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Endangered Clinics

Indie Abortion Clinics Are Shutting Down All Over the Country
Five states have only one abortion clinic left standing.
Carter Sherman
12.2.20
qanon

QAnon Left a Noose Outside a 20-Year-Old Election Worker's Home
Rather than condemning the death threats, President Trump doubled down on baseless conspiracy theories about election rigging.
David Gilbert
12.2.20
Games Podcasts

Sony Wants to Reduce Friction In Games, But For Many, That's the Point
Sometimes you should stop and smell the digital roses.
Ricardo Contreras
12.2.20
tech-science

Why We're Finally Closing In On a Game-Changing Universal Flu Vaccine
Only the flu shot is taken annually, but new advances are getting us closer to making that a thing of the past with a lifesaving universal flu vaccine.
Maddie Bender
12.2.20
personal finance

How I Get By: One Weekend as a Professional Santa in a Pandemic
This year, 47-year-old 'Santa Bryan' is keeping kids at a safe distance with the help of plexiglass barriers and lots of cleaning spray.
Katie Way
12.2.20
Games Features

Why Players Blame Skill-Based Matchmaking for Losing in Call of Duty
The thing about skill-based matchmaking is that it's not as perfect as its critics think it is. And that's by design.
Steve Rousseau
12.2.20
Games News

3,353 Hours Later, 'Mario Maker' Creator Still Trying to Beat Same Level
Braden "ChompChompBraden" Moor has been playing the same level, a nightmare of his own creation, for more than four years.
Patrick Klepek
12.2.20
Games Features

How 'Hades' Actors Made the Internet Horny for Their Voices
Voice acting doesn't turn performers into audio sex symbols very often, but the cast of 'Hades' is finding out what it's like.
Elizabeth Ballou
12.2.20
The VICE Guide to Right Now

Yet Another Temple in India Asks Visitors To Not Wear 'Objectionable' Clothes
An activist has raised questions on why devotees and priests are held to different standards, “since the priests in temples are half-naked.”
Snigdha Bansal
12.2.20
Coronavirus

What It's Like Running a Hotel Without Any Guests
I spent the night in one of London’s budget hotels, to see how they're coping after two national lockdowns and a year of restrictions.
Francisco Garcia
12.2.20
Internet

Big Telecom and the GOP Are Trying to Sabotage the Biden FCC
With a new Trump FCC appointment, the GOP hopes to mire the agency in partisan gridlock, preventing it from restoring consumer protections like net neutrality.
Karl Bode
12.2.20
Sweden

‘Toothless and Malnourished’ Man Freed After 28 Years Trapped in His House
The man, now in his early forties, had not been seen since he was 12. His mother has been arrested on suspicion of imprisoning him in their home.
Matthew Champion
12.2.20
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