Earlier this week, the organizers of the Geneva Motor Show threw in the towel as they canceled the 2021 event and announced their desire to sell the rights to the show to the Palexpo exhibition center where it is held. The news was a bit surprising as the Canton of Geneva agreed to give organizers […]
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Photo: Rick Diamond (Getty Images) Former long-shot presidential candidate and Tea Party darling Herman Cain is now in the hospital being treated for COVID-19, just a little over a week after he attended a Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma when coronavirus cases there had spiked to their highest numbers since the start of the […]
Read MoreThe interior of Indonesia’s House of Representatives. (Romeo Gacad/AFP) The Legislative Board of the Indonesian House of Representatives on Thursday officially withdrew from consideration an anti-sexual violence bill, ostensibly to better focus on the country’s COVID-19 recovery strategy, though the bill had run afoul of conservatives in the House for its alleged “liberal perspective.” Prior […]
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Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Coronavirus cases are on the rise in an overwhelming majority of states now, and Texas just mandated masks in public places. President Donald Trump is set for a super-spreader event at Mt. Rushmore, and Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning that a new […]
Read MoreRoyal Thai Police personnel film 1.42 metric tons of seized “ice” during a press conference in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat on July 3, 2020. Madaree TOHLALA / AFP Thai authorities intercepted a massive shipment of 1.42 metric tons of crystal methamphetamine en route to Malaysia early Thursday morning, lending further evidence to suspicions that […]
Read MoreGiacomo Lucarini via Unsplash Seven hundred weeks into self-quarantine in New York City, sometime in mid-May, I was participating in my beloved pastime of standing in a line to enter a grocery store when something big happened. A person behind me said, “My friend just started working there,” and I turned around to see her […]
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As coronavirus cases soared this week in a number of states—not a few of them red—a handful of GOP leaders and right-wing pundits had a desperate message for conservatives: Wear a mask, please. Mike Pence now wears a mask; Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, who had previously blocked local governments from requiring masks, now calls them […]
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If you were to think about it, would a toilet seat be cleaner than your smartphone? Given what we do in the toilet, it would be reasonable to think so, but the reality is that studies have found that our phones are actually dirtier due to our hands touching it, and our hands touch just […]
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However, Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, propose ratcheting down the $600 add-on according to an individual state’s unemployment rate. If unemployment is more than 11 percent, then people collecting benefits get the full $600. If it’s more than 10 percent but less than 11 percent, they get only $500. Benefits drop $100 for every […]
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This year is a bit different. If you plan on celebrating the birth of your nation by blowing up a small part of it (still one of my favorite Simpsons lines), you best be doing it with a mask on and socially distanced from anyone you don’t live with. That’s because the world is still in […]
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Back in May, it seemed the number of new coronavirus cases was beginning to go down. Then, as states began to reopen (often against the advice of health officials), the number of new cases shot up dramatically — now at record daily levels that can’t be explained away by increased testing. One of the primary […]
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We’ve never had more ways to connect and communicate. We’ve never had better tech capabilities. Our smartphones are smarter than the smartest mainframes of yesteryear. So why can’t we use technology to help trace contacts and stop the spread of Covid-19? Spoiler alert: You’ve got to figure human behavior into the equation. Americans are about […]
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WASHINGTON — President Trump took a victory lap over new numbers showing the economy bounced back in June, even as a surge in new coronavirus cases is forcing states’ governors to reconsider their push to reopen their economies. Trump held a surprise White House press conference Thursday morning, taking the podium just over an hour […]
Read More WASHINGTON — President Trump took a victory lap over new numbers showing the economy bounced back in June, even as a surge in new coronavirus cases is forcing states’ governors to reconsider their push to reopen their economies. Trump held a surprise White House press conference Thursday morning, taking the podium just over an hour […]
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In what might be the most blindingly obvious statement ever to be made in this august publication, the second quarter of 2020 was an absolute disaster for vehicle sales. Under the withering gaze of a global pandemic, the nation’s car dealers were awash in red ink — and the bitter tears of various dealer principals. […]
