Republican opposition to the two most sensible and ways to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, vaccines and masks, has led lawmakers to recommend a variety of quack treatments for the disease that has killed nearly a million Americans. There’s ivermectin. There’s hydroxychloroquine. There’s, as Trump floated last spring, injecting oneself …
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 »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 »Hailey Whitters Talks Fashion Inspiration, Perseverance With 'Rolling Stone'
Singer-songwriter Hailey Whitters brought a little country flair to New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom earlier in November, opening the venue for country trio Midland. Rolling Stone News caught up with Whitters on her tour bus before the show, where she discussed her plethora of D.I.Y. crafts, her country fashion inspiration, …
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 »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 »The Beatles Work Out 'I've Got a Feeling' and George Ribs Paul in New 'Get Back' Clip
The Beatles work through an early version of “I’ve Got a Feeling” in the first full clip from Peter Jackson’s upcoming documentary, The Beatles: Get Back. Though the clip lasts just over a minute, it offers a fascinating glimpse into one aspect of the group’s creative process. Paul McCartney leads …
Read More »Ludacris and Gunna Talk Atlanta Hip-Hop, Branching Out Into Movies, and 1993 Acuras in Our Musicians on Musicians Podcast
Ludacris and Gunna represent two different eras of hip-hop, with two different styles — there was even a recent peanut butter commercial that played on the difference between their flows. But there wasn’t much of a divide at all when they got together in West Midtown, Atlanta, late this summer …
Read More »Dave Chappelle Flummoxed That DaBaby Was 'Canceled' for Homophobic Remarks, But Not Shooting a Man
Dave Chappelle waded into the never-ending DaBaby controversy in his new stand-up special, The Closer, wondering why the rapper’s career was supposedly derailed for homophobic remarks instead of fatally shooting a man in 2018. Chappelle — who has garnered criticism of his own for various jokes about queer and trans …
Read More »AOC Defends Pelosi Amid Backlash From Moderate Democrats Over Infrastructure Bill
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is defending Speaker Nancy Pelosi — and progressives’ plan for passing both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and a reconciliation bill expanding the social safety net in tandem — after centrist Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) wrote a letter accusing the speaker of breaking an agreement with moderates. …
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