US lottery jackpot gives winners more than a billion dollars. No one has won here since New Year's, that's 36 draws without a winner.

The next big draw in a US lottery will take place on Wednesday evening: The Powerball jackpot is worth 865 million dollars (almost 800 million euros) The biggest Mega Millions prize was paid out last year when a person from Florida won $1.6 billion (just under 1.5 billion euros) In the competitor Powerball, a lottery player from California even won the sum of 2.04 billion dollars in 2022.