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The Federal Reserve just raised interest rates for a fourth time this year, snubbing stock investors who have been bleeding red in recent months over concern that the almost 10-year-old economic expansion is about to run out of steam. Many were hoping the central bank would stop raising rates to ease their pain. So does this mean the Fed doesn’t care about Wall Street? Not exactly, writes West Virginia University’s Alexander
Kurov, who has studied the links between stock prices and monetary policy.
It’s still not clear how or when Great Britain will withdraw from the European Union. But despite some anxiety across the English Channel, new research suggests the EU will in fact survive Brexit. Polling data taken immediately before and after Britain’s 2016 referendum to exit the EU shows that support for the bloc actually increased after Brexit. Trump’s election also had a paradoxically positive effect on European unity,
write Emanuel Deutschmann and Lara Minkus.
As holiday festivities start, many singles might face questions from friends and family about their dating lives. An assumption in these conversations is that those who are single are less happy, or just lonely. Arizona State’s Elizabeth Brake writes that what many don’t understand is that some people choose to be “happily single.”
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Bryan Keogh
Economics + Business Editor
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Top stories
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The U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates as of Dec. 19.
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Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University
The Federal Reserve opted to lift interest rates in a snub to stock investors who have been bleeding red for more than two months.
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An anti-Brexit protester speaks during a demonstration.
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Emanuel Deutschmann, European University Institute; Lara Minkus, Universität Bremen
Back in 2016, the Brexit vote and US presidential election seemed like a nationalist one-two punch that could knock out the European Union. Instead, EU support actually rose, new research shows.
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More and more Americans are choosing to be single.
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Elizabeth Brake, Arizona State University
Singles can face mistaken stereotypes and value judgments that they are less happy, or lonelier. For many, being single is simply a relationship preference or even an orientation.
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Politics + Society
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Daniel Hemel, University of Chicago
A New York judge will decide whether Trump owes more than $2.8 million in restitution.
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Bradley W. Hart, California State University, Fresno
The initial aim of the 1937 Foreign Agents Registration Act was long forgotten: the prosecution of Nazis for interfering with American democracy. But that law is startlingly relevant to the US now.
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Environment + Energy
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James R. Elliott, Rice University; Scott Frickel, Brown University
Many homes, parks and businesses in US cities stand on former manufacturing sites that may have left legacy hazardous wastes behind. A new book calls for more research into our urban industrial past.
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Rubén G. Mendoza, California State University, Monterey Bay
At many Spanish missions in the US and Latin America, the rising sun illuminates the altar on the winter solstice or other symbolic days. To the faithful, these events meant that Christ was with them.
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Health + Medicine
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Emily B. Campbell, College of the Holy Cross
For many who know someone who has lost a loved one, it can be hard to know what to say or how to respond. For those who have lost a loved one, the silence can be deafening. Some things to keep in mind.
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Teresa Purzner, Stanford University
Developing drugs is typically the domain of large pharmaceutical companies. But here is an example of drug development for a rare pediatric brain cancer that was done in a university setting.
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Science + Technology
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Dorothy Denning, Naval Postgraduate School
Major advances in computing technology could break most modern encryption – but not for at least a few years.
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Alexey Petrov, Wayne State University
What shape is an electron? The answer, believe it or not, has implications for our understanding of the entire universe, and could reveal whether there are mysterious particles still to be discovered.
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Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
For indigenous peoples, winter solstice has been a time to honor their ancient sun deity. Their rituals reveal a deep understanding of the natural world.
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Jean Twenge, San Diego State University
Some say the hysteria over screen time echoes parents' worries that their kids were watching too much TV in the 1980s. But new studies show there's nothing overblown about parents' growing concern.
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Adriana Galván, University of California, Los Angeles
Researchers tracked adolescents' sleep and scanned their brains. As expected, better sleep went with healthy brain development. Unexpected was the importance of one aspect of where teens slept.
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