The Powerball jackpot climbed to $526 million with a cash value of $233.5 million ahead of the Saturday, July 18, drawing.
Since launching in 1992, Powerball jackpots have been hit more than 400 times. Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin rank among the states with the most jackpot-winning tickets.
Though no one took home the Powerball jackpot on Wednesday, one person from Louisiana took home $2 million. The last time someone won Powerball's top prize was on May 2; on that night, two players split a $20 million prize.
Here is what you need to know about Saturday night's Powerball drawing.

By Andrew Goudsward
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team reviewed text messages from 44 Republican and Democratic members of Congress during his investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn ‌the 2020 election, according to two Republican senators.
The records came from subpoenas to the National Archives and Records ‌Administration for text messages from government phones used by Trump and a range of his top officials and advisers from October 2020 until the end of his first term in January 2021.
The records Smith's team obtained included text messages that 40 Republican lawmakers and four Democrats exchanged with Trump officials, according to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson, the chair of a Senate investigative panel.
The new material underscores how many senior figures in the U.S. government were examined as Smith investigated ‌Trump's attempts to reverse his defeat to Democrat ⁠Joe Biden in 2020 and his alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort during Biden's administration. Both cases were dropped after Trump won the 2024 election.

Benny Melendez voted for President Donald Trump in 2024. But since Trump returned to the White House, it has been increasingly difficult for Melendez to run his small construction company in south Texas. He says immigration officers have detained workers at his job sites and while driving his company trucks. Since the beginning of 2025, more than 10 of those workers have been deported.
The chaos of the past year-and-a-half has convinced Melendez to abandon his support for Trump and Republicans, and instead back the Democrat in this year's U.S. Senate election, state Rep. James Talarico.
"How can we continue voting for someone that is targeting our community?" Melendez said. "There's no way possible we're going to support that. No way."
Melendez is not alone. One in five Hispanic business owners in Texas say they've had an employee deported in the past year, according to a new survey commissioned by the U.S. Hispanic Business Council and shared first with POLITICO. Seven in ten said their businesses had been impacted by Trump's tariffs. Among those surveyed, Talarico holds a seven-point lead over Attorney General Ken Paxton, the GOP nominee, even though a plurality of the over 1,000 respondents self-identify as Republican. Almost one quarter who supported Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican primary now say they'll back Talarico, while over half say they'll back Paxton.
The survey is the clearest sign yet of Paxton's vulnerability among Texas' robust Hispanic business community amidst broader signs that Hispanic voters around the country are swinging hard against him, thanks to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the shaky economy. The survey was conducted from June 2 to 15 and included 1,012 Texas-based USHBC members. Respondents included business owners in construction, food services, retail, manufacturing and other industries.