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The Definitive Guide to Sci-Fi Drugs Was Produced by the Government in the 1970s
In 1974, the National Institute on Drug Abuse hired the sci-fi writer Robert Silverberg to investigate drug themes in his booming genre.
Government Employees Got Hacked and Didn’t Find Out Until Facebook Told Them
Iranian hackers allegedly broke into the social media accounts of several State Department employees...and the victims didn’t notice until Facebook told them.
Teenage Hackers Return With New List of Government Employees
The hacktivist group that hacked John Brennan’s AOL email account is back after a brief hiatus.
It's Official: Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan Is the New Speaker of the House
Say a tearful goodbye to all those memes of John Boehner crying in public.
Hacker Dumps Up to 23,000 Government Emails on the Dark Web
The email and passwords were posted on the same forum where a hacker claimed to have breached OPM.
There Is Now a Deadline for All US Government Websites to Turn on Encryption
All government sites will have to turn on HTTPS by the end of 2016.
My Dad's Long, Frustrating Battle with the US Government to Learn About His Own Kidnapping
My dad was a journalist when he was kidnapped by Islamic militants in Beirut in 1985, three months before I was born. But it's American laws that have made figuring out what happened a nightmare.
The US Military Is Getting Closer to Creating Self-Guided Bullets
The ammunition is being developed for hunters, but some say it could end up on the civilian market eventually.
Investigative Journalist Matt Kennard Talks About America's Economic Stranglehold on the World
His new book looks at how the American government, banks, and intelligence agencies enforce a very covert and modern type of imperialism.
The Harsh Reality of Oil Spill Cleanups (Excerpt from ‘Pipeline Nation’)
In this excerpt from ‘Pipeline Nation,' VICE News speaks to the EPA’s Onsite Coordinator at the site of the Yellowstone River pipeline spill about the difficulties of recovering oil once it’s polluted the water.
Pipeline Nation: America’s Broken Industry
VICE News visits the site of a pipeline spill that dumped more than 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River, and to find out why the industry has such weak regulatory oversight.