Ayman Soliman, a beloved former children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area, has been jailed by Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement since July 9. Soliman was finally released today, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. Just before 1:15 p.m., Adam Allen — one of the Cincinnati …
Read More »Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Deportation of Hundreds of Guatemalan Children
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to send hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children in the U.S. to Guatemala after lawyers for the children made a pre-dawn emergency appeal for 10 of the minors, who were already boarded on airplanes. Shortly after 1 a.m. ET on Sunday, …
Read More »Trump Wants to Deport a Children's Hospital Chaplain to Egypt, Where He 'Faces Death'
CINCINNATI —In recent years, if you lived in the Queen City metropolitan area and your young child was severely ill, or dying of a terminal condition, chances are good that you encountered Ayman Soliman, who until recently was a Muslim chaplain at the renowned Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Whatever your faith …
Read More »What Surviving Cancer at Age Four Taught Me
The headaches began a week before diagnosis. I’d had migraines as a toddler, but these were worse – and each night, the fevers were brutal. I’m talking windburn bad, 104 degrees, the kind that full-strength Advil didn’t touch. Then my little stomach started to swell. I was four years old …
Read More »A Momfluencer's Son Drowned. Now Other Parents Are Rethinking How Much They Share Online
On Sunday, three-year-old Trigg Kiser died following a drowning incident. According to local NBC affiliate 12 News, authorities responded to a call in Chandler, Arizona, where they found the boy unconscious after being pulled out of a pool. The child was airlifted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital. The circumstances of the …
Read More »RFK Jr. and Republicans Are Dismantling a Health Achievement: Fluoride in Water
Disregarding the advice of medical professionals, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republicans are leading a charge against what has been heralded as one of the greatest public health achievements: fluoride in public water. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned fluoride from public water on Thursday, …
Read More »Piper Rockelle Has a Lot to Say About That Netflix Documentary
P iper Rockelle’s pug, Frank, scuttles around the room as she sits cross-legged on her bed in a pink hoodie and pajama pants patterned with teddy bears, the shades drawn against the waning California sunlight. Her long brown hair falls over her shoulders and she clicks her French-tipped nails together …
Read More »Lawyers Say Trump's Admin Is Endangering Moms of Deported American Kids
The news that three U.S. citizen children were illegally removed from Louisiana and flown to Honduras last Friday has swept the nation. President Donald Trump’s administration continues to double down, insisting that the two mothers wanted to take their children with them, despite the deported families’ legal counsel vehemently denying …
Read More »Measles Is Coming Back. These Moms Want to Vaccinate Their Kids Early
As a mother of a 10-month-old infant, I worry a lot — about her sleep schedule, whether she’s eating enough, if she’s hitting her developmental milestones. What I didn’t expect to have to worry about as a parent in 2025 was measles, a preventable disease which was considered eliminated in …
Read More »The True Story of John / Joan
This story was originally published in the Dec. 11, 1997, issue of Rolling Stone. IN LATE JUNE 1997, I arrive at an address in a working-class suburb in the North American Midwest. On the front lawn, a child’s bicycle lies on its side; an eight-year-old secondhand Toyota is parked at …
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