VICE News Tonight: Season 3

Episode 1 2019-01-02 | 25 min Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, sits down with 15 retiring or resigning members of Congress to find out what it's like to serve and why they're leaving. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 2 2019-01-03 | 25 min One year after 314 Action — a non-profit recruiting scientists to run for office — spoke to VICE News about their plans, nine of the 13 candidates they endorsed were elected to Congress. VICE News catches up with some of the people they endorsed about their 2019 agenda. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 3 2019-01-07 | 25 min Federal prison employees are working without pay because of the ongoing government shutdown. Many have worked long hours in crowded prisons before the shutdown, and bein furloughed has forced some to look for second jobs. VICE News speaks to employees about the shutdown's impact on their lives. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 4 2019-01-08 | 25 min Josh Rubin is an activist from New York who traveled to Tornillo, Texas to view an infamous detention camp for migrant children. As the camp closes, he is bearing witness to the end of an ugly chapter in immigration policy. VICE News views the closure through his lens. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 5 2019-01-09 | 25 min Newly empowered House Democrats will unveil legislation requiring federal background checks for all gun sales. Former Arizona representative Gabby Giffords and the March For Our Lives organizers will be present. However, the legislation is unlikelyto become law. VICE News examines the politics surrounding this effort. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 6 2019-01-10 | 25 min Sonia Bermudez lives in the Colombian bordertown of Riohacha and runs a cemetery called "People Like Us". Since late 2017, Bermudez has buried—at her own cost—40 Venezuelan migrants who died in the area and whose families couldn't afford a funeral. VICE News visits Sonia to learn about her work. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 7 2019-01-14 | 25 min Los Angeles teachers walked out of classes as they call for greater investment and smaller class sizes. It's the first time in nearly 30 years that teachers in LAUSD—the nation's second-largest school district — have gone on strike. VICE News asks LA. teachers and support staff why they're striking. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 8 2019-01-15 | 25 min The ongoing American opioid epidemic has led to skyrocketing death rates. Due to the crisis, there was a record-high increase in organs available for donation. VICE News heads to Louisville, KY to understand the process of placing these "high risk" organs. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 9 2019-01-16 | 25 min President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil issued a decree that made it easier for citizens to own a gun. Though Brazil had over 63,000 gun-related deaths last year, the newly elected leader wants to reduce crime by expanding gun access. VICE News examines Bolsanaro's strategy. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 10 2019-01-17 | 25 min Barring felons from the ballot-box has a long—and racist— history in Florida, but voters overwhelmingly repealed one of the nation's most draconian disenfranchisement laws, giving an estimated 1.4 million convicted felons the right to vote. VICE News examines the repeal and its potential influence on future elections. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 11 2019-01-22 | 25 min As anti-Semitism allegations and infighting have plagued the founders of the Washington D.C.-based Women's March, VICE News speaks with New York City Women's March Alliance founder Katherine Siemionko before her third annual march. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 12 2019-01-23 | 25 min Tornillo, the tent city for migrant children outside El Paso, Texas, held 3000 kids at its peak. Though it closed in December, little is known about how it operated, or what happened to kids while they were inside. VICE News speaks to four kids who spent more than a month in the facility. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 13 2019-01-24 | 25 min The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, creators of the famous Doomsday Clock, is a nonprofit organization that informs policymakers about man-made threats to life on Earth. Former California Governor Jerry Brown is in D.C. to unveil the new time on the Doomsday Clock. VICE News speaks to Brown about the end of the world. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 14 2019-01-28 | 25 min European countries have called on Venezuela to hold an election within eight days or it will recognize opposition leader Juan Gaido as interim president. VICE News reviews the challenge to Nicolas Maduro's presidency. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 15 2019-01-29 | 25 min Much of the discourse surrounding the Yemeni Civil War has focused on the Saudi military and the Houthi rebels. However, in the country's east, the United Arab Emirates has waged a campaign against anyone they suspect of being an al Qaeda fighter. VICE News examines the confrontation. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 16 2019-01-30 | 25 min Harvard is being sued by a group hoping to end the use of affirmative action. The case reaches beyond Harvard and has created conversation in homes of high school kids applying to elite colleges across the country. VICE News follows three students from different racial backgrounds applying to Ivy League schools. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 17 2019-01-31 | 25 min Though Atlanta strip clubs are normally closed on Sundays, the City Council granted them an exception for Super Bowl Sunday. Hundreds of dancers are heading to the city to catch the Super Bowl rush. VICE News speaks with one dancer that traveled from Houston to perform. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 18 2019-02-04 | 25 min Under the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocols, the U.S. has begun releasing Central American migrants to Mexico while their asylum cases are pending. Local officials in Tijuana worry that the number of asylum seekers the U.S. sends will overwhelm the city. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 19 2019-02-05 | 25 min VICE News visits Hachita, New Mexico, to find out how residents feel about living near the border. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 20 2019-02-06 | 25 min The Spanish government has signed an agreement with unions and mining companies to close all remaining coal mines by the end of the year, aiming to create an "ecological transition" in the country's economically depressed mining communities. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 21 2019-02-07 | 25 min In Serbia, thousands continue to protest against political violence and crackdowns on media freedom. VICE News meets a journalist who recently survived an assassination attempt to discuss how criticizing the government has become increasingly dangerous. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 22 2019-02-11 | 25 min Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is involved in efforts to erect a privately funded borderwall made out of hempcrete, a hemp-based construction material. VICE News joins him for a town hall on the subject in Green Valley, Arizona. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 23 2019-02-12 | 25 min This Monday, public school teachers in Denver launched a strike to protest ProComp, a performance-based compensation system that went into effect in 2005. VICE News heads to the picket lines to witness the city's first teacher strike in 25 years. