This week has brought some good news and some bad news, as Jon Stewart recounted on a new episode of The Daily Show last night. The late-night host spent the majority of his monologue segment celebrating the news that President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria had fallen to rebel forces, …

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned poet, activist, book author, and educatorknown for her thoughtful work on race and gender, died at age 81 on Monday, Dec. 9 in a hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia. The cause was complications from lung cancer, a disease with which she was originally diagnosed in 1995. “The …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There’s no denying it: 2024 was the year of the musical. We saw Kander and Ebb’s classic Kit Kat Club come back to life. Witnessed green and pink …

After a manhunt that lasted several days, police have finally arrested a suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione was charged in Manhattan with one count of murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree possession of …

Hannah Hiatt, an influencer on TikTok, is being investigated after police and Child Protective Services received reports over video she shared of her son flinching in an interaction with his father that went viral, People reports. “There is a detective assigned to the case,” a spokesperson for the Ogden, Utah, …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As we watched acrobats twirl and twist across the air, committing to gravity-defying feats amidst the backdrop of elaborate sets — a full-sized pirate ship, two story-tall books …

Since jump-starting the Eras Tour in March 2023, Taylor Swift has given $197 million in bonuses to her performers and crew members, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Crew members, who received the bonus on top of their salaries, include truck drivers, caterers, instrument technicians, the merchandise team, the lighting and sound …

A group of 75 Nobel Prize winners have issued an open letter calling on members of the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. “Placing Mr. Kennedy in charge of DHHS would put the public’s health in jeopardy and undermine America’s …

Last Wednesday, social media greeted the shocking news about the evidently targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan with morbid mockery, blasting the U.S. insurance industry for profiting off the denial of life-saving medical treatments. The next day, the New York Police Department released two more images …

Luigi Mangione, 26, was detained in Altoona, Pennsylvania Monday, Dec. 9, and eventually arrested and charged in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione was picked up five days after Thompson was killed outside the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City early in the morning on …