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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage-point in an effort to curb high inflation. Some had called for the Fed to wait after two recent bank failures.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's center-left Labor Party is seeking a second term. His opponent, conservative opposition leader Peter Dutton, wants to become the first political leader to oust a first-term government since 1931.

The president made the announcement on social media, but officials in Israel and Iran have yet to announce it for themselves. His post came hours after Iran launched on attack on a U.S. base in Qatar.

The bill has come under intense scrutiny from billionaire Elon Musk, who called it a "disgusting abomination" and threatened to finance challenges to lawmakers who support it.

An experiment with threadfin butterflyfish finds that these fish may experience pleasure while being cleaned by bluestreak cleaner wrasse — suggesting this capacity goes far back in animal evolution.

It takes a spy to catch a spy in Steven Soderbergh's thriller Black Bag. And if they're married and played by Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett, so much the better.

Incumbent David Pruhs conceded the City of Fairbanks mayoral race to Mindy O'Neall Tuesday night.

Egypt and French officials offer condolences to families. Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley and H.A. Hellyer at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council.

Some 154 million people in the United States get health care through their employer — and for many, their costs are about to go way up.

In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it.