If you're one of the millions who purchased an iPod between September 12, 2006, and March 31, 2009, you might be in for a surprising email from RealNetworks.

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A retired couple from southern Illinois are the third and final winners to claim a share of a record $656m (£409m) Mega Millions lottery jackpot.

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Two Maryland teachers and a school office worker who pooled their money to buy lottery tickets won the record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot and will split the $105 million prize, lottery officials said Tuesday. Read full article > >

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Maryland Lottery officials plan a news conference Tuesday, a day after announcing that the holder of one of three winning tickets in a record $656 million Mega Millions drawing has come forward.

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One of three winners of the $656m Mega Millions jackpot has come forward with a ticket from the US state of Maryland, lottery officials say.

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A winning ticket for the record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Baltimore County, the Maryland Lottery said Saturday.

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Winning Mega Millions ticket sold in Maryland

Lottery fever has swept the United States, where the Mega Millions jackpot has reached an all-time record of $500m (£314m).

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Newly disclosed details of the millions of dollars flowing into political groups highlight not just the scale of donations from corporation and unions but also the secrecy surrounding “super PACs.”

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‘Super PAC’ Filings Show Power and Secrecy

In a slender essay titled “Here Is New York,” E.B. White wrote about the implausibility of the great city, mentioning among other things the millions of gallons of water needed each day just so people could brush their teeth. That was in 1948. Since then, the implausibility factor has increased thousands-fold — or at least an awful lot — a fact among many that prompted Charles Fishman to expand White’s thought in his new book, “The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water.” If you read it — and you should — you will be very thirsty. And you will never flush again with the same nonchalance. Read full article > >

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‘The Big Thirst’ and the miracle of water

In 2001, the Mets considered buying fraud insurance to protect the millions they invested with Bernard L. Madoff.

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Mets Looked at Fraud Coverage for Madoff Stakes

WASHINGTON — Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday.

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If you were one of the millions who watched this year’s Super Bowl, then you no doubt caught at least one of the many buzzed-about movie trailers that were spread throughout the night. From Captain America and Thor to Transformers, Cowboys and Aliens, there were enough big-budget extravaganzas to make us wish it were summer already. We’ve made sure to collect all of the Super Bowl movie trailers here in one post so that your trailer-addicted life is made just that much easier. Definitely watch them all and then vote in the poll for your favorite. Personally, we were a little knocked out by Captain America: The First Avenger, which is easily our most anticipated blockbuster of the year right now. J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 would run a close second. What about you?… Read More Read Comments

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Super Bowl Movie Trailers – Watch Them All and Vote for Your Favorite!

Holly Lahti, 29, a single mother of two from Idaho, won a Mega Millions lottery $190 million jackpot on January 4th-and then promptly disappeared. Now, the missing woman’s deadbeat estranged husband is seeking a piece of her riches, and it looks like…

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Lotto Jackpot Winner Goes Missing

Don’t let a decade of vaccine controversy overshadow a decade of miracles.

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Global vaccine efforts offer hope to millions

The holders of tickets sold in Idaho and Washington will split a $335 million Mega Millions jackpot, its second largest ever and the fourth-largest in U.S. history. (The national record is $390 million, set in March 2007.) Each of the Mega Millions…

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Lottery Winners Split $335M Jackpot