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Mega Millions jackpot soars to $900 million – FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth

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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.
The Source: The information in this story comes from the official Mega Millions website and state lottery announcements. This story was reported from Los Angeles. 
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Shop small, win big by playing Buda Bingo with purchases this November – CultureMap Austin

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.

Buda Bingo 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.
Buda Bingo 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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Modernizing Account Management with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Control Tower – Amazon Web Services (AWS)


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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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EuroMillions winning numbers revealed for UK’s biggest ever jackpot in £210m draw – The Independent

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The winning numbers in Friday’s EuroMillions have been revealed in the draw for the UK’s biggest ever lottery jackpot.
A record jackpot of £210m had been up for grabs in Friday’s draw if a single ticket-holder had managed to choose the winning numbers.
The winning numbers were announced as 20, 21, 29, 30, 35, while the Lucky Stars are 2 and 12. Players must correctly choose all seven numbers in order to win the jackpot.
However, it was announced later on Friday night that no winning tickets had been sold.
While the jackpot is now capped at £210m, any money in the next draw that would have gone into the jackpot will now boost prizes in the second tier, meaning multiple UK players could potentially bank large prizes for matching the five main numbers and one Lucky Star.
In Friday’s draw, seven players won the second-tier prize, entitling them to winnings of more than £2m each. A total of 18 ticket-holders correctly chose the main five numbers without a Lucky Star, a feat which could see them collect more than £17,000.
Tuesday’s draw of £199m would also have been a record-breaking jackpot, but no one held a winning ticket then either, with the jackpot now up for grabs once again in four days’ time.
“A win of this magnitude would create the biggest National Lottery winner this country has ever seen – making a single UK winner instantly richer than the likes of Dua Lipa and Harry Kane while also landing them at the number one spot on the National Lottery’s biggest wins list,” said Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at Allwyn.
An anonymous UK ticket-holder won the existing record jackpot of £195m on 19 July 2022.
Just two months earlier Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, won £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the draw on 10 May 2022.
The UK’s third biggest win came after an anonymous ticket-holder scooped the £177m jackpot in the draw on 26 November last year, while the biggest this year was £83m in January.
According to National Lottery, the winning code in Friday’s Millionaire Maker Selection raffle – which is included in all EuroMillions tickets – was VLWS75031, with one ticketholder set to win the £1m prize.
In other National Lottery draws on Friday night, the Thunderball – which has a top prize of £500,000 – drew winning numbers of 3, 14, 31, 32, 34. The Thunderball is a 6.
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Winning EuroMillions numbers: Full lottery results with Thunderball on September 9 – Daily Express

Lottery ballsTonight’s EuroMillions lottery stands at a whopping £14million, an amount which is more than enough to change anyone’s fortune. The Thunderball draw will also take place tonight, with a £500,000 jackpot up for grabs. Each EuroMillions ticket bought is also an automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw, which returns a jackpot of £1 million.
Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor at Allwyn, operator of The National Lottery, said: “Everyone dreams of that huge win when they buy their National Lottery ticket – and for those lucky enough to experience it, we’re here to make sure it’s a positive and secure journey. From financial advice to emotional support, our role is to help winners take control of their new future with confidence.”
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Congratulations to all the winners who tried their luck tonight. The blog is now closed. 
We will be back with the next EuroMillions lottery draw.
No one has managed to win the full £14m lottery amount tonight. However, five ticketholders were able to claim their share of the jackpot as they managed to accurately match all five numbers, but neither of the Lucky Stars.
Two of those winners were from the UK and were able to claim £83,571.40 each.
Millionaire Maker code: HTSQ 65848
The next National Lottery draw will be on Friday, September 12, at 8.45pm.
Winners of tonight’s National Lottery draw have a 180-day window to claim their prize money.
For those who bought their tickets online, prizes up to £30,000 can be claimed directly through the lottery’s website, while larger winnings require a phone claim.
If the ticket was purchased in-store, prizes up to £500 can be collected in person, but any amount above that must be claimed by submitting a formal claim form.
Importantly, if a prize goes unclaimed after the 180-day deadline, the funds are not lost—they are redirected to support National Lottery-funded community projects across the UK, helping to benefit local initiatives and public services.
The winning Euromillions numbers are: 3, 13, 24, 39 and 40
Lucky Stars: 2 and 8.
Stay alert with your tickets as the winning lottery numbers will be announced soon. 
Tonight’s Thunderball winning numbers are: 7, 12, 19, 22, 39
Thunderball number: 11
The window for buying the lottery tickets online is now closed. 
In the EuroMillions, a jackpot winner would win £14million. 
The Thunderball’s top prize is £500,000. 
In the Millionaire Maker, the top prize is £1million. 
According to the data from Statista, around a quarter of British adults regularly play the lottery, 
You can purchase the tickets for tonight’s draw till 7.30pm. Hurry up and grab your tickets.
We will bring you the results as soon as they are announced. 
The Millionaire Maker UK guarantees that one person will win £1million.
So even if you don’t win the EuroMillions, you still have a chance of winning a £1million lottery. 
The winning numbers for tonight’s Thunderball draw will be announced at 8pm
The EuroMillions draw takes place every Tuesday and Friday at 8.45pm.
A ticket costs £2.50 and includes automatic entry into the UK Millionaire Maker draw, which creates new UK millionaires every week.
EuroMillions is tonight and one lucky winner can win a life-changing £14million in the jackpot. 
We will be bringing you all the updates about the lottery. Stay tuned!
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Column | Illini vs Redbirds: players to watch – The Daily Illini


