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BuzzFeed News: Reporting To You

Reporting To You is your daily news and culture debrief. Every weekday, hear a summary of what you need to know from the BuzzFeed News team.

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Parting is such sweet sorrowLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bye For Now!

There's been a leak in the BuzzFeed Newsroom! Literally.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heads Up!

The worst storm of the year hit this weekend (and it's not Florence), the medical community updates its policies to support trans youth, and Elon Musk is getting sued.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Win For Trans Youth

The best and worst of TV premieres this fall, Hurricane Florence cleanup begins, and Paul Manafort reaches a plea deal.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What To Watch This Fall 📺

The FBI has a new secret letter about Brett Kavanaugh, immigrant parents coerced into forfeiting claims of asylum are getting a second chance, and some really devastating statistics about suicide and transgender youths.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Secret Letters and Settlements

There's a suspicious money trail around the infamous Trump Tower meeting, Trump transferred money from FEMA to ICE ahead of hurricane season, and Black-ish creator Kenya Barris speaks out about *that* episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump's Money Mishaps

Millions ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Florence approaches, Trump avoids another lawsuit, and a Kenyan filmmaker sues to get her film about same-sex love distributed.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawsuits For Lesbian Love 🎬

A Louisiana town bans Nike (sort of), BuzzFeed launches a new suicide prevention initiative, and a group of girls named Nicole became friends.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Be More OK 🤗

Hillary Clinton is back in the politics game! Also, we clue you in on a few things that are happening today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hillary's Back!

Leaked emails conflict with Judge Brett Kavanaugh's testimony, the Trump administration is trying to change a court agreement that says immigrant children can't be detained for more than 20 days, Alex Jones gets booted from Twitter, and the Oscars ditch their newest category.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twitter and the Oscars Ditch Controversial Things

Brett Kavanaugh gets asked about Roe V. Wade on day two of his hearing, Europe has a major anti-vaxxer problem, and Marco Rubio and Alex Jones have a lil spat.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Anti-Vaxxer Vaxxer Club

Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing has started, Jon Kyl is named as John McCain's Senate successor, and the head of USA Gymnastics has resigned.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chaos at the Kavanaugh Confirmation

Last week, BuzzFeed News dropped an explosive piece about the horrible abuses that took place in an American orphanage.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Nightmare Orphanage

The last Celebgate hacker gets sentenced, the FBI arrests the guy who violently threatened the Boston Globe, and Detroit shuts down the entire school district's water supply.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justice For J Law

A secret weed committee, far right protestors in Germany, and airlines’ masturbation problems.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creeps on a Plane 🐍

A new Puerto Rico death toll number, Democrats don’t want to focus on impeachment, Louis C.K. performs for the first time in ten months, and Erin Brockovich is at it again!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hurricane Maria's Death Toll

We separate facts from fake news re: the Jacksonville shooting, engineers and programmers don't want to work at any tech giants anymore, and Antoni from Queer Eye is opening a diner.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacksonville Facts From Fake News

Do people actually care about plastic straw use? Turns out: yes! And we do a quick breakdown of the wild world of Australian politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Straw Poll

David Pecker is the newest Former Trump Dude to get immunity from federal prosecutors, immigration agents coerced parents into signing deportation papers, and the woman who invited a bunch of guys on the same date reveals why.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Parent's Nightmare

Blue Apron is getting sued, Michael Cohen wants no presidential pardons, and Chipotle wants some new ideas.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Cohen's Change of Heart

Paul Manafort is found guilty (on some counts), Michael Cohen makes a plea deal, coal plants have fewer regulations, and Facebook is making it harder for advertisers to be racist.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everybody's Guilty

Asia Argento and Kevin Spacey are back in our newsfeeds, people are getting into a lot of scooter accidents, and Chelsea Handler chats with Audie Cornish on Profile by BuzzFeed News.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#MeToo & Money

NYU Medical School makes tuition free. Also, some events to look out for today, and introducing What's Left? A new political podcast by BuzzFeed News.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Free Med School!?!

