California officials said the new EV discounts will be funded in part by $135 million in state funds included in a recently announced budget agreement between California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and the state’s legislative leaders. Additional funding for the EV rebate program will come from grants funded by automakers, California officials said.

California’s plan comes nearly two years after Newsom promised shortly after President Donald Trump’s 2024 victory that he would step in to provide consumers with an electric vehicle tax credit if Trump follows through on a campaign promise and eliminates the common $7,500 federal tax credit. President Trump made sure to follow through on these promises when he passed legislation through Congress that would end the federal tax credit on September 30, 2025.

Since its launch in 1992, the Powerball jackpot has been hit more than 400 times. Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin rank among the states with the most winning jackpot tickets.

However, no one was lucky enough to win the Powerball jackpot on Saturday. Two players from Arizona State and Tennessee had a fun night and took home $2 million.

Here’s what you need to know about Monday night’s Powerball drawing.

Which Powerball number should you choose? Let’s take a closer look at the data.

What are the Powerball winning numbers for June 29th?

The winning numbers for Monday, June 29th’s Powerball drawing are 10, 14, 41, 53, 59 and the Powerball is 3. The “power play” multiplier is 2x.

The beauty retailer’s move follows similar initiatives from Walmart, Target and even Chuck E. Cheese.

Here’s what you need to know about Sephora’s Quiet Time initiative and others across the country.

Sephora launches ‘Quiet Hours’ nationwide

Sephora announced earlier this month that it would lower the music volume at all stores at designated times, adjust in-store screens and minimize strong scents to create a “calm atmosphere with fewer distractions,” according to a company news release. Sephora did not say during which hours the quiet hours would be held.

The national rollout follows an initial pilot program with 32 beauty stores in eight markets. It was developed in collaboration with disability advocacy group Open Inclusion and business consultancy Purposeful Futures.

The Chardiniera Dog, available for a limited time starting Tuesday, is the product of a new partnership between Portillo and Vienna Beef.

What’s in Portillo’s new Chardiniera Dog?

The new chargrilled beef hot dogs are infused with giardiniera and provolone cheeses, giving them a “medium-cooked, rich cheesiness and smoky charred finish,” Portillo said.

It can be served in a variety of ways, including Maxwell style, topped with yellow mustard and grilled onions.

At first glance, falling oil and gold prices may signal a cooling economy and easing inflation concerns. That’s because both of these products react to economic uncertainty.

But there are more forces at play now, and oil and gold prices are actually not that strongly correlated.

Here’s what you need to know about the relationship between oil and gold prices and what it means for precious metals investors.

The Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s March 2025 firing of Democratic Federal Trade Commission commissioners.

As USA TODAY previously reported, the high court’s ruling could dramatically change how more than a dozen agencies operate by taking away the power from Congress to remove the leaders of independent agencies and giving it to the president.

This includes the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), where President Trump tried to fire three of the five Democratic members of the commission in May 2025.

On July 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will launch the Medicare GLP-1 Bridge Program for enrollees who qualify for prescription weight loss drugs based on height, weight, and other criteria. Seniors receiving weight loss drugs pay a $50 monthly co-pay, with Medicare covering the rest of the cost.

The bridge program is a major change since Medicare, the federal health program that primarily covers adults 65 and older, prohibits coverage of weight loss drugs containing GLP-1. The bridge program will run until the end of 2027.

The program could help seniors afford popular medications that many people want, even though the list price can exceed $1,000 and insurance coverage is uncertain. Although drug companies have lowered prices for cash-paying customers, more than half of adults taking GLP-1 say the drug is difficult to obtain, according to KFF, a nonprofit health policy group.

Last week, I wrote a rare first-person article about my experience using the IRS phone system in tracking down my late mother’s tax refund.

How was it? Well, suffice it to say, if things had gone well, I wouldn’t have written the column.

Is the lottery curse real? We tracked down lottery winners to find out.

For first person:

I’ve always wondered if the lottery curse is real. If you win millions of dollars, will you inevitably lose it all, die an untimely death, or succumb to some other unpleasant fate?

To find the answer, I tracked the fortunes of more than 30 real lottery winners for more than a decade. This is what I found.

Is remote work to blame for the loneliness epidemic?

We end with Jessica Guinn’s question, “Does remote work make us lonely?”

The main digital token, Bitcoin, has a fixed supply. This does not apply to US dollars or other government-issued fiat currencies. Naturally, you can find some of these declarations on sites focused on cryptocurrencies.

Digital platform CoinDesk brought up the concept during a short-lived Bitcoin rescue rally in the spring, as inflation was heating up after the war with Iran began on February 28th. The theory was that Bitcoin’s rise in value further fueled the inflation-hedging narrative.

“Not so fast,” says Paolo Pasquariello, a finance professor at the University of Michigan.

“I read on blogs that some people are promoting cryptocurrencies as a hedge to protect against inflation,” Pasquariello said in a phone interview.