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Prince Philip

Here’s All the Weirdness Around How Prince Philip’s Death Was Announced
From physical announcements on the gates of Buckingham Palace to cancelling 'MasterChef'. Oh, and Fox News bringing up the Oprah Winfrey interview within minutes.
Matthew Champion
4.9.21
News

Plastic Sheets, Pencil Crayons, Cheese Strings: Inside One Canadian Prison’s Chaotic Effort to Stop a COVID-19 Outbreak
Internal emails show that even in the middle of the pandemic, officials from Correctional Service Canada were scrambling to figure out how to handle the spread of COVID-19.
Justin Ling
4.9.21
Facebook

Facebook Is Letting COVID Deniers Promote Mask-Burning Events and Marches
Facebook has a ban on posts that discourage good health practices like mask wearing, but the platform’s doing nothing to shut these events down.
David Gilbert
4.9.21
Hacking

How Your Phone Can Get Hacked for $16
Our reporter got pwned so you don’t have to be.
Ben Makuch
4.9.21
japan

Why These Japanese Men Go Around Town Wearing Fake Bellies
They rode trains to work, went shopping and did household chores with some extra weight on their chest and stomach.
Hanako Montgomery
4.9.21
paranormal investigators

Even Professional Ghost Hunters Say That The Past Year Has Sucked
"The spirit world doesn’t have to worry about COVID. The living do, and we really had to alter the way we do things to comply.”
Jelisa Castrodale
4.9.21
Prince Philip

Prince Philip, the Husband of Queen Elizabeth II, Has Died Aged 99
The Duke of Edinburgh died peacefully at Windsor Castle, the royal family said.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
4.9.21
mental health

Teenage Girls Are Developing Uncontrollable Tics During Lockdown
Psychiatrists are describing an "explosion of tics" as more and more girls are sent home for twitching, shouting, hitting and collapsing at school.
Lydia Spencer-Elliott
4.9.21
Features

Live Music Should Be More Accessible For Disabled Fans
Disabled and high-risk people want transparency, safety, and an option for livestreams when concerts come back.
Josh Terry
4.9.21
japan

Japan Will Release Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Into the Ocean
The Fukushima nuclear power plant is about to run out of capacity to store treated wastewater.
Hanako Montgomery
4.9.21
Coronavirus

Desperate for COVID Protection, Filipinos Are Turning to a Drug Also Used on Horses
Debate over using ivermectin to treat COVID rages in the Philippines as it battles a new surge in cases.
Anthony Esguerra
4.9.21
cop26

Greta Thunberg Won’t Attend UN Climate Summit Over Vaccine Inequality
The climate activist said she would not attend COP26 "unless everyone can take part on the same terms."
Matthew Champion
4.9.21
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