Decriminalization Sanders and Warren Left Sex Workers Out of Their Criminal Justice PlansVICE - Marie SolisSome sex workers and their allies are feeling left behind by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who have both unveiled wide-reaching policy platforms on criminal
Jeffrey Epstein New Accuser Says Epstein Raped Her After She Told Him She Was a VirginVICE - Emma OckermanWant the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Three new accusers have sued the estate of Jeffrey Epstein alleging that he abused them with sex toys and forced them to engage in other
Keanu Reeves Whoa, Keanu Reeves Is Coming Back as Neo for 'Matrix 4'VICE - River DonagheyWarner Bros. has been teasing a Matrix reboot since 2017, when Michael B. Jordan was supposedly in talks to star, but details around the project have been scarce. Or they were, until now. On Tuesday, studio
Megan Thee Stallion Rappers Like Megan Thee Stallion Are Writing a New Feminist CanonVICE - Taylor HoskingThis summer felt dominated both by Megan Thee Stallion's perfect catchphrase "hot girl summer" as well as the endless quest to both analyze and co-opt it. But Megan is part of a whole wave of women, from
Concerts Plague-Infested Prairie Dogs Have Thrown a Phish Concert Into ChaosVICE - Josh TerryFor Phish fans, the longstanding jam band's Labor Day weekend concerts at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado have been a welcome tradition returning for eight years. But now, what should
Arcadia Cities Asked Ring to Share ‘Registry Lists’ of Customers Who Bought Surveillance CamerasVICE - Caroline HaskinsCities and local police departments have asked Ring, Amazon's home security company, to share the names, home addresses, and email addresses of every person who has bought a home surveillance camera through
Play buttonNuclear Energy It Sure Looks Like Russia Is Trying to Cover Up Fallout From the Skyfall Nuclear Missile AccidentVICE - Greg WaltersRussia has stopped sharing data from multiple nuclear monitoring stations near the location of a nuclear accident that killed seven people this month, and the official silence is fueling fears of a coverup.
Amazon The Amazon Is on Fire and the Smoke Can Be Seen from SpaceVICE - Madeleine GregoryIn the middle of the day on Monday, the sky above São Paulo, Brazil went dark. The city, along with parts of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Paraná, was blanketed by smoke from wildfires raging
LGBTQI Why Some LGBTQ Parents Still Have to Adopt Their Biological Children in 2019VICE - Hannah Harris GreenIt started with the birth certificate. When Andrea Roehl was pregnant with her partner's baby, the San Diego-based couple filled out paperwork with Kaiser Permanente that said they would each be listed
Play buttonEd Sheeran Why Latin Trap Pioneer Anuel AA Is Currently Obsessed with Ed SheeranVICE - Victoria LeandraWant the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA recorded his first album, “Real Hasta La Muerte,” while he was in prison for 30 months on federal gun charges.
Demonstration The Jews Organizing Against ICE to Stop Concentration CampsVICE - Leila EttachfiniIn the spring of 2018, Rabbi Salem Pearce, director of organizing at Jewish human rights organization T’ruah, took a group of clergy down to El Paso to witness for themselves the escalating “border crisis.”
