Politics
GOP Senate Nominee Jason Lewis Founded A Social Network Where People Promoted A Pro-Hitler Documentary
Galt let its community decide what was most important to them. This is what they chose.
Jane Lytvynenko
Young Latino Voters Say The Fight For Racial Justice Is Pushing Them To Vote In November
According to a new survey, 55.8% of young Latino voters said they’d actively participated in racial equality or Black Lives Matter movements.
Ryan Brooks
Trump Said He Underestimated How Quickly The Coronavirus Would Spread Despite Reports Saying He Knew
“All of a sudden, the world was infected. The entire world was infected," Trump said when asked about his comments to Bob Woodward.
Kadia Goba
A Whistleblower Has Accused Top DHS Officials Of Lying About Border Threats To Support Trump's False Claims
The complaint also accuses DHS officials of suppressing intelligence reports on Russia and making false statements to Congress.
Adolfo Flores
Trump’s New List Of Supreme Court Nominees Includes A Judge Who Served In His White House And Three Republican Senators
Trump is hoping to repeat his 2016 strategy of using the courts to motivate his base and win over skeptics. Democrats are still figuring out how to make courts a priority for liberal voters.
Zoe Tillman
The Trump Administration Is Considering Excluding Some Immigrant Children From A Controversial Pandemic Border Policy
“On first glance, this revised order seems mostly like an attempt to avoid an embarrassing court defeat,” one expert said.
Hamed Aleaziz
Judges Confirmed Under Trump Are Splitting With Other Republican Appointees In Cases Against Police
Fights over whether police should get immunity against lawsuits show what a rightward shift of the federal courts under Trump looks like in practice.
Zoe Tillman
She Challenged Europe’s Last Dictator In Belarus And Was Forced Into Exile. She Says She’s The Country’s “Chosen President.”
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said in an exclusive interview with BuzzFeed News from exile in Vilnius, Lithuania, that she — not Alexander Lukashenko — is “the national, chosen president” of Belarus.
Christopher Miller
Trump Is Now Trying To Cancel Racial Sensitivity Trainings For Federal Agencies, Calling Them "A Sickness"
The White House memo targeting these trainings comes after weeks of pro-Trump pundits attacking critical race theory.
Jane Lytvynenko
The FBI Is Warning Scientists To Watch Out For “Suspicious” Packages
After COVID-19 researchers on the East Coast received a package containing an “unknown substance,” the University of Washington told 500 of its staff to be on alert.
Ken Bensinger
A Federal Judge Ordered The Trump Administration To Stop Detaining Immigrant Children In Hotels
Immigration ities have been detaining children at a network of hotels before expelling them from the US.
Adolfo Flores
Facebook Says Trump’s Misleading Post About Mail-In Voting Is OK. Employees Say It’s Not.
“Facebook is broken. Another performative announcement by leadership not intended to address any issues.”
Craig Silverman
Trump, Who Definitely Called John McCain A Loser, Is Denying Calling John McCain A Loser
The president is lashing out at reports he called US soldiers who died in war "suckers" and that he didn't want to visit their graves because rain would mess up his hair.
David Mack
Trump Made Fun Of Politicians Wearing Masks During A Crowded Rally Where Many Didn’t Wear Masks
At a Pennsylvania rally, Trump made light of wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to a crowd of many maskless people.
Kadia Goba
Joe Biden’s Kenosha Visit Did What Donald Trump’s Didn’t: Centered On The Community In Crisis
Trump was often the focal point of his Tuesday trip to Kenosha. Biden used much of his time there Thursday to give a platform to the city's people and their feelings.
Henry J. Gomez
Election Officials And Social Media Companies Are Begging You To Ignore Trump And Not Vote Twice
Voting twice is illegal. Trump has suggested people try to do so to test the integrity of the election system. But, again, voting twice is illegal.
Amber Jamieson
Facebook Said It Removed A Militia Event Page Threatening Violence In Kenosha. It Didn’t.
Facebook said it removed a militia event associated with the shooting of three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It didn't. Here's what really happened, and why it could happen again.
Ryan Mac
New York City Republican Leaders Are Sticking By Trump’s Plan To Defund New York City
Republicans in the overwhelmingly Democratic city think Trump's legally questionable plan is fair if Democrats want to defund the police.
Kadia Goba
Facebook Won’t Accept New Political Ads The Week Before The Election — But Older Ads With Lies Are Still OK
Facebook will also impose restrictions on forwarding links in Messenger.
Pranav Dixit
Nancy Pelosi Called Video Of Her Visit To A Hair Salon Despite Coronavirus Rules "A Setup"
"As it turns out, it was a setup, so I take responsibility for falling for a setup."
Salvador Hernandez
Joe Biden Said The Police Officers Who Shot Jacob Blake And Breonna Taylor Should Be Charged
The Democratic presidential nominee made the comments during a press conference, ahead of a Thursday trip to Kenosha.
Molly Hensley-Clancy
A Republican Member Of Congress Threatened To Kill Armed Demonstrators In A Facebook Post
Rep. Clay Higgins has spoken at events organized by militia groups. When a rumor spread of a Black militia group protesting police brutality, he said their armed presence would be considered a threat and he'd "drop any 10 of you where you stand."
Salvador Hernandez
A German Test Revealed Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Was Poisoned
Novichok, a nerve agent, is blamed. It's the same poison that was used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain in 2018, and the finding will further raise suspicion about a Kremlin role.
Christopher Miller
Ed Markey, An Atypical Progressive Darling, Beat Joe Kennedy In Massachusetts' Senate Primary
Markey, a longtime politician, became a favorite of young progressives in the race against a much younger Joe Kennedy, who had the support of Nancy Pelosi.
Addy Baird
Richard Neal Has Defeated Progressive Challenger Alex Morse In A Massachusetts Primary
Morse's loss is a tough hit for Justice Democrats after a string of successes in other primary races.
Addy Baird
Trump’s Trip To Kenosha Wasn’t About Jacob Blake
Trump rarely talks about the underlying issues that lead to protests or rioting. And he avoided it during his visit to Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Kadia Goba
Facebook Has Removed Fake Accounts From A Washington PR Firm And Russian Trolls
The fake pages, groups, and profiles tried to sow political chaos around the world.
Jane Lytvynenko
Trump Wants To Force Immigrants To Submit Eye Scans, Voice Prints, And DNA
“They’re using what is overly general language in the law to justify a massive, unprecedented expansion to collect really personal information," one former immigration official said.
Hamed Aleaziz
Trump Defended The Alleged Kenosha Protest Shooter But Criticized The Portland Protest Shooter
Trump claimed the Kenosha shooting suspect “probably would’ve been killed” if he had acted differently.
Emerson Malone
Trump Staff Keep Spreading Manipulated Videos Of Joe Biden
“This is what happens when you corner a rat,” a spokesperson for Joe Biden told BuzzFeed News
Jane Lytvynenko
