Powerball, Mega Millions Both Near Billion-Dollar Mark

There are now nearly two billion dollars up for grabs in America’s two biggest lotteries. Nobody won the grand prize in last night’s Powerball drawing, so the jackpot jumps to an estimated 750 million dollars for Saturday’s drawing. The Mega Millions jackpot, meanwhile, is teetering at a billion dollars and will be worth an estimated 977 million when the numbers are drawn this Friday night.