Christmas Eve Powerball win in Arkansas nearly broke the record of Edwin Castro of California, who won $2.04 billion Powerball in November 2022.

Here are Wednesday’s winning lottery numbers: The estimated Powerball jackpot is $45 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $20.7 million.

Almost a decade has passed since a three-way split for a $1.586 billion Powerball jackpot in 2016 included this Tennessee couple.

The latest Powerball draw had no jackpot winner, and the next drawing could turn one lucky ticket into an instant millionaire.

Santa might have a gigantic present in his bag on Christmas Eve, when the estimated jackpot for that night's drawing will be an estimated $1.7 billion.

Murphy gas station at Walmart in Cabot, Arkansas, sold winning ticket in 2025 Christmas Eve Powerball. Final sales pushed the total to $1.817 billion.

Powerball and Mega Millions players in Florida just went through a triple whammy in billion-dollar lottery streaks for 2025 — but it wasn’t all bad news. No one in the Sunshine State won the grand prize in these newsworthy lottery drawings: In September,

The mystery winner of the Christmas Powerball draw has been found, with an Adelaide woman taking home $20m. The Hackham woman received the “shock of her life” after checking her lottery ticket on Friday morning and discovering she was the winner more than a week after the numbers in Powerball draw 1545 were drawn.