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better.com

Better.com CEO Called Top Investor ‘Sewage,’ Said Making Company Money Would Earn Employees ‘Freedom’
Months before laying off 900 employees over a Zoom call, Vishal Garg disparaged a top venture capital investor, which later sued Better.com. He also monologued about why declaring Indigenous People’s Day a company holiday would be a waste of money.
Jason Koebler
Maxwell Strachan
12.8.21
COVID misinformation

The GOP Just Forced Tennessee to Let Doctors Spread COVID Misinformation
Republican lawmakers have strong-armed the state’s medical licensing board, which deleted its warning against doctors spreading misinformation.
Paul Blest
12.8.21
The Best VICE Gift Guide Ever

The Best Gifts for a Sagittarius (That Aren't a Shot of Adrenaline)
The Energizer bunny of the zodiac deserves Sagittarius-specific gifts, including outdoor gear, a holographic cowboy hat, and some city-slicking dice.
Mary Frances "Francky" Knapp
12.8.21
Hacking

AWS Is the Internet's Biggest Single Point of Failure
Amazon Web Service’s outage this week has shown the world just how much the internet relies on it, and why that’s a bad thing.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
12.8.21
police

Ex-NFL Player Glenn Foster Jr. Died in Police Custody and No One Knows Why
If Alabama law enforcement knows how Glenn Foster Jr. died, they’re not explaining why.
Trone Dowd
12.8.21
nature

The World's Coldest Inhabited Place Is Burning Because of 'Zombie Fires'
Photographer Semyon Sivtsev captured signs of fires burning under snow and ice.
Samantha Cole
12.8.21
Jamal Khashoggi

France Says It Arrested the Wrong Guy Over the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
A Saudi man was arrested in Paris on suspicion of involvement in murdering the Washington Post journalist. But on Wednesday prosecutors said it was a case of mistaken identity.
Mohammed Rasool
12.8.21
The Best VICE Gift Guide Ever

VICE Readers Share What Gifts They Want This Year
It wasn’t all sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll—VICE readers picked an eclectic array of hot-ticket presents they want this holiday season.
Rec Room Staff
12.8.21
#metoo

‘You’ve Got a Great Body for Mr. Epstein’: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial So Far
Multiple women have already accused the disgraced British socialite of being the architect of sexual abuse.
Carter Sherman
12.8.21
Photo Essay

Step Inside the Very Naked Archive Preserving America's Nudist History
"You still always have to explain that it has nothing to do with sex."
Jamie Lee Taete
12.8.21
Sarco

Nonprofit Plans to Display 3D-Printed Assisted Suicide Pod in Canada Next Year
Exit International believes it has legal authority to use the ‘Sarco’ in Switzerland and says it’s making additional devices for Canada and Australia.
Jason Koebler
12.8.21
Tech

I Want to Eat This 850-Pound Weed Brownie
The only way I can get through the rest of this year is in a deep marijuana-induced coma.
Matthew Gault
12.8.21
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