Someone could win $550 million in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, the largest in the game’s history.  The jackpot jumped up from half a billion dollars on Wednesday. The new jackpot would carry a cash value of $360.2 million before taxes. Lottery officials say they now believe there is a 75 percent chance the winning numbers will be drawn...

If Congress drives the economy off the “fiscal cliff,” wave goodbye to short sales that have helped the housing market get back on its feet. At risk is a provision that erases taxes on selling a home for less than what’s owed to the bank. Expiration of the tax treatment would create a major new headache for the one in four homeowners who owe...

Veterans Day became a national holiday back in 1938, but its roots really go back to 1918 with the end of World War One. All the major battles of that war formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Precisely at 11 a.m. at the state Capitol rotunda, a ceremony got underway to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. U.S. troops...

It was a big win for President Obama on Tuesday night. Exit polls had him  scoring lots of minority votes – African-Americans again voted in huge numbers  for the first black president. But the political bloc that most helped push  Obama to reelection was the American media. All throughout election  night, pundits and reporters were talking about...