On the day of the third Republican presidential debate, Trump personally signed the letter of intent.

We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.

Secret NYPD Files: Officers Who Lie And Brutally Beat People Can Keep Their Jobs

Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep...

Kendall Taggart

Mike Hayes

“I Killed Them All.” The Life Of One Of America’s Bloodiest Hitmen

“True Evil has a face you know and a voice you trust.”

Jessica Garrison

How A Player In The Trump-Russia Scandal Led A Double Life As An American Spy

Felix Sater has been cast as a Russian mafioso, a career criminal, and a key business associate of President Donald Trump's — but he spent more than two decades as an intelligence asset who helped the US government track terrorists and mobsters. “Greed is my go-to weapon.”

Anthony Cormier

Jason Leopold

Send It To Us

From Russia With Blood

From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil That The Government Ignored

Lavish London mansions. A hand-painted Rolls-Royce. And eight dead friends. For the British fixer Scot Young, working for Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic meant a life of...

Heidi Blake, Tom Warren, Richard Holmes, Jason Leopold, Jane Bradley, Alex Campbell

Detective Guevara's Witnesses

A Chicago Cop Is Accused Of Framing 51 People For Murder. Now, The Fight For Justice.

Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara is accused of framing at least 51 people for murder. When a group of mothers, aunts and sisters found that no officials — not the...

Melissa Segura

The Edge

Top-Level Figure Skating Judges Consistently Favor Skaters From Their Home Countries. Now Many Of Those Judges Are At The Olympics.

At the top levels of the sport, judges give higher marks to figure skaters from their own countries, a BuzzFeed News data analysis has shown — in some cases, affecting the...

John Templon

Rosalind Adams

Massage Envy

More Than 180 Women Have Reported Sexual Assaults At Massage Envy

Across the US, people go to Massage Envy spas in search of a soothing, affordable escape. More than 180 people say what they got instead was sexual assault. But the...

Massage Envy Announces Major Changes In Sexual Assault Policy

Dirty Money

Revealed: Secrets Of One Of The World's Dirtiest Banks And Its Powerful Western Protectors

Blatant forgery. Snarling guard dogs. Shredded evidence. An incendiary cache of leaked documents reveals the farcical scramble inside one of the world’s dirtiest banks to...

Tom Warren

Alex Campbell

Intake

“What The Fuck Just Happened?”

Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits.

Rosalind Adams

National Security

The Trump Administration Is Mulling A Pitch For A Private “Rendition” And Spy Network

A private company has proposed that the US government pay it millions to undertake intelligence and covert operations.

Aram Roston

US Intelligence Unit Accused Of Illegally Spying On Americans' Financial Records

US Intelligence Unit Accused Of Illegally Spying On Americans’ Financial Records

The Treasury Department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis has been illegally rifling through and filing away the private financial records of US citizens, Treasury...

In Midst Of Terror Attack, US Intel Unit Was Blocked From Tracking The Terrorists

Trump & Women

Teen Beauty Queens Say Trump Walked In On Them Changing

“Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”

Kendall Taggart, Jessica Garrison, Jessica Testa

FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say

In a secret deal, a French company purchased code from a Kremlin-connected firm, incorporated it into its own software, and hid its existence from the FBI, according to documents and two whistleblowers. The allegations raise concerns that Russian hackers could compromise law enforcement computer systems.

Chris Hamby

This Man Used His Inherited Fortune To Fund The Racist Right

William Regnery II, a man who inherited millions but struggled in business, tried for 15 years to ignite a racist political movement — and failed. Then an unforeseen phenomenon named Donald Trump gave legitimacy to what Regnery had seeded long before: the alt-right. Now, the press-shy white separatist breaks his silence.

Aram Roston

Joel Anderson

A String Of Dangerous Accidents In Alaska Sends BP Reeling, Emails Show

Internal emails, recordings, interviews, and other documentation obtained by BuzzFeed News show how BP Alaska executives are struggling to “reset” the company’s safety culture after five dangerous accidents this year alone.

Zahra Hirji

Jason Leopold

More Than A Quarter Of Trump's Overseas Partners Have Tangled With The Law

Donald Trump promised voters that in office, he would work with only the “best people.” But an analysis of his international real estate deals shows that in business, he chose to work with a remarkable number of partners who have been investigated, charged, or convicted of crimes.

