Mega Millions Winning Numbers 8/28/09
NEW YORK: The winning numbers have been drawn for the $330-million Mega Millions lottery.
The winning numbers are:
37-1-17-31-54
Mega Ball 31
That’s the second largest jackpot in history. The cash payout is estimated at $210.4 million.
Friday’s jackpot in the Mega Millions multistate lottery game has grown to $333 million.
That’s the second largest jackpot in history. The cash payout is estimated at $210.4 million.
The largest payout so far has been a $390 million jackpot shared by a New Jersey couple from Cape May County and a truck driver in Georgia in 2007.
New Jersey Lottery Results
01-17-31-37-54-31
Mega Millions Winning Numbers 8/28/09 was first posted on August 29, 2009 at 11:29 am.
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CIA Torture Investigation, Dick Cheney Slammed
WASHINGTON: Former US vice president Dick Cheney Friday slammed a Justice Department probe into alleged abusive interrogation techniques by CIA agents as an “outrageous political act.”
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday to be aired at the weekend, Cheney said the investigation would do long term damage to America’s ability to protect itself, adding the administration should not punish agents for doing their jobs.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Monday he had named assistant US attorney John Durham to review the CIA interrogations of detainees at secret sites overseas to determine whether any laws were broken.
But Cheney, who has called on the Central Intelligence Agency to release proof that harsh interrogation techniques provided key information in stopping attacks, slammed the probe.
“We had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from al Qaeda,” he told Fox.
“The approach of the Obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say, ‘How did you do it? What were the keys to keeping this country safe over that period of time?’” Cheney said.
“Instead, they’re out there now threatening to disbar the lawyers who gave us the legal opinions — threatening contrary to what the president originally said.
“They’re going to go out and investigate the CIA personnel who carried out those investigations,” Cheney added.
The Department of Justice on Monday revealed details of a report by a CIA inspector general showing that interrogators at secret CIA prisons threatened to kill the children of September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Other detainees were threatened with the rape of family members, execution, shooting and torture.
“I have concluded that the information known to me warrants opening a preliminary review into whether federal laws were violated in connection with the interrogation of specific detainees at overseas locations,” Holder said.
But Durham’s probe will be limited to examining whether there is sufficient evidence to charge individual agents with violating the special interrogation rules they were given after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
If Durham’s investigation concludes that US laws were broken, it is not clear whether Holder would chose to go ahead with prosecutions.
Obama had previously made clear that CIA interrogators, acting on the basis of legal guidelines drawn up by former president George W. Bush’s administration would not face the wrath of the law.
CIA Torture Investigation, Dick Cheney Slammed was first posted on August 29, 2009 at 12:19 pm.
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Eastern US Warned By Tropical Storm Danny
MIAMI: Tropical Storm Danny approached the US east coast on Friday and could bring rain and high surf to the northeast by the weekend, as forecasters warned of dangerous waves and rip currents.
Even though the eye of Danny was forecast to bypass the outer banks of North Carolina Saturday, New England and the Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were warned to monitor the storm as it churned northward.
Ocean swells, winds and rain could dampen the day for mourners at the funeral service for late senator Edward Kennedy in the northeastern state of Massachusetts Saturday if Danny continues on the same northwestern trajectory.
At 2100 GMT, Danny was churning in the Atlantic at six miles (nine kilometers) per hour, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The eye of the storm was about 330 miles (535 km) south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and 810 miles (1300 km) south-southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Danny, with top winds at 40 miles (65 km) per hour, could strengthen slightly again later in the day, the NHC said.
A tropical storm watch remained in effect for parts of the North Carolina coast, while forecasters urged people to remain on the lookout along the northeastern US coast as well as the Canadian Maritimes.
“Large swells from Danny are expected to produce dangerous surf conditions and life-threatening rip currents along the US east coast during the next day or two,” the NHC said.
The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and ends on November 30.
The only other hurricane this Atlantic was Hurricane Bill, which was downgraded this week as it swept over Canada’s east coast.
So far, 2009 has seen one of the calmest starts to the hurricane season in a decade, which researchers have attributed to the development of an El Nino effect in the Pacific.
Eastern US Warned By Tropical Storm Danny was first posted on August 29, 2009 at 12:35 pm.
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