Utilizamos cookies, próprios e de terceiros, que o reconhecem e identificam como um usuário único, para garantir a melhor experiência de navegação, personalizar conteúdo e anúncios, e melhorar o desempenho do nosso site e serviços.Esses Cookies nos permitem coletar alguns dados pessoais sobre você, como sua ID exclusiva atribuída ao seu dispositivo, endereço de IP, tipo de dispositivo e navegador, conteúdos visualizados ou outras ações realizadas usando nossos serviços, país e idioma selecionados, entre outros. Para saber mais sobre nossa política de cookies, acesse .Caso não concorde com o...…Utilizamos cookies, próprios e de terceiros, que o reconhecem e identificam como um usuário único, para garantir a melhor experiência de navegação, personalizar conteúdo e anúncios, e melhorar o desempenho do nosso site e serviços.Esses Cookies nos permitem coletar alguns dados pessoais sobre você, como sua ID exclusiva atribuída ao seu dispositivo, endereço de IP, tipo de dispositivo e navegador, conteúdos visualizados ou outras ações realizadas usando nossos serviços, país e idioma selecionados, entre outros. Para saber mais sobre nossa política de cookies, acesse .Caso não concorde com o...WW…

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s wife — now Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Canada — held public office long before he ever did. And just like her husband, her small government approach to governance brought chaos and disarray.Prescription meds that never seem to arrive. Endlessly delayed Amazon packages. Mailboxes disappearing from street corners overnight. These have been the hallmarks of Louis DeJoy’s brief tenure atop the United States Postal Service.Years earlier, in North Carolina, people flooded into soup kitchens when their food stamps never came. Doctors treating the state’s...…Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s wife — now Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Canada — held public office long before he ever did. And just like her husband, her small government approach to governance brought chaos and disarray.Prescription meds that never seem to arrive. Endlessly delayed Amazon packages. Mailboxes disappearing from street corners overnight. These have been the hallmarks of Louis DeJoy’s brief tenure atop the United States Postal Service.Years earlier, in North Carolina, people flooded into soup kitchens when their food stamps never came. Doctors treating the state’s...WW…

The Silicon Valley engineer, who had no background in medical supplies but was recommended by the White House, never delivered the ventilators.We may all be at home, but that hasn’t stopped our reporters from breaking exclusive stories like this one. To help keep this news free, and sign up for our newsletter, .On March 27, as emergency rooms in New York and across the country began filling with patients struggling to breathe, President Donald Trump posted on Twitter to urge Ford and General Motors to “START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!” that the tweet attracted struck an equally urgent tone:...…The Silicon Valley engineer, who had no background in medical supplies but was recommended by the White House, never delivered the ventilators.We may all be at home, but that hasn’t stopped our reporters from breaking exclusive stories like this one. To help keep this news free, and sign up for our newsletter, .On March 27, as emergency rooms in New York and across the country began filling with patients struggling to breathe, President Donald Trump posted on Twitter to urge Ford and General Motors to “START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!” that the tweet attracted struck an equally urgent tone:...WW…

After months of protests in Hong Kong, universities became the site of dramatic battles that saw students armed with Molotov cocktails dodging rubber bullets fired by the police. How did we get here?The Dilemma.HONG KONG — May peered down into the dark hole. The glow of her friends’ headlamps revealed a hint of filthy gray water, but not all the shit or cockroaches swimming within. Beneath May’s feet was Hong Kong’s labyrinth system of drainage and sewer pipes — and her best chance to escape the university campus where she had been trapped by police.May is 21 and in college, although her...…After months of protests in Hong Kong, universities became the site of dramatic battles that saw students armed with Molotov cocktails dodging rubber bullets fired by the police. How did we get here?The Dilemma.HONG KONG — May peered down into the dark hole. The glow of her friends’ headlamps revealed a hint of filthy gray water, but not all the shit or cockroaches swimming within. Beneath May’s feet was Hong Kong’s labyrinth system of drainage and sewer pipes — and her best chance to escape the university campus where she had been trapped by police.May is 21 and in college, although her...WW…

“People were screaming for help on the radio. It was pure chaos. It sounded like officers were constantly asking for help in certain areas and things were totally out of control,” one officer said.A few hours before hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6, a group of about 150 people breached a barrier around the base of the Washington Monument. Vastly outnumbered by the agitated throng, a clutch of US Park Police officers on the scene retreated into the visitor center at the towering obelisk’s base, locking the door behind them as the loud mob furiously beat on the plate...…“People were screaming for help on the radio. It was pure chaos. It sounded like officers were constantly asking for help in certain areas and things were totally out of control,” one officer said.A few hours before hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6, a group of about 150 people breached a barrier around the base of the Washington Monument. Vastly outnumbered by the agitated throng, a clutch of US Park Police officers on the scene retreated into the visitor center at the towering obelisk’s base, locking the door behind them as the loud mob furiously beat on the plate...WW…

