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Homelessness

Rough Sleepers Moved From Hotels to ‘Shocking’ Accommodation During Lockdown
A UK scheme placing homeless people in hotels during the first lockdown was a success, a report from King’s College London says, but what followed was dirty accommodation with rats and bed bugs.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
1.12.21
Features

Independent Venues Finally Got a $15 Billion Bailout. What's Next?
Thanks to the National Independent Venue Association's lobbying, a dying industry received congressional relief, but 2021 is still uncertain.
Josh Terry
1.12.21
tech-science

Scientists Found a Raging Galactic Core From Near the Beginning of Time
The active galactic nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole and was spotted just 670 million years after the Big Bang, making it the most distant quasar ever discovered.
Becky Ferreira
1.12.21
Capitol Hill invasion

What We Saw at the Capitol Hill Insurrection
Much of the imagery at last week's invasion of the Capitol was familiar from past right-wing rallies. Much of it, however, was not.
Ishaan Jhaveri
Nina Berman
1.12.21
Death Penalty

Lisa Montgomery's Sister Recounts Her Life of Abuse Before Death Row
She shared the horrific details with VICE News shortly before Montgomery was scheduled to be executed as part of Trump's final death-penalty push.
Gabrielle Caplan
Greg Overzat
Trey Strange
1.12.21
Politics

The Military Can't Save America From Trump
While the Pentagon faces scrutiny following a violent insurrection, only Congress and the Cabinet can hold the president accountable.
Leah Feiger
1.12.21
Internet

Taboola’s Content Chum Boxes Also Spread Disinformation
Twitter, Facebook, Google and others have all deplatformed Donald Trump, but chum boxes are still a widely used channel for spreading bad information.
Josh Sternberg
1.12.21
lifestyle

Why It Seemed Like Everyone Got Engaged During the Pandemic
A generation notoriously uninterested in marriage and kids appears to have suddenly jumped headlong into adulting.
Marie Solis
1.12.21
Coronavirus

Democrats Test Positive for COVID After Hiding in Capitol with Maskless GOP
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who has COVID-19, slammed her GOP colleagues for refusing to wear masks during last week's riot, "creating a superspreader event on top of a domestic terrorist attack.”
Paul Blest
1.12.21
doxing

Doxing Racists Is a 100-Year-Old American Tradition
What we can learn from the newspaper that outed Ku Klux Klan members in Chicago in 1922.
Aaron Gordon
1.12.21
Politics

Cops From at Least 5 Cities Are Being Investigated for Attending the Capitol Riot
From New York City to Seattle, law enforcement agencies have announced inquiries into how members of their own ranks were involved in the events on January 6 that left five people dead.
Emma Ockerman
Trone Dowd
1.12.21
knife crime

Controversial 'Knife-A-Month' Subscription Box Ends Shipping to the UK
Knife-A-Month is no longer selling knives to UK customers following a VICE World News investigation showing that the weapons, some of which are illegal in Britain, could be obtained without ID.
Joseph Phelan
1.12.21
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