RIP the legend Aretha Franklin, Omarosa drops a new secret tape, Palestine is finally getting ten-year-old mail, and British rapper Stormzy is addressing the lack of diversity in elite UK universities.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RIP Aretha, MVP Stormzy

That Christian baker is back in court, <i>Smallville</i> actress Allison Mack wants permission to work while she awaits her sex cult trial, and a woman Iranian photojournalist makes waves on the internet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christian Bakers and Sex Cult Makers

Paul Manafort literally has no defense, Tinder is suing its parent company, and an update on that Texas art teacher that was suspended for being gay.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawsuits Left and Right

The FBI fires Peter Strzok, Disney casts a straight actor to play its first openly gay character, and Google tracks your location even when you think it doesn't. But don't worry, we'll help you get off their grid for good.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strzok Outta Luck

#Metoo hits the theatre world, and Issa Rae introduces a new BuzzFeed Insecure after show.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#MeToo Takes Theatre

Puerto Rico acknowledges a more realistic death toll, Unite the Right turns one, and Movie Pass users share their scams.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Movie Pass-ing Through

Immigration judges sign a letter against changes, Russian sanctions and the Oscars bring in a new category. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oscars so Popular

Rick Gates blows up Paul Manafort's spot, Facebook learns how to manipulate the youths, and Lance Bass is mad at HGTV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TBH, Facebook is Still Creepy

Alex Jones's gets booted from all major platforms, wildfires continue to ravage California, and Audie Cornish interviews Jane Seymour on a new episode of Profile.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Info Wars Are Over

Keep your eyes on the ongoing Manafort trial, we're here for the Bachelorette and male tears, and there's a new episode of The News and Profile!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All Here For Male Tears!

Paul Manafort's trial started this week, a Japanese medical school is sexist, and Apple becomes a trillionaire.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Man-A-Fancy

Zimbabwe's post-election violence escalates, Hillary Clinton takes the Executive Producer chair, and your favorite social media apps want to help you kick your social media addiction.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Clinton and Spielberg Collaboration

Facebook suspects more Russian sketchiness, Trump tweeted that collusion isn't a crime, and MoviePass is spiraling.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Collusion... Again?

A study shows that teens have nuanced opinions on the gun control debate, Bigfoot erotica is a topic du jour, and BuzzFeed News presents Profile: a new show on Facebook Watch!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bigfoot Erotica

Spoiler alert: Flint still doesn't have water. Also, some fun things that are happening today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember Flint?

Amazon's Rekognition software messes up big time, we meet Pakistan's new Prime Minister, and one of Betsy DeVos's yachts gets messed with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mugshots & Yachts

Allegations of sexual abuse and harassment in jails and prisons have tripled, The Defense Department is consistently blindsided by the White House, and it's sex week here at BuzzFeed News.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Worse Than We Thought

Ivanka Trump closes down shop, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at some fake news, and Goldfish undergo a voluntary recall.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bye, Ivanka's Stuff

Donald Trump might revoke the security clearances of former officials who have criticized him, people separated from their children at the border are being charged to talk to them, and Ritz cracker products are being recalled.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When The White House Gets Petty

What exactly needs to happen for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs Wade? Oh, and it's Shark Week.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iiiiiit's Shark Week!

Russians aren't done messing with US elections, Mark Zuckerberg is low key a fan of Trump's ad game, a new STI is getting bigger and stronger, and Chance the Rapper buys a news site.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Congratulations, Mr. President"

Lane Davis is an ambitious, rising star of the alt-right internet. At least he was, until he killed his father.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"In Cold Blood For The Internet Generation"

Donald Trump changes his mind about some things he said on Monday, the hotel from the Vegas mass shooting files complaints against victims, and Meryl Streep and Cher keep being iconic af.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Mer & Cher Smoochie Smooch

Trump and Putin have a bonkers press conference, a judge puts his foot down on deportations and family separations, and Apple gives us a sneak preview of their newest emojis.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's the Emoji for a Trump/Putin Meeting?

