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A lawsuit by the Philadelphia DA would stop Elon Musk’s $1M-a-day voter giveaway as early as Friday.DA Larry Krasner calls the giveaway an illegal lottery.A hearing on Krasner’s request for an emergency injunction will come 4 days before the election. The Philadelphia district attorney will take Elon Musk’s America PAC…
Ceronne Mitchell started applying for the New York City affordable-housing lottery while she was in college.The rent for her one-bedroom apartment in Queens is $1,631 a month.Competition for lottery apartments is stiff: On average, there are 450 applications for each rental unit. Ceronne Mitchell, 26, first learned about the New…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angela Santiago, a 33-year-old single mom who won an apartment with below-market-rate rent in Montville, a township about 30 miles west of Midtown Manhattan, through an affordable housing lottery program run by Piazza and Associates. She shared her experience in a…
A British couple who won the lottery said they have no plans to quit their jobs because they want to teach the importance of having a strong work ethic to their children.Graeme and Katherine White won £1 million, or around $1.2 million, in the National Lottery’s EuroMillions on May 7,…
In 2021, Brynne McManimie and Peter Romano lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Due to the pandemic, they had gotten a good deal on their lease and paid $2,600 in rent each month. But that didn’t last long.”After a year, our landlord raised our rent by like 25%…
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Timothy Schultz, who won the Powerball Lottery in 1999. The following has been edited for length and clarity.A few months before I won the $28 million Powerball jackpot, I had a vivid dream that I’d already won. It felt so…
A lawsuit brought by a $1.35 billion lottery winner against the mother of his child has taken a new twist, with the winner’s own father siding with the defendant.Doe, a resident of Maine, hit the headlines in January 2023 after becoming one of the biggest-ever winners of a US lottery.The…
