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Ambien, has been prescribed to millions of insomniacs internationally, yet those who use the drug are seldom aware it also possesses the ability to normalize functioning in certain types of damaged neurons, a phenomenon called "the Ambien effect."
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When AMC's Breaking Bad premiered in 2008, one of Alabama's most successful meth cooks was already knee deep in building a massive meth empire. His name? Walter White. 2015 Webby Award winner for Best Online Documentary Series.
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Matthew Heimbach is a racist. At Towson University, in the suburbs of Baltimore, Matthew has formed a group called the White Student Union that advocates for "persons of European heritage".
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All across America, hardened criminals are donning the cloaks of elves and slaying dragons all in orange jumpsuits, under blazing fluorescent lights and behind bars.
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VICE meets a few surviving members of Los Frikis, a Cuban punk movement, who purposely infected themselves with HIV in the early 90s.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is now home to more than a dozen militant groups, factions of the national army, and scores of rebel combatants. We rode along with US Special Forces and followed the path of Kony and the LRA into the jungle.
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We met up with Joe Crow Ryan, a well known NYC subway musician who has used his music to overcome struggles with homelessness and the law.
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We spent some time with one of America's last great circus families. Lions and tigers and bears and breastfeeding chimps, oh my!
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Bert has been in and out of prison for his entire adult life for petty drug offenses. While trying to stay within the law, Bert finds that he might not be able to overcome his self-proclaimed “disease of dumbness”.
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Amid a fierce battle between Assad's security forces and Free Syrian Army insurgents, fire swept through the old Souk of Aleppo, a historic covered market and World Heritage site. Rebel fighters and activists have reported that the blaze was sparked by the use of incendiary mortar rounds by Assad's forces.
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The atrocities and war crimes currently ripping Syria apart at the seams are evident inside a field hospital in Aleppo, the country's largest city. Inside the hospital exhausted doctors indiscriminately treat civilians, members of the Free Syrian Army, and captured Syrian Army troops alike.
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On November 21, 2012, Aleppo's Dar al-Shifa Hospital was bombed and destroyed by the Syrian Army. This is the same makeshift hospital where, weeks ago, VICE and videographer Robert King reported on human rights abuses and war crimes against patients (including children) being treated inside. It was completely leveled by the rocket attack, and Robert was on the scene to document the fallout.
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On October 13, 2012, Aleppo's Umayyad Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the oldest mosques in the world, suffered extensive fire damage amid fierce fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the Free Syrian Army.
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VICE photographer and videographer Robert King recently visited the hospital, where he met and interviewed a 14-year-old boy nurse who helps deliver babies in the war zone.
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VICE News visited Liberia, where many feel the 2014 Ebola outbreak began, borne from the bushmeat markets of Lofa.
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On December 14, 2012, a young black high school student named Corey Stingley killed while being aggressively restrained after he tried to shoplift alcohol from a neighborhood store. The men who restrained him were never charged.
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The Bed-Stuy Volunteer Ambulance Corp was founded in 1988 by Captain James "Rocky" Robinson, an EMS tech, and Specialist Joe Perez. Rocky is still at the helm today, 26 years later, training a new generation to follow in his footsteps.
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A freelance journalist who works the overnight shift, he prowls the streets hunting for good stories.
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Tim Pool recently joined the VICE editorial staff in 2013 to cover breaking news, and his first assignment was to fly down to Istanbul and do a live stream of the protests against the construction of a mall in Gezi Park and Prime Minister Erdogan's Islamist policies.
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With protests in Ukraine turning deadly last week, VICE News went to Kiev's Independence Square to document the Euromaidan movement's struggle for the fate of the nation.
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As the crisis in the Central African Republic escalated in 2014, VICE News returned to the capital city to cover the situation on the ground.