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Captain Sandy and Captain Lee. Laurent Bassett/Bravo Her turn to strike back. Below Deck’s Captain Sandy had plenty to say about her feud with Captain Lee after previously claiming there was no conflict between them. During an appearance on SiriusXM’s Reality Checked, which aired on Wednesday, February 1, Sandy, 57, addressed Lee’s concerns about her not calling him before firing Camille Lamb. “He’s in the hospital. Who’s gonna call and say, ‘Can I fire Camille?’ Never in a million years would I do that,” the Florida native explained. “But what I did was give him a courtesy call saying, ‘By…

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As the Federal Reserve announces its interest rate decision, many investors are looking to the future of Bitcoin and asking: can BTC reach $30,000 this month?The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that its key short-term interest rate would go up by a quarter point, which was less than the previous 0.5-point increase in December. This decision showed that inflation is not as high as it was before and is decelerating.After their two-day meeting, the Federal Reserve reported that inflation has decreased slightly but is still relatively high. The central bank seems disinclined to indicate that their effort to combat inflation…

The Reserve Bank has revealed the frightening scale of Australia’s looming mortgage crisis at a parliamentary hearing into the cost of living.Officials defended their decision to increase interest rates seven times last year with more almost certain to follow, starting next week. Source: Sky News

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Sweden Wednesday to “don’t even bother” with trying to join NATO as long as the European country allows protests desecrating Islam’s holy book. Erdogan made the remark in a speech to his ruling party’s legislators as Turkey remains infuriated by a series of demonstrations in Stockholm by activists who have burned the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy and hanged an effigy of Erdogan. “Sweden, don’t even bother! As long as you allow my holy book, the Quran, to be burned and torn, and you do so together with your security forces, we will not say ‘yes’ to…

FIRST ON FOX: President Biden needs to set up a “firewall” between him and first son Hunter Biden’s legal woes as his allies weigh a legal defense fund for him, law professor and former President George W. Bush’s chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter told Fox News Digital. Painter said that the younger Biden is “a private citizen, so he’s going to disclose whatever he has to disclose” but the first son is “probably going to get away with not disclosing any of it.””Just like with these paintings he’s selling and he should be disclosing who’s buying the artwork, but…

New York’s “weak” jobs recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is worse than previously predicted, Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed in a sobering $227 billion budget address Wednesday. Hochul said the Empire State won’t fully recover all its job losses tied to the pandemic until 2027 — seven years after the COVID-19 outbreak first ravaged the Empire State. Last year, Hochul predicted all the pre-pandemic jobs would be recovered by 2026. The previous year in 2021, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo anticipated all the pre-pandemic jobs would be recovered in 2025. Hochul said she moved the goal post because of the slower than anticipated…

Russia on Wednesday took aim at Israel and warned it not to get involved in the war in Ukraine by providing arms to Kyiv, claiming such a move would “lead to an escalation of this crisis.””We say that all countries that supply weapons should understand that we will consider these to be legitimate targets for Russia’s armed forces,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said according to a report by The Times of Israel. “Any attempts — implemented or even unrealized but announced for the supply of additional, new or some other weapons — lead and will lead to an escalation…

Former ABC News journalist James Gordon Meek was arrested and accused of possessing child pornography, federal authorities said Wednesday.James Gordon Meek, a 53-year-old resident of Arlington, Virginia, was taken into custody Tuesday night and was charged with transportation of child pornography, officials said.If convicted, Meek could face a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years behind bars, authorities said.Meek abruptly resigned from ABC last year following a raid of his home in April.The investigation began in March 2021 when Dropbox filed a tip with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, claiming a…

The results from a survey of 5,000 parents by Dental Phobia shows payments for baby teeth are down from an average of £2.10 apiece five years ago to currently just £1.90You know times are hard when even the Tooth Fairy feels the cost-of-living crunch. Payments for baby teeth are down 10% from an average £2.10 apiece five a years ago to £1.90. And how much cash children find under their pillow also depends on where you live. The winged tooth collector is leaving an average of £2.30 in London, rising to a peak of £5 in affluent Kensington & Chelsea.…