By Toni Odejimi, Rafael Romo, CNN(CNN) — A lucky Powerball ticket holder in Arkansas has won an estimated $1.8 billion jackpot, the second largest in US lottery history, after matching all six numbers in Monday’s drawing. The lucky ticket holder has 180 days — about six months — to claim their prize, Sharon Strong, executive director of the Arkansas Lottery, told CNN on Friday. Keeping the windfall privateArkansas is one of a growing number of states that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous. New Jersey, Georgia, and Arizona have anonymity laws, while Florida allows winners to claim prizes through a blind trust or LLC. Strong, Arkansas Lottery executive director, agrees.

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Goodbye to the MetroCard that transformed how New Yorkers traveledNew York City’s MetroCard transformed one of the world’s busiest transit systems and is set to be phased out by December 31, 2025. CNN’s Meena Duerson talks about how the MetroCard’s introduction 30 years ago expanded access for New Yorkers, and how the little yellow card has become as symbolic as the city’s famous landmarks.

They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” This line from the book is something I felt occasionally. -Samidha JainThe Maniac by Benjamin LabatutThis was a difficult book to read, especially the first 80-odd pages. The book was a pick for our book club and is a fictionalised biography of the mathematician John von Neumann. I started it late in December 2024 and carried it into early January 2025, and, in a way, the book became the bridge between the two years. -Jasodhara BanerjeeLives Not Lived by Monika BhattiLives Not Lived also came to me via an Instagram page I follow, and it ended up becoming the only book I read in 2025.

Israeli soldier rams Palestinian man while he’s prayingAn Israeli reservist soldier ran over a Palestinian man while he was praying in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the Israeli military and CNN’s review of the footage, hours after the soldier fired gunshots in the area.

Investors are about to wager hundreds of millions on a startup with very little revenue, betting that AI is hot enough to turn an open-source codebase into a thriving business. Spun out of UC Berkeley from the lab of Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica, vLLM has in recent weeks been pitching investors on raising money to commercialize a popular open source codebase that speeds up large language models, and squeezes better performance out of AI chips. Four sources have independently told Forbes that vLLM’s co-leader Simon Mo has been taking meetings around Silicon Valley looking to raise $60 million now and at least $100 million in a second tranche. Mo did not respond to a request for comment.

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The latest Forbes AI Workforce Report 2025 has sent ripples through the global economy, unveiling a paradoxical landscape of labor. The "massive reskilling shift" involves an estimated 120 million workers globally who will need retraining by 2027. The long-term success of this transition depends on whether the 12 million roles can be filled quickly enough to offset the social friction caused by localized job losses. Final Reflections: A History in the MakingThe Forbes AI Workforce Report 2025 serves as a definitive marker in the history of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The net gain of 11.95 million roles is a cause for celebration, but it comes with the heavy responsibility of global reskilling.

Lee, J. K. et al. & Lee, J. K. Stochastic detection of interior design styles using a deep-learning model for reference images. Baduge, S. et al. Interior Design. & Lee, J. K. An approach to implementing automated modeling of interior design object using Spatial information training model - focused on an implementation example of automated layout system for ceiling light object.

Of course, everyone paying any type of attention knows that this isn’t really useful logic, since politics is rarely beholden to the reasonable opinions of knowledgeable people. Just about every president has their poll numbers rise and fall with the gas prices. Of course, this is a dangerous game to play: Republican candidate Newt Gingrich will look like a mighty (mightier?) fool if the gas prices fall in August just as the election season really gears up. What politicians (and ourselves) need to realize is that bringing the moon to earth would certainly kill us all.

“First, they may appear in immigration court and face likely arrest and detention,” the judge wrote. “Here, ICE and EOIR’s prior policies governing courthouse arrests and detention in holding facilities provide a standard,” the judge said. The policy prohibiting most courthouse arrests was suspended during the first Trump administration and reinstated by President Biden. Administration lawyers told the court ICE would almost certainly pick her up at her next hearing. Such arrests appear arbitrary and capricious, and are unlikely to survive scrutiny by the courts, Judge Pitts ruled Wednesday.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. launched a “powerful and deadly” strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians. Advertisement“Terrorist violence in any form, whether directed at Christians, Muslims or other communities, remains an affront to Nigeria’s values and to international peace and security,” Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. AdvertisementTrump ordered the Pentagon last month to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria to try and curb the so-called Christian persecution. And the U.S. recently designated Nigeria a “country of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act. U.S. forces likely would have to be drawn from other parts of the world for any larger-scale military intervention in Nigeria.

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The K variant causes more intense flu symptoms, including fever, chills, headache, fatigue, cough, sore throat and runny nose, according to experts. FILE - It's not clear whether this year's flu vaccine directly addresses this specific mutation, but people are still urged to get a flu shot. Subclade K is the "perfect storm" for an aggressive flu season, Maniar suggested, as vaccination rates overall are down, and it's uncertain whether this year's flu vaccine directly addresses this specific mutation. "We're going in [to this flu season] with lower vaccination rates and a variant that in itself seems to be more aggressive." Maniar stressed that it's not too late to get the flu vaccine, as peak flu season has not yet arrived.

Kidnapping remains a national crisis, with a recent study indicating that between 2015 and 2025, at least 212 Catholic priests were kidnapped in Nigeria. Authorities now say the release of the other 130 means none of those kidnapped at the school is still held. “We thank God for the release of the remaining abducted children and staff of St Mary’s Catholic School, Papiri,” the group said. Kidnappings remain a national crisisDespite the release of the children, kidnapping in Nigeria is still a national crisis. “Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis has evolved into a lucrative criminal enterprise, with N2.56 billion ($1.66 million) confirmed in ransom payments and 4,722 civilians abducted in just one year.