Powerball Jackpot Reaches $1 Billion

This is only the seventh time in U.S. history that a lottery jackpot has reached at least one billion dollars.

No one matched all of the numbers in last night’s drawing, so tomorrow’s jackpot is estimated to be one billion dollars. Or, if you’d rather get a lump-sump cash payment, it’s about 518-million bucks. This is only the seventh time in U.S. history that a lottery jackpot has reached at least one billion dollars. The largest prize ever was two billion dollars, won by a California man last November.