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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rates for the first time since 2023, in a move aimed at slowing inflation.

The Kremlin orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot against a prominent Russian dissident in Washington, D.C., this summer, the Department of Justice has said, as it unsealed charges against five people it alleged were part of a “global assassination network” aimed at causing “destruction and mayhem around the world.”

The vote came the same day that Chief Financial Officer Donna Kauranen resigned from her position, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

An 18-year-old with measles died from a rare and severe neurological condition that causes inflammation in the brain.

“I honestly thought it was going to be from the 1980s, ’90s or 2000s. But then he pulled this out, and I was like, ‘Ooo, tell me more!’” librarian Jennifer Needham said.