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The Fed raised interest rates 0.75 percentage point: Here’s how it will affect your wallet.

Earlier this year, the Federal Reserve turned to its most potent weapon — raising interest rates — to combat soaring inflation. But with consumer prices having only accelerated since then, the central bank boosted rates by 0.75 percentage point on Wednesday — its largest hike since 1994 — to try to …

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FBI assisting investigation of Patriot Front, an alleged white nationalists accused of planning riot at Idaho Pride event

Police in Idaho say they prevented a possible domestic terror attack over the weekend, when 31 men were arrested Saturday allegedly on their way to wreak havoc at a Pride event in the city of Coeur d’Alene. All had traveled from elsewhere, and police believe they’re members of a white …

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The intense life of abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell

“Perhaps if I hadn’t had to fight, I would have quit,” the artist Joan Mitchell once said. “I don’t know. I doubt it, though.” Mitchell’s work may have been born out of struggle, but there is no question that she was able to prevail, creating paintings now considered 20th century …

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