Yaron Oren-Pines promised 1,450 ventilators but never delivered. Six months later, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling it a “scam” and said law enforcement is investigating.The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, and sign up for our newsletter, .In late March, a Silicon Valley engineer tweeted an offer to sell ventilators to President Donald Trump, and within days New York state, facing soaring infection rates, paid the man $69 million for devices he never delivered. More than six months later,...…Yaron Oren-Pines promised 1,450 ventilators but never delivered. Six months later, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling it a “scam” and said law enforcement is investigating.The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, and sign up for our newsletter, .In late March, a Silicon Valley engineer tweeted an offer to sell ventilators to President Donald Trump, and within days New York state, facing soaring infection rates, paid the man $69 million for devices he never delivered. More than six months later,...WW…

A group of First Baptist Dallas choir and orchestra members contracted COVID-19 in the lead-up to Vice President Mike Pence’s visit on Sunday. An infectious disease expert called it “appalling.”At least five members of the choir and orchestra at the Dallas megachurch visited by Vice President Mike Pence this weekend tested positive for in June, according to Facebook posts and internal church emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News.An additional orchestra member had symptoms several days after being exposed and was awaiting a test result in mid-June, according to a call for prayers sent to the...…A group of First Baptist Dallas choir and orchestra members contracted COVID-19 in the lead-up to Vice President Mike Pence’s visit on Sunday. An infectious disease expert called it “appalling.”At least five members of the choir and orchestra at the Dallas megachurch visited by Vice President Mike Pence this weekend tested positive for in June, according to Facebook posts and internal church emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News.An additional orchestra member had symptoms several days after being exposed and was awaiting a test result in mid-June, according to a call for prayers sent to the...WW…

Concerned the president might invoke the Insurrection Act to commandeer the city police, DC council members never expected an assault on the Capitol itself.Even as elected officials in the District of Columbia warned residents to stay home and avoid potentially violent skirmishes with pro-Trump protesters early last week, behind the scenes they were increasingly focused on what, at the time, they considered a far bigger threat: the president himself.In a closed briefing to the 13-member City Council last Monday, the DC Attorney General’s office shared a two-page memo analyzing the risk that...…Concerned the president might invoke the Insurrection Act to commandeer the city police, DC council members never expected an assault on the Capitol itself.Even as elected officials in the District of Columbia warned residents to stay home and avoid potentially violent skirmishes with pro-Trump protesters early last week, behind the scenes they were increasingly focused on what, at the time, they considered a far bigger threat: the president himself.In a closed briefing to the 13-member City Council last Monday, the DC Attorney General’s office shared a two-page memo analyzing the risk that...WW…

The system is “definitely not working like it's supposed to,” one contact tracing expert told BuzzFeed News.As the nation’s capital reeled with news of one high-profile presidential after testing positive for COVID-19, officials in local health departments in several jurisdictions said the White House has complicated efforts to identify and contract trace anyone whom the president and his entourage may have exposed to the coronavirus during Contact tracing, which involves identifying people who have tested positive and working with them to help them quarantine and identify anyone else they...…The system is “definitely not working like it's supposed to,” one contact tracing expert told BuzzFeed News.As the nation’s capital reeled with news of one high-profile presidential after testing positive for COVID-19, officials in local health departments in several jurisdictions said the White House has complicated efforts to identify and contract trace anyone whom the president and his entourage may have exposed to the coronavirus during Contact tracing, which involves identifying people who have tested positive and working with them to help them quarantine and identify anyone else they...WW…

Everything about date rape drug tests — from the way they are performed to how the results are interpreted — is deeply unreliable. So why does the legal system treat them like gospel? A BuzzFeed News investigation.The night after Belfry High School’s football team won the annual homecoming game in the fall of 2016, Kendall, a senior, drove to the home of Jerry Swafford for a party that she’d seen on Snapchat.Swafford wasn’t a Belfry student; he was a 60-year-old janitor who the Kentucky high school’s facilities. He had a daughter who was a student there, and he was known for , or even when...…Everything about date rape drug tests — from the way they are performed to how the results are interpreted — is deeply unreliable. So why does the legal system treat them like gospel? A BuzzFeed News investigation.The night after Belfry High School’s football team won the annual homecoming game in the fall of 2016, Kendall, a senior, drove to the home of Jerry Swafford for a party that she’d seen on Snapchat.Swafford wasn’t a Belfry student; he was a 60-year-old janitor who the Kentucky high school’s facilities. He had a daughter who was a student there, and he was known for , or even when...WW…