EU president blames Russia for global food crisis, GrandeLash receives backlash from Asian users, and Apple is finally freeing us from the agony of accidentally sending the wrong text message
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Jan. 6 was only 18 months ago. The stakes for extremists involved in the riots just got even higher. | Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, and Joe Biggs gather during a Stop the Steal protest in Washington, DC, on Dec. 12, 2020. Stephanie Keith / Getty Images | Federal prosecutors on Monday ramped up the stakes for Proud Boys leaders charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, announcing a new seditious conspiracy indictment. Henry "Enrique" Tarrio — the Proud Boys' former national chair — and his four codefendants had previously been charged with conspiring to obstruct Congress's certification of the Electoral College vote. But Monday's latest set of charges widened the scope of the alleged criminal conduct, accusing them of conspiring to "oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force."
Why does this matter if the Proud Boys leaders were already facing heavy charges and Jan. 6 feels like it happened 90 crises ago? Seditious conspiracy is a rarely charged offense in federal prosecutions. More than 800 people have been charged to date in connection with Jan. 6, and this is only the seditious conspiracy case brought forward so far. The latest Proud Boys indictment signals prosecutors' focus on the central role that extremist movements played in the attack.
| | | STAYING ON TOP OF THIS EU president blames Russia for global food crisis | - In Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, Ukrainian troops managed to fight back against Russians in what CNBC reporter Natasha Turak has described as "brutal street fighting." However, Russia still has a hold over the majority of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region.
- European Union President Charles Michel says Russia is "solely responsible" for the global food crisis, BBC reports. Ukraine is a large exporter for cooking oil, grain, and more, and Michel accused Russia's war of limiting food supplies and driving up prices worldwide.
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| | | GRANDELASH MEDICAL CONTROVERSY This eyelash serum that keeps going viral on TikTok is being sued for its side effects | GrandeLash-MD by Grande Cosmetics Kenneth Bachor / BuzzFeed News | Sold at $65 a bottle at Sephora, GrandeLash-MD by Grande Cosmetics has become the subject of tens of millions of TikToks online praising its effects. But recently, the eyelash growth serum has become the subject of multiple videos by Asian women speaking about side effects they say they've experienced from using the product — as well as a lawsuit in federal court. Katie Oh, a student from Philadelphia, told BuzzFeed News she used it every night for around four months. "I stopped after I noticed that my eyelids got thinner," she said. "I started to notice that my eyelids were getting super dry and inflamed." Dr. Prem Tripathi, a plastic surgeon from Livermore, California, said that potential side effects from lash growth serums include changes to a person's eye color and reduction in eyelid fat. Tripathi added that because clinical trials for beauty products often have fewer non-white participants, sometimes side effects on different ethnic groups only become clearer once a product is sold commercially. An FDA spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that isopropyl cloprostenate, the growth ingredient in GrandeLASH-MD, has not been FDA tested or approved. Grande Cosmetics is also facing legal action from customer Alexandra Mandel. According to her federal lawsuit, "Ms. Mandel stopped using GrandeLASH-MD when she developed a growth in her eye that baffled her doctors who did not know she was using the GrandeLASH-MD and that had to be surgically removed." | WANNA FEEL OLD? The 2000s are now period TV | BuzzFeed News; Hulu; Alamy | To many people's horror, the imaginary line between the past and the recent past is continuing to shift onscreen. "When I was a kid in the '90s, '70s was a period piece, but now we're in 2022 and the 2000s is just as far away as watching a period piece about the '70s in the '90s, which is weird to think about," said Grace Alie, the production designer for Hulu's comedy PEN15, which is set in a middle school in the year 2000. PEN15 is just one of a handful of shows that have recently hit screens that are set at least partly in the early years of the 21st century, including HBO Max's The Staircase and Hulu's The Dropout. Even the upcoming seasons of The Crown are set to take royal watchers into the 2000s. For Americans who grew up in the '90s, they were surrounded by period TV shows and films like The Wonder Years, That '70s Show, and The Wedding Singer that felt like they were from long-ago eras. But if made today, the original Wonder Years would begin in 2002, That '70s Show would kick off in the year 2000, and The Wedding Singer would be making fun of what we all wore in the first year of the Obama administration. "When you think back, 20 years doesn't feel that far away," Alie said. "And it is, which is kind of a shocking thing to accept." | | | Trends are always changing all the time. Stick with what you like and don't stress about the rest, Alexa | | | BuzzFeed, Inc.
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