After a 91-67 win against SEMO (1-1), Illinois (1-0) is ready to take on its second opponent of the season: Illinois State (1-0).
Both the Illini and the Redbirds are coming off wins earlier in the week. Illinois State beat head coach Shauna Green’s old coaching home, Dayton, 87-76 on Monday.
Despite Green using the same starting lineup for the exhibition and the season opener, players on the bench are also making big moves on the court. This is important since it shows the versatility and depth of the roster. Having more players to count on early on is especially important for the Illini since they are down some players due to injuries.
For Illinois, some of its newer players are shining on the court already and are showing no signs of slowing down. 
Freshman guard Destiny Jackson
“To have six assists and only two turnovers in 33 minutes as a freshman… I think that’s really good for her,” Green said. 
Green spoke about freshman guard Destiny Jackson’s first official game as an Illini, where fans saw the her perform at a high level. Green also mentioned how she sees improvement from Jackson in a short period of time. 
“Even in just our three games — our scrimmage, our exhibition and now — I see growth every game. She’s going to continue to feel more comfortable, feel more confident and run the team.”
It’s important for the team’s success that Jackson continues to rack up assists and minimize turnovers. If Jackson can perform similarly to how she did on Tuesday, she is guaranteed to be an asset to the team as a starting point guard. 
Jackson’s high performance is even more crucial with sophomore guard Aaliyah Guyton out. The Iowa transfer was seen wearing a boot during Tuesday’s matchup, and her return has yet to be announced.
Freshman forward Cearah Parchment
Another breakout freshman star is forward Cearah Parchment. Her stellar performance in the exhibition game was not duplicated in the season opener. Parchment played fewer minutes, scored less and fouled out of the game.

None of that, however, takes away from her ability to be a high scorer on the team. During the exhibition, Parchment had a double-double with 22 points and 13 rebounds. On Tuesday, Parchment fouled in the third quarter after only 12 minutes of play. 
In those 12 minutes, Parchment still scored eight points, grabbed three rebounds and one steal. Green also strategically kept Parchment in to see if she could play with four fouls and not get fouled out. 
“I kept her in there on purpose,” Green said. “I might have pulled her out earlier in a different game, but I needed to learn, too.”
This was a learning curve for both Parchment, navigating what it means to play at risk of fouling out, but also for Green, who needed to test the waters and learn more about Parchment as a player.
Parchment’s presence on the court is crucial for the team. A high-scoring freshman with international experience brings a new dynamic playing style to the team. Green sees the importance that she brings and also the biggest challenges. 
“We need her on the floor,” Green said. “[The] biggest learning curve as a freshman is defense.”
Once Parchment becomes more comfortable and learns the inner workings of the defense, she could continue to shine as a star player and starter. 
Junior guard Maddie Webber
The Villanova transfer, junior guard Maddie Webber, had an impressive debut with Illinois. Despite not being a starter, Green said that it could be in her future.
“She could start,” Green said. “We have six, seven starters, right? We have a lot of kids that could start. I love her coming off (the bench) because she’s literally instant energy, on defense, on offense.”
Webber’s performance Tuesday is an indication of the greatness to come. In her 28 minutes, she scored 16 points, made two out of her three 3-point attempts and had one rebound. 
Her performance from Tuesday shows improvement from the exhibition game, where she only scored six points. She had two rebounds and two steals during the exhibition in comparison to one and one Tuesday. 
Green sees Webber’s playing style as a great asset to have coming off the bench. 
“She’s aggressive,” Green said. “She’s going to come in, and she’s going to get in the mix. I really like having that off the bench.”
For Webber, she needs to continue showing improvement and gaining confidence on the court. As for her transition here, Webber has nothing but positive things to say. 
“The transition here has been great,” Webber said prior to the exhibition game. “The people here are amazing. This culture is also amazing. The people really do make the place. I’ve never felt more needed on a team or appreciated.”
The Illini host the Redbirds Sunday for their FamILLy game with a postgame autograph opportunity. Tipoff is at noon and the game is available to stream on B1G+.
 
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Powerball Jackpot Rises to $490M After No Winners Drawn Saturday – MyNewsLA.com

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There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery, pushing the estimated jackpot for Monday’s drawing to $490 million.
There were also no tickets sold with five numbers, but missing the Powerball number, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association, which conducts the game.
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The numbers drawn Saturday were 3, 53, 60, 62, 68 and the Powerball number was 11. The jackpot was $474 million.
The drawing was the 26th since a ticket with all six numbers was sold.
The odds of matching all five numbers and the Powerball number is 1 in 292.2 million, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association. The overall chance of winning a prize is 1 in 24.9.
The Powerball game is played in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Senior Bingo and resource fair connects Lake Charles seniors with vital support – KPLC 7 News

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – Rows of tables filled the Lake Charles Event Center, and so did smiles. What looked like a simple game day was actually part of a much larger effort to support Southwest Louisiana’s senior community.
“Believe it or not, our seniors are our most vulnerable demographic when it comes to fraud and abuse,” said Ward 3 Marshal Nathan Keller, one of the event organizers. “What we do is we have all the resources here to allow them to hear what is mental and physical abuse. But not only that, we know that social isolation is huge in that demographic.”
From health screenings and Medicare information to nutrition guidance and social services, the event brought everything under one roof, helping seniors stay informed and connected.
Participants said events like this not only help them learn, but also give them a chance to build friendships and feel part of a community again.
“It’s so important because we realize how we need each other,” said senior participant Emily Hider. “Every person needs someone in their circle in order to feel loved and feel important.”
Each player also left with a free bag of groceries, a small gesture that goes a long way for a group especially vulnerable to food insecurity.
“We provide breakfast, we provide lunch, and then at the end, everyone goes home with a bag of groceries with protein and meat, everything in it,” Keller added. “We understand that sometimes our seniors have to decide whether to pay for medication or get food.”
Organizers say the event was about more than just bingo, it was about reminding seniors that they’re seen, supported, and valued.
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