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Back in June, a South African YouTube show about religious prophecies and visions featured an interview with a guest named Joshua Mhlakela. Though later described by viewers as a “pastor,” Mhlakela only said that he was a “simple person” without a church title who had experienced a vision of the …

Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He’s covered history’s most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the Revolutions and History of Rome podcasts — the latter being a 179 episode, 73 hour long behemoth exploring the trajectory of the Roman Republic and Empire from conception to collapse. He knows …

Sept. 17 marked the series finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty, the hit YA adaptation that grew from a one-off Amazon Prime show to one of the defining romance series for ages 16 to 30. The story follows Isabel Belly Conklin (Lola Tung) and her love affair with the …

Dozens of Americans across a variety of professional fields have been fired or put on leave from their jobs after conservatives contacted their employers over social media comments they made about right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last week, following his assassination. Others have been punished for small acts of defiance — …

After Ariel Fulmer’s life collapsed, she hopped out of her husband’s car and walked around a New Jersey airport with no sense of direction. “The aftermath of that was messy,” Ariel tells Rolling Stone. “I was sitting in the airport waiting for a flight that was [almost] six hours later, …

The bad omens came early at this year’s Burning Man — the infamously wild, weeklong celebration of art, music, and unrestrained self-expression held at the end of every summer in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert — portending a particularly extra-ordinary burn. During the first weekend of the 10-day event, when thousands …

Martin Suarez is the only deep-undercover FBI agent in history to have infiltrated a Colombian drug cartel. In 1988, he transformed into “Manny” and became a high-level smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel. Over the next four years, he smuggled $1 billion worth of cocaine into the United States — …

O n the morning of March 19, 2000, Florian Reither learned what it felt like to scrape the sky. He’d just stepped out of the 91st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center through a hollowed-out window. Now, as Sunday’s dawn cracked, Reither — dressed in a …

For years, politicians and the American public have clamored for more disclosures about the activities and connections of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who surrounded himself with powerful, famous friends while trafficking hundreds of young women and girls for sex with the help of his now-imprisoned accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. As …

Singer D4vd performed in Minneapolis as planned Tuesday night amid a police probe into the “severely decomposed” body that was found in the trunk of a Tesla registered to the platinum-selling artist. A source tells Rolling Stone that D4vd was notified of the investigation and is “cooperating” with authorities while …