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The first provincial lottery in Canada was Quebec's Inter-Loto in 1970. Other provinces and regions introduced their own lotteries through the 1970s, and the federal government ran Loto Canada (originally the Olympic Lottery) for several years starting in the late 1970s to help recoup the expenses of the 1976 Summer Olympics. Lottery wins are ...
Mega Millions (originally known as The Big Game in 1996 and renamed, temporarily, to The Big Game Mega Millions six years later) is an American multijurisdictional lottery game.
Lotofácil was scheduled to be launched in April 2003 by Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF), "probably on the 7th", according to the then Jornal do Brasil columnist Ricardo Boechat. [7] However, the following month he reported that there was a "powerful lobby of lottery associations" preventing the launch of Lotofácil, noting the slow progress of ...
Source: Associated Press. By Christopher Awai, Bill Dorn, Raphael Eidus, Sam Ellner, Jesse Kipp, Kevin Mangubat, Matt Midboe, Andy Read, Sara Rubin, Han Su and Qing Wu
Jogo do bicho (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒogu du ˈbiʃu], "animal game") is an illegal gambling game in Brazil, prohibited by federal law since 1946, but nevertheless very popular throughout the country.
On October 1, the US District Court dismissed the lawsuit on the basis that the ACLU failed to demonstrate that the September 21 voter registration deadline constituted an unconstitutional disenfranchisement or a manifest injustice that justified the intrusion of the United States federal government.
Federal workers fired for alleged poor performance as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's remaking of the federal government received excellent performance reviews before they were fired ...
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription ...