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Drew Magary: I hate Dolly Partons music FacebookTwitterEmail Country music legend Dolly Parton performs at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pa., during her Pure and Simple Tour on Wednesday, June 22, 2016.Christopher Dolan/Associated Press You can’t hate Dolly Parton. That’s the mandate from the internet in 2021. Dolly Parton donated $1 million to vaccine research, and that’s merely a line item on what is an extensive philanthropic resume. Dolly Parton is a champion of child li...

Classified report finds slow, chaotic response to brain injuries affecting diplomats in Cuba Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post Feb. 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail More than four years after personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Havana began reporting sudden, debilitating illnesses, with severe headaches, hearing loss and other brain injuries, there are still no definitive answers as to what caused the outbreak. The Trump administration did not reveal the incidents until they appeared in news report...

BuzzFeed Media Editor Craig Silverman discusses the losing battle against social media disinformation, and how it's impacting the global fight against COVID-19.

Joseph Sonnabend, pioneering AIDS physician, dies at 88 Emily Langer, The Washington Post Jan. 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A 1993 photo of Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, left, with patients Michael Callen, center, and Richard Berkowitz, who became AIDS activists and co-wrote the manual "How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach."Photo courtesy of Richard Dworkin Joseph Sonnabend opened his medical practice in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City in 1977, on the cusp of what would be...

Media personality Tim Gionet was arrested by the FBI for his role in the Capitol siege.

Print article Tim Gionet strolled through the U.S. Capitol like he was walking through a crowded fraternity party, shouts echoing off the marble floors. The hallways were jammed with people, young and old, men and women, wearing MAGA hats and holding signs, chanting and hollering about Trump and a stolen election. “Patriots are in control,” they chanted. “Traitors, traitors, traitors!” “Yooo!” Gionet called. “Let’s gooo!” At one point, a voice offscreen suggested that Pres...

The following is an evolving news story. It seems that a disgruntled staffer changed the website of the department of state to indicate that the President has resigned. This appears to be false. I have sought comment from the White House, the personnel on the phone had no idea this was even an issue. While a formal comment or press release about this is hopefully going to occur, it can be said that Buzz Feeds reporting is likely accurate. Now it is abundantly clear that the hack of the depa...

D.C. Council prepares for potential inauguration violence Michael Brice-Saddler, The Washington Post Jan. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A mob riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez WASHINGTON - Two days before an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol left five people dead and the nation in turmoil, local law enforcement agencies briefed the District of Columbia Council on the potential dangers posed to residents as thousands of Presiden...

10 Gross Things That The FDA Legally Allows In Your Food Buzzfeed just released a list that might make you think twice about what you eat. According to Buzzfeed, the FDA has a document called the Defect Levels Handbook that says what types of defects mass-produced food can have in it and still be considered "safe" to eat. This basically means that there is the possibility that some pretty gross things are in the foods that we eat every day...and when I say "gross," I mean "EXTREMELY gross!"...

He fit in as well as anyone did at our Los Angeles studio, a place full of ambitious misfits with an unusual gift. They knew how to make web videos people wanted to watch. His real name was Anthime Joseph Gionet, though he preferred others. His value to BuzzFeed was clear: He’d do anything for the Vine, the short video platform that had a brief cultural moment before being crushed by Instagram and Snapchat in 2017. Once, he poured a gallon of milk on his face and a clip of it drew millions...