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As he launches a second political life as a candidate for US Senate, Joe Arpaio — the former Arizona sheriff pardoned by President Trump after a criminal contempt conviction — is holding fast to his repeatedly debunked theories about Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Appearing on CNN Wednesday night, just one day after launching a campaign […]
Twitter / John Paczkowski, BuzzFeed News Twitter’s January 2016 decision to unverify Milo Yiannopoulos, then Breitbart’s tech editor, ignited a fierce debate among the company’s top executives about how to enforce its opaque and ill-defined harassment and verification rules, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News. The internal confusion and frustration arose after an email […]
Rachel Tudor, a former professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, was awarded $ 1,165,000 by a jury in federal court on Monday in a major discrimination case that began in 2011. The case has involved both the Trump and Obama administrations and driven a national conversation about the reach of federal civil rights law. The […]
KABUL — You summon a ride using the Kaweyan Cabs taxi-hailing app, listening to upbeat Pashtun pop as your driver takes you through streets clogged with traffic. You get to the workshare space at the Hub, where you rent a desk and spend a few hours responding to emails on your laptop, and perhaps play […]
The vast majority of women harassed and assaulted in the workplace do not have famous bosses, social media platforms, celebrity, money, or power — like those in the entertainment industry. Hundreds of thousands of them are agricultural workers, who grow, pick, and pack food across America. On Saturday an organization of farmworker women shared an […]
Officials in New York City have shut down a preschool and launched an investigation after a 3-year-old died from what his parents say was an allergic reaction to a grilled cheese sandwich. Last week, Elijah Silvera was playing at the Seventh Avenue Center for Family Services in Manhattan when a worker at the preschool gave […]
I knew we were hungry because my mother never ate apples, just cores. She sliced the meat of the fruit for me, and my father, if he was visiting us. But she would only nibble at what was left. I knew we were in danger because of the practice runs to the bomb shelter in […]
Harvey Weinstein could soon face his first criminal case stemming from his alleged sexual misconduct, with New York police on Friday telling reporters they have “an actual case” against the Hollywood mogul. The case centers on Boardwalk Empire star Paz de la Huerta, who alleges the movie producer raped her twice in 2010. NYPD chief […]
In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company’s internal data when he noticed something unusual. He was searching to determine which websites received the most referral traffic from its billion-plus users. The top 25 included the usual suspects — YouTube and the Huffington Post, along with a few obscure hyperpartisan […]
SAN JUAN — More than a week after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico and caused unprecedented destruction, Puerto Ricans who were in other parts of the US for the storm and unable to get home are beginning to trickle back in. Nelson Cruz-Bianchi, a Sergeant First-Class in the US Army, was among those […]
