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Biden's task force identified more than 3,900 immigrant children who were separated from their families under Trump
As the Biden administration ramps up its efforts to reunite families separated at the southern border under Donald Trump, a task force has identified 3,913 children who were separated from their parents.
A Department of Homeland Security official said in a call to reporters, "Children were unjustly ripped from the arms of their mothers and loved ones and forced to separate. It is no experience any family should have to live through."
Officials said the new tally accounts for nearly all separation cases, but said there is still a lot of work required to undo the damage to the families.
The 3,913 number is lower than a previous estimate of more than 5,400 children advocates believed were separated from their parents at the border. The family reunification task force said the discrepancy stemmed from how officials identified which children qualified.
In May, the Biden administration reunited seven families, bringing the total number of reunited parents and children to 1,786.  An asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego in 2018. Gregory Bull / AP STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
Four members of a family were killed after a driver crashed into them because they were Muslim, police said
Police in London, Ontario, Canada said a driver who crashed into a family walking down a sidewalk — killing four people and injuring a child — targeted them because they were Muslim.
The victims, who police said were all part of the same family, were waiting to cross an intersection when a black pickup truck mounted the curb and struck them.
The victims are Salman Afzaal, 46; Madiha Salman, 44; Yumna Salman, 15; and the family's 74-year-old grandmother who has not yet been named. Fayez Salman, a 9-year-old boy, was being treated at a local hospital for what police described as serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police believe the killing was intentional and that the family was targeted because of their faith. A police spokesperson said, "There is evidence that this was a planned, premeditated act motivated by hate."
Police did not provide any details about how they came to that conclusion. SNAPSHOTS
A lot of the internet went down this morning. Thousands of people were unable to access major websites including Amazon, Twitch, Pinterest, and Reddit, as well as news websites like BuzzFeed News and the New York Times, among others. Early reports and tweets suggested that a glitch at Fastly, an internet content delivery network service, was responsible for the outage.
The Justice Department will keep fighting to defend Donald Trump in a case related to a rape allegation. The Justice Department is keeping up the previous administration's fight to defend former president Donald Trump against a private defamation lawsuit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of rape.
A highly controversial Alzheimer's treatment won FDA approval. Scientists say we don't know if it actually works. In one sense, aducanumab is a historic drug — but many scientists say its approval is a triumph of business interests over public health.
Ellie Kemper apologized for participating in the Veiled Prophet Ball that had an "unquestionably racist" past. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt actor said she was not aware of the organization's history when she was 19, but added that "ignorance is no excuse." NDA AND CHILL
Want to have sex with a celeb? Sign an NDA.
Let's say you find yourself in a position where things are about to get hot and heavy with an A-list celebrity. Or maybe you matched with one on a dating app, and now you're about to start a little fling. First: how fun for you!
Second: You may find yourself signing a non-disclosure agreement. It's becoming more and more common to be asked to sign NDAs before one-night stands or romantic relationships with celebrities and other prominent people, according to entertainment lawyers and publicists we spoke with.
We also spoke with women who've been asked to sign them. And it's not just men who are doing the asking — some women celebrities have also been asking for signed NDAs before sex.
Read Hallie Lieberman's report on the celebrities asking for NDAs before sex — and their legal consequences TELL ME WHY This 39-year-old mom went viral on TikTok for sharing pics from when she starred in a Backstreet Boys video
You act like you don't remember the video… but you remember the video. The video for "I Want It That Way" is perhaps the most late 90s cultural artifact.
For Devon Daniels, a writer and mom of four, it's also her proof to her children that she was once very cool. She appears in the video, as part of the crowd of fans yelling behind the band — and, perhaps most famously, when she's screaming and reaching out to them.
"I've tried to explain to [my kids] over the years, and they have not cared. I've shown them the video, and they're like, 'Cool, mom, cool,'" she said. But this week, she has more proof — she posted a TikTok about her brief role and it instantly went viral. Nick Carter even commented.
Extra fun fact: One woman, Daniels said, messaged her to say she played her in the Blink-182 music video "All the Small Things," which was, iconically, a spoof of the Backstreet Boys video. I hope you feel connected to your values today, 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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