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  The Far-Right Is Fearmongering About Abortion Activists Attacking Churches

  VICE Asia - David Gilbert

  Right-wing influencers and agitators are hyping up a so-called "night of rage" and calling on the far-right to go "defend churches" from fantasized marauders. Within minutes of Roe v. Wade being overturned on Friday morning, far-right figures were already spreading conspiracies about a planned …

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  Uvalde Cops Never Tried to Open Door to Save Kids from Shooter: Report

  VICE Asia - Manisha Krishnan

  Police said they were waiting for a key to unlock the classroom door, but it could have been open all along. Uvalde police officers waiting outside a pair of Robb Elementary school classrooms where kids and teachers were trapped with a gunman didn’t try to open the door to save them, according to a …

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  Toronto Police Admit They Are More Likely to Pull Guns on Black People

  VICE Asia - Manisha Krishnan

  Police Chief James Ramer said he’s “sorry” about the force’s systemic racism but one activist replied back: "The Black community never asked for an apology." Toronto police have finally admitted to what the city’s Black residents and activists have been saying for a long time—the way they police is …

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  Gaze Upon This Seized Russian Yacht With a Gold Piano and Lobster Tank

  VICE Asia - Mack Lamoureux

  The US seized the $325-million boat, linked to Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov, who apparently spent nearly $500K in fuel trying to avoid authorities. The U.S. government seized yet another Russian billionaire-owned superyacht, this one an immensely opulent vessel designed to feel like a floating …

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  Docs Show Turmoil in Canadian Gov't Following Fisheries Harassment Investigations

  VICE Asia - Jimmy Thomson

  Freedom of information documents reveal that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has created a suite of new policies and is spending millions on modernization in wake of whistleblowers speaking up. The following article is a co-production between The Narwhal and VICE World News. Two years after …

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  The Future of Drugs Is a Synthetic Cocktail From Hell

  VICE Asia - Manisha Krishnan

  The worst wave of the overdose crisis is here and it’s drugs worse than fentanyl you’ve likely never heard of. When Keisha, a drug dealer based in British Columbia, Canada, first told me she considered fentanyl “safe,” I scoffed in disbelief. Fentanyl—an opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin—is …