Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Is it possible to compose your own songs without any instrument or knowledge of sheet music? The answer is now a definitive yes. Thanks to specialized AI services, this is no longer a problem. They ...

The sort of violence that took the life of a Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month is impossible to make sense of. But that doesn’t mean ...

The odds are not in your favor when it comes to winning the Powerball’s staggering $1.3 billion jackpot on Wednesday night, but there are a few things you can to tip the scales ever-so-slightly in ...

Players win the jackpot by matching five white balls and one red Powerball, with tickets costing $2 per play. There are smaller cash prizes for matching fewer numbers, which can be multiplied with the ...

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to $1.1 billion with a cash value of $498.4 million ahead of the Sept. 1 drawing. The drawing begins at 10:59 p.m. ET, and tickets can be purchased online or in ...

The odds of winning the Powerball are a dismal 1 in 292,201,338. Still, millions of people take a shot at a dream three times a week and play for a chance to match the numbers on the five white balls ...

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the ...

Dr. Woolf is a physician and a professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University. After decades as a physician studying the factors that determine our risks of ...