John Templon

The Secret Prison Corruption Epidemic The Government Doesn't Want You To Know About

Corrupt officers are smuggling hard drugs, phones, and weapons to inmates – fuelling a rise in violence inside HMP Pentonville and other prisons across Britain – but the authorities don’t want you to know about it.

Richard Holmes

Trump & Surveillance

Sources: Donald Trump Listened In On Phone Lines At Mar-A-Lago

Trump had a phone console near his bed that could connect to every phone in the estate, and several former workers said Trump used it to secretly listen in on phone calls in...

Aram Roston

Donald Trump's Personal Lawyer

Why Trump’s Lawyer Was Sued Over $350,000 He Says He Doesn’t Remember Cashing

In 1999, Michael Cohen, now the president’s personal lawyer, cashed a $350,000 check from an NHL hockey player. He was supposed to give the money to a woman in South Florida....

Anthony Cormier

Trump World

Help Us Map TrumpWorld

We logged more than 1,500 people and organizations connected to the incoming administration. Now we want your help to understand them and to add more.

John Templon, Anthony Cormier, Alex Campbell, Jeremy Singer-Vine

Pulitzer Finalist: Secrets Of A Global Super Court

Inside The Global “Club” That Helps Executives Escape Their Crimes

A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment. Part one of a BuzzFeed News...

Chris Hamby

She Told The DEA Its Agent Was A Stalker. Then Things Got Really Bad.

How a federal agent got away with terrorizing his Brazilian ex-girlfriend — even as she repeatedly begged the US government to stop him.

Daniel Wagner

"If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump, We Know Where You Live”

Trump’s casino business went bankrupt, and then a lawyer representing investors told police he got a menacing call from a man who said, “We’re going to your house for your wife and kids” if he didn’t stop “fucking with Mr. Trump.” The FBI determined the call came from a phone booth across the street from the theater where Trump was appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman.

Jason Leopold

Fake News

The True Story Behind The Biggest Fake News Hit Of The Election

BuzzFeed News found a network of over 40 sites that have published more than 750 fake news stories.

Craig Silverman

Jeremy Singer-Vine

The Dash For Cash

The Dash For Cash: Leaked Files Reveal RBS Systematically Crushed British Businesses For Profit

The RBS Files expose the bank’s secret scheme to boost revenues during the financial crisis by draining businesses of cash and stripping their assets, blowing apart its...

Heidi Blake, Jane Bradley, Tom Warren, Richard Holmes

Unmasking The Isis Beatles

My Son The ISIS Executioner

The mother of the "kind and softly spoken" Londoner outed as a member of Jihadi John's "Beatles" execution cell tells BuzzFeed News how she lost both her "perfect" sons to ISIS.

ISIS Accomplice Of "Jihadi John" Named As "Quiet And Humble" Londoner

Battered, Bereaved, and Behind Bars

He Beat Her And Murdered Her Son — And She Got 45 Years In Jail

Arlena Lindley’s boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? A BuzzFeed News investigation.

Jailed When Her Boyfriend Killed Her Son, She Is At Last Free

The New American Slavery

The New American Slavery: Invited To The U.S., Foreign Workers Find A Nightmare

The H-2 visa program invites foreign workers to do some of the most menial labor in America. Then it leaves them at the mercy of their employers. Thousands of these workers...

Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, Jeremy Singer-Vine

Unfounded: When Detectives Dismiss Rape Reports Before Investigating Them

This Police Department Tosses Aside Rape Reports When A Victim Doesn’t Resist “To The Best Of Her Ability”

Across the country, some police departments claim a vast number of rape reports are false. A BuzzFeed News investigation into a year of “unfounded” rapes in Baltimore County...

Maryland Victims No Longer Need To Prove They Physically Fought Their Rapists

Obama's Interrogation Methods

Documents Raise Disturbing Questions About Detainee Abuse Under Obama

Right after he took office, Barack Obama promised to do away with torture. But documents obtained by BuzzFeed News show for the first time how a harsh interrogation tactic...

Petraeus Helped Block Autopsy Of Afghan Man Who Died In US Custody

Inside The Financial Dealings of The Tory Party's Biggest Donor

Tories’ Biggest Donor Lycamobile Raided In Criminal Money-Laundering Probe

Nineteen people have been arrested and nine of them charged with money laundering after BuzzFeed News revealed Lycamobile’s “deeply suspicious” cash movements.

