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Arizona Lottery Powerball, The Pick results for June 4, 2025
The Arizona Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Arizona offers Powerball, Mega Millions, The Pick, Triple Twist, Fantasy 5 and Pick 3 as well as Scratchers, Quick Draw and Fast Play. Lottery players have seen enormous jackpots recently, with previous winners of both the Powerball and Mega Millions breaking into the top 10 largest jackpots in U.S. lottery history. Money raised from Arizona lottery games goes toward funding higher education, health and human services, environmental conservation and economic and business development in the state. 05-17-23-35-45, Powerball: 24, Power Play: 10 Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here. 02-08-13-14-26-35 Check The Pick payouts and previous drawings here. 3-4-0 Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here. 04-05-12-23-34 Check Fantasy 5 payouts and previous drawings here. 08-11-14-17-29-36 Check Triple Twist payouts and previous drawings here. Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news and results All Arizona Lottery retailers will redeem prizes up to $100 and may redeem winnings up to $599. For prizes over $599, winners can submit winning tickets through the mail or in person at Arizona Lottery offices. By mail, send a winner claim form, winning lottery ticket and a copy of a government-issued ID to P.O. Box 2913, Phoenix, AZ 85062. To submit in person, sign the back of your ticket, fill out a winner claim form and deliver the form, along with the ticket and government-issued ID to any of these locations: Phoenix Arizona Lottery Office: 4740 E. University Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85034, 480-921-4400. Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes of any amount. Tucson Arizona Lottery Office: 2955 E. Grant Road, Tucson, AZ 85716, 520-628-5107. Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes of any amount. Phoenix Sky Harbor Lottery Office: Terminal 4 Baggage Claim, 3400 E. Sky Harbor Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 85034, 480-921-4424. Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes up to $49,999. Kingman Arizona Lottery Office: Inside Walmart, 3396 Stockton Hill Road, Kingman, AZ 86409, 928-753-8808. Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, closed holidays. This office can cash prizes up to $49,999. Check previous winning numbers and payouts at Winning lottery numbers are sponsored by Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores. Some airport terminals may also sell lottery tickets. You can also order tickets online through Jackpocket, the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network, in these U.S. states and territories: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Washington D.C., and West Virginia. The Jackpocket app allows you to pick your lottery game and numbers, place your order, see your ticket and collect your winnings all using your phone or home computer. Jackpocket is the official digital lottery courier of the USA TODAY Network. Gannett may earn revenue for audience referrals to Jackpocket services. GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). 18+ (19+ in NE, 21+ in AZ). Physically present where Jackpocket operates. Jackpocket is not affiliated with any State Lottery. Eligibility Restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. Terms: This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by an Arizona Republic editor. You can send feedback using this form. This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Arizona Lottery Powerball, The Pick results for June 4, 2025
Yahoo
03-06-2025
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Sine die for Texas Legislature while debate over THC ban continues
The Brief Monday was sine die for the Texas Legislature Judicial pay kept the legislature from an early end THC ban still awaits Gov. Abbott's signature AUSTIN, Texas - Day 140 of the 89th Texas Legislature's regular session wraps up another face-off between Democrats and the Republican majority. What we know A major accomplishment was the passage of education funding. The landmark bill was pushed through by state Rep. Brad Buckley (R-Salado). "I don't have any regrets. I feel like we dealt with everyone honestly and openly. Everybody knew what was coming, what my opinion was on issues. And as always, look forward to the interim to study more issues and come back next session and finish the job on some things," said Buckley. School choice passed by replacing the STARR Test was an unexpected failure, one of several missed opportunities, according to state Rep. Donna Howard (D-Austin). "I am pleased about the budget. I would have liked to have seen more done. I think we could have done more with our economic stabilization fund, which is busting at the seams," said Howard. What we know A lingering financial disagreement between the House and Senate put an early legislative exit on hold. Conferees from the two chambers met throughout the day trying to reach a deal on a judicial pay raise bill. The House did not want lawmakers' retirement pay to be linked to the