Ukraine is attracting Americans who want to fight alongside far-right extremists. What happens when radicalized soldiers like Craig Lang return home? buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Lang deserted the US military and later traveled to Ukraine to fight with a paramilitary group. By the time he returned to America, he had grown increasingly radicalized. buzzfeednews.com/article/christ…
Any plans to return to fighting overseas meant Lang needed money. So, according to prosecutors, he and a friend from his Ukraine unit planned an ambush under the guise of an arms transaction. In April 2018, a Florida couple fell under a deadly hail of bullets.
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance, Philip Mountbatten at Buckingham Palace, after their engagement was announced, 10th July 1947
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh with their baby Prince Charles, July 1949
BREAKING: Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth and a central figure in British public life for almost three quarters of a century, has died at age 99. He had been recently hospitalized after feeling unwell.
Prince Philip, who was also the Duke of Edinburgh, was married to Queen Elizabeth II for more than 70 years, and was a staple of British public life for just as long. buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm…
Together, the pair had four children — Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward — as well as eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm…
NEW: Clearview AI's controversial facial recognition tool has been used by thousands of people at agencies across the country to search millions of Americans' faces, everyone from protesters to friends and family (often with little oversight) buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma…
These groups include hundreds of local and state police departments, ICE, the US Air Force, state attorneys general offices, and even schools.
Our reporters contacted every agency listed. Many did not respond. Some said they had found officers using Clearview without approval, leading to bans of the software.
Others denied employees used the software. And some who did so found after further examination that they had.
DEVELOPING: Two US Capitol police officers are injured after someone rammed a vehicle into them at the Capitol. A suspect is in custody. The building is currently on lockdown.
The driver got out of the vehicle and allegedly attacked one of the officers with a knife, a law enforcement official told BuzzFeed News. He was then shot by at least one officer.
US Capitol update, per officials:
• 2 officers injured after being rammed
• Driver allegedly attacked one officer with a knife and was shot by another
• No updates on injured officers’ conditions
NEW: JAMA, one of the world's most-read medical journals, is under pressure from the scientific community after tweeting that “no physician is racist” while promoting a podcast.
During the episode, a top editor questioned if structural racism exists in health care: “Many people like myself are offended by the implication that we are somehow racist.”
But countless studies show that health providers are more likely to give Black patients worse care.
Now, doctors and researchers are pressing for sweeping changes and are boycotting publishing their research in the journal until it addresses its failures. The outcry has resulted in a push for JAMA to diversify its staff.