{"id":335196,"date":"2025-12-25T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335196\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:47:07","slug":"jingle-bills-arkansas-powerball-player-strikes-1-8bn-jackpot-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/335196\/","title":{"rendered":"Jingle bills: Arkansas Powerball player strikes $1.8bn jackpot on Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In order to win the jackpot, a lottery ticket holder must match all five white balls and the red Powerball selected during a drawing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tickets for the lottery cost $2 each &#8211; and the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to game organisers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A winner has an option to choose a lump-sum payment or receive the full amount in an annuity paid over 29 years, but most winners opt for the upfront cash option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game, which began in 1992, is played in 45 of the 50 US states, the capital city of Washington, and in the US territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winnings are subject to federal taxes of between 24% and 37%, and, in most cases, state taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In order to win the jackpot, a lottery ticket holder must match all five white balls and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-335196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}