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A shelter village provides a bridge to permanent housing : NPR

A shelter village provides a bridge to permanent housing : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Tiny, colorful cabins make up Home Sweet Home Ministries’ shelter village, The Bridge, in Bloomington, Illinois. Construction began in the summer of 2025. Emily Bollinger hide caption toggle caption Emily Bollinger  In the thick of winter a few months ago, Matthew Stone was living in a tent encampment in the woods of a central Illinois city. “It was very horrible, a very horrible experience,” Stone said. “I was living in a tent with my dog. It was just, all in all, a horrible experience, very cold this winter.” Temperatures in central Illinois averaged 20 degrees Fahrenheit, with a low of minus 8 in January. But three days before temperatures dropped below zero, the city of Bloomington opened its first shelter village. The Bridge is a tiny house community that offers people experiencing homelessness private spaces for sleeping and storing their belongings. A Housing shortage intensifies a homeless crisis. Bloomington has a housing shortage that became dire in 2021 because more people had moved to the city looking for jobs at a new manufacturing company. There …

DOJ Moves For Permanent Dismissal Of Charges Against 2 Ex-Cops In Breonna Taylor Case

DOJ Moves For Permanent Dismissal Of Charges Against 2 Ex-Cops In Breonna Taylor Case

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) is looking to permanently dismiss the cases against two former Louisville police officers connected to the night Breonna Taylor was killed six years ago, according to court documents filed Friday. Former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany were accused of falsifying a warrant that led to the botched police raid on her apartment the night she died. Federal prosecutors said in the motion that their charges should be “dismissed in the interest of justice.” Lawyers for Jaynes, Travis Lock, told The Epoch Times in an email that he and Jaynes were “extremely happy” to learn of the DOJ motion. Michael Denbow, lawyer for Meany, wrote in an email to The Epoch Times that “Kyle [Meany] is incredibly grateful for today’s filing.” “He is looking forward to putting this matter behind him and moving forward with his life,” Denbow said. Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, criticized the motion by the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to dismiss Jaynes’s and Meany’s cases. “I am compelled …

Greenwald: 9/11-Like Mass Casualty Attacks Could Trigger Permanent Emergency Measures

Greenwald: 9/11-Like Mass Casualty Attacks Could Trigger Permanent Emergency Measures

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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Tucker Carlson sat down with independent journalist Glenn Greenwald for a pointed exchange that cut straight to concerns over free speech limits and the risk of domestic fallout from the ongoing Iran conflict. Greenwald laid out a sobering scenario: mass casualty attacks on U.S. soil could trigger sweeping “emergency measures” that, once imposed, become fixtures of American life—just as the Patriot Act did after 9/11. The conversation opened with Greenwald addressing a noticeable imbalance in what passes for acceptable criticism in public life. “It’s interesting that there’s no criticism of our country that is banned or even discouraged — only of a foreign country,” Carlson observed. TUCKER: “It’s interesting that there’s no criticism of our country that is banned or even discouraged — only of a foreign country.” GLENN GREENWALD: “It’s bizarre, Tucker.” TUCKER: “If you can’t criticize a foreign country, then that country’s in charge, right? What other… pic.twitter.com/ieddwzdi9e — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) March 16, 2026 Carlson pressed further: “If you can’t criticize a foreign country, then that …

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev Wants You to Vibecode Your Way Out of the Permanent Underclass

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev Wants You to Vibecode Your Way Out of the Permanent Underclass

Published by Sam Flores

Tenev finds himself in a unique position among his fellow Forbes listers, in that his wealth has been accumulated on the back of a populist message. Robinhood, which was founded on the idea of democratizing access to investing, has always played on the popular resentment of wealthy investor-insider types who might be partying on yachts with Tenev today. This month, Robinhood launched the next iteration of this vision: Robinhood Ventures, a closed-end fund that promises to open access to private companies to Joe Schmo—and with them, the kinds of returns previously accessible only to venture capitalists. It’s an intriguing portfolio, full of companies that have long been on my radar but always out of reach for anyone besides my sources in VC, including the cloud platform Databricks, AI-data-labeling start-up Mercor, health-tracking ring-maker Oura, and supersonic flight company Boom. In a way, it’s a large-scale version of the secondary markets that have sprung up around hot investments. So-called “special purpose vehicles” bundle small checks from regular people, are laden with layers of fees, and are usually …

