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How to don some holiday glitz without blinding everyone at the party. Plus: dressing for a wedding rehearsal dinner.

CNBC "Halftime Report" trader Jon Najarian bought shares of Schwab on Wednesday after spotting unusual activity in the options market.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania - A man and woman have been sentenced to decades in prison in the starvation death of their disabled 9-year-old son last year in Pennsylvania.

Don't wear brown shoes.

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Demi Lovato posted a "sneaky" photo of sleeping boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama two months after the actor shared a similar picture of her on Instagram.

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Oprah Winfrey's empire just got even bigger — she just picked up an 8,700-square-foot mountain home in Telluride, Colorado. 

According to Zillow, she paid $14 million for the property, which previously belonged to tech executive Bob Wall. 

The home has five bedrooms and is packed with smart home features. 

"[Wall] can water his indoor plants from San Francisco with his iPad," realtor T.D. Smith told Zillow when the house first came... Читать дальше...

China is the low-carbon superpower and will be the ultimate enforcer of the COP21 climate deal in Paris

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.'s stock surged 4.5% in late afternoon trade Wednesday, after The Wall Street Journal reported that it was planning to spin off its hotel properties into a real estate investment trust. Volume was 14.7 million shares, more than double the full-day average of 6.3 million shares, according to FactSet. The stock was up as much as 11% at its intraday high of $23.71, before paring gains. The WSJ report, citing sources, said the Hilton REIT spin off could be announced early next year. Читать дальше...

As excited as Amanda Crowe Free was for her Dec. 13 wedding, she knew a very special person would be missing: her 6-year-old daughter Azalee, who died of cancer in November 2013.

The Federal Reserve has finally ended the seven-year long era of zero-interest rate policy, raising the target for the benchmark fed funds rate to between 0.25% and 0.5%.

And it’s super simple.

Everybody probably has one of these in their closet, right?

LBD 4ever.

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And the BEST thing about a black dress is that it can be dressed up or down.

This one is from Asos, and it costs just $39.41.

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So we decided to put the transformative basic to the test and show just how many ways you can wear it.

And... Читать дальше...

If the Internet can survive heated dress debates and the soul-crushing end of a pop culture era, it can survive just about anything. But 2015 surely put it to the test.

If the Internet can survive heated dress debates and the soul-crushing end of a pop culture era, it can survive just about anything. But 2015 surely put it to the test.

Daly Santana and Hannah Tapp get first-time honors. The Gophers got the good news in Omaha, where they practiced Wednesday in preparation for Thursday’s NCAA semifinal against Texas.

The biggest winner in Tuesday's Republican presidential debate may have been Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. A number of the Republican candidates in Las Vegas, including front-runners Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, stressed to an American audience that seeing Mr. Assad deposed wasn't their number-one priority in Syria.

Twelve U.S. Air Force F-15s sent to Incirlik Air Base in November to protect Turkish airspace and conduct strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq are being redeployed to their home base in the United Kingdom, European Command said.

With his poll numbers dropping, Ben Carson has begun to express some frustration with the political process and GOP voters.

Amy R. Connolly and Doug G. Ware
BALTIMORE, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A judge declared a mistrial in the prosecution of Baltimore police Officer William Porter in the Freddie Gray case after jurors couldn't reach a verdict.

Zangicoon Frank Boeijen is in 2016 zes avonden te gast bij de Symphonica in Rosso-concertreeks van collega Marco Borsato. Met de optredens in de ZiggoDome in Amsterdam viert Borsato dat hij 25 jaar in het vak zit.

(ATTN: ADDS more quotes, details) WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (Yonhap) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve raised key interest rates for the first time in nine years Wednesday, a landmark turnaround that symbolizes the confidence that the world's largest economy has

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Hilton shares jump 6% on reported plan to spin off hotel properties as REIT