Never discount the resolve of the American spirit in the face of adversity — in this case, the determination to learn a little bit of Mandarin Chinese to make navigating the popular TikTok alternative RedNote a little bit easier. Duolingo, the popular language learning app, revealed yesterday (Jan. 15) that …

Donald Trump’s pick to head the CIA, John Ratcliffe, took a lucrative spin through Washington’s revolving door after his time in the first Trump administration, according to a disclosure with the Senate. In recent years, Ratcliffe has worked as a consultant and advisor for several defense contractors. Two of the …

In 2019, Myka Stauffer was the voice behind a fairly successful family vlogging channel. She posted about her husband, children, and parenting journey to close to 700,000 subscribers on YouTube and with support from major brands like Pampers, Walmart, and Fabletics. No topic was off limits, so when she adopted …

Liam Payne’s friend Roger Nores is suing the late singer’s father, Geoff Payne, for defamation. In a new federal lawsuit filed in Florida Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, Nores alleges that Geoff made false and defamatory statements about him in sworn declarations to an Argentina prosecutor investigating Liam’s death, …

OK Go are back with a new single titled “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill,” which — per tradition — was paired with another clever music video from the always inventive band. The visual, co-directed by OK Go’s Damian Kulash and filmmaker Chris Buongiorno, uses 64 mobile phones to create a …

Lucy Dacus plays a work of art in the music video for her latest single, “Ankles.” For a few hours, she’s allowed to slip out of the gilded frame holding her to the wall and experience the bustle of city life. Dacus returns to her painting in the end, but …

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the grounds that it causes unconstitutional suffering. “Because it cannot be said with reasonable confidence that the current execution protocol ‘not only …

In the earliest days of MTV, few songs were more inescapable than Devo’s fractured New Wave classic “Whip It.” With hardly any bands making music videos when MTV launched in 1981, the fledgling network, desperate for content, played the song nearly every hour, turning “Whip It” into one of the …

It’s a new year with the same beef. On Wednesday, Drake upped the ante of the Great Rap War by filing a federal lawsuit against his label, Universal Music Group (UMG), for defamation and harassment for their support of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” UMG also distributes Lamar’s music through …

Whispers about English author Neil Gaiman‘s behavior with women have circulated in the publishing world for some time, but a bombshell article published in New York magazine this week laid out a horrifying series of allegations that left readers sickened and stunned. Multiple women interviewed for the piece accused him …