New class of planet with a permanent magma ocean found 35 light-years away

New class of planet with a permanent magma ocean found 35 light-years away

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In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, seems to play host to a rare type of planetary environment. While many small planets orbiting distant stars are categorized as either gas dwarfs or ocean worlds, this one has been classified as something different. L 98-59 d is roughly 1.5 times larger than Earth’s diameter. Unlike most planets of this size discovered by astronomers to date, L 98-59 d appears to be a very active and dynamic body. It likely sits atop an extremely extensive molten lava ocean, estimated to be hundreds of miles deep. The lava ocean continually supplies and removes sulfur from the atmosphere of L 98-59 d and ultimately contributes to a sulfur-rich atmosphere. Astronomers studying exoplanets typically consider two scenarios when examining small planets. The first is a gas dwarf with a hydrogen atmosphere surrounding a rocky core. The second is a water world made primarily of liquid water and ice. However, the existence of an active molten lava …

Nasa plans to have a permanent base on the Moon by 2030 – how it can be done

Nasa plans to have a permanent base on the Moon by 2030 – how it can be done

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A US Senate committee has directed Nasa to begin work on a Moon base “as soon as is practicable”. Under legislation advanced by the Senate lawmakers, the outpost would serve as a science laboratory and proving ground, where astronauts would develop the capabilities to live and work beyond Earth’s orbit. A recent executive order issued by the White House directs Nasa to establish the initial elements of a permanent Moon base by 2030. Since 2017, Artemis has been the Nasa-led programme working towards a sustained human presence on the Moon. This year, it will send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century. And following a shake-up of Artemis announced in late February, the space agency plans to greatly increase the frequency of Artemis missions and return humans to the lunar surface in 2028. A vote will now decide whether Senate legislation, known as the Nasa Authorization Act of 2026, is passed to Congress, where a second bill is also circulating. The bills, which both break down this year’s …

British Columbia to make daylight saving time permanent : NPR

British Columbia to make daylight saving time permanent : NPR

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A selection of vintage clocks are displayed at the Electric Time Company, Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Medfield, Mass. Charles Krupa/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Krupa/AP Across much of the United States and Canada, daylight saving time begins Sunday at 2:00 a.m. local time. Most people will turn their clocks forward an hour, trading an hour of sunlight in the mornings for more daylight at the end of the day. When it ends, clocks will turn backward by an hour nearly eight months later to have more morning light in the darkest days of winter. But British Columbia will switch their clocks for the last time — ushering in a new era of permanent daylight saving time. The switch was supported by “more than 90% of British Columbians,” said David Eby, premier of British Columbia. “The way that we live our lives now in the modern era, having an extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day, whether it’s the winter or the summer, makes a big difference for people,” Eby told …

refugee status was never ‘permanent from day one’

refugee status was never ‘permanent from day one’

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The UK’s asylum system is being overhauled. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has laid out a series of reforms that will affect refugees seeking safety in Britain. Mahmood argues that these changes – which include removing financial and housing support for asylum seekers who break the law, and offering incentive payments for asylum seekers whose claims have been rejected to return home – will remove “incentives” drawing people to Britain. She says they are necessary as part of a “firm but fair approach” to asylum. One of the headline announcements is to make refugee status temporary, subject to review every 30 months. “Those whose country has now become safe, and therefore no longer require protection, will be expected to return home,” according to the home secretary. Under the current rules, asylum seekers who have been granted refugee status are permitted to stay for five years, after which they can apply for indefinite leave to remain in the UK. Mahmood claims that “this means refugee status is, in effect, permanent from day one”. But this is …

As US Readies Iran Action, Kim Jong Un Vaunts ‘Irreversible & Permanent’ Nuclear Arsenal

As US Readies Iran Action, Kim Jong Un Vaunts ‘Irreversible & Permanent’ Nuclear Arsenal

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Kim Jong-un just gave a fresh nuclear speech, vowing that North Korea will expand its atomic arsenal in both scale and sophistication, and that this is necessary given pressure from nuclear-armed “imperialist” superpowers like the United States. Kim presented the strategy during a weeklong congress of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, declaring that his country’s nuclear-armed status is “irreversible and permanent” (though not for the first time). He pledged that Pyongyang will continue to strengthen its arsenal “as long as nuclear weapons exist on the earth” and as long as the country faces threats from “US imperialists and their followers,” according to state media on Thursday. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP “We have a long-term plan to strengthen the national nuclear force on an annual basis in the future and will concentrate on increasing the number of nuclear weapons and expanding the means and space for nuclear operation,” Kim stated. Kim earlier warned during a military parade in the capital on Wednesday that North Korea would “deliver terrible retaliatory attacks to any forces” …