Fed Raising Rates, House Intel Committee Probing Leaks, China Sending Marx Statue to Germany: P.M. Links

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  • Harald Tittel/dpa

    The Federal Reserve is raising its benchmark lending rate by a quarter point.

  • The House Intelligence Committee is opening up a probe into leaks in the intelligence community about President Trump's aides.
  • The Department of Justice charged four people, including two intelligence officers from Russia, in connection with the hacking of Yahoo.
  • European Council President Donald Tusk says the European Union would not be "initimidated" by the United Kingdom over Brexit.
  • Voters in the Netherlands are choosing a new parliament.
  • Karl Marx's German hometown has decided to accept a statue of the philosopher from China on the occasion of his 200th birthday.
  • A McDonald's worker in Florida jumped through the drive thru window to try to help a woman who had lost consciousness.