Chamber of Commerce, the Buda Welcome Center, or City Hall.

Look for the Buda Bingo signs to help fill up your card.Photo by Brooklyn Fuqua
Each purchase at a participating business earns a unique sticker for your card. Fill a row, column, or diagonal, and you’ve earned an entry in the prize drawing; complete a full blackout and you’ll score 12 entries toward winning local gift cards, prize baskets, and more. Completed cards must be dropped off by December 5, 2025, at one of the official drop-off locations.

More than 40 local shops, eateries, service providers, and more are on the Bingo roster. Get a jump on holiday gifting with stops at Hays County Outfitters, Posie, Old Town Buda Antique Mall, and Shaggy Dog Market.
Refuel at Dos Olivos, Big Daddy Jay's Creole, Main Street Pizzeria & Beer Garden, and the Buda Drug Store and Soda Fountain. Need something stronger? Water 2 Wine Winery, Willie's Joint, and Proof Liquor & Deli would all be happy to see you.

On the service side, The Massage Studio, Johnny G's Barbershop, Glow Laser & Beauty and Salon One 12 will get you ready for sparkly holiday parties. Even the Hampton Inn and Comfort Suites hotels are involved, along with City Limits Suburu and Inspired Minds Art Center.
Don't forget about the pups during your holiday shopping.Photo courtesy of Buda EDC

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Show some love for local.
Organizers emphasize that Buda Bingo isn’t just about prizes — it’s about keeping dollars circulating locally and spotlighting the hidden gems in Buda’s small-business ecosystem. Each visit to a boutique, cafe, or studio helps strengthen the community network.
Buda Bingo transforms that act of support into something exciting and rewarding — a reason to visit more shops, meet more owners, and see what makes this small city thrive.
Learn more, see the full list of participating businesses, and get the official game rules here.
Community Supported Festival
Austin's NPR station is about to bring the fun out of public radio and onto the street. The inaugural KUT Festival will be held May 1 and 2, 2026, at multiple locations across the University of Texas at Austin campus.
A press release says it's "a new annual tradition celebrating the people, ideas, music and culture that make Austin 'Austin.'"
Attendees can expect talks and panels try mysteriously vague "hands-on activities," patronize food trucks, engage with art, and meet community organizations. Just about everything will be in-scope: arts and culture, civic engagement, energy, the environment, transportation, health and wellness, and music — much like listening to community radio, but with more dimensions in person.

KUT is no stranger to hosting events, but in a festival capacity locals are likely more familiar with KUT's sister station for music, KUTX. It does programming for The Drop-In at the Long Center, C3's Holiday Hootenanny at Radio/East, the Un Día showcase, the station's own Rock The Park series at Mueller Lake Park, and more. KUTX will also get to run with live music programming at the KUT Festival.
Tickets will go on sale in January.
Some Austinites have taken a new or deeper interest in supporting local radio after a large loss of federal funding this year. For KUT, that loss was estimated at $1.2 million. However, the station seems to be rising to the challenge, and in October even announced a new network called Austin Signal that combines reporting by news outlets all over the state.

The festival will be held at UT because, as the station's call letters imply, KUT is owned and operated by the university. The station now says it's 100 percent community supported as of September 15, 2025; before the cuts, it was already at 90 percent. Relationships with the community have always been important for KUT, but now a festival could be a defining factor in how the station thrives in a new era.
“KUT and KUTX are already bringing the news, music and culture that Austin loves to the community on a regular basis over the air and through our digital products,” said KUT Public Media general manager Debbie Hiott in the public announcement. “This festival will bring it all to life, and we can celebrate what it is to be Austin residents together and in person.”

