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He was elected Louisiana's governor last year after serving as attorney general.
The Republican says he will remain governor as he serves as special envoy.
Matt Bloom, NPR News, New Orleans.
The jackpot has an estimated cash value of just over $457 million, which would be Powerball's seventh largest sum in history.
It comes just a few months after another billion-dollar sum in September that was split by ticket holders in Missouri and Texas.
Powerball and Mega Millions, the two largest lottery games in the U.S., have been trying to garner larger jackpots.
Higher ticket prices have helped boost the pool, but the odds of winning the jackpot aren't much better.
According to the game's organizers at the Multi-State Lottery Association, they sit at roughly 1 in 292.2 million.
The new lawsuit was filed by a group of state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta.
The suit filed in federal court in Boston seeks to block President Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas.
Trump announced the policy this fall, raising the fee from just a few thousand dollars per worker.
In their suit, the attorneys general argue that the price hike violates federal law.
The new suit is at least the third to challenge the policy, which Trump says is meant to protect American workers.
Similar challenges from the U.S.
unions and employers are also pending.
A deep pool of frigid air currently building over northern Canada is set to surge into large portions of the central and eastern United States this weekend, bringing some of the coldest temperatures of the season so far.
Meteorologists say this motherlode of Arctic air could drive daytime highs into the single digits across parts of the Midwest and overnight lows well below zero with dangerously low wind chills.