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Bismack Biyombo's Past and Present in the Congo

Boris Berian was a reluctant track star. He won a National Championship in college before losing eligibility due to poor grades. Trying to get by, he took a job at a local McDonald’s to support his comeback. Once his talent was rediscovered, Berian burst back onto the track scene and hasn’t looked back since. We follow his story of how he went from flipping burgers in Colorado to becoming an Olympian at the Rio Games. Created with New Balance.

Cinematography: WRKSHRT
Producer: Dan Bradley
Post Production: Vice Sports

Herding Cattle and Shredding Powder in Carter Country

Pro Snowboarder Mark Carter leads a double life. In the offseason, he works on his family ranch in Ten Sleep, Wyoming tending to hundreds of head of cattle. But once winter hits, the cattle come into pasture and Mark hits the road to Jackson to shred lines in the Tetons. We rode with Mark throughout the transition as he rounded up 1,200 head on a family ranch and then set out to ride early splitboard lines with Bryan Iguchi and Travis Rice.

Cinematography: WRKSHRT + Mark Phillips
Producer: Dan Bradley
Post Production: Vice Sports

Vice News | This is what a women’s march looks like in deep red America

Joni Mack is a registered Republican who doesn’t agree with much of the party’s platform. In fact, Joni considers herself a progressive on most issues. That’s a tough thing to be in rural Wyoming, yet Joni organized her town’s women’s march last year. She did it again this year —expecting a smaller turnout— for what may have been the country's smallest march. Wyoming has progressive roots — its nickname is the Equality State, because it passed the country’s first women’s suffrage bill back in 1869. But Wyoming has long been a deep red state, a remote place where people like being far away from the federal government. VICE News follows Joni and her fellow marchers as they set out to rally in Pinedale, Wyoming— a town that went heavily for Trump.

Cinematography by WRKSHRT

Edited by Vice

It's been 12 years since Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged 9/11 mastermind, arrived at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center off Cuba. There've been 29 rounds of pre-trial hearings, costing around $6 billion so far, according to Department of Defense estimates. And there's still no date in sight for the trial.

What's taking so long? VICE News visited Mohammed's defense team in Guantánamo Bay to see why the so-called trial of the century is still so far off.

David Nevin, who heads the team defending Mohammed, believes that protecting those who took part in the torture program at the U.S. detention facility has become more important in this case than bringing those accused of plotting 9/11 to justice.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding and ”rectal rehydration,” among other things, during the three and a half years he was in CIA custody before being transferred to Gitmo. “It's the reason we're here,” Nevin told VICE News. “The reason we're spending $76,000 a minute is to protect the people who violated all of these domestic and international laws.”

VICE News also spoke to a 9/11 victim's family member who witnessed one round of pre-trial hearings at Guantánamo Bay late last year, coming face to face with the men accused of killing his brother and 2,975 other people.

Cinematography by WRKSHRT & Jerry Riccioti

Edited by Vice

Vice News | North Carolina didn't need FEMA to weather Hurricane Florence

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Onslow County Manager David Cotton has been camped out dealing with the Hurricane Florence response at the county’s Emergency Operations Center since Wednesday. During that time, he’s only slept six hours. “Everything was so fast-paced. High-tempo decisions having to be made in the middle of the night: Opening shelters, how should we do this, weighing in on critical decisions all throughout this evolution," Cotton told VICE News Monday morning. By then the storm had just about passed and the sun was out in Jacksonville, the Onslow County seat and the town where the Emergency Operations Center is based. But Cotton won't be resting anytime soon. “We’re moving out of the sprint phase and moving into more of a marathon of the recovery,” he said. This is the epicenter of the emergency response effort for the entire county, which lies just 50 miles north of where the eye of the storm hit when it first made landfall on the North Carolina coast. While the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, faced controversy in Washington over his alleged misuse of government vehicles, the hurricane response efforts took shape in North Carolina’s counties and towns, independent of the federal authorities and their support. The heads of all the county’s key departments — police, fire, transportation and others — all gathered in a single, windowless room for the entirety of the storm, snatching sleep whenever possible in cots tucked into side offices. Cotton oversaw the entire operation and eventually called in federal support as the storm caused historic levels of flooding across the region. County officials made direct calls to the National Guard, Coast Guard, and Marines from Camp Lejeune for additional resources as flooding became too much for local authorities to handle. They largely left FEMA out of it, and that was intentional: Cotton said emergencies are better handled by the staff on the ground, and that the federal agency will come in to support recovery efforts, which could last as long as two years. Long, for his part, defended FEMA against criticism of its handling of past natural disasters, telling VICE News that, "There are some unrealistic expectations placed on this agency." "The disaster response works best when it's locally executed, state managed and federally supported. FEMA is not a first responder," Long said.

Cinematography by WRKSHRT & Vice

Edited by Vice