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When Will This Sh*t Stop? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A career criminal with 23 prior arrests and 70 charges was allowed to roam free until she stabbed a pregnant woman in broad daylight outside a Harris Teeter in Charlotte’s Cotswold Village Shopping Center on March 18.  The 38-year-old victim was loading her car with her three-year-old child nearby when Marvina Marie Hardy (also known as Marvina Marie Hardy-Butler), 40, of Waxhaw, attacked her with a steak knife, stabbing her in the sternum.  The victim fought back. Both she and her unborn...

Typical US Homeowners Stay 12 Years In Their Homes - 20 Years In Los Angeles Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. homeowners stayed in their houses for about 12 years as of 2025—the longest median time since 2022. A view of houses in a neighborhood in Los Angeles on July 5, 2022. Frederic Brown/AFP via Getty Images In a March 4 report, Redfin noted that the “stay put” trend peaked at 13.4 years in 2020, then gradually declined every year until 2024, when it hit 11.8 years. Last...

OpenAI Rewrites 'Sloppy' Pentagon AI Deal After Backlash Over Surveillance Risks OpenAI - which millions of users trust with everything from legal documents to tax returns - is revising its newly signed contract with the US Department of War, just days after it was announced that they would replace Anthropic for use in government systems because the rushed rollout "looked opportunistic and sloppy."  Hours after negotiations collapsed between the Pentagon and rival startup Anthropic on Friday, the San Francisco-based company agreed to supply its AI models for use in classified military operations. The...