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An 8-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself After His School Covered Up The Bullying He Faced, A Lawsuit Says
The parents of Gabriel Taye say a “violent” elementary school in Cincinnati covered up the bullying of their child. School officials say they cannot be held responsible.
Tasneem Nashrulla
A Woman Who Lived With R. Kelly Claims She Wasn’t Behind Social Media Accounts Describing Her As His Victim
Joycelyn Savage is denying that she was responsible for posts on Patreon and Instagram describing her as one of Kelly’s victims. Instagram said the account was hacked.
David Mack
Opinion: Sarah Pitlyk Isn't Qualified To Be A Federal Judge. That's Why Republicans Made Her One.
Only one qualification matters for today's Republicans, and it has nothing to do with your legal experience.
Anisha Singh
Zola Has Removed Plantations As Wedding Venue Options From Its Website
The decision comes one day after Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide said they will no longer promote wedding content that romanticizes former slave plantations.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
House Republicans Say The Senators Running For President Shouldn't Be Allowed To Be Jurors In Trump's Impeachment Trial
Republican Rep. Jason Smith will introduce legislation Thursday trying to force the Democratic candidates to recuse themselves from Trump's Senate trial — though it isn’t binding.
Kadia Goba
Joe Biden Challenged A Man In Iowa To An "IQ Test" Or Pushup Contest After He Asked Biden About His Son
"You're a damn liar," Biden told a man at a campaign event.
Nidhi Prakash
Surprise: Two Russians Running A Group Called "Evil Corp" Have Been Charged With Cybercrimes
It's always the ones you least expect.
Julia Reinstein
Facebook Said A Chinese Company Compromised Users With Malware And Then Ran Ads Using Their Accounts
The defendants allegedly used the accounts to run ads that often misused the images of celebrities to sell “counterfeit goods and diet pills.”
Craig Silverman
Rudy Giuliani Made A Surprise Visit To Kyiv And Nobody There Is Happy About It
Ukrainian and American officials in Kyiv told BuzzFeed News they had no advance warning of Giuliani’s arrival and only learned about it from media reports.
Christopher Miller
“The L Word: Generation Q” Is Trying To Atone For The Original’s Sins
Showtime's new iteration of an old favorite mostly makes me wish that Hollywood would take more risks and let a new generation of queer characters explore their own universes.
Shannon Keating
Disney's First Trailer For The Live-Action "Mulan" Contains Many References To The Animated Original
The film also appears to introduce several new characters who weren't in the 1998 cartoon.
Michael Blackmon
A 23-Year-Old Woman Was Allegedly Set On Fire By Five Men While She Traveled To A Court Hearing About Her Rape Case
The 23-year-old woman is in critical condition with burns on 90% of her body. Five men, including her two alleged rapists, are in custody.
Nishita Jha
This Is How Lauryn Hill Ended Up On The “Queen & Slim” Soundtrack
“ <>Queen & Slim was already such a black movie and just coming from that place in black culture where Lauryn stands made it that much more powerful,” music supervisor Kier Lehman told BuzzFeed News.
Krystie Lee Yandoli
The Curious Case Of Joseph Mifsud’s Lost Passport And Wallet
A lost passport at a Portuguese airport is the latest bizarre clue in the search for the elusive Maltese professor.
Alberto Nardelli
The Stakes 2020: Bloomberg’s Virality And Texts With A Kamala Staffer
In this edition of The Stakes 2020, BuzzFeed News' newsletter about the 2020 campaign, we text with Ian Sams, the national press secretary for Kamala Harris, about the end of her campaign.
Ben Smith
Two People Were Shot To Death At The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard In Hawaii
A witness told Hawaii News Now he heard "loud pops," then looked out the window and saw three people on the ground.
Stephanie K. Baer
A Couple Rescued Three "Worn Out" Great Pyrenees Puppies They Found In The Wilderness And It's A Lot
The dogs had been living in and surviving off a sheep's carcass.
Brianna Sacks
A Protester Disrupted Pete Buttigieg’s Black Allies’ Attempt To Show Their Support, And It Was Really Tense
A man whose race and identity could not immediately be verified took the microphone from a black South Bend leader at a Buttigieg campaign event.
Henry J. Gomez
A Man Said He Was Beaten Bloody In A California Jail While Deputies Yelled Racist Comments At Him
"They left me to die with my face disfigured a broken nose, lacerations in my face and head," he wrote on Instagram.
Salvador Hernandez
NBC Has Launched A Formal Investigation Into “America’s Got Talent” After Gabrielle Union Complained About Toxic Workplace Culture
“I was able to, again, express my unfiltered truth. I led with transparency and my desire and hope for real change,” the actor tweeted.
