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After “fighting for her life” in the ICU with pneumonia, Mary Lou Retton is now back home and recovering. “Mom is HOME & in recovery mode,” Retton’s daughter, McKenna Lane Kelley, wrote in a statement shared on Instagram. “We still have a long road of recovery ahead of us, but …

IT’S THE BROKEN RECORD that continues to play despite repeated forewarnings: An influential white man says something racist and sexist, instant public backlash ensues, and swift consequence occurs. As a Black queer millennial journalist, Jann Wenner’s offensive remarks to The New York Times weren’t shocking to me at all. His …

T he 911 call came in around 2:30 a.m on April 4. “Help, someone stabbed me,” said the voice on the phone. Police and paramedics rushed to the address he gave near the downtown waterfront, beneath the hulking steel beams of the Bay Bridge. By the time first responders arrived …

When author Tanisia Moore was growing up in California in the 1990s, the Scholastic Book Fair was one of the most exciting times of the year. Moore tells Rolling Stone she has fond memories of bringing a catalog home to her mother and pointing out different books she wanted to …

This week, Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud, related to the 2005 disappearance of Alabama high schooler Natalee Holloway. With the plea, Van der Sloot, who is already serving 28 years in Peru for the death of another young woman, also confessed to …

The president of a Detroit synagogue board was found dead outside her home Saturday morning, police confirmed. Samantha Woll, president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in downtown Detroit, suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene after officers were called Saturday morning about …

Since Elon Musk‘s takeover of X, formerly Twitter, the company’s dismantlingof content moderation teams, shift to a pay-for-verification model, and the launch of engagement-based revenue sharing have led to a flood of misinformation on the site. This has led to a social media platform struggling to keep up with misinformation …

Back in the early days of the internet, when I had to plug a phone cord into my parents’ laptop to could get into fights on Buffy the Vampire Slayer AOL forums, my friends and I were obsessed with something called SmarterChild. SmarterChild was neither smart nor a child; he, …

Mary Lou Retton’s daughter revealed Wednesday that the Olympic-winning gymnast suffered a “scary setback” in her battle with a rare form of pneumonia that has left Retton hospitalized in intensive care this month. On October 11, one of Retton’s daughters announced that her mother was “fighting for her life” and …

Skin care tutorials, fashion channels, and exercise influencers — when it comes to enhancing your appearance, TikTok is bursting with advice. Much of it should be taken with a grain of salt, but more often than not, there’s a trend taking off that prompts greater concern. In recent weeks, a …