Brianna Sacks
Brianna Sacks is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles.
Contact this reporter at brianna.sacks@buzzfeed.com
A School Employee Was Removed From Campus After Shouting “Build The Wall” At Striking Los Angeles Teachers
Educators from the nation’s second-largest school district are in the throes of an ongoing strike for better pay, smaller class sizes, and more resources.
Brianna Sacks
• One hour ago
A Powerful Winter Storm Has Killed At Least 9 People And Left Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power
The storm covered large swaths of the US in snow, slush, and ice, leaving a trail of deadly car crashes and widespread power outages in its wake.
Brianna Sacks
• 3 days ago
GoFundMe Is Refunding All $20 Million In Donations To Build Trump's Wall After The Plans Changed
The Iraq War veteran behind the crowdsourcing effort suddenly changed his plans Friday on what to do with the funds.
David Mack
• 6 days ago
"I Felt Dirty": Former Employees Of The Veteran Crowdfunding Trump's Wall Say He Pushed Fake News To Get Rich
"He never wanted the truth. It was all just for clicks, and the more inflammatory, the better," a former employee said. "I felt dirty writing the stuff.”
Brianna Sacks
• 6 days ago
Chuck Schumer And Nancy Pelosi Responding To Trump's Border Speech Is Everybody's Disappointed Parents
“What did we say about smoking reefer in the backyard, KIMBERLEY!? What did we say?!”
Brianna Sacks
• 8 days ago
Joshua Tree National Park Is Closing After Visitors Damaged Trees During The Government Shutdown
Visitors have damaged some of the namesake trees in Southern California's beloved desert park, which already had overflowing trash cans and unusable restrooms, officials say.
Brianna Sacks
• 8 days ago
A Man Has Been Arrested After 3 People Were Killed At A California Bowling Alley
Police said Reginald Wallace opened fire on people during a chaotic fight at a bowling alley near Los Angeles Friday night.
Brianna Sacks
• 9 days ago
A Saudi Woman Says She Tried To Escape Her Family But Is Being Held In A Bangkok Airport Against Her Will
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun went viral after pleading for help on Twitter, saying that she is being held against her will after trying to escape her family's "torture."
Talal Ansari
• 10 days ago
A Parkland School Safety Report Calls For Arming Teachers And Spending More On Security
Nearly a year after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, a tough, sweeping report concludes that students are still unsafe and officials are not doing enough to fix it.
Brianna Sacks
• 13 days ago
A California Women's March Was Canceled Over Concerns That It Was "Overwhelmingly White"
Explaining the decision, organizers said they had been "lacking representation from several perspectives in our community."
Brianna Sacks
• 17 days ago
New Surveillance Video Appears To Show The Proud Boys Starting The New York Fight
The newly released footage shows two members of the far-right group charging at a handful of protesters that October night.
Brianna Sacks
• 24 days ago
A Major Turkey Supplier Is Recalling More Than 164,000 Pounds Of Raw Meat Because It Could Have Salmonella
The ongoing salmonella outbreak has sickened 216 people across 38 states.
Brianna Sacks
• 24 days ago
The Veteran Who Has Raised Over $12 Million To Fund Trump's Wall Made Money Off Peddling Conspiracy Theories And Fake News
Brian Kolfage, a decorated Iraq War vet who's spearheading a massive crowdfunding campaign to build Trump's border wall, has been spreading false content on the internet for years.
Brianna Sacks
• 26 days ago
Hate To Break It To You, But The Amazing Glitter Bomb Package Video Is Pretty Much Staged
CAN'T WE JUST HAVE ONE THING, 2018, ONE THING.
Brianna Sacks
• 27 days ago
Facebook Allowed Netflix, Spotify, And A Bank To Read And Delete Users’ Private Messages
The social network also allowed Microsoft’s search engine Bing to see the names of nearly all users’ friends without their consent, according to a report.
Pranav Dixit
• 29 days ago
People Are Like HELL YES After This Guy Pranked Package Thieves With Glitter And Fart Spray
To all the packages we've lost before.
Brianna Sacks
• 29 days ago
Betsy DeVos's Commission Says A Way To Prevent School Shootings Is To Drop Disciplinary Protections For Minority Students
The Trump administration's school safety commission report also recommends adding "highly trained armed personnel" if schools choose to do so.
Mary Ann Georgantopoulos
• One month ago
California Has A Serious Housing Crisis, So Officials Voted To Build A Massive Community In A High-Risk Fire Zone
“You can put fire-resistant structures in those areas and you can put hundreds of feet of clearance around them and still everything will burn.”
Brianna Sacks
• One month ago