Two winning tickets will split the $1.787 billion Powerball jackpot drawn on Saturday. Changes to Powerball and Mega Millions have led to increasingly large jackpots in recent years.

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An influx of immigrants helped ease worker shortages, and now their expulsion is helping to mask the country’s weakening demand for labor.

Higher education is in flux, and students are adjusting to a lot of changes.

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China used a parade of fighter jets, missiles and goose-stepping troops to honor the country’s wartime sacrifice and issue a defiant warning to rivals.