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Fed Not Raising Rates, Continuing To 'Monitor' Market Conditions
Sales growth was stronger than many experts predicted, perhaps because they thought rising prices and interest rates might cool the market a bit. However, consumer spending for energy services declined markedly, reflecting unseasonably warm weather.
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A long bye-bye for Bao Bao the panda
It was quiet expect for the chirping of a lone sparrow and the clicking of photographers' cameras. Bao Bao was born in the National Zoo in 2013 an has been living in solitary since March of 2015, away from her mother, Mei Xiang. Following the zoo keepers' meeting, the Chinese embassy on Thursday will bring dumplings to the zoo for panda fans. Once the cub arrives in China, she'll be driven to her new home, one of the bases run by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant ...
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United Kingdom 10-Month Government Borrowing Requirement Declines 21
In both January and July, receipts are particularly high due to the receipt of self-assessed Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax and self-assessed National Insurance contribution. John Hawksworth, PwC chief economist, said: "The ONS handed the Chancellor a £5 billion pre-Budget windfall today by revising down its earlier estimates of public borrowing in the period from April to December 2016 by around £5 billion".
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Verizon, Yahoo reach acquisition deal after massive data breach
The announcement said Yahoo! would be responsible for 50% of any cash liabilities after any non-SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) government investigations and third-party litigation related to the breaches ended. The deal will now, therefore, proceed to completion, with all those bits of Yahoo from the 1990s and early 2000s (minus the ones that Yahoo ruined) still going being rolled up into Verizon's own collection of has-been websites.
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Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News, apologizes for child abuse comments
Yiannopoulos's invitation to speak at the annual conference on Monday after old clips of him discussing relationships between children and adults emerged on Sunday. The writer also resigned from right-wing Breitbart News shortly before a press conference on Tuesday concerning his remarks. That's perfectly true and every gay man knows it.
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NPS: 3 national monuments in DC vandalized
She says the graffiti on the Washington Monument references President John F. Kennedy's assassination and 9/11. "Anytime any of the memorials is vandalized or abused, the staff who works here takes great pride in what these memorials represent", said Mike Litterst, another park service spokesman.