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US Escalates Crackdown On Overseas Scam Network Targeting Americans Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, The United States has taken coordinated action against a Southeast Asia-based scam and money-laundering network that officials say used forced-labor compounds and online investment fraud to steal billions of dollars from Americans. Scam center workers and victims from China arrive at the border checkpoint with Thailand, in Myawaddy, Burma, on Feb. 20, 2025. Hundreds of Chinese workers were heading home after being freed from online scam centers. STR/AFP via Getty Images The Treasury Department on June...

Housing Market's Crucial "Spring Selling Season" Is In Tatters Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street, Late last year and early this year, the story was that dropping mortgage rates, powered by big rate cuts from the Fed, would unleash demand in the housing market in the spring – the key spring selling season – and that sales volume would take off and that Realtors’ commissions would rocket to the moon. And so that didn’t happen. Inflation has been reheating for months before the war and before the energy price spike. The...

Kentucky Gym Exposes Female Entitlement Culture With New "Modesty Code" It says a lot about modern women when a private business imposes standards of general modesty and they feel personally attacked.  So much so, that they run to social media and their local news station to cry victim.  It's not an isolated incident, it is an example of a more pervasive culture of female entitlement that is plaguing the western world.   A Northern Kentucky gym called TAC Fitness is facing backlash after women say a new dress code policy is a...