Politics
Joe Biden Escalated His Supreme Court Fight With A Plea To Republican Senators
"Don't vote to confirm anyone nominated under the circumstances President Trump and Senator McConnell have created," Biden said in a Sunday appeal to Republicans.
Ruby Cramer
Explore Thousands Of Suspicious Payments Sent Around The World
This interactive map, created by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the FinCEN Files investigation, shows $35 billion in transactions — reported as suspicious by banks and other financial institutions — making their way through the global financial system.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Documents Show Deutsche Bank’s Top Executives Were Warned It Had A Dirty Money Problem. Then A $10 Billion Scandal Broke.
When the $10 billion mirror trading scandal was exposed, little emerged about who its victims were or how much Deutsche’s executives knew. The FinCEN Files investigation shows how deep the rot went.
Tom Warren
Here Is How Banks Have Responded To The FinCEN Files Investigation
Read each statement, bank by bank.
BuzzFeed News
He Was At The Heart Of Two Of The Biggest Dirty Money Scandals In History. These Are His Secrets.
Alexander Perepilichnyy transformed himself from a money launderer to a whistleblower, and then he died. The company he founded began a new life in the criminal underworld. A FinCEN Files investigation.
Tom Warren
Deadly Terror Networks And Drug Cartels Use Huge Banks To Finance Their Crimes. These Secret Documents Show How The Banks Profit.
Thousands of secret “suspicious activity reports” offer a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity — and how the government lets it flourish.
Jason Leopold
We Got Our Hands On Thousands Of Secret Documents. Let’s Break Them Down.
Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion. A close accounting of BuzzFeed News’ unprecedented trove.
Jeremy Singer-Vine
A Second Republican Senator Said She Won’t Support Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg Before The Election
Lisa Murkowski joins Susan Collins in saying confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice shouldn’t happen before the election.
Kadia Goba
Susan Collins Is The First Republican To Say Whoever Wins The Election Should Fill Ginsburg’s Seat
Collins said Saturday that whoever wins the presidential election should choose the nominee to replace Ginsburg, “in fairness to the American people.”
Kadia Goba
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Increases The Likelihood That Obamacare Is Repealed Next Year
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional in November when three Trump appointees could hold the balance of power.
Paul McLeod
Will Republicans Vote On A Supreme Court Nominee Before The Election? Don’t Forget The Intense Senate Campaigns In 2020.
Republicans can lose four votes in the Senate and confirm a justice. Three in tight reelection campaigns have said there should be a vote. Two key senators are silent so far.
Ryan Brooks
Here's How The Supreme Court Will Function With Eight Justices Leading Up To The Election
The justices have already ruled on emergency requests this year related to how states handle voting during the pandemic.
Zoe Tillman
Joe Biden Said There's "No Doubt" The Next President Should Nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Replacement
“In the coming days, we should focus on the loss of the justice and her enduring legacy,” Biden said soon after news broke of the Supreme Court justice's death.
Henry J. Gomez
Mitch McConnell Said The Senate Will Vote On Trump’s Replacement For Ruth Bader Ginsburg
McConnell vowed to vote on Trump’s pick to replace Ginsburg, despite blocking a vote on Obama’s nominee before the 2016 election.
Paul McLeod
The Life Of Supreme Court Justice And Feminist Ruth Bader Ginsburg In Photos
Wife, mother, justice for the highest court in the land, and a self-proclaimed "flaming feminist litigator," Ginsburg served on the Supreme Court for more than 25 years before dying Sept. 18, 2020, at the age of 87.
Laura Geiser
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Died At 87
Ginsburg spent nearly 40 years on the bench, first as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and then on the Supreme Court.
Chris Geidner
Friends And Family Members Of QAnon Believers Are Going Through A “Surreal Goddamn Nightmare”
Almost 200 people told us what it’s been like to lose a loved one to the mass delusion. Here’s what they said.
Jane Lytvynenko
Trump Has Lambasted Puerto Rico For Years. Now With The Election Close, He’s Changing His Tune.
Trump, who repeatedly attacked Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, changed his tune on Friday as he released funds already approved by Congress for the island’s recovery.
Nidhi Prakash
Emails Show Tulsa Officials Considered An Event To Counter Trump’s Rally
Tulsa city officials considered bringing in a “national figure” to counter the president’s rally, newly obtained emails from June show.
Kadia Goba
Democrats Are Taking Their Case Against Donald Trump To Black Newspapers In Battleground States
A full-page ad calls back to Trump’s “What the hell do you have to lose?” appeal to Black voters in 2016.
Henry J. Gomez
Trump Downplayed The Role Of Slavery In American History As He Vowed To Build A Statue Of An Enslaver
In an event at the National Archives, the president delivered a thinly veiled election campaign speech in which he attacked liberal politicians, the media, and Joe Biden.
David Mack
Trump Is Waging A Multistate, Multimillion-Dollar Legal Battle Against Mail-In Voting During The Pandemic
Trump's campaign is backing up his rhetoric against mail-in ballots with a deep-pocketed legal push to make it harder for people to vote remotely.
Zoe Tillman
Are You Not Sure About Voting? BuzzFeed News Wants To Hear From You.
With the general election less than 50 days away and the first debates coming up, we want to hear from people on the fence for a video project.
Ryan Brooks
Trump Called The CDC Director’s Timeline For A Coronavirus Vaccine A “Mistake”
As the coronavirus vaccine is thrust into the center of the US presidential election, experts fear that public trust in the vaccine is taking a serious hit.
Dan Vergano
Joe Biden Is Seeking Latino Votes In Florida With A New Plan To Rebuild Puerto Rico
Biden’s visit to Florida this week came with a new plan for Puerto Rico and policies aimed directly at one of the state's most crucial groups.
Nidhi Prakash
Tell Us How You Are Dealing With The QAnon Believers In Your Life
The mass delusion has swept across the world. We want to know about you.
Jane Lytvynenko
Samuel L. Jackson Is Offering Cussing Lessons If You Register To Vote, And I Love This So Much
Because voting is cool.
Morgan Sloss
A US Diplomat Is Pleading With Belarus To Release Her Spouse From Jail
Vitali Shkliarov’s “only offense,” his wife, Heather Shkliarov, said, was writing articles critical of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s administration.
Christopher Miller
People Are Low-Key Loving That Kamala Harris Has Worn Converse Sneakers For Much Of Her Campaign
"Women were not allowed to wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993. Now our VP candidate is rocking sneakers."
Melissa Jameson
Biden Called Trump "A Climate Arsonist" As The President Continued To Deny Climate Science
“It’ll start getting cooler,” Trump said in California on Monday.
Nidhi Prakash
