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Jack Hill / AP President Joe Biden met with Queen Elizabeth II in England on Friday — the first time he has encountered the British sovereign as commander in chief. The president and first lady Jill Biden were photographed chatting with the Queen at an event for heads of state attending the G7 summit in

In the final days of the Trump administration, the State Department was embroiled in a bitter dispute over China’s role in the origins of COVID-19 that’s now spilling into public view. In an open letter posted on Medium on Thursday, Christopher Ford, former Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation, said he intervened to prevent

BuzzFeed News won a Pulitzer Prize on Friday for a series of innovative articles that used satellite images, 3D architectural models, and daring in-person interviews to expose China’s vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. The Pulitzer Prize is the highest honor in journalism, and this is the digital

The first Pride marches were held in 1970, a year after the Stonewall riots in New York City. Over the last 50 years, Pride has turned from a solemn response to police brutality and discrimination against the LGBTQ community into a celebration of what it means to be queer. Rights for the LGBTQ community in

Apple and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway have done business with a Chinese wind energy giant linked to controversial government and labor programs in Xinjiang, where the US and other countries say China is carrying out a genocide of Muslim minorities. Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology, China’s largest wind turbine maker, on at least one occasion

Among all the consumer protections that lawmakers have extended to Americans during the pandemic, relief from debt collection was not one of them. While emergency laws allowed people to put certain forms of debt like student loans and mortgages in forbearance, people whose debt took other forms — like credit card, auto, and payday loans

BuzzFeed News / Getty Images Earlier this month, a Facebook software engineer from Egypt wrote an open note to his colleagues with a warning: “Facebook is losing trust among Arab users.” Facebook had been a “tremendous help” for activists who used it to communicate during the Arab Spring of 2011, he said, but during the

Messaging service WhatsApp is suing the Indian government in the Delhi High Court, challenging new rules that would force it to break its encryption, potentially revealing the identities of people who had sent and received billions of messages on its platform. Reuters first reported the lawsuit, which a WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News. “Civil

Marwa Fatafta’s Twitter mentions were flooded. As violence escalated in Israel–Palestine earlier this month, Fatafta, who is Palestinian and works as a policy analyst for an online think tank focusing on Palestinian human rights in Berlin, had been posting pictures and stories about families killed in the Gaza Strip to her 14,000 followers. In response,

On Monday, a team of officers from the Special Cell, an elite branch of the police in charge of investigating terrorism and organized crime in New Delhi, descended on Twitter’s offices in the city to “serve a notice” to the head of Twitter in India. Police also attempted to enter a Twitter office in Gurugram,

Amir Levy / Getty Images The car of the man who was attacked and injured in Bat Yam, Israel As an uneasy ceasefire takes hold in Israel–Palestine, digital terror is not slowing down. Online hate, harassment, and coordination of physical violence have sprouted across social media channels. One Israeli group that combats disinformation and hate

By the time Christopher Ahn signed on to the mission inside North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, the plan was already finalized. Other people had mapped out how to restrain the staff, how to hoover up any useful intel materials, and most important, how to make it look like the diplomat they were grabbing was being

Chris Jackson / Chris Jackson / Getty Images Members of the royal family pictured on the balcony at Buckingham Palace on July 10, 2018 Prince Harry told Oprah Winfrey that his family refused to help with the barrage of media and social media abuse directed at his wife, Meghan Markle. “I thought my family would

Tim Graham / Corbis via Getty Images An independent inquiry has found that the BBC “fell short of its high standards of integrity and transparency” and reporter Martin Bashir acted in a “deceitful” manner to secure his explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana. The famous Panorama interview was the first time a member of the

Princes William and Harry have condemned the BBC and the media culture after an independent inquiry concluded Thursday that former BBC reporter Martin Bashir had used “deceitful” means to secure his explosive 1995 interview with their late mother, Princess Diana. The same inquiry also found that the BBC “fell short of its high standards of

This is The Royal Tea, BuzzFeed News’ newsletter where you can get your royal family news and analysis, served piping hot. Sign up here. Princess Beatrice of York is pregnant with her first child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday. “The Queen has been informed and both families are delighted with the