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Buzzfeed offers a look “behind the weird, embarrassing, vaguely pathetic ObamaCare battle over twentysomethings:” With the success of the Affordable Care Act hinging on the ability of the health care exchanges to attract a critical mass of young, healthy people,

Actor Shia LaBeouf’s short film about a conflicted movie critic isn’t just getting bad reviews. It’s being trashed as unabashed plagiarism, and the actor is fessing up via his Twitter page. The 12-minute film by LaBeouf, HowardCantour.com, featuring comedian Jim

Prominent American painter and philanthropist George W. Bush–the post-aughts iteration of the former United States President–has managed a resurgence as a beloved personality and even online “hipster icon.” So warns Vanity Fair, asking with dread how a man so “uncool”

Buzzfeed is reporting that the internet startup that was chosen by the Obama White House to sell Obamacare enrollment to young people may have offered free health care as a prize for the best idea to help them make the

After working feverishly to reelect Barack Obama by, among other things, covering up the truth about ObamaCare until after the election and vetting Mitt Romney’s garage during, it is obvious that BuzzFeed is now switching gears to feverishly elect Hillary

UPDATE #2 (6:03 PM EST): A new tweet from Sharkeisha may suggest law enforcement is investigating the events captured in this video. #FUCKTHEPOLICE — SHARKEISHA BOSS ASS (@LilButtSHAR) November 27, 2013 On Wednesday, the hashtag #Sharkeisha suddenly began trending across

The persistent theme of much mainstream media coverage of President Barack Obama is the earnest effort to justify the leap of faith the American electorate made in 2008–a leap that the media themselves convinced the voters to make. Buzzfeed’s Ben

A poll released by ABC News Tuesday shows that President Obama’s approval rating has hit an all-time low in this particular poll. But the biggest fallout has come from 18 to 29-year-olds, a demographic widely considered to be Obama’s base.

On Monday, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), who had been pushing for new sanctions against the Iranian government, confirmed to BuzzFeed that he had received a call from the White House encouraging him to end support for the sanctions. According to

Noted defense lawyer, scholar, and pro-Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz has warned the Clintons that they will need to distance themselves from Sid Blumenthal unless he stops defending his son Max’s anti-Israel book. The book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel,

According to former Barack Obama aides Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau, Obama is a “voracious” reader, whose favorite columnists include Josh Barro of the Business Insider, Jonathan Chait of New York Magazine, and Ezra Klein of the Washington Post.  Vietor

The woman who was the face of ObamaCare has disappeared from the site, and her identity has been hushed up so well that despite efforts by networks as large as CNN, she remains anonymous. Instead of being emblazoned with the

Buzzfeed reports that there is a silver lining to the government shutdown: while hardliners on both sides were fighting, moderates on both sides had a chance to sneak away and try to find common ground. Buzzfeed notes that the Future

Senate Minority leader’s office claims controversial pork spending in debt deal came from a sub-comittee. Kentucky outlet WFPL reported Wednesday that a proposal to end the federal government shutdown and increase the U.S. debt ceiling by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who scored the scoop of the decade with the Edward Snowden/National Security Agency’s surveillance program story, is leaving the Guardian newspaper.  BuzzFeed reports that Greenwald will be leaving for a “once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity” described as “a

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will campaign tonight at a get-out-the vote rally in Morristown, New Jersey with Steve Lonegan, the GOP candidate in tomorrow’s special election to replace the late Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in the United States Senate.

HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 10 (UPI) — A Connecticut weatherman has attained international fame by mistaking cat vomit for Grape Nuts and eating it during a live news broadcast. Scot Haney, the weatherman for WFSB-TV, Hartford, picked up what he and

While the left-wing BuzzFeed made the bizarre decision to try to make the NRA’s respectful silence part of the story surrounding Monday’s Navy Yard shooting massacre, the outlet now probably wishes they had taken the NRA’s lead. Instead, BuzzFeed followed

Firing at the United States in the midst of the shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., Russian parliamentary foreign affairs committee member Alexey Pushkov tweeted, “A new shootout at Navy headquarters in Washington – a lone gunman and

On Monday, the AFL-CIO amended its constitution to include “gender identity” and “gender expression” to its objectives and principles; the constitution now says that the mission of the union is to “encourage all workers without regard to race, creed, color,

Former Obama Syria advisor Frederic Hof has come out foursquare against President Obama’s activities with regard to the Assad regime. “The events of the past ten days suggest that there was no administration forethought to the possibility of a major

The Smoking Gun is reporting that BuzzFeed reporter Michael Hasting, who died on June 18 in a fiery one-car accident in Los Angeles, had meth and marijuana in his system at the time of the crash. The meth isn’t believed

While some wish to deny that America is a predominantly Christian country, Buzzfeed’s religious map of the House of Representatives suggests otherwise. Of the 435 members of the House, there are 22 Jews, 2 Muslims, 2 Buddhists, 1 Hindu, (Tulsi Gabbard

After disgraced New York Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner intimated that Hillary Clinton is gearing up for a run for the White House, the Clinton camp immediately came out to say they had “no clue” what Weiner was talking about. In

CNNBuzzfeed: BuzzFeed Brews with New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Hosted by BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Filmed LIVE in New York.

On Monday, embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said he knew what role Huma Abedin–his wife and Hillary Clinton confidante–would have in Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, but he would not reveal what exactly her role would be.  Clinton

CNNBuzzfeed: BuzzFeed Brews with New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Hosted by BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith. Filmed LIVE in New York.

Without noting what change has been made (there is a generic timestamp about an update), what had been a Sunday headline that correctly noted just how catastrophic a pro-ObamaCare event in Centreville, Virginia, had gone, is now a much more

Democrats, especially female members, piled on Republicans like Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), Mitt Romney, and Rush Limbaugh in 2012, accusing them of insensitivity and waging a so-called war on women. But as even the left-leaning BuzzFeed has observed, female Democrats

On Wednesday evening, Ben Smith of BuzzFeed appeared on Piers Morgan Live to discuss the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal. Gloria Allred appeared on the same show, and talked about how one of the women she represented in the Anthony Weiner

BuzzFeed Politics claimed an exclusive find as the top story on the site’s homepage Tuesday evening–the presumed identity of the young woman caught up in Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. Note: the images of the woman’s face are uncensored at

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” (MAIG) is losing many of its members–mayors who signed up excited, but are departing disenchanted. Many who signed on to MAIG got more than they bargained for and others were