Katie Engelhart
The Guardian
New York, NY, United States
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'My body is unserviceable and well past its sell-by date': the last days of Avril Henry
The long read: Avril Henry lived a fulfilling life, but as age took hold and her body failed, it was one she no longer believed was worth living. Why did the law stand in her way? → Read More
Some nursing homes are illegally evicting elderly and disabled residents who can't afford to pay
Thousands of Americans are discharged against their wishes or evicted from nursing homes each year. “Most people don’t even know they have rights,” a vice president at the AARP Foundation said. → Read More
A European doctor prescribes abortion pills to U.S. women over the internet — but the FDA is watching
Aid Access, an organization started by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts to offer abortion pills to women in the U.S., is defying an FDA warning by continuing to operate. → Read More
Men's rights activists are attacking women's scholarships and programs. The DOE is listening.
Kursat Pekgoz, a USC student, is filing federal Title IX complaints against universities, alleging that efforts to support female students are no longer necessary and amount to discrimination against male students. → Read More
Secret police files reopen old wounds decades after communism crumbled
Albania's government last year opened up the archives of its old secret police, the Sigurimi. Anyone who was spied on can get access to his or her file. → Read More
France’s far right embraces its feminine side
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far right Front National (FN) party, inaugurated her new campaign headquarters in Paris on Wednesday. From here, Le Pen will manage her bid for the French presidency in April 2017 — on a platform to Make France Great Again. Le Pen, 48, is… → Read More
German right-wing leader compares migrants to a pile of compost — to hearty applause
"What should we make of the 'Germany is colourful' campaign? A compost heap is colorful too." → Read More
MI5 Spied on a Nobel Prize Winning Author for Over a Decade, New Files Reveal
VICE News reviewed newly released MI5 files that revealed how British spies aggressively monitored Doris Lessing, famous author and Communist. → Read More
What Does the UK Know About the Mysterious Plane Crash That Killed a UN Secretary-General?
The UN wants a reinvestigation into the conspiracy-laden crash that killed Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961, but Britain and the United States are refusing to hand over important documents. → Read More
US Plan for Eastern Europe Is 'Not Provocative,' Says NATO Head — Yet Moscow Disagrees
General Philip Breedlove told VICE News that the American government's plan to station heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states is "not out of the ordinary." → Read More
Would Russia Really Invade a NATO Country? Ex-US Ambassador to Ukraine Says Maybe
VICE News spoke to analyst and former diplomat John Herbst, who thinks former Soviet states with Russian-speaking populations are right to be nervous — and NATO needs to do more. → Read More
Ex-US Ambassador Calls American Military Commitment to Baltics a 'Joke'
VICE News spoke to analyst and former diplomat John Herbst, who thinks former Soviet states with Russian-speaking populations are right to be nervous — and NATO needs to do more. → Read More
Meet the Colonel in Charge of Countering Russian Propaganda in Lithuania
The head of the Lithuanian military's strategic communications division says Putin is trying to rewrite Lithuanian history in order to pave the way for a Russian occupation. → Read More
Lithuania Thinks the Russians Are Coming â and It's Preparing with Wargames
VICE News embedded with Lithuania's army as it carried out simulation warfare against fictional rebels, preparing for a peacetime attack from the East, which it believes is highly likely. → Read More
What Would You Do If You Could Censor Your Past? A Visit to the UK's Secret Archives
VICE News has learned that some UK Foreign Office 'sensitivity reviewers' are reading and redacting historic documents that they themselves wrote while working as diplomats. → Read More
Exclusive: The UK Has Just Unearthed New 'Top Secret' Colonial-Era Government Files
The files, some labelled "Top Secret," could shed more light on abuses committed in British colonies during the heyday of the Empire, that successive governments have long kept hidden. → Read More
Athens Wants Germany to Cough Up $300 Billion â as Repayment for the Nazi Occupation of Greece
For the first time Greece has put a figure on the money it wants back from Germany for WWII reparations â $303 billion. Perhaps coincidentally, this is a similar number to Greek state debt. → Read More
Czech President Says the US Ambassador Is Totally Not Invited to His Castle Anymore
After a dispute over a controversial World War II commemoration in Moscow next month, Czech President Milos Zeman said the doors of Prague Castle were "closed" to US Ambassador Andrew Schapiro. → Read More
Soviet Redux: Vietnam Is Joining Russia's Eurasian Trade Bloc
Ahead of a summit in Hanoi, Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev has promised to supply Vietnamese nuclear plants and encourage joint oil exploration. This affectionate tone is likely to irk the US. → Read More
Bahrain Arrests Human Rights Champion Nabeel Rajab For 'Harming Civil Peace'
"They want to keep me as long as they can inside Bahrain, so that I can't do interviews, meet officials, or speak at the United Nations," Rajab said. → Read More