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• The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate for the sixth time since late-2015.
• The Fed adjusts the interest rates that banks charge to borrow from one another, which is eventually passed on to consumers.

Banks give out money all the time — for a fee.

When we borrow and then pay back with interest, it's how banks make money.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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Protesters in northwestern Peru had set up a makeshift roadblock consisting of rocks and burning tires to put pressure on the government not to invest in a major local development project.

For most people, a snow day calls to mind visions of blowing snow, hot chocolate, and a day off from school, but weather nerds tend to look at things a little differently. 

Reporting on the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, the collapse of the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq, and human rights abuses in Yemen has earned AP journalists three prestigious awards from the Overseas Press Club of America.

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• Dogs and other animals tend to go viral.
• Sometimes dogs go viral because fans are totally convinced they resemble celebrities. 
• We rounded up all of the times the internet thought they'd found a doggie doppelganger for a celeb. 

It's pretty much every day that a dog or other animal goes viral online for one reason or another. But sometimes, a photo goes viral because a dog has so much undeniable star power... Читать дальше...

Nashville kindergartner Carden Corts (he already has a perfect anchorman name) produced what might be the best Kindergarten-level project in existence. 

Dreams can feel awfully real when you’re deep in sleep. Perhaps you find a hidden doorway in your home that leads to entirely new rooms and passageways. Maybe you went to work in your underwear—yikes. When you wake up, you check your closet for that mysterious doorway; maybe you jolt awake in a cold sweat, instantly relieved you still have plenty of time to properly clothe yourself before leaving the house. Regardless, whatever you were experiencing felt very real just moments ago. Dre

Brett Sewell suffered major injuries when he crashed his bike during a mass motorcycle “ride-out” in Nashville, Tennessee. The accident occurred when Sewell attempted to pull off a wheelie and crashed into a nearby four-wheeler.  He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he is still recovering.

The United States is slapping trade restrictions on 15 South Sudanese oil entities that are partially owned or run by the South Sudan government.   The U.S. State Department said Wednesday anyone wanting to export or transfer items of American origin to the 15 entities must first obtain a license from the U.S. government.   The 15 listed entities, which may include individuals, companies and private or government-run organizations, are to be published in the U.S. Federal Register later this week. Читать дальше...

The midfielder’s agent says any deal would have to show respect to Lyon, opening the door to a summer move. Nabil Fekir, a rumoured target for both Liverpool and Arsenal in recent months, could move on from Lyon—but if he does so it would be a move done with respect—according to his agent, who has opened the door to a summer departure for the 24-year-old midfielder. Fekir, a versatile attacking midfielder, would seem suited to playing opposite Naby Keïta in a shuttling role in Liverpool’s 4-3-3,... Читать дальше...

John Fox’s welcome to ESPN might make his face even redder. The former Bears head coach, seemingly a perpetually sad face on NFL sidelines, is heading to the Worldwide Leader as a studio analyst, The Athletic first reported Tuesday. It seems no matter how many layoffs hit the network, there is a quota of failed...

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• Marvel legend Stan Lee and his daughter Joan Celia Lee are the subject of worrisome reports.
• Millions have reportedly been stolen from his accounts.
• Business associate Jerry Olivarez is said to be involved, according to a new report from The Daily Beast.
• Lee's former bodyguard Mac "Max" Anderson was also allegedly removed from the Lee residence. 
• Problems started after the death of Lee's wife Joan.
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Weeks after confusion over YouTube’s decision to suspend and remove some accounts and videos that displayed guns, the video-hosting giant has clarified its policy to crack down on videos containing and promoting firearms. A recent update to YouTube’s content policies added new restrictions on the display of guns and firearms, including an attempt to prevent content that promotes the sale of guns and gun accessories, as well as content that teaches viewers how to manufacture or install firearm add-ons.

A homeless man who threatened to bomb a Humboldt Park bank during a 2016 robbery was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison.

Nata Sharibu, father of the remaining student of Federal Government Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe still in captivity says his daughter refused to denounced God, and so, the terrorists decided not to release her.

If filing for bankruptcy wasn’t bad enough, the Weinstein Company also owes a lot of people money.

The first decision by the new US federal reserve chair, Jerome Powell, has been to raise rates to 1.75 percent, one quarter of a per cent above Australia's emergency low settings. Rising US rates have already caused rate hikes to home loans in Australia, as banks say that their funding costs have been steadily rising for the last five months. This week, the chairman of the Future Fund, Peter costello, warned that Australia's heavily-indebted economy is vulnerable to rising global ­interest rates... Читать дальше...

New Yorkers on the road get cranky with subpar bagels-and-lox. But those heading to Las Vegas will have one less thing to kvetch about now that Sin City’s opened a Sadelle’s — arguably, Manhattan’s top purveyor of silkily sliced smoked-salmon — at the Bellagio Resort & Casino. In fact, there are plenty of ways to...

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They say the truth will set you free, but after learning these disturbing facts about food, you might wish you'd remained under a veil of blissful ignorance — at least until after dinner.

From ground-up maggots lurking in your canned foods to the brown beaver slime that's used to flavor vanilla treats, these 10 revolting facts about food will make you second-guess everything you eat.

The average jar of peanut butter may contain 4 or more rodent hairs. Читать дальше...

Dem kosovarischen Parlament ist es am Mittwochabend gelungen, das im August 2015 in Wien unterzeichnete Grenzabkommen mit Montenegro zu ratifizieren. Dafür stimmten 80 Abgeordnete, elf waren dagegen, meldeten Medien in Prishtina. Es war bereits der vierte Ratifizierungsversuch des Parlaments seit Jahresbeginn.

New Epic Games technology shown at the Game Developers Conference is getting closer to crossing that uncanny valley.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tehran has neutralised US plans in the Middle East, in a speech Wednesday marking the Persian New Year.

Something very strange is happening in health policy right now. In October, when President Donald Trump announced he would end Obamacare’s cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurers, it was billed (including by yours truly) as sabotage and potentially disastrous for the law’s markets.