Sherri Papini, the California woman whose ostensible kidnapping and three-week disappearance in 2016 became national news, was arrested Thursday, March 3, on charges that she allegedly faked her own abduction. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California confirmed Papini’s arrest and said she was charged with making …
Read More »Julia Fox Has the Internet in a Chokehold By Declaring Herself Josh Safdie's Muse in 'Uncuh Jamzzz'
It’s hard to scroll through TikTok these days without being confronted by the sound of Julia Fox‘s yassified pronunciation of her breakthrough filmUncut Gems. Her appearance on the podcastCall Her Daddy has prompted a new level of virality for the actress, New York City personality and solid candidate for most …
Read More »Supervising Sergeant on Lauren Smith-Fields Case Retires, Two Detectives Suspended Amid Internal Affairs Investigation
The Bridgeport, Conn. police officer who was a supervisor on the case of Lauren Smith-Fields has retired and two other detectives have been suspended amid a national controversy over the department’s investigation into the 23-year-old Black woman’s death. Sergeant Joseph Morales of Bridgeport Police Department retired on Friday,a representative for …
Read More »Man Allegedly Fabricated SpaceX Job Offer Then Dismembered Parents When They Discovered His 'Web of Lies'
Like many Americans his age, 23-year-old Chandler Halderson spent the past year or so living at home with his parents. His father, Bart Halderson, and his mother, Krista Halderson, believed he was working remotely for a Wisconsin insurance company while finishing up his community college coursework from his room, according …
Read More »'Winnie the Pooh,' Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' and 400,000 Sound Recordings Enter the Public Domain
A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, classic novels by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie and hundreds of thousands of pre-1923 sound recordings are among the works that entered that public domain on New Year’s Day 2022. Dorothy Parker’s first poetry collection Enough Rope, William Faulkner’s first novel Soldiers’ Pay, and books by Langston …
Read More »Anne Rice, 'Interview With the Vampire' Author, Dead at 80
Anne Rice, the author of gothic fiction whose novel Interview With the Vampire reinvented and revived the vampire genre, has died at the age of 80. Rice died Saturday following complications from a stroke, her son, author Christopher Rice, first confirmed to Anne’s Facebook page. “She left us almost nineteen …
Read More »Parents of Accused Michigan High School Shooter Arrested in Detroit After Manhunt
The parents of the accused Michigan high school shooter were arrested early Saturday morning after an hours-long manhunt that followed the couple being charged with involuntary manslaughter for their son’s shooting rampage. James and Jennifer Crumbley — the parents of 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley, accused of killing four students at Oxford …
Read More »Congratulations to 'Dick Mabbutt,' TikTok's Sexiest Locomotive
This Thanksgiving, we’re celebrating not by paying homage to the colonizers or taking an evening stroll with our cousins after dinner or even hooking up with our high school nemesis’s dad at our hometown bar. AtRolling Stone,we’re giving thanks to our favorite creators — namely, Francis Bourgeois, a young man …
Read More »Six Dead After SUV Crashes Into Wisconsin Christmas Parade
UPDATE (11/23):A sixth person, a child, has died, according to prosecutors, Associated Pressreports. *** At least five are dead after an SUV drove through a crowd gathered for the 58th annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb outside of Milwaukee, Sunday, Nov. 21. On Twitter late Sunday, city officials …
Read More »Kyle Rittenhouse, Far-Right Darling, Tells Tucker Carlson He 'Supports the BLM Movement'
Kyle Rittenhouse — the teen who was acquitted Friday after he shot three people, killing two, at a racial justice protest in Kenosha last summer — told Tucker Carlson that he is “not a racist person.” “I support the BLM movement, I support peacefully demonstrating,” he said in a clip …
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