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No Grand Jury Indictment for NYPD Cop Involved in Eric Garner Choking Death

According to sources, Officer Daniel Pantaleo will not be charged in the death of Eric Garner, which an autopsy ruled as a "homicide by chokehold."
VICE News
12.3.14
Cocaine

The New King of Coke (Trailer)

Peru is now the world's leading producer of cocaine. VICE News traveled there to find out how this new title is forcing the military to ramp up, and the government to crack down.
VICE News
12.3.14
Photography

The Fastest Camera Ever Created Will Be Used to Study Invisibility Cloaks

You can watch exactly how light interacts with objects using a camera that captures 100 billion frames per second.
Jason Koebler
12.3.14
Syria

Iraqi Officials Say Woman Detained in Lebanon Not Islamic State Leader Baghdadi's Wife

Questions remain as to the identity of a woman and child captured by authorities while trying to cross from Syria into Lebanon.
John Beck
12.3.14
Rolling Stone

Primary Sources: Emails Show FBI Worked to Debunk 'Conspiracy Theories' Following Michael Hastings' Death

After journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash, the FBI scrambled to respond to questions about their investigation of him.
Jason Leopold
12.3.14
Art

Celebrate 300 Years of New Orleans with This Projection Mapping Spectacular

French-based production company La Maison celebrates New Orleans' traditions by projection mapping Gallier Hall.
Sami Emory
12.3.14
NSFW

A Portrait of a 76-Year-Old Intersex Prostitute

Claudette is a 76-year-old cyclist and sex workers' rights activist, and also my friend.
Malika Gaudin Delrieu
12.3.14
Space

It's Hard Out There for a Wayward Navigation Satellite

One of Europe's Galileo satellites has been nudged into a better wrong orbit than the one it got lost in.
Victoria Turk
12.3.14
music videos

Deathface Continues a Decades Long Tradition of Creepy "Warm Leatherette" Covers

...Not bad for a song about pleather.
Jemayel Khawaja
12.3.14
Art

See Big Ben, the Taj Mahal, and the Eiffel Tower Reimagined as Furniture

Studio Job design group brings five elaborate furniture sculptures to the Carpenters Workshop Gallery for Art Basel Miami.
Sami Emory
12.3.14
News

Can Bob Fioretti Take Down Rahm Emanuel as Chicago's Mayor?

The middle-aged alderman with a Donald Trump-style head of hair, is the left's best shot at taking on Rahmbo.
Gideon Resnick
12.3.14
Ukraine

Rebels Release Video of Donetsk Airport in Ruins Hours After East Ukraine Truce Declared

Hopes of a cessation in fighting crumble as both rebels and Kiev-backed forces resume shelling around the embattled air space.
Liz Fields
12.3.14
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