Lil Nas X did it again
 THE BIG STORY
"We're en route in a grand theft auto golf cart to the Capitol building right now."
According to a new indictment unsealed Thursday, two more alleged Capitol rioters have been added to the Oath Keepers conspiracy case. The pair arrived at the scene on Jan. 6 in full battle gear after swerving around law-enforcement vehicles in a golf cart.
Roberto Minuta, 36, of Prosper, Tex., and Joshua James, 33, of Arab, Ala. were arrested and charged in March, but were indicted by a federal grand jury this week — along with ten others associated with the Oath Keepers.
According to the new indictment, in the hours before the Capitol was breached, Minuta, James and another unidentified individual, known in the indictment as "Person Ten," had a series of phone calls with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes.
Meanwhile, an alleged Capitol rioter will stay in jail after he threatened to lynch a Capitol Police officer. As a heads up, the story contains graphic racist language.  Tear gas is released into a crowd of rioters, with one wielding a Confederate battle flag featuring a gun that reads "Come and Take It," on Jan. 6. Shannon Stapleton / Reuters STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
The WHO's report on COVID-19's origins shows we may never know where the coronavirus came from
Experts spent a month gathering information in China. They spent even longer assembling the findings into a substantial report on the origins of the virus that has flung the world into a global pandemic.
Yet for all their efforts, here is the conclusion of that report: We still don't know where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, came from — and it's possible we never will.
The most likely explanation, according to experts convened by the World Health Organization and the Chinese government, is that the coronavirus transmitted from its natural animal host to people via an intermediate wild species that was farmed for food.
Efforts to identify the animal hosts for the virus have so far drawn a blank. SNAPSHOTS
They made it into the US. With some help, so did their pets. Immigrants entering the US were worried they would have to leave their pets behind, but a small group of volunteers is helping to keep them together.
A judge let a transgender neo-Nazi off without prison time because he had endured "enough" suffering. Taylor Parker-Dipeppe, a former member of a violent neo-Nazi group who tormented journalists across the US, won't be sentenced after a federal judge said the man, who is transgender, had suffered enough from abusive family members and high school bullies.
Here's why BuzzFeed News is no longer hyphenating antisemitism. The excellent folks at our copy desk spend a lot of time thinking about the minutiae of language, and I am grateful for that. They explain why we're adjusting "anti-Semitism" to "antisemitism" in our style guide because "the history behind the term has made it clear that this is a necessary change."
A photographer captured the moment a 98-year-old got to see her family after a year apart. For over a year, Mark Uomoto couldn't see his 98-year-old mom, Yoshia, in person at an assisted living facility except through a window. Right before they were reunited, Yoshia was told to close her eyes. And then when she opened them...  Lindsey Wasson / Reuters. RACISM AND MEDICINE
A top medical journal said "no physician is racist." Now scientists are boycotting.
First, you should know that the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, is one of the world's most-read research periodicals. It is prestigious and well-respected. For clinicians and researchers, getting published in JAMA can be a ticket to securing a new job or getting promoted.
You need to know this in order to understand the significance of the frustration and anger that JAMA has invited in the medical community. JAMA released a podcast episode in which its host, top journal editor Edward Livingston, dismissed the idea that systemic racism in medicine existed.
"Many people like myself are offended by the implication that we are somehow racist," Livingston said in an episode of the podcast titled "Structural Racism for Doctors—What Is It?" Online, the journal promoted the podcast with a tweet that said, "No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?"
Now, a small subset of scholars have publicly declared that they will not submit to the journal until it addresses its failures. They say they no longer trust that JAMA has the knowledge and sensitivity to evaluate research on racial disparities.  Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, Monica McLemore, and Deborah Karasek, three UCSF scientists who are boycotting the Journal of the American Medical Association. Sidra Greene for BuzzFeed News TAKE A BREAK WITH US What you really need this weekend are these longreads
The pandemic is ending and our optimized, ever-distant future is coming back. For a brief period, the pandemic discouraged thinking of the present as an under-construction version of a golden, optimized future. Katherine Miller notes that as more people get vaccinated, this disruption is proving to be temporary: "For a time, the entire machine broke down and one could see the ways in which living with a foot in the future...saps some real life and logic out of the present."
Lil Nas X did it again. Lil Nas X's new music video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" has conservatives riled up. But, as Michael Blackmon writes, it's more than just a controversial stunt: "Lil Nas X's approach signals confronting one's fears head-on while crafting a new narrative, one that rejects the good versus evil dichotomy in favor of a story that works for you."
How to do nothing and not feel guilty about it. It's not easy to do nothing. You'd think it is, but it isn't. In this excerpt from her book, The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen, Maartje Willems gives some useful advice. The first step: start small. Give yourself permission to enjoy what you've accomplished, Elamin 📝 This letter was edited and brought to you by Elamin Abdelmahmoud and BuzzFeed News. You can always reach us here.
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