six-figure amount for judges. An agreement was reached to separate the two calculations in 2030. What's next As lawmakers waited, several boxes were delivered to the governor's office. The items in the boxes could trigger a quick return by way of a special session. The boxes contained petitions that urged Gov. Greg Abbott to save the hemp industry by vetoing Senate Bill 3. The controversial bill would ban many products with THC. "I've rebuilt my life. I've become a better leader, a better husband, a better father, and ultimately a better man. But now Senate Bill 3 wants to turn this into contraband. It wants to me and thousands of other veterans into criminals for choosing an alternative that works for us," said Dave Walden, a ranking member with the VFW and a hemp industry advocate. Those who support SB3 urged the governor to let it become law. They argued that the hemp industry is filled with unregulated and dangerous products. "Senate Bill 3 does not ban hemp. It prohibits the manufacture, the sale of hemp-derived THC and its analogs, such as Delta-8-thc, which are synthetically produced by CBD. This bill is a correction bill to get rid of the poison that is synthetic THC," said Aubrey Adams with Citizens for a Safe and Healthy Texas. If there is a veto, lawmakers could be brought back for a special session to consider new regulations. Abbott could also let SB3 become law without his signature. He has until June 22nd to make a decision. The state medical marijuana law was expanded as a way to provide some political cover for lawmakers who voted for the ban and for the governor. Regardless of what Abbott does, hemp products could become an election year issue in 2026. The Source Information in this report comes from reporting/interviews by FOX 7 Austin's chief political reporter Rudy Koski.
CBC
29-05-2025
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- CBC
Impacts of Jordan's principle funding cuts already evident in N.W.T. community
An N.W.T. MLA says funding cuts to federal Jordan's Principle funding will affect school teaching assistant funding in Łutsël Kʼé. The federal government announced sweeping changes to the program earlier this year. In February N.W.T. educators questioned if the funding changes would impact teaching assistant positions, considering the majority are funded through Jordan's Principle. MLA for Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh, Richard Edjericon says schools have since realized that the cuts will in fact affect those positions. "Let me give you a concrete example of how devastating these cuts are. Last week I learned that Łutsël Kʼé Dene First Nation School is losing five full-time education assistants, all of whom were funded through the Jordan Principle program," said Edjericon. Edjericon gave Fort Resolution as a second example, and said that its Deninu School stands to lose a significant amount of federal funding with the new eligibility restrictions. He added that even schools in Yellowknife are at risk of losing funding with around $50 million in serious jeopardy come fall. "For weeks now, schools across the North have watched as their applications for Jordan Principal funding for the fall have come back denied," said Edjericon. "When schools reopen this fall, a crisis of Indigenous education will begin unless this minister takes immediate action to restore the Jordan's Principal funding." In 2024, the education department funded 127 support assistants. The other 205 were funded by Jordan's Principle. Edjericon asked Caitlin Cleveland, N.W.T. Minister of Education, how she is working with community school boards and First Nations to restore funding. Cleveland said she has a close working relationship with the territory's education bodies and education ministers in the Yukon and Nunavut. She said that while conversations are taking place, it isn't possible for the N.W.T. government to carry on the program with funding in place of the federal government. "When this program was introduced and over the last number of years, officials at the Department of Education have reiterated to officials within the federal government that we cannot afford to take on this program should they choose not to continue it," said Cleveland. Edjericon noted how education is a treaty right to be upheld and questioned why the schools in the territory became so reliant on the federal funding. Cleveland said the territorial government accounts for school positions within their funding formula and the federal government has created additional positions through their program, entirely separate from territorial government methods. Cleveland said that she and the N.W.T. Minister of Health and Social Services will be bringing concerns to the federal government and looking to discuss them with Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs.
Al Arabiya
26-05-2025
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Trump says he is considering diverting $3 billion in grants from Harvard to trade schools
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he is considering taking $3 billion of grant money away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools across the United States.
