Business Las Vegas reopens and people are gambling again, 2.5 months after COVID-19 closed casinos Xeni Jardin
tabloids Royals Clash, Clooneys divorce, and Jacko’s rotten feet in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan
trump Trump: 'I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter' Xeni Jardin
History The Dresden Panometer gives visitors an immersive experience on a 1:1 scale of the Allied bombing raids of 1945 Matt Maranian
fbi One of the jurors who convicted Whitey Bulger started up a strange pen pal friendship with him Thom Dunn
fantasy Two well-known YouTube game crafters paint up an entire tabletop fantasy village in five days Gareth Branwyn
happy mutants After more than a decade, Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's YA classics The PLAIN Janes are back! Cory Doctorow
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
Kids School apologizes after parents complain that "Santa Goes Green" Christmas concert was anti-oil David Pescovitz
canada Canada's infrastructure was once cheap and effective to build. Now, it's a titanic transfer from taxpayers to the world's biggest businesses and investors Rosemary Frei
Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch
Business A poor, Trump-voting Florida town opened a government grocery store to end its food desert, but it's "not socialism" Cory Doctorow
