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Hundreds of Cops Turn Their Backs on New York Mayor During Slain Officer’s Funeral

Several hundred officers turned their backs on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio while he spoke at the funeral for one of the two NYPD officers gunned down last week.
Keegan Hamilton
12.27.14
Words

12 Days of Mixmas | Felix Cartal

Felix Navidad.
Jemayel Khawaja
12.27.14
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12 Days of Mixmas | Felix Cartal

Felix Navidad.
Jemayel Khawaja
12.27.14
Islamic State

Photos Claim to Show Islamic State Enforcing Sharia Law by Chopping Off Thief's Hands

The Islamic State’s media arm posted a series of photos Saturday in a jihadi forum that purportedly show militants preparing to cut off a man's hands.
Keegan Hamilton
12.27.14
Best of 2014

Best Of 2014: A Year of Fucked-Up Food News

This year, we learned that many of our favorite things to eat—fish, oysters, chicken, bananas, and shrimp, among other delicacies—are contaminated, disease-stricken, or dying off It was a bleak year for food news.
Munchies Staff
12.27.14
Panama

Bio-Prospecting with Sloths in Panama

VICE News meets the sloths that could cure cancer.
VICE News
12.27.14
asia & pacific

North Korea Blamed Its Internet Outages on the US and Compared Obama to a Monkey

A statement published by North Korea's state-run news agency used racist language and claimed the US knocked the country's internet offline this week.
Keegan Hamilton
12.27.14
beer

Craft Beer in Japan

Host Yuka Uchida explores Tokyo's booming craft beer scene, from passion fruit-infused lagers to hand-pumped black ales to microbrews served in a refurbished shipping container. Yuka and her pal Ogi sample enough beer to earn the title of beer otaku...
Yuka Uchida
12.27.14
Culture

At the Outer Limits of Mental Math

When thinking it through becomes superhuman.
Michael Byrne
12.27.14
The VICE Report

The Ku Klux Klan Is Boosting Its Numbers by Recruiting Veterans

​VICE Reports travels to Mississippi, where the Ku Klux Klan is swelling its ranks by seeking out veterans who have just come back from Iraq and Afghanistan.
VICE Staff
12.27.14
videos

Meet the Slimeballs and Worms Calling the Undersea Arctic Home

Life finds a way, again.
Michael Byrne
12.27.14
africa

2014 VICE News Awards: Biggest Hashtag Campaign That Resulted In Little Action — #BringBackOurGirls

#BringBackOurGirls was one of the most ambitious, inspired, and ultimately ill-fated social media campaigns of the year.
Liz Fields
12.27.14
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