Read MoreOliver Contreras/SIPA USA (Sipa via AP Images) Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Back in February, President Donald Trump famously said that the coronavirus would be gone by April. Later in the month, he said it would be “close to zero” in a couple of days. In March […]
Read MoreOliver Contreras/SIPA USA (Sipa via AP Images) Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Back in February, President Donald Trump famously said that the coronavirus would be gone by April. Later in the month, he said it would be “close to zero” in a couple of days. In March […]
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Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures Max Weber Buy on Bookshop New York Review of Books, 176 pp., $15.95 Modern invocations of the work ethic are usually misreadings: The Protestant Ethic was more lament than celebration. Weber sought to narrate the arrival of what had become a no-longer-questioned assumption: that our duty was to labor […]
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TOPLINE Despite a surge in coronavirus cases across the country, the market finished mostly higher on Wednesday—the first day of the third quarter, after stocks got a boost from positive coronavirus vaccine news and strong U.S. economic data. Stocks moved higher to start the third quarter. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images KEY FACTS The S&P […]
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes his mask off as he prepares to speak during a press conference at the Hard Rock Stadium testing site on May 06, 2020 in Miami Gardens, Florida.Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Have you ever heard the story of how Florida was created? It all started with a chicken sandwich. God […]
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Homelessness will treble this year if new measures aren’t introduced to protect tenants who can’t pay their rent, warn housing campaign group Generation Rent. Today, the organisation is advising that if the government doesn’t implement measures to protect renters before the 24th of August, when the ban on evictions lifts, it could see many thrown […]
Read MoreIn early 2019, Kevin, a 23-year-old college student studying TV production, signed up to deliver packages for an Amazon subcontractor on the westside of Los Angeles. With the exception of the holidays and the week leading up to Amazon Prime Day in July, Kevin said his job was manageable. On normal days, he delivered 180 […]
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As an intensive-care resident in a hospital in Seine-Saint-Denis, a region of mainly poor Black and Arab people outside Paris, Dr. Tona Tchoubou has seen some of the worst of what the COVID-19 pandemic has done to France. At the crisis’ peak in April, Tchoubou’s ICU at Hôpital Delafontaine was quickly overwhelmed and ran out […]
Read MorePhoto by Victoria Labadie via Getty Images Not to be a drag, but we are still very much in the middle of a pandemic. The number of COVID-19 cases has spiked nationwide in the wake of premature openings and victory laps by state leaders, eager to kick-start the economy at any cost. In the meantime, people […]
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Byton is suspending most operations, including production at its factory in Nanjing, China, from July 1 to raise new funds and issue cost-cutting measures in a bid to deal with the heavy blow from the coronavirus pandemic. The EV start-up company, which has reportedly furloughed half of its US-based employees since April, is faced with […]
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One of the questions I’ve been asked most during the pandemic is what it feels like to be on the COVID frontline. My answer is that it’s terrifying. As a young, Black doctor I am more likely to catch the virus, die from it, work on the frontline fighting it and be arrested under laws […]
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Offering their customers significant discounts is one way for carmakers to deal with the devastating effects that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had on the automotive sector in terms of retail sales. While analysts are expecting June sales to drop 25% year-to-year, they will still show improvements compared to the declines from April and May, […]
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TOPLINE The stock market finished higher on Tuesday, closing out its best quarter since 1998 despite a rising number of coronavirus cases across the country—as many states pause or walk back reopening plans altogether. The market had its best second quarter in decades. Spencer Platt/Getty Images KEY FACTS The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up […]
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Photo: Jamie Squire (Getty Images) If you were still skeptical that much of America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic—namely, people posturing against a disease, taking up AR-15’s in defense of the right to get haircuts, and angrily dismissing commonsense advice to wear masks—has more than a tinge of racism embedded in it, this news may […]
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Photo: Tasos Katopodis (Getty Images) The shadow president known to the American public as Fox News is getting tired of Trump’s shit and has asked, practically begged, the president of people who fry snacks to wear a goddamn mask over his anus-shaped pie hole because he’d be modeling good practices and would stop being such […]
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