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The Iranian government’s anxiety over the widespread protests that have roiled the country for the past week may be best shown by one action: the government’s decision to censor Telegram, the most popular foreign messaging app still being used by average Iranians. The country already blocks many of the world’s most popular internet services, preventing […]
“I think the floodgates have opened for white women,” Gabrielle Union told the New York Times. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence whose pain has been taken seriously. Whose pain we have showed historically and continued to show. Whose pain is tolerable and whose pain is intolerable. And whose pain needs to be addressed now.” […]
This post will update as the clock strikes midnight in more cities around the world. Follow BuzzFeed News on Twitter for more. Cora Lewis is a business reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Lewis reports on labor. Contact Cora Lewis at cora.lewis@buzzfeed.com. Michelle Broder Van Dyke is a reporter and night […]
The threat of escalating violence loomed over Iran Sunday as politically charged protests that began over rising prices continued for a fourth day. Unarmed demonstrators in dozens of cities and towns across the country showed increasing willingness to confront security forces and attack symbols of state power, while government officials signaled they were moving to […]
Joshua Roberts / Reuters Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr speaking at a Senate hearing alongside Vice Chair Mark Warner. As the year comes to a close, investigators in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe have burned through a list of key witnesses, checking off multiple high-profile names in recent weeks as the committee’s leadership […]
Daniel Slim / AFP / Getty Images A medicine man dances in front of the White House at a rally for Native American rights on March 10, 2017, in Washington, DC. In September 2016, native leaders gathered in Washington, DC, at President Obama’s invitation, and toasted a US president they said had made incremental but […]
Trump’s Christmas Eve post is part of a long line of statements playing into the rhetoric of a “war on Christmas.” During a Values Voter summit in October, Trump told the audience: “We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values.” “We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore,” he […]
“This is going to go down in the anals of history,” Strong later tweeted. “What I did, I would like to compare to what Jesus did when he went into the temple and overturned the tables of the moneychangers, who were exploiting the people financially in the name of religion. I feel like that’s what […]
The scalpers, dubbed “Grinch bots,” are the same groups that bought up concert tickets and sold them for exponentially more than the original price on third party sites. They have now unleashed their software on the season’s hottest selling toys, Senator Schumer said in a statement on Sunday. “Grinch bots cannot be allowed to steal […]
Major companies including McDonald’s, Lyft, and Kaiser Permanente have pulled advertising from one of the last remaining bastions for white nationalists and neo-Nazis, internet radio, following inquiries from BuzzFeed News. The companies said they were unaware of the ad placements, which appear to have found their way to racist internet radio programs via algorithms without […]