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 24 2019-02-13 | 25 min After Lori Alhadeff lost her daughter in the Parkland shooting, she ran for a seat on the school board and won. VICE News sits down with Alhadeff to talk about her life since the tragedy. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 25 2019-02-14 | 25 min One year afterthe Parkland school shooting, Texas' Round Rock School District is debating whether to create its own police force. VICE News weighs the potential benefits and consequences. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 26 2019-02-19 | 25 min Dano Brown spends his nights Grafting unauthorized action figures to sell on eBay for more money than he makes in an entire week at his day job as a warehouse worker. VICE News joins him as he makes his next toy. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 27 2019-02-20 | 25 min Indigenous groups in Peru are using a satellite-based alert system to fight deforestation. VICE News follows Peru's environmental police force as they look for the culprits of the newest deforestation patches. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 28 2019-02-21 | 25 min King Tide is a phenomenon brought on by the special alignment of the sun and moon that causes higher than normal tidal surges. For people living in low-lying coastal towns, this translates to flooding and infrastructure damage; in California, King Tide has state regulators concerned about the future. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 29 2019-02-25 | 25 min Venezuela's pro-government militias, known as colectivos, have been operating with total impunity. Now, they've been tasked with securing the country's borders against aid for the opposition. VICE News looks at what this means for the ongoing crisis. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 30 2019-02-26 | 25 min Kim Ryon-hui left North Korea seven years ago and has been forced to live in South Korea ever since. She's now hoping the warming of relations between President Trump's America and her home country will help her return to Pyongyang, where her husband and daughter still live. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 31 2019-02-27 | 25 min Representatives from the U.S. and the Taliban are in Qatar for the high-level talks between the two parties. VICE News meets Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen to hear the latest negotiation updates. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PMET. Episode 32 2019-02-28 | 25 min In a small southern California town, activists are bringing attention to an ongoing sewage crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, caused by contaminated water flowing from the Tijuana River. VICE News meets some members of the movement. Watch Mondays through Thursdays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 33 2019-03-05 | 25 min VICE News follows the YPG as they make their final push to get ISIS out of Syria. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 34 2019-03-06 | 25 min The recent measles outbreak in Vancouver, WA has resulted in a major spike in immunization rates. VICE News speaks to a pediatrician and a family he treats who recently changed their minds about vaccines. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PMET. Episode 35 2019-03-07 | 25 min The Arkansas Times is suing the state over a law that requires state contractors requiring to pledge not to boycott Israel. VICE News visits the newspaper and speaks to one of the law's sponsors to hear why he thinks it's necessary. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 36 2019-03-08 | 25 min Five years ago, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board, making it one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of modern time. VICE News speaks to a former lawyer from California who has made it his mission to figure out what happened. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 37 2019-03-12 | 25 min Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced he would not run for reelection after weeks of protests calling for the ailing leader to step down. VICE News meets some of the protesters who say their fight is not over. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 38 2019-03-13 | 25 min Water billing has become a crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. After upgrading to a new system in 2013, the city has struggled with its ability to bill accurately, leaving some people with balances ranging into the thousands. VICE News speaks with residents and city officials about the issue. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 39 2019-03-14 | 25 min Friday marksthe end of France's Le Grand Debat, an initiative of President Macron's administration to help quell national frustrations. The intention was to allow civilians to discuss the social issues they care about. VICE News explores if these debates will help boost Macron's low approval ratings. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 40 2019-03-15 | 25 min On Friday, teenagers in more than 100 countries participated in the Youth Climate Strike by walking out of school to protest inaction on climate change. VICE News speaks to Lexi, a 13-year-old who helped coordinate the first national strike. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 41 2019-03-19 | 25 min VICE visits with Muslim activist Hassan Shibly as he urges his Florida community to protect against white nationalism in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacre. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 42 2019-03-20 | 25 min VICE News travels to Iowa with 2020 candidates like Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and more to find out what questions people are asking on the campaign trail. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 43 2019-03-21 | 25 min Some sheriffs in Washington state are refusing to enforce a gun control initiative that voters passed in November, saying it violates the Second Amendment. VICE News goes to Washington to meet one of the sheriffs, as well as some citizens who are not in favor of the new regulations. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 44 2019-03-22 | 25 min In the wake of the recent college admissions scandal, nicknamed Operation Varsity Blues by the FBI, VICE News visits Yale University to talk to students about the relationship between socioeconomic class and the higher education system. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 45 2019-03-26 | 25 min VICE News travels to New Hampshire to see how the 2020 presidential candidates are addressing the Mueller report on the campaign trail. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 46 2019-03-27 | 25 min This week, the Israeli army bombed several targets in the Gaza Strip. VICE News reports on the latest. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 47 2019-03-28 | 25 min The Syrian Democratic Forces has retaken the last of the ISIS-held territory in Syria. VICE News reports from the victory declaration. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 48 2019-03-29 | 25 min After previously promising potential astronauts a chance to go to the red planet, Mars One Ventures has suffered a setback. VICE News profiles three of the 100 people who are in the running for the mission about what's next for them. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 49 2019-04-02 | 25 min In the wake of Saturday's Land Day protests at the Gaza-lsrael border, VICE News breaks down the latest developments in the conflict between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. Episode 50 2019-04-03 | 25 min Last week, Rockland County, New York, declared a state of emergency in response to the country's recent measles outbreak. VICE News visits the county to see how nonaffected residents are responding to the news. Watch Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM ET. 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