John Templon
Police Departments Have Received Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Military Equipment Since Ferguson
The Defense Department’s "1033” military-equipment program has come under heavy scrutiny, but local law enforcement are continuing to receive supplies.
John Templon
These ZIP Code–Level Maps Show The Places Hit Hardest By COVID-19
An analysis of five major cities by BuzzFeed News found that ZIP codes with more cases per person tended to be lower income, have more elderly residents, and be communities of color.
John Templon
A Veterans Hospital Changed Its Coronavirus Mask Policy After Employees Complained
Days after a BuzzFeed News article on rationing in LA, officials debuted new guidelines to protect medical personnel.
Jason Leopold
Leaked Emails Show That While The VA Announced It Had Adequate Coronavirus Gear, A Major VA Hospital Was Rationing
Less than 30 minutes after the Veterans Affairs headquarters announced it had adequate equipment, staffers in LA were told to start rationing masks.
Anthony Cormier
Here’s How The VA, America’s Backup Hospital System, Is Ramping Up For The Coronavirus
“Employees are having to bring in their own masks, gloves, wipes, and hand sanitizer,” a union spokesperson said. “Anxiety levels are through the roof.”
John Templon
After Trump's Tweet, The Government Is Funding A Coronavirus Study Of Hydroxychloroquine
A North Carolina company won a $750,000 deal days after the president’s controversial statements about the antimalarial drugs.
Jason Leopold
The Trump Administration Now Jails Nearly Every Immigrant It Arrests In New York — Including Those Who Don’t Pose A Threat, A New Lawsuit Alleges
In the four years prior to June 2017, about half of immigrants arrested in New York who were thought to be low risk were released until their trial. Now 96% of them are held in jail for as long as three months, according to a new lawsuit.
John Templon
As The Amazon Burned, Gun Sales Jumped
Gun sales in the Amazon have increased under Brazil's far-right president, new BuzzFeed News analysis reveals.
J. Lester Feder
A Lobbyist At The Trump Tower Meeting Received Half A Million Dollars In Suspicious Payments
A bank flagged transactions, including large cash deposits, made before and after Rinat Akhmetshin attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
Emma Loop
Current And Former Chicago Police Officers Are Spewing Racist Hate On A Facebook Page
Posts on the page, which features scores of current and former Chicago police officers, have gone far beyond boosterism. Some posts encourage police to abuse suspects.
Melissa Segura
Black Voters Are Underrepresented In This Year’s Biggest House Races
In nine of the closest House races, less than 2% of voting-age citizens are black.
John Templon
Two Chinese Skating Judges Have Been Suspended For Favoring Their Country's Skaters
The judges were named in a recent BuzzFeed News investigation.
John Templon
Figure Skating Just Changed Its Rules To Fight Judges' National Bias
The rules follow a BuzzFeed News Investigation that showed judges frequently up-score skaters from their own country.
Rosalind Adams
There’s A “Tsunami” Of Corruption Inside Tennis, Review Finds
The review vindicates a BuzzFeed News/BBC investigation that exposed match-fixing in tennis — and the sport’s failure to stamp it out.
John Templon
Robert Mueller Is Asking About This Little-Known Chapter Of Michael Cohen’s New York Life
The raid on President Trump’s personal lawyer may have involved a surprising period in Cohen’s life. The special counsel has been asking questions about it and the controversial businesspeople who were his partners at the time.
Anthony Cormier
How Figure Skating Judges May Have Shaped The Olympic Podium
An analysis by BuzzFeed News shows that judges displayed a strong preference for skaters from the same country at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and that it may have made a difference in a gold medal finish.
John Templon
Past Scores Reveal Stark Split In Ice Dance Judging
The rivalry between Canada and France dominates the sport — both on the ice and in the judge’s box, where judges view their home-country skaters in widely divergent ways. As other judges choose sides, will that split determine who goes home with the gold?
John Templon
Top-Level Figure Skating Judges Consistently Favor Skaters From Their Home Countries. Now Many Of Those Judges Are At The Olympics.
At the top levels of the sport, judges give higher marks to figure skaters from their own countries, a BuzzFeed News data analysis has shown — in some cases, affecting the final results. And 16 of the judges who most consistently gave a boost to their own country’s skaters will be in Pyeongchang this week, deciding the course of Olympic history.
John Templon
More Than A Quarter Of Trump's Overseas Partners Have Tangled With The Law
Donald Trump promised voters that in office, he would work with only the “best people.” But an analysis of his international real estate deals shows that in business, he chose to work with a remarkable number of partners who have been investigated, charged, or convicted of crimes.
John Templon
How To Launder Billions In 5 Easy Steps
The new game Kleptocrat lets you see if you could plunder a country and get away with it.
John Templon
