Staff at Queens Hospital called 68-year-old COVID patient Rudy Corletto the “miracle man.” The grandfather spent 29 days on a ventilator during New York’s brutal first wave of the pandemic, when most ICU patients didn’t make it. We were there when he was finally discharged.
Filmed at the height of the 2020 COVID outbreak in NYC, and nominated for “Outstanding Short Feature Story in a Newscast” at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
Across the US, corporate buyers are purchasing mobile home parks and driving up rents for those on the brink of being homeless. VICE News went to Fresno, California, where one such company is attempting to buy a park called Trails End, and residents fear the worst.
Just off the shore of one of the nation’s most expensive zip codes, a community of free-spirited boat dwellers have found a way to live rent-free next to millionaires. Known locally as “anchor-outs,” their aging vessels float illegally on the waters off Sausalito, an exclusive enclave in the San Francisco Bay Area. But now, as enforcement ramps up, their floating utopia is under threat.
Arkansas has one of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in the country, and the Delta variant caused a surge of new cases in the state. We embedded at a hospital in Little Rock, where doctors say the threat of death isn’t enough to convince people to get vaccinated.
In 2021, Alabama debated a bill that would criminalize medical treatment for trans youth, and advocates warned the consequences could be devastating. SB10 would have made it a felony for doctors to prescribe hormones or drugs that delay puberty to minors. VICE News went to Birmingham to hear from trans teens and a doctor fighting the proposed legislation.
With the threat of multiple potential criminal indictments, VICE News speaks to supporters of former President Donald Trump at his first 2024 campaign rally in Waco, TX.
For millions of wheelchair users, flying on an airplane means undergoing a series of indignities, and sometimes even dealing with a broken chair upon arrival. VICE News rides along with one traveler to see the nightmare firsthand.
Utah might become the first conservative state to abolish the death penalty in nearly 50 years, and a murder case is at the center of the debate. VICE News follows families of murder victims, some of whom are in favor of abolishing, but not for the reasons you’d expect.
More than a hundred Trump supporters gathered at a bar in Scottsdale, Arizona on Election Night 2020 to watch the returns. VICE News spent the night with them, through a few hours of initial excitement, to the moment when Fox News announced that Biden had won the state.
The discovery of more than 200 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at a former residential school in Canada exposed the horrific scale of abuses that took place inside the country’s residential school system. Now, the country is experiencing a reckoning.
In 2021, Sgt. Jessica Haut came out as trans in the military. One year later, VICE News checks back in to see how she’s navigating her transition while serving in the U.S. Army.
Nominated for “Outstanding TV Journalism Segment” at the 34th GLAAD Media Awards.
California’s 2023 floods led to more deaths than the previous two wildfire seasons combined, and they’re only a preview of the state’s extreme weather future.
LA County's housing crisis has gotten so severe that hundreds of people have felt they have no choice but to make camp in unincorporated areas of the Mojave Desert, where they will not be subject to police encounters.