“She was exceptional and I am very proud,” Jameela Dirrean-Emoni Barber's mother told BuzzFeed News.
Francis Zaake was left with “bits of flesh [hanging] off his chest as though someone had attempted to randomly pluck them out with a fork but stopped midway,” a politician said.
“It has nothing to do with our government,” President Donald Trump told reporters.
"We’re in their country, so they can still do whatever they wish to us.”
The LGBTQ shelter had more than 10 residents, so the group was charged with facilitating the spread of an infectious disease.
She's an anti-vaxxer who was participating in a protest organized by far-right groups against coronavirus lockdown measures.
"He saw you before you saw yourself. … Marlowe is a champion for young Detroiters, particularly black Detroiters.”
In-person voting went ahead earlier this month after Republicans fought a delay and mail-in ballots. Now people are beginning to get sick.
The suspect — who was wanted for the murder of his girlfriend — was shot dead after an hour-long chase through the Dallas suburbs.
Lorena Borjas was a mentor and champion for the community of Latina transgender sex workers in Queens for almost two decades.
The soon-to-be White House chief strategist laid out a global vision in a rare 2014 talk where he said racism in the far right gets “washed out” and called Vladimir Putin a kleptocrat. BuzzFeed News publishes the complete transcript for the first time.
One-quarter of Americans say people should never be allowed to change their legal gender, half of Brazilians know a transgender person, and lots more from a BuzzFeed News/Ipsos survey in 23 countries around the world.
Russia’s leaders are panicked over a generation drawn to a new kind of freedom online, and law enforcement has gone on the offensive.
There’s a global push to remove “gender identity disorder” from the list of mental illnesses. But many transgender people in Japan aren't on board with the idea. J. Lester Feder reports from Osaka.
Anal exams are performed by police in many countries that criminalize homosexuality — and they base their work on 150-year-old European science. BuzzFeed News' J. Lester Feder and Maged Atef report from Cairo.
South Africans Tshepo Cameron Modisane and Thoba Calvin Sithole married this weekend in what's being called the first Zulu same-sex wedding. "The whole notion is to quash the idea that being gay is un-African," said one of the grooms.
Maxim Sergeyevich Martsinkevich was sentenced to five years in a labor camp, but faced no charges for his infamous videos torturing gay men.
Fifty years ago, France lost a war while trying to keep millions of Muslims French citizens. One French writer launched a movement to rethink “identity” in its aftermath and helped reinvent nationalism for the 21st century.
An investigation reveals that the fake news sites that flourished in Macedonia in 2016 weren’t just the work of local teens — and that security agencies are probing possible connections to Russia.
Kyran Lee pleaded guilty to sexual assault after his girlfriend reported him to the police. This is one of several “gender fraud” cases in the UK that raise fundamental questions about identity and sexual consent.