There's a lot happening today: Trump's chatting with Putin, and Stormy Daniels and Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz have their (first) day in court.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump and Putin Sitting in Helsinki

Unite The Right rally organizers promise to not allow armed paramilitary activity at future events, FBI agent Peter Strzok defends anti-Trump text messages, and the 1955 murder of teenager Emmett Till is reopened amid new evidence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justice For Emmett Till

Donald Trump tells NATO members to double up their spending commitment, Papa John gets in trouble for being racist again, Kylie Jenner is about to be the new youngest billionaire on the block, and World Cup season is almost over!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keeping Up With Kylie

President Trump has some thoughts on his upcoming UK trip, the lost Thai soccer team is safely rescued, Facebook is bringing an advertisement/augmented reality power combo to your News Feed, and Audie Cornish comes to BuzzFeed News!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lost Boys Are Safe

Trump announces his Supreme Court nominee, Japan experiences unprecedented flooding, and Starbucks decides to replace straws with adult sippy cupsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kavanaugh Receives The Rose—I Mean, The Nomination!

How the call to abolish ICE has been splitting the Democratic party, and a reminder to keep your eyes peeled for today's Supreme Court nomination.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ICE, ICE, Baby

Scott Pruitt resigns from the Environmental Protection Agency, trans actors speak out against Scarlett Johansson's controversial new role, and a pride of lions eat some poachers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gone But Scott Forgotten

Today, we do things a little differently. Host Julia Furlan chats with LGBT editor Shannon Keating about Hannah Gadsby's new Netflix special, Nanette.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Go Watch Nanette; Now!

A church protests ICE's family separations, Jay-Z's Trayvon Martin docuseries drops an official trailer, Uganda tries to impose a social media tax, and Diet Coke Lime and Cherry disappear from existence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rest In Power

Harvey Weinstein is charged with even more sexual crimes, a lost youth Thai soccer team is found, and Cardi B makes chart-topping history (again).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lost Boys Are Found

CBP has quietly resumed late-night deportations, a report on the weekend’s protests around the country, and a reap of this week’s episode of The News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“There is some good in this world.”

A shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland, Trump and Putin plan to meet in July, and just a nice story about a supportive dad because we can all use that today.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalists Under Fire

Justice Anthony Kennedy steps down from the Supreme Court, a police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager is being charged with criminal homicide, and BuzzFeed News is crowdsourcing information about parents and children in immigrant detention facilities.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justice Kennedy Retires

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s third travel ban, protests break out around the country in response, Terry Crews pulls out of the Expendables movies, and Rashida Jones’s Times Up PSA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"It's so simple"

The EPA’s hunt for candidates revealed, Paul Manafort is trying to get out of jail, and Marriott employees are about to protest around the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fossil Fuel Industry + EPA?

The FDA vs. the White House, we all get to know #PermitPatty, and a preview of this week's episode of The News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#BBQBecky, Meet #PermitPatty

Melania Trump's visit to Texas, Facebook's new tool to minimize fake news, MTV's "Daria" reboot, and a truly bonkers lawsuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

JUST Not Here to Make Friends

President Trump signs an executive order to prevent families from being separated, DHS carries out its largest workplace raid yet, and Instagram announces IGTV.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Instagram takes on YouTube 📹

Trump’s latest comments about immigrants and refugees, a former CIA employee charged with espionage, and Costco’s new avocados. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fre sha voca do 🥑

Immigrant detention centers spike outrage, a dismaying study on religious intolerance in New York and Will Ferrel looks to bring Eurovision to Netflix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Detained in cages

A van crash at the border, a mass shooting in New Jersey, Mexico's earth shaking goal and Beyoncé and Jay Z's new album.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apeshit

The Justice Department report on the FBI and Comey is finally out, the state of New York is suing the Trumps, and Brie Larson is advocating for more diversity in film critics.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Never Text 🙅

Donald Trump claims there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea, Mexico’s violent electoral season, some insights from a new survey about LGBTQ Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mission … Accomplished?

An update on the US/North Korea summit, scientists are calling BS on the whole “sonic attack” thing, a new European country, and Facebook’s cool new tool that’s really hard to find. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One Less Thing to Worry About

SCOTUS’s decision on voter purging, net neutrality’s repeal, and BAD MELONS.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Use Your Melon

A messy G7 summit, talks with North Korea officially beginning, and a hero doggo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Special Place in Hell

Republicans are turning on Trump over “spygate,” learn to protect your WhatsApp data, and Elle Woods is coming back!.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let’s Bend and Snap

Ivanka Trump might be involved with the Russia mess, Trump grants clemency to Alice Johnson, and the mysterious disappearance of zoo animals.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🗣Return the Tortoises to Florida

