The US Sanctioned One Of Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian Allies For Election Interference

Andriy Derkach has helped Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, with his campaign to discredit Joe Biden.

Christopher Miller

"Game Of Thrones" Star Dame Diana Rigg Has Died At 82

Rigg's portrayal of the cunning Lady Olenna Tyrell, who ends up revealing that she poisoned a widely despised character in Game of Thrones, earned her a new generation of fans.

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Jussie Smollett Said He Didn't Fake A Hate Crime Against Himself

"The sad part is that there is an example being made of someone who did not do what they’re being accused of.”

Ade Onibada

At 35, Carrie Was Finally Feeling Secure In Her Adult Life. The Coronavirus Completely Derailed It.

In New Orleans, Carrie Stuckwisch is exhausted. She's worn out from months of post-COVID-19 symptoms. She's tired of people not believing her. And she's weary that she and others in the Burnout Generation are starting over, yet again.

Brianna Sacks

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

California And Oregon Residents Described Apocalyptic Landscapes As Wildfires Raged

“The emotional swing has been from wishful thinking...to despair.”

Jessica Garrison

Mizzou Students Say The School's President Is Blocking Them Online For Expressing Concerns About COVID Safety

"Our school boasts having the country’s first and best journalism school, yet has silenced student journalists and failed to acknowledge the COVID concerns," one student told BuzzFeed News.

Tanya Chen

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 White Professor Who Admitted To Pretending To Be Black During Her Career Has Resigned From GWU

Jessica Krug resigned from her teaching position Wednesday, a week after she admitted to pretending to be Black during her academic career.

Salvador Hernandez

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

People Are Calling Out This TikTok Trend For Body-Shaming

A filter that was accidentally released in the UK is known as the "chubby face" effect.

Lauren Strapagiel

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

There's A TikTok Trend Where People Show How To Protect Someone's Drink From Getting Spiked

"I wanted to remind people that it’s not just a funny trend, that it’s an actual serious issue with dangerous consequences."

Ikran Dahir

Activists Are Demanding Facebook Suspend An Indian Executive Who Shielded Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

“I don’t know what the damn problem is at Facebook with anti-Muslim hate, but I would just say at this point that they don’t seem to care.”

Pranav Dixit

An FDA Deadline For Vape Shops Is Today. No One Knows What Comes Next.

“I worry it will be Armageddon for the vaping industry.”

Dan Vergano

“Keeping Up With The Kardashians” Is Ending Because Kourtney Made It So

It's become increasingly clear the oldest Kardashian sister is interested in a different kind of fame.

Scaachi Koul

Shocking Photos Show The Hellish Scenes From The West Coast Wildfires

As large swaths of the West Coast burn in unprecedented wildfires, the skies have turned red.

Clarissa-Jan Lim

At 24, Sarah Is Set To Graduate College — But Will She Have A Place In America?

Sarah Faruqui is a Pakistani woman from Hong Kong studying in New York. The coronavirus, the Trump administration, and unrest back home have made displacement and uncertainty near constant for her.

Scaachi Koul

TMZ’s Newsroom Is A Hotbed For Racism, Misogyny, And Verbal Abuse, Ex-Employees Say

“I got screamed at so often I felt like a scared dog,” one former employee told BuzzFeed News.

Krystie Lee Yandoli

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

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was A Massive COVID-19 Superspreader Event, A New Study Claims

If the numbers stand up to subsequent analysis, the South Dakota rally would be the single biggest known superspreader event in the US coronavirus epidemic.

Peter Aldhous

A Major Coronavirus Vaccine Trial Has Been Put On Hold

The trial, led by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, has been paused due to an "unexplained illness" in someone who received the vaccine.

Azeen Ghorayshi

"Keeping Up With The Kardashians" Is Ending

"This show made us who we are and I will be forever in debt to everyone who played a role in shaping our careers and changing our lives forever," Kim Kardashian West wrote in an Instagram post.

Krystie Lee Yandoli

Top Rochester Police Officials Are Stepping Down In Response To Daniel Prude's Death

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren made the surprise announcement Tuesday just days after the chief of police said he had no plans to resign.

Paul McLeod

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

A Teen Influencer Said She Mistakenly Called Her Cover Of Ashanti's Hit "Foolish" Her Own Song On TikTok

Danielle Cohn's mom and manager claimed to BuzzFeed News they had obtained licenses and permission from Ashanti's team to release the cover. However, it's already caused a huge uproar across all of her social media channels.

Tanya Chen

13 Spectacular Young Adult Books From Independent Publishers

Don't miss these great YA books from indie presses and self-published authors.

Dahlia Adler

Lupita Nyong'o Shared A Moving Tribute To Chadwick Boseman On Her Instagram

"He used his life force to tell meaningful stories. And now we tell his."

Ikran Dahir

At 17, Noel’s College Football Dreams Are Up In The Air. What Else Will He Lose This Senior Year?

Noel Raehl should be playing football and going to dances with his girlfriend at their Chicago high school. He's now trying to help his parents earn money and his siblings focus in Zoom classes.

Stephanie K. Baer

TikTok Is Warning Users About A Video Showing A Suicide

TikTok is trying to stop the video from spreading by taking down clips and banning users who repeatedly share it.

David Mack

A US Marine Who Killed A Transgender Woman In The Philippines Has Been Pardoned

Joseph Scott Pemberton is set to be released after serving less than six years of a 10-year sentence for the killing of Jennifer Laude.

Salvador Hernandez

A Family's Gender Reveal Has Caused A Large Wildfire In California

Family members tried to stamp out the fire before it spread to more than 7,000 acres and forced hundreds of people to evacuate.

Salvador Hernandez

At 10, Kyle Can No Longer Imagine What He Wants To Be When He Grows Up

For Kyle Lyons, parts of childhood are fading into memory as he learns to cope with an uncertain future. His parents fear what the pandemic is doing to him — and his Bronx neighborhood, one of the poorest in the country.

Otillia Steadman

A Colorado School Suspended A 12-Year-Old Black Boy And Called The Police To His Home After He "Waved" A Toy Gun During A Virtual Class

"How do I protect my son? What do I have him do [when] playing with a toy in the privacy of your own home is a threat?" the seventh-grader's mother told BuzzFeed News.

Ellie Hall

Novak Djokovic Is Out Of The US Open After Accidentally Hitting A Line Judge With A Tennis Ball

The top-seeded tennis player was defaulted from his US Open match after he accidentally struck a line judge with a tennis ball that he had hit in frustration.

Tasneem Nashrulla

Jacob Blake, Who Was Shot By Kenosha Police, Released An Emotional Video From His Hospital Bed

The 29-year-old Black man, who is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by a Kenosha police officer seven times, described the pain he was in and urged people to "change your lives."

Tasneem Nashrulla

A 24-Year-Old Activist Talks About Being At Standing Rock

An excerpt from How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America.

Jasilyn Charger

Here Are Some Great Virtual Book Events Happening This Week

Roxane Gay on Audre Lorde, David Chang on his memoir, a Labor Day discussion of the history of Black labor in the US, and much more.

Arianna Rebolini

Several Boats Sank During A Trump Boat Parade And People Had To Be Rescued From The Water

A county sheriff spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that their office responded to "many emergency calls for boats in distress" during the parade.

Jane Lytvynenko