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The integration of Generative AI into cloud governance transforms AWS account management into a more automated and efficient process. Leveraging the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Bedrock alongside tools such as AWS Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform (AFT), organizations can now expedite the AWS account setup and management process, aligning with best practices while minimizing development effort.
Customers need to factor in a number of organizational requirements and evaluate AWS best practices while provisioning an AWS account. Hence, they end up spending significant amount of development cycles to create the customizations for an AWS account.
In this blog post, we illustrate the power of leveraging Amazon Bedrock Agents orchestrating multistep tasks during account vending process with AFT which sets you up with a Terraform pipeline to provision and customize AWS accounts in AWS Control Tower. Behind the scenes, Agents for Amazon Bedrock automates the orchestration of user-requested tasks, such as a new AWS Account request or generating account customizations. An agent automatically builds the orchestration prompt and, if connected to knowledge bases, augments it with your company-specific information and invokes APIs to provide responses to the user in natural language. Using AFT, you create an account request in Terraform and commit to the repository that triggers the AFT workflow for Account Factory. After Account Factory execution is complete, AFT runs additional customization steps automatically.
In the following sections, we walk through an example use case of provisioning a “Security Tooling Account ” and detail how Bedrock Agents and foundational model (Claude 2.1) can be used to accelerate the IaC development for a specific security tooling use case. Finally, you will learn how to deploy the generated IaC from Bedrock and scale your infrastructure deployments through AFT.
Prior to delving into the deployment, let’s walkthrough the key steps of the architecture that will be establishing as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 : An example of “Security Tooling Account” vended leveraging AFT and Amazon Bedrock
This solution follows AWS Security Reference Architecture (SRA), and can be utilized to create AWS account types such as security tooling, infrastructure, workload accounts, and deploy respective AWS services for each type of AWS account. For the purpose of this blog post, we focus on creating the security tooling account and deployment of the recommended AWS security services. There are 4 steps to deploy our solution. These are described below.
Step 1 : Configure Knowledge Base: Configuring a Knowledge Base (KB) enables your Bedrock agents to access a repository of information for AWS account provisioning. Follow these steps to set up your KB:
Step 2 : Configure the Bedrock Agent:
“Assist users in creating AWS accounts based on account type. Ask user which AWS account type(customization name) they would like to create: Security or Infrastructure AWS account. Ask user which AWS services they would like to deploy for their chosen account type. DO NOT assume AWS services for account type, ask user. Query the knowledge base for the approved AWS services list for the selected AWS account type. Present the AWS services to the user for service selection. Collect required user details for the account creation, for e.g.; “Please provide first name, last name, organization unit, account email and name”. Upon AWS services selection, invoke the account customization Lambda to generate the appropriate Terraform code. After successful execution of account customization lambda provide users repository link and ask for user confirmation of terraform code before triggering the AWS account creation lambda. Ask user to update code if needed. DO NOT trigger account creation lambda unless you receive confirmation from user. After user confirmation, initiate the account creation Lambda. Let the user know the account has been created with the customization.“
Step 3 : Configuring Agent Action Groups: After initial agent configuration and adding the above instruction to the agent. There are two actions that need to be added to the agent to enable account creation and customization via AFT.
Step 4 : Add the Action groups to Agent:
A screenshot of user interaction with Amazon Bedrock to vend a “Security Tooling Account” is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2 : An example User interaction with Amazon Bedrock to vend a “Security Tooling Account leveraging AFT
To avoid unnecessary charges, delete the resources created during the testing. To perform a cleanup of the resources, perform the following steps in the sequential order defined here:

The integration of Generative AI transforms AWS account management into a more automated and efficient process. Leveraging the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Bedrock alongside tools such as AWS Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) allows organizations to expedite the AWS account setup and management process, aligning with best practices while minimizing development effort. This approach not only streamlines operations but also embeds security and compliance into every layer of development for building a AWS cloud environment.
The solution in this post equips organizations with a plausible AFT architecture with Amazon Bedrock, deployment code and instructions that help provision cloud resources efficiently and securely as per AWS best practices.
Shiva Vaidyanathan is a Principal Cloud Architect at AWS. He provides technical guidance, design and leads complex customer migration and modernization intiatives ensuring their success on AWS. He focuses on building agents for migration and modernization use cases leveraging Generative AI making AWS cloud adoption simpler for everyone. Prior to joining AWS, he has worked on several NSF funded research initiatives on how to perform secure computing in public cloud infrastructures. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University and a MS in Electrical Engineering from New York University.
Ebbey Thomas is a Senior Cloud Architect at AWS, with a strong focus on leveraging generative AI to enhance cloud infrastructure automation and accelerate migrations. In his role at AWS Professional Services, Ebbey designs and implements solutions that improve cloud adoption speed and efficiency while ensuring secure and scalable operations for AWS users. He is known for solving complex cloud challenges and driving tangible results for clients. Ebbey holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Information Systems from Syracuse University.

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