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We first reported this story, but now every single day, the story seems to get worse. tonight, andrew kaczynski at buzzfeed is reporting for the first time that a september op ed written by senator paul in "the washington times" appears to have been largely lifted without attribution from an article that appears in a magazine called "the week," just a few days earlier than the op ed. that article in "the week" reads in part -- "by design, mandatory sentencing laws take discretion away from prosecutors and judges so as to impose harsh sentences, regardless of circumstances." that exact line, wo...

Rand paul of kentucky. it was a week ago tonight that we first reported this story, but now every single day, the story seems to get worse. tonight, andrew kaczynski at buzzfeed is reporting for the first time that a september op ed written by senator paul in "the washington times" appears to have been largely lifted without attribution from an article that appears in a magazine called "the week," just a few days earlier than the op ed. that article in "the week" reads in part -- "by design, mandatory sentencing laws take discretion away from prosecutors and judges so as to impose harsh senten...

>> what? he is a comedian. >> come on, he is your friend. is he still your friend? i'm going to start asking you about stop and frisk soon. >> you can do this. >> but i think this is something that is interesting. >> you can do this or show videos of cats or whatever it is you do at buzzfeed. >> we do it all. >> no, no, jon, this notion that somehow i was a victim of late-night comics or a victim of someone else, look, i did these things. they were embarrassing. the jokes clearly write themselves. as far as a comedian, he would get thrown out of the comedian's union if he didn't do these jokes...

Question about his wife, huma abedin, in an interview with buzzfeed's ben smith. >> do you know what her role in hillary's 2016 campaign is going to be? >> i do. >> and what will it be? >> i'm not telling you. >> it sounds like a 2016 campaign is in the works. weiner also took a shot at buzzfeed after he was asked about his former roommate, jon stewart. yes, the same jon stewart that we have come to know on the daily show. the two of them shared an apartment together when weiner was working for chuck schummer in the '80s. here was that exchange. >> someone else who is hard on you is your old f...

Tried to rank the most useless types of fill in the blank people. would you be embarrassed to read something like that? we hope you would be. would toyota advertise on a site that ran a piece like that? come on, of course not. but it advertises on the root, and it's not even close to alone.e take a look at buzzfeed, one of the most popular websites in america. in 2016 that company was valued at 1.5 billion. that's six times what jeff bezos paid for "the washington post" a couple of years ago.on just last week, just last week buzzfeed published a piece entitled "37 things white people need to s...