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The Mega Millions jackpot stands at an estimated $785 million ahead of Tuesday night's drawing. The first Mega Millions game of the new year is among its largest, with an estimated $785 million jackpot ahead of Tuesday night's drawing. It's the fourth-largest jackpot in the lottery game's 20-plus-year history and the sixth-largest jackpot in U.S. history. MORE: What comes next for the lucky Mega Millions winners who become wealthy overnight? The estimated $785 million prize can be paid with annual checks over 29 years or in a lump cash sum for an estimated $395 million. The Mega Millions jackpot has continued to balloon over the past two-and-a-half months, with 22 drawings since the jackpot was last won on Oct. 14. A person holds a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Tempe, Ariz., on Dec. 30, 2022. Ross D. Franklin/AP "On only three previous occasions has the Mega Millions jackpot gone beyond $700 million , and all three times those rolls continued on past $1 bi...

Authorities say the driver of a car that plunged off a cliff in Northern California with two children and another adult inside has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse MONTARA, Calif. -- The driver of a car that plunged off a cliff in Northern California, seriously wounding two children and a second adult after the 250-foot drop, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday. Dharmesh A. Patel of Pasadena will be booked into San Mateo County Jail after he’s released from a hospital, the highway patrol said in a statement. It wasn't immediately known if Patel has an attorney. “CHP investigators worked throughout the night interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence from the scene,” the highway patrol statement said. “Based on the evidence collected, investigators developed probable cause to believe this incident was an intentional act.” Patel, 42, was in the car with a 41-year-old woman, a 7-yea...

Dharmesh Patel was arrested for allegedly driving a car off a cliff with a woman and two children on board in California. A Southern California man has been arrested for attempted murder and child abuse after California Highway Patrol officials say he intentional ly drove a Tesla over a cliff with his wife and two child ren in the car. A crash victim is lifted to a helicopter during a rescue operation after a vehicle carrying two adults and two children went over a cliff in Devil's Slide, San Mateo county, Calif. Jan. 2, 2023, according to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, in this still image obtained from social media video. Chp/Golden Gate Division Air Operations via Reuters The driver of the car, Dharmesh A. Patel, of Pasadena, California, is being treated for his injuries and will be booked into San Mateo County Jail upon his release from the hospital, according to CHP. MORE: Mastermind of 'Varsity Blues' college cheating scandal to be sentenced Accordi...

William "Rick" Singer's sentencing will all but mark the end of "Operation Varsity Blues." BOSTON -- William "Rick" Singer, the ringleader in a college admissions cheating scandal that spanned the country, was sentenced to 42 months in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday. Singer will then be on supervised release for three more years. He will turn himself over to authorities on Feb. 27. The former college admissions consultant pleaded guilty in March 2019 to helping parents of dozens of well-to-do high school students cheat their way into elite universities. His sentence comes nearly four years after his plea, as he helped prosecutors convict his former clients, including high-powered executives, fashion moguls and Hollywood actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Singer, 62, pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors had ask...

A 2-year-old boy has died after a redwood tree fell on a double-wide mobile home on Wednesday evening in California as a massive storm pummeled the state. A 2-and-a-half -year -old boy has died after a redwood tree fell on a double-wide mobile home on Wednesday evening in California as a massive storm pummeled the state, authorities say. The incident occurred in Occidental, California -- approximately 70 miles northwest of San Francisco in Sonoma County -- on Wednesday evening as hurricane-force winds battered parts of California as part of the bomb cyclone that has also brought heavy rains and flooding, according to Ron Lunardi, the fire chief in Occidental. MORE: Mom and 4 kids run over at school bus stop by driver trying to escape police “One of our major incidents we’ve had involved a redwood tree falling on a house … and we had a fatality up there of a minor -- infant, actually. A one-to-two -year old infant.” Lunardi said in an interview. The child was home with his mother an...

Authorities say a key piece of evidence in the case of four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in November turned out to be surveillance footage showing a white sedan driving past the victims' home The white sedan cruised past the gray, three-story rental home on a dead-end street in Moscow, Idaho. Then again. And again. It was unusual behavior in the residential, hillside neighborhood in the quiet hours before dawn. And according to a police affidavit released Thursday, surveillance videos showing the vehicle that November night were key to unraveling the gruesome mystery of who killed four University of Idaho students inside the house. With little else to go on as a panicked community demanded answers, investigators canvassed security footage from the neighborhood — including one recording of the car speeding away after the slayings — to get a sense of the killer's possible movements, the affidavit said. Eventually, the document said, police were able to narrow...