James Bond The New James Bond Movie Has a Name So Dumb It's Actually IncredibleVICE - Drew SchwartzThe new James Bond movie is going to be Daniel Craig's last, which means there's a lot of pressure on the Powers That Bond to give it a really good name. (This is a hard thing to do, which might explain
Canadian Armed Forces New Paramilitary Training Video Emerges of Neo-Nazi Terror GroupVICE - Mack LamoureuxDisturbing images showing eight masked men shooting what appears to be a combination of shotguns and assault rifles is the latest propaganda posted by neo-Nazi extremist network The Base, as the group
Beef Big Beef Says Eating More Meat Can Save the Planet. That's Bullshit.VICE - Anne GaviolaNorth American ranchers and lobbyists are pushing back against a United Nations’ report pointing the finger at the global North’s huge appetite for meat and dairy for fueling climate change. But science
Play buttonRobotics YouTube Removed Videos of Robots Fighting, Calling it Animal AbuseVICE - Samantha ColeWhen two robots face off in a concrete ring to battle to their brutal, oily deaths, no animals are harmed in the process. But YouTube has been taking down videos of Battlebots and issuing strikes against
Interactive Fiction Either I'm a Strategic Genius, or 'Fire Emblem: Three Houses' Is Too EasyVICE - Patrick KlepekDear Fire Emblem: Three Houses, when you say “normal,” I think you mean “easy.” I’m nearly 30 hours into Three Houses, roughly halfway through Nintendo’s ambitious strategy game about a trio of student
Adam Brody Adam Brody Is Down for a Reboot of 'The O.C.'VICE - Bettina MakalintalAdam Brody has a new movie coming out: Ready or Not, a dark comedy about wealthy people hunting each other, which hits theaters tomorrow. But judging by a new interview in GQ, Brody clearly knows that
World Records Watch France’s Most Famous Cliff Diver Go For a New World RecordVICE - Steven BartusCALANQUE D'EN VAU, France — The towering cliffs along the southern coast of France have been enticing divers for generations. For most, it's a casual summer pastime, a way to enjoy the crystal-clear waters
Play buttonWu-Tang Clan Here Are the Best New TV Shows to Watch This FallVICE - River DonagheySummer is coming to a close, and with it comes the end of one of the most brain-bleedingly bad movie seasons in recent memory. The 2019 summer film season has been a depressing slog of duds and terrible
Marriage How American Evangelicals Helped Stop Same-Sex Marriage in CubaVICE - Rebecca Bodenheimer Earlier this year, Cuban psychologist Dachelys Valdés Moreno and her American-born wife, Hope, welcomed their baby boy into the world. Although they live in Havana, they opted to give birth—as well as,
Play buttonMortal Kombat The Secret to the Gruesome Sounds in Mortal Kombat Is Exploding VegetablesVICE - Dexter ThomasIf you twist a bell pepper in just the right way, it sounds like someone’s chest cavity being ripped open. A lot of non-gamers might not be aware that Mortal Kombat is still being produced. In the early
Consult Companies Are Realizing That Being Publicly Conservative Is Really UnpopularVICE - Harry CheadleFor a while now, conservatives have been complaining that big corporations, from social media giants to Nike, are biased against right-leaning values. A new poll from Morning Consult highlighted by Axios
El Paso Times The El Paso Shooting Suspect Is Now on Suicide WatchVICE - Alex LubbenWant the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The 21-year-old charged in the Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas, is on suicide watch in county jail, authorities told the El Paso Times.
Protest Hong Kong Stabbing: Attacker Allegedly Asked Victims About Their Views on Protests Before Brutal AssaultVICE - Tim MarcinWant the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Three people in Hong Kong were stabbed early Tuesday at a “Lennon Wall” — a place to leave notes in support of the pro-democracy protests
Harry Reid EXCLUSIVE: Harry Reid: 'Of Course' Medicare for All and Decriminalizing Border Crossings Are Bad IdeasVICE - Cameron JosephWASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) isn’t happy that some of his party’s presidential candidates are pushing for Medicare for All and decriminalizing border crossings, two hot-button
Protest How China Used Facebook and Twitter to Bombard Hong Kong With PropagandaVICE - Tim HumeWant the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Twitter and Facebook have suspended hundreds of accounts they say are being used by the Chinese government in a coordinated campaign to
Kam McLeod Northern BC Murder Suspects Recorded a Video Before Suicide: ReportVICE - Mack LamoureuxTwo teenagers suspected in a spree of northern BC killings reportedly filmed a video that appears to be a "last will and testament" and final goodbye to their families before the suspects killed themselves.
Jimmy Kimmel Dildo Residents Are Mad About a Pair of Dildos Parading Around Their TownVICE - Manisha KrishnanThe residents of Dildo, Newfoundland, have been riding a wave of newfound fame care of Jimmy Kimmel—but the fun may be ending prematurely. Kimmel recently became honorary mayor of Dildo after launching
Essays Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ EssaysVICE - Todd FeathersEvery year, millions of students sit down for standardized tests that carry weighty consequences. National tests like the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) serve as gatekeepers to higher education, while