A Puerto Rico judge is ordered the release of death certificates, Harvey Weinstein’s arraignment, and Mitch McConnell is canceling summer for Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summer is CANCELED ❌

SCOTUS rules in favor of the Masterpiece Cakeshop baker, an update from the March for Our Lives organizers, and Disqus’s troll problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Road

Rudy Giuliani says President Trump can pardon himself, sex workers lobby legislators in the aftermath of FOSTA, and a preview of this week's episode of The News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pardon You

Trump might have started a trade war, Andrea Constand speaks out about Bill Cosby for the first time, and a former dictator in Africa is being sued for promising a bogus cure for AIDS.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bogus Gambian AIDS Clinic

A prominent Russian journalist faked his own death, Roseanne Barr blamed her racist tweet on Ambien, and Pusha T exposed Drake.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Story of Adidon

A new study says that nearly 6,000 people died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, but the official death count is only 64, Papua New Guinea is banning Facebook for one month, and ‘Roseanne’ got canceled.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bye, Roseanne

Eight women said Morgan Freeman behaved inappropriately and sexually harassed them, President Trump pardoned a legendary boxer who was arrested under a Jim Crow era law, and ‘Queer Eye’ season 2 is almost here.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Him Too

The NFL will penalize teams whose players kneel during the national anthem, a federal court ruled that Trump can’t block people on Twitter anymore, Yulia Skripal speaks, and Tidal inflated its streaming numbers.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Presidents Can’t Block You On Twitter

Police departments are using Amazon’s facial recognition technology, R. Kelly is being sued for sexual battery and deliberately giving someone herpes, and the latest on cancer trends.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surveillance State

The Obamas are coming to Netflix, Mario Batali is under investigation, and the truth about poop in swimming pools.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barack and Michellevision

An Ebola outbreak killed 26 people in the DNC, updates on the Santa Fe High School shooting, and the Trump Administration is partially defunding Planned Parenthood.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ebola Outbreak

The summit on Hawaii’s erupting volcano just exploded, YouTube’s new music streaming service could kill Spotify, and the life and career of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Black Hand

Chlorine-gas was dropped on people in Syria but investigators can’t say who did it, Trump Organization lawyers tried to control the narrative about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians, a North Carolina teachers strike, and the answer on whether it’s “yanny” or “laurel.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yanny or Laurel

The UK wants to investigate Israel’s excessive use of force against Palestinians, the Peace Corps fired at least two gay men for testing positive for HIV, and the Bohemian Rhapsody trailer is here.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Escape From Reality

Israeli troops killed dozens of Palestinian protesters while the US celebrated its Jerusalem embassy nearby, Facebook suspended around 200 apps for potentially misusing your data, and “Project Runway” will return to Bravo.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Make It Work, Bravo

A knife-wielding man attacked five people in Paris, a family bombed three Christian churches in Indonesia, another explosive eruption could happen in Hawaii, and the PodSquad's new show.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Introducing ... The News

A dam burst killed 42 people in central Kenya, Trump will meet Kim Jong Un in the first-ever meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader, and the original Roseanne Conner wouldn’t have voted for Trump.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RIP OG Roseanne

Donald Trump’s CIA director pick was involved in torture but insists she has a strong moral compass, teachers who went on strike are running for office, and a hip-hop mogul vs. a gynecologist.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forget About Dre

What went down at the primaries, the US will withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal, and a Texas teacher is suing her school district after they removed her for being gay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Deal

A primary preview, Gabrielle Union talks #MeToo, and black students at the University of Florida graduation were pushed offstage doing a traditional stroll.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Primary Preview

Thousands protest Putin’s swearing in, details on the Kilauea eruption, and Donald Glover’s new video.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"This is America"

The RNC is placing all bets on Trump for 2020, GoDaddy removed Richard Spencer’s website, and Drake and Rihanna aren’t friends anymore 💔Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Halt Right

Ty Cobb is leaving his job as Trump’s lawyer, Iowa’s legislature passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the country, Hawaii is banning sunscreen that’s killing coral reefs, and a symbolic settlement for the two black men arrested at Starbucks.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bye, Ty

The US asylum system is messy, Amazon started a subscription box for children’s books, and the man who threw a shoe at George W. Bush is running for Iraqi office.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices