Former South Carolina Gov. and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing scrutiny for failing to say slavery was the cause of the Civil War when asked by a voter on Wednesday. She’s trying to clean up the mess now, but Haley’s latest comments reflect her longstanding political approach. …
Read More »Best Music of 2023: Staff Picks
Ask anyone who works at Rolling Stone what they’ve been listening to lately, and you’re guaranteed to get an interesting answer. In the final weeks of the year, more than 30 colleagues from across the departments that make RS submitted their personal picks for the 10 best albums of 2023. …
Read More »Tucker Carlson's Quest for a Digital Empire Is Getting Weird
On Christmas Eve, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released a “surprise” collaboration with disgraced actor Kevin Spacey. During the interview, Spacey, who earlier this year was acquitted on charges of sexual assault brought against him by several young men, embodied his House of Cards character Frank Underwood and delivered …
Read More »'Parasite' Star Lee Sun-kyun Dead at 48
Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor best known internationally for his performance in Parasite, died Wednesday, Dec. 27, in Seoul, The New York Times reports. He was 48. Lee’s body was found in a parked car, not long after his manager had reported him missing. Authorities are investigating his death …
Read More »Trump Demands MAGA Group Give Him 'Millions.' That's Not Legal, Experts Say
His former aide has been making bank off his name for years and he wants his cut, right now. At least that’s how former President Donald Trump sees it. “It’s my fucking money!” the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner privately vented in October, referring to an alleged sum in the tens …
Read More »Taylor Swift Fan at Brazil Concert Died of Heat Exhaustion
The cause of death for Ana Clara Benevides, the 23-year-old Swiftie who died at Taylor Swift‘s concert in Rio de Janeiro, has been revealed. The AP obtained a copy of a forensics report Wednesday, Dec. 27, confirming that Benevides died of heat exhaustion. The Forensic Medical Institute in Rio said …
Read More »'It's Not a History Lesson, It's a Warning': Inside the Making of 'The Zone of Interest'
Jonathan Glazer was, by his own admission, a little lost. The writer-director behind Sexy Beast and Under the Skin had been chasing an unformed idea for a movie for years, uncertain of where he would go with the story or what he wanted to say about the subject. “It wasn’t …
Read More »Greta Lee First Got Rejected from 'Past Lives' Casting. Then They Wanted Someone 'Older'
Sometimes what’s meant for you ends up finding you months later. In a new interview with Deadline, actress Greta Lee spoke about getting cast as Nora Moon for Celine Song‘s Past Lives almost a year after first being rejected from the role. In the interview, Lee explained that she received …
Read More »Trump: 'I Was Doing my Duty as President' by Claiming the Election Was Rigged
Donald Trump claimed that he was merely doing his “duty” as president by alleging that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen,” therefore believes he deserves “immunity” from prosecution. “I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was over. I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged …
Read More »Bad Bunny's 'X100PRE' Is A Love Letter To Nineties Kids from Puerto Rico
When Bad Bunny dropped his first-ever album X100PRE, it spread through the internet like good gossip. It was Christmas Eve in 2018, the same year that Bad Bunny had exploded as a global megastar — appearing on The Tonight Show and singing during Alesso’s set at Tomorrowland — despite being …
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