Politics
Kyrsten Sinema Is Blocking A Tax Hike On Millionaires, So Democrats Are Now Targeting Billionaires
Democrats introduced two bills to tax the richest people and companies in the US after their initial plan was stonewalled.
Paul McLeod
The Supreme Court Won’t Halt Texas’s Abortion Ban While The Justices Decide If Anyone Can Sue
The court will hear arguments on Nov. 1 on whether the Justice Department and abortion providers can sue Texas at all.
Zoe Tillman
A Judge Said It Was "Offensive" That A Man Who Threatened Democrats And "Tech Execs" On Jan. 6 Claimed To Be A Victim Of Racism
Troy Smocks was sentenced to 14 months in prison.
Zoe Tillman
The House Found Steve Bannon In Contempt For Defying Jan. 6 Subpoena
Only nine Republicans, two of whom serve on the panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack, voted to hold Bannon in criminal contempt.
Kadia Goba
Virginia Democrats Want To Give Trump Another Loss, Even If They're "Eh" On Their Own Candidate
Virginians hardly ever back a candidate for governor from the party that just won the White House. But with Trump in mind, Terry McAuliffe is again trying to break that curse.
Lissandra Villa
Donald Trump Is Suing To Stop The House Committee Investigating Jan. 6 From Getting His Records
The lawsuit comes as the committee is poised to vote on whether to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt.
Zoe Tillman
New Capitol Surveillance Footage Shows A Breach By Jan. 6 Rioters From Start To Finish
Two 40-minute videos from Jan. 6 show how hundreds of rioters breached one Capitol entry point and how police eventually regained control.
Zoe Tillman
A US Capitol Police Officer Was Charged With Obstructing The Jan. 6 Investigation
“[I’]m a capitol police officer who agrees with your political stance,” Michael Riley allegedly wrote an unnamed Capitol rioter the next day.
Zoe Tillman
Reading Between The Lines Of Plea Deals In The Capitol Riot Cases
A judge accepted the 100th guilty plea in the Jan. 6 cases on Wednesday.
Zoe Tillman
100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here’s What Their Cases Show About The Jan. 6 Investigation.
Guilty pleas are stacking up. Here’s what rioters are admitting to, and what they and the government are getting out of these deals.
Zoe Tillman
A Judge Urged The Justice Department To Investigate Jail Conditions For Jan. 6 Defendants
The judge held DC jail officials in contempt for failing to follow an order regarding medical treatment for an incarcerated alleged Capitol rioter.
Zoe Tillman
Inside The Secret Mission To Save The Afghan Interpreter Who Once Helped Rescue Joe Biden
Mohammad Aman Khalili’s long trip out of Afghanistan was loaded with fear. “I was worried about my life very deeply.”
Kadia Goba
Congress Might Blow Its Biggest Opportunity To Tackle The Climate Crisis
“If you add it all up, this would be the single largest thing the federal government has ever done to deal with climate change,” one researcher said.
Zahra Hirji
Here’s What It Actually Means To Cut $1 Trillion From The Democrats’ Big Social Spending Bill
Democrats will have to choose between greatly watering down all of their policies or giving up on some big promises.
Paul McLeod
Texas’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Back On After An Appeals Court Paused A Judge’s Injunction
SB 8 is in effect again after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay after a judge blocked the ban Wednesday.
Zoe Tillman
Republicans Are Laying The Groundwork For Endless Election “Audits” That Go Long Past Trump
Election integrity advocates are deeply worried about a bill in Texas that would make it easy for any losing candidate to force an audit long after an election is over.
Sarah Mimms
A Texas Healthcare Provider Said They've Resumed Abortions — For Now — After A Judge Blocked The State's Ban
A judge on Wednesday found that Texas’s six-week abortion ban was “flagrantly unconstitutional.”
Zoe Tillman
A Judge Blocked Texas's Six-Week Abortion Ban, But It's Uncertain If Abortions Will Resume
“This Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right,” Judge Robert Pitman wrote.
Zoe Tillman
What The Trump Books Tell Us About Jan. 6
For the rest of our lives probably, we’ll be learning new info about the days leading up to Jan. 6. This is just phase one.
Katherine Miller
A Judge Sent A Capitol Rioter To Prison, Rejecting The Government’s Lighter Recommendation
“There have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government, beyond sitting at home,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said.
Zoe Tillman
A Judge Asked Why Texas Didn’t Enforce Its Own Abortion Ban If It’s “Confident” The Law Is Constitutional
The Justice Department is asking a judge to block Texas’s SB 8, which deputizes private individuals to sue to enforce a six-week abortion ban.
Zoe Tillman
Cori Bush Shared A Powerful Story Of Getting An Abortion When She Was Nine Weeks Pregnant
"It was freeing knowing I had options," the member of Congress said.
Nicole Fallert
A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn’t Cause “Havana Syndrome”
A declassified State Department report obtained by BuzzFeed News dismissed the theory that microwave weapons are behind the mysterious neurological injuries in diplomats worldwide.
Dan Vergano
A Senior Justice Department Official Who Resigned In Protest Under Trump Is Returning
Joel McElvain, a 20-year veteran of the DOJ, left in 2018 after the Trump administration decided to stop defending the Affordable Care Act.
Zoe Tillman
Democrats Swear It’s Not Weird To Be Playing Baseball With Marjorie Taylor Greene
And (almost) everyone insists they can play the Congressional Baseball Game like normal even after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Addy Baird
A Judge Questioned Why The Government Didn’t Charge A Capitol Rioter Who Talked About Shooting Pelosi With A Harsher Crime
A prosecutor said they didn’t prosecute Dawn Bancroft for making a threat, because she made the comment about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she was leaving the Capitol.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Keeps Promoting Democrats In Races Against Republicans Who Speak Out Against Him
Trump invited Stacey Abrams, a former Democratic candidate for governor, to replace Republican Gov. Brian Kemp during a rally in Georgia.
Kadia Goba
Immigrants Who Escaped The Texas Camp Crackdown Are Facing Another Set Of Dire Circumstances In Mexico
“I’d like to stay here in Mexico, but I’m scared because I don’t have permission to be here,” one immigrant told BuzzFeed News. “I don't know what to do."
Adolfo Flores
Trump Supporters Are Calling For More Audits After Arizona Proved Biden Won The Election (Again)
It’s audits all the way down.
Sarah Mimms
Republican Lawmakers Are Pressing Ahead With Anti-Abortion Laws, With Or Without The Supreme Court’s Help
A fight over Georgia’s six-week ban shows what state-level anti-abortion efforts could look like depending on whatever the Supreme Court does next.
Zoe Tillman