Migrants entering the U.S. illegally are devastated to learn they may be sent back to Mexico under expanded limits on the pursuit of asylum YUMA, Ariz. -- Migrants who entered the U.S. illegally under moonlit skies and waist-deep cold water Friday were devastated to learn they may be sent back to Mexico under expanded limits on the pursuit of asylum. About 200 migrants who walked in the dark for about an hour to surrender to Border Patrol agents in Yuma, Arizona, included many Cubans — who were stunned to hear that a ban on asylum that previously fell largely on other nationalities now applies just as much to them. Several were political dissidents of the Cuban government who were driven to leave by longstanding fears of incarceration and persecution and a new sense of economic desperation. President Joe Biden announced Thursday that Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans will be expelled to Mexico if they enter the U.S. illegally, effective immediately. At the same time, he off...

A pair of former election workers who were the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory will be honored at the White House, days after Trump renewed attacks on them. A pair of former election workers who became the subjects of a Trump-backed conspiracy theory in the aftermath of the 2020 election are set receive the Presidential Citizens Medal at a White House ceremony on Friday, less than a week after former President Donald Trump renewed attacks on them. Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, both former election workers from Fulton County, Georgia, are among 12 individuals who will be honored by President Joe Biden for making "exemplary contributions to our democracy surrounding January 6, 2021," the White House said. "My mother and I didn't seek out the spotlight," Moss said in a statement to ABC News. "We just wanted to do our part to make democracy work well for everyone ... and we're incredibly honored to receive...

A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of a 19-year-old who bought what appeared to be prescription oxycodone pills that actually contained fentanyl. A Colorado man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling a teenager what appeared to be prescription oxycodone pills that actually contained fentanyl . MORE: Ovidio Guzman, son of El Chapo and alleged major fentanyl trafficker, arrested in Mexico "This is the longest sentence to date in federal court in Colorado for distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, and it should send a loud and clear message to drug dealers and drug traffickers. Our law enforcement partners will track you down and we will prosecute you if you peddle this poison in our communities," said United States Attorney Cole Finegan in a statement. An undated stock photo depicts a judge holding a gavel in a courtroom. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images "Lives are at stake, and we will use every available tool to combat this deadly epidemic...

The 19-year-old suspect arrested in connection with the blade attack against New York City cops was indicted on several charges. A grand jury in New York returned an indictment Friday against Trevor Bickford, charging him with a longer slate of offenses than before in connection with the New Year’s Eve knife attack on NYPD officers. The 19-year-old suspect has been charged with 18 criminal counts including three counts of attempted murder in the first degree in furtherance of an act of terrorism, and one count of aggravated assault on a police officer as a crime of terrorism. Bickford was shot and arrested by officers on Dec. 31, not too far from Times Square, after he allegedly attack ed three NYPD officers with an 18-inch kukri knife near West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue, outside the secure area that had been set up for New Year's Eve celebrations. MORE: Failed risk assessment emerges in Times Square machete attack "All eyes are on Times Square on New Year’s Eve and these c...

A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed by police in Virginia but never arrested will argue to a jury next week that he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned and that his vehicle was illegally searched NORFOLK, Va. -- A U.S. Army lieutenant who was pepper sprayed, struck and handcuffed by police in rural Virginia, but never arrested, will argue to a jury that he was assaulted and falsely imprisoned and that his vehicle was illegally searched. Video of the 2020 traffic stop got millions of views the next year after Caron Nazario filed the federal lawsuit that is now being heard, highlighting fears of mistreatment among Black drivers and intensifying the scrutiny of the boundaries of reasonable, and legal, police conduct. The episode also served as a grim signal to many Black Americans that military uniforms don't necessarily protect against abuse of authority by law enforcement. The trial is scheduled to begin Monday in federal court in Richmond. Video ...

More than 7,000 nurses across two hospitals in New York City walked off the job Monday morning demanding increased pay, better working conditions and more staffing. More than 7,000 nurse s at two hospitals in New York City went on strike early Monday morning demanding better pay, better working conditions and more staffing. The strike began at 6 a.m. after nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Hospital in Harlem failed to reach an agreement with hospital administration during a bargaining session Sunday night, according to the New York State Nurses' Association. "These nurses are dedicated professionals who provide quality patient care under unimaginable conditions day in and day out that were exacerbated by the pandemic," Mario Cilento, president of the New York State AFL-CIO, a labor union, said in a statement Monday. "Now they are faced with the added challenge of short staffing that has reached critical levels and could compromise the...