1. President Trump has asked the Supreme Court to quickly overturn a federal court decision striking down his administration’s wide-ranging global tariffs. Attorneys with the Justice Department urged the justices to decide the case on a highly accelerated timeline, arguing that the legal challenges against the tariffs are creating uncertainty as the administration seeks to use them to resolve a variety of foreign policy issues, including to force India to stop purchasing Russian oil.
2. No winner Wednesday night means Saturday's PowerBall jackpot skyrockets to $1.70 billion dollars. The jackpot has an estimated cash value of $770.3 million. Saturday’s Powerball jackpot ranks as the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, only behind the world-record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot won on Nov. 7, 2022, and the $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot won on Oct. 11, 2023. Both of those record-setting prizes were won in California. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million, according to Powerball.