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 »No One Loved Virgil Abloh More Than His Critics
Virgil Abloh, the multihyphenate creative who passed away on Sunday, inspired a clear and rapacious passion from his fans, which in addition to athletes, celebrities, and everyone in between, included legions of young people around the globe — devotees of his many aesthetic whims. But for Abloh’s detractors, the relationship …
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 …
Read More »How the Right Found a Hero in Kyle Rittenhouse
In a country with sane politics, the most generous thing an elected official could say about Kyle Rittenhouse is that he made a string of terrible decisions and then tragically killed two people in self defense. The other option would be to accuse him of murder. But the United States …
Read More »Alex Jones Loses Fourth Defamation Suit Over Spreading Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theories
Alex Jones was found guilty by default in a defamation case filed by the families of eight people killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, The New York Times reports. The ruling came down Monday, Nov. 15, that Jones was guilty because he …
Read More »TikTok Is Making Ed Sheeran Cool Again Question Mark?
It’s no secret that Ed Sheeran has historically been considered, for lack of a better term, uncool. The Brit’s musical output skews on the schmaltzier side, and tracks like “Perfect” and “Thinking Out Loud” have traditionally been considered wedding dance songs or the soundtrack for freshman high schoolers’ first experience …
Read More »Gabby Petito's Family Asks 'Amazing' Social Media Sleuths to Help More Missing Persons
Gabby Petito’s father, Joe Petito, has asked for the same attention given to Gabby’s case to be paid to other missing persons. “I wanna ask everyone to help all the people who are missing and need help,” he said Tuesday, as Petito’s family announced a foundation in her honor to …
Read More »Would-Be Reagan Assassin John Hinckley, Jr. Apologizes to Jodie Foster for Trying to Kill President
Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, Jr. has been granted unconditional release in June 2022 by a federal judge. Hinckley — who injured then-President Ronald Reagan and three other people in 1981 outside a hotel in Washington, D.C. — also apologized Monday to the people he shot, the American people, and …
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