RNZ News
22-05-2025
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Budget 2025: Government's $747m boost for learning a 'breakthrough'
The government's $747 million boost for learning support is getting the thumbs up from schools, despite the cuts it caused in other areas of education spending . The Principals' Federation described the increase as a "breakthrough", teacher union the Educational Institute Te Riu Roa said it was welcome but "a drop in the ocean", while the Post Primary Teachers' Association said increases to the funding pool for children with the most serious needs would make "a significant difference" for those students. Principals at a post-Budget briefing on Thursday afternoon told RNZ they agreed with Education Minister Erica Stanford's description of the increase as seismic, saying it would make a big difference for children with learning and behavioural needs. The money would provide more specialist staff, more teacher aide hours and included $100 million to build more classrooms for specialist schools serving children with disabilities. After the briefing, education consultant Margi Leech thanked Stanford for the increase in learning support funding. She later told RNZ the issue was very personal. "I have a daughter with Down syndrome and have had to fight to get support for her. It's as if the attitude in the past has been 'she's got Down syndrome she doesn't matter, she's never going to get a job'. But she's now 26, living in her own home, participating and contributing in the community... and I see that this Budget is recognising the potential for our very special children," she said. The initiative will ensure all primary and intermediate schools have access to a learning support coordinator, and boosts the service for pre-schoolers while also extending it into the first year of primary school. Oropi School principal Andrew King said the announcement would make a difference for the pupils at his school who had learning needs. "We've got about 30 or 40 children on our register... we have ORS children and high health needs children and children with lower needs," he said. "It's going to give the time needed to access the services that these kids need which we've just not had." Much of the funding was aimed at primary schools but Avonside Girls' High School principal Catherine Law said secondary schools would benefit from that. "When students come to us in Year 9 and 10, if they haven't had that kind of intervention and support in 0 to 8, then obviously we are having to pick up a lot more of the resourcing and working with those students and wrap around," she said. "So for us it actually is really, really great to hear that there'll be a lot of investment into that learning support coordinator role, into more teacher aide hours, and into those specialist roles in the primary sector and intermediate sector." Law said Avonside was part of a strong Kāhui Ako - the scheme that clustered schools to work together - but she accepted it would be cut to contribute $375 million to the learning support increase. Burnside High School principal Scott Haines said in 16 years as a principal he had never seen a Budget that would have so much impact on learning support. He said he was especially happy with a $122 million boost to the Ongoing Resource Scheme for students with the highest needs. "One of the big ticket items for me I think was every student who who gains ORS verification will get the funding. I think that's been a a source of great frustration for many years that we would get students denied for ORS funding based on the the lack of places rather than the lack of need," he said. However, Haines said he was disappointed the roll out of more learning support coordinators was focused on primary and intermediate schools, not secondary schools. He was also worried about funding for school property, despite a big boost in last year's Budget and $672m over four years in this year's Budget. "Capital investment in school property just remains at critical levels. Every school has a horror story around school property and it's the persistent issue across the country that will plague us in years to come," he said. Education Minister Erica Stanford had been promising a learning support Budget this year. She told RNZ she knew it would make a big difference. "This was huge to me personally and as you could see from some of the emotion in the audience, this is going to be huge for parents with children who need additional help at school - learners who have the most high and complex needs, right down to those children who just need a bit of extra help and literacy and numeracy. This is going to be game changing for those students," she said. Stanford said a significant portion of the new funding was focused on the youngest children. "We know the earlier we intervene in a child's life, the better chance of success they have, and so making sure we're getting ed-psychs, speech, language therapists, early intervention, teachers who deal with families and children and teachers involved as early as we possibly can means those children enter school and have the best chance to be able to learn to read and write, do mathematics and and have the chance of success," she said. Stanford said she was confident teachers and principals would accept the cuts made to other areas of the school budget in order to pay for the learning support increase. She said past education ministers and the Education Ministry itself had not ensured that spending was getting results. "We are going through every single line of spend, working out if it is getting the outcomes we need and if it's not we're going to stop it and reprioritise it elsewhere. And that's what you've seen this year. There is a significant reprioritisation directly into the frontline into our kids to change lives and away from things that weren't working. And frankly, that's what we should be doing from now on," she said.
