## Winner of $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is an immigrant from Laos who has cancer

Authored by apnews.com

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — One of the winners of a $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot this month is an immigrant from Laos who has had cancer for eight years and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week.

“I will be able to provide for my family and my health,” he said, adding that he’d “find a good doctor for myself.”.

Saephan, who has two young children, said that as a cancer patient, he wondered, “How am I going to have time to spend all of this money?

After they bought the shared tickets, Chao sent a photo of the tickets to Saephan and said, “We’re billionaires.”

Saephan said he was born in Laos and moved to Thailand in 1987, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1994.

The $1.3 billion prize is the fourth largest Powerball jackpot in history, and the eighth largest among U.S. jackpot games, according to the Oregon Lottery.

The biggest U.S. lottery jackpot won was $2.04 billion in California in 2022. »

### Legal experts: "Shameful" Supreme Court puts US one vote away from "the end of democracy"

Authored by salon.com

Justice Samuel Alito, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, argued that accountability was what would actually lead to lawlessness.

As Dreeben reminded the court, no former president, before now, has ever faced criminal prosecution after leaving office.

Luttig is himself a conservative and former federal judge; Trump’s lawyer in the Supreme Court is one of his former law clerks. »

### Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today

Authored by pcgamer.com

We couldn't hold a roundtable interview on the State of PC Gaming without asking developers about the most ubiquitous name in PC gaming: Steam.

If your game is really, really good, you have a very good chance that people on Steam will see it.

But Steam came along and it was like, whoa, maybe some people can actually make a livable wage from this. »

### Active volcano in Antarctica spews tiny crystals of gold worth $6,000 a day

Authored by upi.com

Scientists still observe the volcano through the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory and conduct field campaigns to look for extreme life forms.

While volcanic bombs are exciting, it's the bursts of gas spraying tiny crystals of metallic gold that surprise scientists, who estimate the volcano spews around 80 grams of gold a day -- that's worth around $6,000.

Antarctic researchers have detected traces of the gold dust in ambient air up to 621 miles away from the volcano. »

### ‘Urination equality’: Amsterdam women win fight for more public toilets

Authored by theguardian.com

After a nine-year battle for “urination equality” in which thousands took to the streets of the Netherlands, this month Amsterdam said it would open more public toilets in October.

Piening, then 21 years old, penned a letter challenging her fine, pointing out that Amsterdam was home to 35 public urinals for men and only three public toilets for women.

She and Piening worked together to put forward municipal legislation calling on Amsterdam to expand the number of accessible public toilets. »

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