There were a few political moments at tonight's #Emmys.
Time’s Up supported the woman who accused SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault by distributing these pins buzzfeednews.com/article/krysti…
Sarah Sophie Flicker, the wife of the director of "Glow", also wrote “Stop Kavanaugh” on her arm along with the number for the US Capitol switchboard buzzfeednews.com/article/krysti…
And "Black-ish" star Jenifer Lewis wore Nike at the #Emmys.
“I am wearing Nike to applaud them for supporting Colin Kaepernick and his protest against racial injustice and police brutality," she said buzzfeednews.com/article/krysti…
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Paula English’s husband was charged with abducting her. She thought he would kill her. When they divorced, she was still ordered to pay him $1,000 a month in alimony – and she’s not alone. buzzfeednews.com/article/ariane…
Divorce law varies between states, but other women have similar stories.
A California woman was ordered to pay alimony to the estranged husband charged with sexually assaulting her. A New York woman had to pay the legal fees of an ex-husband who plead guilty to beating her.
While these woman found the law on their side in criminal court, they found something different in family court.
When they’d said “I do,” they’d agreed to financially support their husbands – even if those husbands raped them, beat them up, or tried to kill them.
1/ During the summer, Senator Feinstein received the letter, which was dated July 30. She says she kept it a secret out of respect for Ford, who didn’t want to come forward publicly.
2/ Before Ford anonymously confirmed to the @NewYorker that she sent the letter, rumors of its existence spread in Washington. News outlets caught wind of it (including us) but no one could confirm the story. On Sept 12 @TheIntercept reported on the rumors theintercept.com/2018/09/12/bre…
NEW: Federal investigators are looking at a series of international bank transactions following the planners and participants of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting #MoneyTrailbuzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
The investigators are focused on two bursts of financial transactions — one shortly after the meeting and the other after the 2016 election — involving the family of Aras Agalarov, a Russian billionaire real estate developer with ties to both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
11 days after the Trump Tower meeting — the same day Paul Manafort became Trump’s campaign chief — a company controlled by Agalarov wired more than $19.5 million to his own account at a bank in New York.
WhatsApp is a huge part of India’s social fabric. It's the country's most used app. Lately, it's been getting people killed.
Since May, there have been 16 lynchings leading to 29 deaths where officials say mobs were driven by misinformation on WhatsApp buzzfeednews.com/article/pranav…
Mob lynching isn’t new in India, but there’s little doubt that WhatsApp has exacerbated things: Users are whipping themselves into frenzies after viewing viral videos from unknown sources about supposed child abductors buzzfeednews.com/article/pranav…
“I’m more educated than people in my village so I didn’t believe the rumors.” an undergrad from a small village of 1,500 said. “But nobody in my village reads or watches TV. They only get updates from WhatsApp, so they didn’t know what to believe." buzzfeednews.com/article/pranav…
When Rebecca Lopez was 14, she was taken from her bedroom one night by two strangers and delivered to a remote Christian boarding school in California. Her mother knew – it was an attempt to “fix” her sexuality – and it was all legal. buzzfeednews.com/article/tylerk…
Though California was the first state to ban conversion therapy by medical professionals for minors, there's nothing in the law that stops private boarding schools like River View Christian Academy from trying to "scare the gay away.”
Multiple students who attended River View, formerly the Julian Youth Academy, told BuzzFeed News that they were punished for saying they were gay or bisexual, and also for engaging in sexual activity or self-harm.
Bryan Denny’s face is frequently used in a scam meant to gain a woman’s trust before asking for money to help with fake emergencies and other needs.
According to the FTC and FBI, this scam has stolen $884 million from Americans since 2015.
Denny met Kathy Kostrub-Waters through the scam (a friend of her mother’s was a victim). Together they’ve reported about 2,000 fake military accounts and have met with Facebook employees to discuss their work.