Krystie Lee Yandoli
Students And Police Were At War On A Campus Under Siege. The Sewers Were The Only Escape.
After months of protests in Hong Kong, universities became the site of dramatic battles that saw students armed with Molotov cocktails dodging rubber bullets fired by the police. How did we get here?
Rosalind Adams
Here's The Draft Report Revealing How US Border Officials Pressured Asylum Officers To Deny Entry To Immigrants
The report's recommendations suggest investigators "found serious problems that need to be remedied," a former Department of Homeland Security official said.
Hamed Aleaziz
Impeachment Today Podcast: The Report Has Landed
In today's episode: Everything you need to know about the 300 page House Intelligence Committee report laying out the case for impeachment.
Impeachment Today
Kashmiris Are Disappearing From WhatsApp
Kashmiris enduring their region's ongoing internet blackout are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts.
Pranav Dixit
Backlash To A Mom Influencer Only Grew After She Used K-Pop Star Goo Hara's Death To Defend Herself
The controversy started with a penis-shaped soap. [Deep breath] Here's how we got here.
Tanya Chen
Peloton Is Defending Its Ad, Which People Called "Dystopian" And Like A "Horror Movie"
A spokesperson for the luxury exercise bike company said they're "disappointed in how some have misinterpreted" the ad.
Julia Reinstein
Democrats Are Freaking Out About Pro-Trump Messaging To Occasional Black Voters
"We haven't yet found the right language that makes the community feel as if we understand where they're coming from and what's actually happening to them,” a DNC official said.
Darren Sands
A Man Shot And Killed His Girlfriend's Two Teenage Children, And Then Himself, Over An Argument About Smoking
"It's traumatic for the whole community," the police chief said. "They had many friends, I'm sure, many classmates, and this is very hard to handle."
Clarissa-Jan Lim
Kamala Harris Dropped Out, But The #KHive And Stan Culture Aren’t Leaving Politics
2016 was just the beginning. 2020 has taken stan culture and Politics Twitter, converged the two, and spit out tribes of supporters locked in a symbiotic relationship with their chosen campaigns.
Ryan C. Brooks
Cory Booker Has "Anger" Over Kamala Harris Ending Her Campaign While Billionaires Stay In The Race
“It’s a damn shame frankly that Kamala Harris’s voice is no longer in this race,” Booker said on AM to DM.
Molly Hensley-Clancy
Trans Visibility Won’t Save Us
Trans people in 2019 are more represented in mainstream culture than ever — but that hasn’t necessarily improved our everyday lives. So what should we be fighting for instead?
Alex Verman
World Leaders Were Caught On Video Apparently Mocking Trump At The NATO Summit
After the video went viral, Trump called Justin Trudeau "two-faced" and announced he'd leave the summit early.
Julia Reinstein
Pinterest And The Knot Will Stop Promoting Wedding Content That Romanticizes Former Slave Plantations
"Weddings should be a symbol of love and unity. Plantations represent none of those things," a Pinterest spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
Clarissa-Jan Lim
Julián Castro Said Kamala Harris's Campaign Suffered Because The Media Holds Candidates Of Color To Different Standards
Castro told BuzzFeed News “there has to be more responsibility” in political reporting.
Nidhi Prakash
A Police Officer Was Caught On His Body Camera Allegedly Fondling A Dead Woman's Breasts
The officer has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
Stephanie K. Baer
New Lawsuit Alleges Mailchimp Facilitated Sex Trafficking
Filed in a Georgia court, the suit claims that the email marketing platform allowed a sex trafficker to match a victim with an online market for sexual exploitation.
Alex Kantrowitz
Call Records Show “Considerable Coordination” Between The White House And Rudy Giuliani, A Top Democrat Said
Phone records provide new details about the Ukrainian back-channel campaign at the heart of the presidential impeachment inquiry.
Emma Loop
Tom Steyer Thinks Michael Bloomberg Should "Meet Some Americans And Look Them In The Eye"
The billionaire presidential candidate told BuzzFeed News the other billionaire presidential candidate can't just rely on TV spending.
Katherine Miller
A Man Suspected Of Carjacking Died After Officer Put Him In a Sleeper Hold. He Was Driving His Own Vehicle.
David Glen Ward was driving his own Honda, which he had reported stolen days earlier, when officials spotted the car. He died after a sheriff's deputy put him in a carotid hold.
Brianna Sacks
Google's Cofounders Are Stepping Down. Sundar Pichai Will Become The CEO Of Google And Alphabet.
Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are passing the torch.
Nicole Nguyen