Heidi Blake, Jane Bradley, Tom Warren, Richard Holmes

In Texas It's a Crime to Be Poor

In Texas It's A Crime To Be Poor

People in Texas get thrown behind bars just because they can't afford their traffic tickets. That's a disaster for people who are already struggling. It's also completely...

She Skipped School And Couldn't Pay Her Fines — So Texas Sent Her To Jail

Revealed: National Crime Agency In Crisis Over Unlawful Searches

Trials are collapsing amid warnings that historical convictions are unsafe because of "glaring" systemic failures at UK’s serious crime body.

National Crime Agency Helped Get Two Men Sentenced To Death In Thailand

The Tennis Racket

Betting worth billions. Elite players. Violent threats. Covert messages with Sicilian gamblers. And suspicious matches at Wimbledon. Leaked files expose match-fixing evidence...

Heidi Blake

John Templon

How Donald Trump’s Enemies Fell For A Billion-Dollar Hoax

An elaborate hoax based on forged documents escalates the phenomenon of “fake news” and reveals an audience on the left that seems willing to believe virtually any claim about Trump's bad deeds.

Ken Bensinger,

Jason Leopold,

Craig Silverman

America's biggest for profit foster care company

Fostering Profits: Abuse And Neglect At America's Biggest For-Profit Foster Care Company

A BuzzFeed News investigation identified deaths, sex abuse, and blunders in screening, training, and overseeing foster parents at the nation’s largest for-profit foster care company.

In An Unmarked Grave, A Baby Who Died On For-Profit Foster Company's Watch

Mr. Ten Percent: The Man Who Built — And Bilked — American Soccer

As the World Cup opens, a tale about winning dirty: How a swindling suburban soccer dad pocketed millions as he helped make the sport in the U.S a booming success.

Ken Bensinger

The Father-Son Story Of The Two Michael Sams

Michael Sam Jr. doesn’t talk to his father, who has been caricatured in the press as an anti-gay man who abandoned his family. But there’s a lot more to the story.

Joel Anderson

A Black Body On Trial

A Black Body On Trial: The Conviction Of HIV-Positive "Tiger Mandingo"

Officially, former college wrestler Michael Johnson was on trial for not telling his sexual partners that he had HIV. But inside the courtroom, the man known as Tiger Mandingo...

HIV Conviction Of "Tiger Mandingo" Has Been Thrown Out

Meet The Obscure Company Behind America's Syria Fiasco

Meet The Obscure Company Behind America’s Syria Fiasco

A multimillion-dollar deal with a minuscule arms dealer led to the death of a US citizen, delays in arming Syrian rebels, and the purchase of weapons from a pro-Russia...

The Death Of A US Contractor Has Exposed America’s Failures In Syria

Welcome To America — Now Spy On Your Friends

When Muslim immigrants apply to become citizens, they often find the process delayed for years without explanation. Then, when they are at wit’s end, they get a visit from the FBI, with an offer they don’t dare refuse.

Talal Ansari

Siraj Datoo

How New York City Hired A Con Artist To Clean Up Ebola

The wild story of how a mortgage scammer persuaded a dead man's sister to turn over his business, his truck, and his resume — and got a government contract to clean up Ebola. A BuzzFeed News investigation into a con artist's second act.

Alex Campbell

Andrew Kaczynski

Behind A Huge Bribe, A Tale Of Pollution, Profit, And Economic Transformation

Our get-it-now economy depends on enormous, futuristic warehouses — but the people who live in their shadows face lung-stunting pollution and, in some cases, political corruption.

Jessica Garrison

Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools

The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student.

Azmat Khan

Found: The Elusive Man At The Heart Of The Hollywood Sex Abuse Scandal

Digital pioneer Marc Collins-Rector lost millions before he vanished, believing that movie mogul David Geffen wanted to destroy him. Now he's broke and alone — but the sex scandal he left behind continues to consume Hollywood. Update: Details from an official report about Collins-Rector’s arrest in Spain have been added.

Ellie Hall,

Nicolás Medina Mora,

David Noriega

Featured Reporter

Melissa Segura

Investigative Reporter

In April 2017, Segura published an investigationdetailing allegations that a Chicago police detective framed at least 51 people from a predominantly Latino community for murder. Barely a week after her story ran, the main defendant she profiled in that story was suddenly released from prison, where he had spent 23 years behind bars on a life sentence.

Segura joined BuzzFeed News in 2015 as the inaugural Columbia University/BuzzFeed News Diversity Fellow. She's particularly interested in reporting on the intersection of justice, class, and race.