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What Happened After 8:46 9 min
What Happened After 8:46
9 min · George Floyd’s death at the hands of men sworn to serve and protect him was a literal and symbolic tragedy which has now reverberated around the world. As news of his death spread...
How Denver Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms 7 min
How Denver Decriminalized Magic Mushrooms
7 min · Denver became the first city in the country to decriminalize the use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms, after a ballot initiative squeaked through with 50.6% of the vote, according...
This Student Is Diving For Golf Balls In The Ocean (HBO) 4 min
This Student Is Diving For Golf Balls In The Ocean (HBO)
4 min · Marine pollution is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about golf. But 18-year-old student Alex Weber is hoping to change that. She’s been collecting golf...
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over 6 min
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
6 min · Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not...
Dollar General Is Putting Local Grocery Stores Out Of Business 7 min
Dollar General Is Putting Local Grocery Stores Out Of Business
7 min · Retailers around the country are shuttering stores — a list that ranges from Toys R Us, which just announced it’s closing or selling all its U.S. locations, to brands including...
Heather Heyer's Memorial Showed Her Legacy Will Be Magnified 6 min
Heather Heyer's Memorial Showed Her Legacy Will Be Magnified
6 min · VICE News attends the memorial service held for Heather Heyer, who was killed during the rally on Saturday when a car plowed into a group of counter-protesters. Elle Reeve speaks to...
This Chilling Charlottesville Doc Should Be Required Viewing for all Americans 22 min
This Chilling Charlottesville Doc Should Be Required Viewing for all Americans
22 min · On Saturday hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally. By Saturday evening three...
Republican Fight to Criminalize Protest Tactics 5 min
Republican Fight to Criminalize Protest Tactics
5 min · Since the beginning of 2017, Republicans in over 18 states have proposed bills that would criminalize certain protest tactics. In Missouri, lawmakers want to make it illegal to wear...
Philippine Vigils Against Vigilantes - The Reign of Terror in the President's War on Drugs 7 min
Philippine Vigils Against Vigilantes - The Reign of Terror in the President's War on Drugs
7 min · The war on drugs waged by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has taken more than 7,000 lives since its inception. It took the killing of a South Korean businessman by police to prompt...
Reddit, Trolling and Free Speech 4 min
Reddit, Trolling and Free Speech
4 min · Reddit is the seventh largest website in the U.S. It's a gathering place for 240-million monthly users, who create discussion groups based on their own interests.
Fukushima Five Years Later 8 min
Fukushima Five Years Later
8 min · Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced plans to clean up Fukushima, the site of a massive 2011 nuclear disaster, and move former residents back by spring 2017. But not everyone...
Could London Become the World's First Gender Equal City? 5 min
Could London Become the World's First Gender Equal City?
5 min · The UK’s Women’s Equality party was founded in 2015 as a reaction to how Britain’s 51 percent female population still isn’t properly represented in the halls of political power, earns...
Crude LA: California's Urban Oil Fields 18 min
Crude LA: California's Urban Oil Fields
18 min · For nearly four months, the Aliso Canyon methane leak just north of Los Angeles spewed several thousand metric tons of potent greenhouse gases into the air before it was finally sealed...
Surviving One of the Deadliest Routes to Europe: Refugees at Sea 31 min
Surviving One of the Deadliest Routes to Europe: Refugees at Sea
31 min · Desperate to escape conflict and poverty, thousands of migrants and refugees attempt the perilous journey to Europe each year, with many crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa...
Jailed for Life for Minor Crimes: the UK's Forgotten Prisoners 16 min
Jailed for Life for Minor Crimes: the UK's Forgotten Prisoners
16 min · In a three-month investigation, VICE News uses Freedom of Information laws, exclusive interviews, and prison reports to uncover the scandal of the 4,612 prisoners serving life sentences...
Leaders of the World, Unite! - Inside the World Economic Forum 15 min
Leaders of the World, Unite! - Inside the World Economic Forum
15 min · Every year since 1971 the world's elite have gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. What started as a small conference about management has...
Inside the Expo for the Militarisation of the Police 3 min
Inside the Expo for the Militarisation of the Police
3 min · A look around Milipol, a homeland security fair in Paris, reveals the latest tools of state repression; including hacking tools and state surveillance tech.
Phone Hackers: Britain's Secret Surveillance 18 min
Phone Hackers: Britain's Secret Surveillance
18 min · IMSI catchers are portable surveillance tools used for spying on thousands of phones in a targeted area, tracking their location and even intercepting calls, messages, and data. They are...
Living Without Water: Contamination Nation 16 min
Living Without Water: Contamination Nation
16 min · There are tens of thousands of Americans living without clean, running water on the Navajo Nation today. This is because decades of uranium mining have contaminated the majority of water...
Hiding the Homeless: What Happens When Cities Make Homelessness a Crime 13 min
Hiding the Homeless: What Happens When Cities Make Homelessness a Crime
13 min · A growing number of American cities are ticketing or arresting homeless people for essentially being homeless. The new laws ban behavior commonly associated with homelessness like...
Intifada 3.0 29 min
Intifada 3.0
29 min · The latest spasm of violence in Israel has left seven Israelis and at least 30 Palestinians dead. On Wednesday, a day when at least two stabbing attacks on Israeli Jews were reported...
My Escape From Syria: Europe or Die 19 min
My Escape From Syria: Europe or Die
19 min · Syria's brutal civil war has created hundreds of thousands of refugees, civilians who have been forced to leave everything behind at home and travel in search of a new life in...
Louisiana's Coastal Crisis: Oil and Water 11 min
Louisiana's Coastal Crisis: Oil and Water
11 min · Louisiana is currently losing around a football field's worth of land every hour to the encroaching ocean. The erosion is due to an array of factors, from an ill-conceived historic levee...
Does Democracy Work? 4 min
Does Democracy Work?
4 min · VICE News traveled around the world speaking to people about democracy, and differences in global attitudes towards popular rule. Find out what people from Priština, Kosovo to Rio de...
Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation 13 min
Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation
13 min · There's a resource curse on the Navajo Nation. The 27,000-square-mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an extremely high abundance of many energy...
The Struggle for Survival of the Roma People 17 min
The Struggle for Survival of the Roma People
17 min · Roma people, also known as gypsies, are Europe's largest ethnic minority and have long endured bigotry and abuse. This year, after EU travel and work restrictions for people from Romania...
Immigrant America: The High Cost of Deporting Parents 25 min
Immigrant America: The High Cost of Deporting Parents
25 min · As Barack Obama considers ways to enforce immigration laws "more humanely," VICE News travels to Guatemala to meet a deportee named Ray Jesus, who lives apart from his American wife and...
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