78 Of BuzzFeed News' Biggest Stories Of 2018We told the biggest, newest stories in the world this year. Join us!By by Maggie SchultzBuzzFeed News Managing Editor and by Kayla SmallsBuzzFeed News ReporterPosted on December 29, 2018, 12:04 amTwitterFacebookLink 1. We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage 2. Trump Moscow: The Definitive Story Of How Trump’s Team Worked The Russian Deal During The Campaign 3. She Thought She Was In Bed With Her Boyfriend, Until She Saw His Face 4. An 18-Year-Old Said She Was Raped While In Police Custody. The Officers Say She Consented. 5. Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed 6. Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More. 7. The Money Trail: A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting 8. Does This Recording Say "Yanny" Or "Laurel"???? Cloe Feldman @CloeCouture What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel 02:39 AM - 15 May 2018 Reply Retweet Favorite 9. Beto O’Rourke Could Be The Democrat Texas Has Been Waiting For 10. Alt-Right Troll To Father Killer: The Unraveling Of Lane Davis Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 11. “I Killed Them All.” The Life Of One Of America’s Bloodiest Hitmen 12. The 9 Minutes That Almost Changed America 13. Our on-the-ground reporting with the migrant caravan 14. Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs 15. How A Player In The Trump–Russia Scandal Led A Double Life As An American Spy 16. Inside The North Carolina Republican Vote Machine: Cash, Pills — And Ballots 17. Doctors Respond To The NRA By Sharing Gruesome Photos Of Treating Shooting Victims 18. Our Brexit coverage 19. A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War. 20. Congratulations, Mr. President: Zuckerberg Secretly Called Trump After The Election 21. Our coverage of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. 22. The Disturbing Secret Behind An Iconic Cartoon: Underage Sexual Abuse 23. This Is What Will Happen To Your Body If You Eat A Tide Pod 24. Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat 25. Our morning show on Twitter, AM to DM, became the most successful show on the platform AM2DM by BuzzFeed News @AM2DM Parkland student activists on what life has been like during the month since the shooting: “It’s been hard, going to a safe place [that isn’t] safe anymore” 02:53 PM - 14 Mar 2018 Reply Retweet Favorite AM to DM’s Isaac Fitzgerald sat down with Parkland students on life after the horrific mass shooting.Lin Manuel-Miranda debuted the video for his April #Hamildrop single, "First Burn," live with Saeed Jones on AM to DM.Terry Crews joined AM to DM to discuss Brooklyn 99, Deadpool 2, and his involvement with #MeToo.Cynthia Nixon called out Andrew Cuomo for New York Democratic Party mailers claiming she was soft on anti-Semitism.Patti LaBelle made a 9-year-old's dream come true when she surprised her on AM to DM. 26. Inside The Country Where You Can Buy A Black Man For $400 27. Meet The New California Counterculture: College Republicans 28. Terry Crews Is Not Going Down Without A Fight 29. Hollywood Wanted An Edgy Child Actor. When He Spiraled, They Couldn't Help. 30. We talked to some of the biggest stars in news and entertainment on our newly launched Facebook Watch show, Profile View this post on Facebook Facebook: video.php Actor Stanley Tucci had a candid discussion on Profile about how "it's really scary" that journalists are under attack in the Trump era.Bobby Brown told Audie Cornish exactly what he thought about Kanye West using a photo his ex-wife's bathroom for his album cover.Drew Dixon joined Profile for her first on-camera interview after accusing hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons of sexual harassment and rape.Chelsea Handler defended her friend, former senator Al Franken, after he was accused of sexual misconduct. 31. Meet The Women Who Are Building A Better Romance Industry 32. The Trump Administration Is Quietly Denying Federal Housing Loans To DACA Recipients 33. Our California wildfire coverage 34. The Real Story Behind The Anti-Immigrant Riots Rocking Germany 35. Is Your Home At Risk Of Flooding From Rising Seas By 2050? Check This Map. 36. Republicans Say The Timing Of The Kavanaugh Letter Is "Disturbing." But Here's What Actually Happened. 37. Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data 38. “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message 39. Will Time Ever Be Up For Abusive Men In Hip-Hop? 40. The Opioid Crisis Is Not Just An American Epidemic 41. Inside The Trump Administration’s Secret War On Weed 42. Mexico's "King of Fake News" has a story that's beginning to sound familiar everywhere. View this post on Facebook Facebook: video.php 43. Tiffany "New York" Pollard Is The Meme Queen, But There's So Much More To Her 44. When A Blogger Died From Silicone Genital Injections, His Fans Blamed His Partner 45. Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme 46. They Played Dominoes Outside Their Apartment For Decades. Then The White People Moved In And Police Started Showing Up. 47. Guns, God, And Trump: How An Accused Russian Agent Wooed US Conservatives 48. Celebrities Say White Supremacists Used A New Video App To Trick Them Into Endorsing Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theories 49. White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s Wife Says In Divorce Filings That He Physically And Emotionally Abused Her 50. The Trump Administration Is Considering Making People Pay For The Right To Apply For Asylum 51. Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried In Immigration Detention And Didn't Get The Care They Needed 52. Why Did The Border Patrol Shoot Claudia Gómez? 53. He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse. 54. Why Paris Hilton Disappeared Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 55. “He’s A Predator”: Two More Women Speak Out About R. Kelly’s Alleged Sexual Abuse 56. An Alleged Tinder Rape Told On Instagram Stories And The Limits Of #MeToo 57. Our reporting on how Facebook transformed global politics Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 58. A Coach Admitted To A Sex Crime On Tape. But When The Victim Died, He Walked Free. 59. Think Elizabeth Warren And Bernie Sanders Are The Same? She Doesn’t. 60. She Is The World's Most Renowned Empathy Researcher — And Is Alleged To Have Been Harassing Employees For Years 61. Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story 62. Suburban Women Are Fed Up With The Republican Party And Could Drive A Blue Wave 63. Dennis Hof, A Pimp And Trump-Inspired Politician, Has Died. This Is How His Campaign Embodied Politics In 2018. 64. BuzzFeed Brazil’s exclusive on the backstage fight between the president of the Senate, Eunicio Oliveira, and the future Finance minister, Paulo Guedes. 65. Transgender Teens Could Destroy The Bathroom Predator Myth Once And For All 66. How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village 67. Landlords Are Offering Young Men Free Rooms In Return For Sex, And Facebook Is Letting It Happen 68. Inside Andrew Gillum's Big, Black, Progressive Campaign For Governor Of Florida 69. BuzzFeed Japan had an exclusive interview with Kazuyo Katsuma, a TV celebrity and best-selling writer, who talked openly about her sexuality. 70. The Professor At The Center Of The Trump–Russia Probe Boasted To His Girlfriend In Ukraine That He Was Friends With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov 71. This Leaked Report Reveals The Stark Warnings From Judges About Defendants With No Lawyer 72. In A New Email, Elon Musk Accused A Cave Rescuer Of Being A “Child Rapist” And Said He “Hopes” There's A Lawsuit 73. She Spent 14 Years In Prison After Her Unexpected Birth Was Ruled A Homicide 74. Inside Amazon’s Fake Review Economy 75. Here's What It Was Like To Be An Orthodox Jew Cut Off From Electronics During The Pittsburgh Shooting 76. Australia's Child Refugees Are Suffering A Rare Psychological Illness Where They Withdraw From The World 77. Why I’ve Had Trouble Buying Hollywood’s Version Of Girl Power 78. The Parkland Playbook Doesn’t Work In Santa Fe And two things to follow in the new year: Hella Opinions, our new show hosted by Sylvia Obell on all things black culture, airing every Wednesday on Twitter, and our World Instagram account. View this photo on Instagram