For the last 129 years, the kilogram has been defined by a shiny hunk of metal called the International Prototype. It’s the thing against which every scale is calibrated. Not anymore. Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE...
Few people have had a larger impact on pro wrestling than veteran promoter Gabe Sapolsky. Damian follows Gabe's crew on an American tour as he trains the next crop of superstars. Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE About VICE: The Definitive Guide To Enlightening Information. From...
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This is the May 17, 2019, FULL FREE EPISODE of VICE News Tonight on HBO. 2:03 On Wednesday, Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill that put Alabama on the path to banning almost all abortions in the state. On Thursday, at the Alabama Women’s Center, not much changed. The center is one of three abortion clinics in the...
On Friday Disney releases the live-action remake of its 1992 animated classic, Aladdin. But two weeks ago, Asylum Pictures, a small, low budget studio released its own feature film - Adventures of Aladdin. That’s not a coincidence. That’s Asylum’s business model. The business model for "mockbusters" is...
NYC Fleet Week - an annual event where active duty Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen descend upon the city to rub elbows with the public and blow off some steam. But to a lot of civilians, the image of ‘Fleet Week’ has been shaped by TV shows like “Sex in the City” - a kind of holiday where...
This is the May 15, 2019, FULL FREE episode of VICE News Tonight on HBO. 2:09 - Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border feel they have no choice but to enter the U.S. illegally. VICE News visits the border to find out why. 10:32 - Break up Facebook. That’s become a common refrain in recent months, with many floating...
When Foxconn — the Taiwanese tech giant best known for manufacturing iPhone components — struck a high-profile deal to open its first U.S. factory, the village of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, needed to make room. Local leaders rushed to convince 78 residents to sell their homes. Everyone gave in, except Kim...
The day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed a bill that put her state on the path to banning almost all abortions, a 20-year-old woman from Tennessee walked into an abortion clinic with an ex-boyfriend and underwent the procedure. “I'm a single mom of three kids,” said the woman, who...
America’s system for conducting death investigations is a mess. John Oliver explains why we should all be a little more concerned about fixing it. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens:...
On Wednesday, President Trump issued a long awaited executive order aimed at a company that has been in the crosshairs of the U.S intelligence community for years: Chinese telecom giant Huawei. It’s unclear just how damaging the order will be to Huawei’s business internationally, but it stops the company...
Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1B In his editorial New Rule, Bill calls out Republican moralizers for being on the wrong side of the sexual revolution. Connect with Real Time Online: Find Real Time on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Maher Find Real Time on Twitter:...
Florida ranks 44th in the country for access to mental health care. And one of the quickest and easiest ways to get it is by invoking a 1971 law called the Baker Act. It allows for anyone threatening to harm themselves or others to be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility for 72 hours. Committed, a VICE...
Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1B Bill recaps the top stories of the week, including the ever-expanding pool of presidential candidates and the passage of several controversial abortion bans. Connect with Real Time Online: Find Real Time on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Maher Find Real...
It’s been a long, long winter, and Taji is ready for the summer. To get a head start on his summer bod, he took to Yelp in search of the lowest rated tanning salon he could find, in order to transform his skin to the perfect shade of orange. So naturally, he went off to New Jersey to experience the services of a...
When Looney, an OG Shoreline Crip from Venice Beach, CA, was incarcerated, he learned how to tattoo using a Walkman motor and an ink pen. Although illegal, being a “scratcher” (someone without formal tattoo training) in prison gave Looney the ability to cross the cultural divides that normally exist...
Larry Noodles figures Michael Cohen will be OK at Otisville. That’s the federal prison where Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer just started his three-year sentence for tax evasion and campaign finance violations. And Larry — real last name: Dressler — probably knows more about Otisville...
EL PASO, Texas — In the two hours before sunset on a recent afternoon, Border Patrol agents working the line between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso saw more than 100 migrants step over the Rio Grande and into the United States. They were nearly all families traveling together from Central America seeking asylum, and...
Maryann Rolle lost $50k of her savings catering for the disastrous luxury Fyre Festival before the infamous event ended in chaos, leaving her and the rest of the island unpaid. People witnessed her plight on a documentary about Fyre, and she suddenly made a fortune on GoFundMe. VICE went to the Bahamas to discover...
Moby will be the first to admit that he's become a boring, sober, middle-aged man, a self-proclaimed "bald, alcoholic, postmodern Mr. Rogers" — the antithesis to his suicidal and drug-addled past self. He's pretty blunt and honest about his past — "in the course of my life, I've...
