Azeen Ghorayshi
Al Sharpton's Organization Has Canceled A "Both Sides" Vaccine Event
"We said both sides must be heard—we haven’t taken a position yet," the Reverend Al Sharpton said. The event was slated to occur this weekend in Harlem.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Three Scientists Just Won The Nobel Prize In Medicine For Discovering How Oxygen Affects Cells
William Kaelin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza were awarded the 2019 prize for discovering a fundamental process in animal life: how cells respond to oxygen.
Azeen Ghorayshi
A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Arrested After Throwing A Tantrum
"No 6-year-old child should be able to tell somebody that they had handcuffs on them," grandmother Meralyn Kirkland said.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Millions Of Young People Around The World Are Leading Strikes To Call Attention To The Climate Crisis
Students skipped school, made signs, and took to the streets in more than 3,600 planned strikes around the globe, part of a huge youth-led movement to protest inaction on climate change.
Zahra Hirji
41 People Died After A Plane Caught On Fire In Russia
The Aeroflot plane made an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Sunday. Thirty-seven people survived by escaping through the plane's emergency exits.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Trump Just Picked This Obama-Era Border Patrol Head To Lead ICE
Mark Morgan has emerged as a vocal supporter of the president’s immigration policies.
Azeen Ghorayshi
The Mueller Report Shed New Light On Dmitry Klokov, A Mysterious Figure In The Trump Tower Moscow Deal
A Russian who offered Michael Cohen a meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin was a former government official, not a weightlifter by the same name.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Dozens Of Women Are Suing A Hospital That Secretly Recorded Their Gynecology Operations
Eighty-one women are suing Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego, California, for secretly recording them during gynecological surgeries.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Joe Biden Denied Acting Inappropriately After A Democratic Politician Said He Kissed Her Head
Biden released a statement Sunday in response to allegations raised by Lucy Flores, saying he did not believe he “acted inappropriately.”
Azeen Ghorayshi
Report: Tech Company In Steele Dossier May Have Been Used To Support DNC Hack
The report by a former top FBI cybersecurity official was filed in federal court by BuzzFeed News in its defense against a lawsuit over the publication of the dossier.
Ken Bensinger
Read An Excerpt From A Memoir Of A Young Woman Who Died Of A Superbug Infection
Salt in My Soul is a new memoir about a young woman’s life with cystic fibrosis.
Azeen Ghorayshi
These Secret Files Show How The Trump Moscow Talks Unfolded While Trump Heaped Praise On Putin
Ahead of Michael Cohen’s testimony, read the original paper trail behind the campaign to build Europe’s tallest tower in Moscow — and how it played out alongside Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Trump’s Lawyer Said There Were “No Plans” For Trump Tower Moscow. Here They Are.
Rudy Giuliani claims the Moscow tower was barely more than a notion. “There were no drafts. Nothing in the file.” Documents obtained by BuzzFeed News tell a different story.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Nobody Believed Neil DeGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
No one believed Tchiya Amet when she said Tyson had raped her in the 1980s. Now, three other women tell BuzzFeed News that he harassed them, including one who’s sharing her story publicly for the first time.
Azeen Ghorayshi
This Scientist Used Live Viruses To Save A Woman's Life From A Superbug Infection
Once dismissed as fringe, phage therapy is gaining traction as a last resort when antibiotics fail. It's the subject of a new episode of the Netflix docuseries Follow This.
Azeen Ghorayshi
The Biggest Democratic Stars Of The Midterms Lost. Here’s Who You Should Know About Now.
There's a new, wildly diverse, and largely female Democratic group joining the House of Representatives.
Nidhi Prakash
1,600 Scientists Just Signed A Letter Opposing A Legal Definition Of A Gender Binary
The open letter says that any attempt to define gender based on a person’s anatomy at birth or their genes is not grounded in science.
Azeen Ghorayshi
ER Patients Were Injected With Ketamine As Part Of A Clinical Study Without Their Consent
Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis conducted studies using psychoactive drugs on “agitated” patients without their consent.
Azeen Ghorayshi
This Woman Is Locked In A Legal Battle For Frozen Embryos With Her Ex-Husband
Critics of a new Arizona law say it could set a dangerous legal precedent: defining embryos as “life” in order to chip away at abortion rights. That fight is the subject of a new episode of the BuzzFeed News series Follow This on Netflix.
Azeen Ghorayshi
Here’s How A Major Western Bank Enabled A Suspected Russian Money Launderer
Documents show TD Bank loaned $3 million to a company connected to Russian tax fraud and later linked to the special counsel’s investigation.
Azeen Ghorayshi
