Colourpop Cosmetics is under heavy fire after creating a Harry Potter–themed makeup collection. The brand has received intense criticism from fans calling the collaboration not a celebration of the famed magical world, but support for its heavily criticized author J.K Rowling. One of the biggest online beauty brands, Colourpop is …
Read More »Royal Family Rushes to Queen Elizabeth II's Side After She's Placed 'Under Medical Supervision' Over Health Concerns
Queen Elizabeth II, the U.K.’s longest-running monarch, is under medical supervision at her home in Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health. The condition is serious enough that the 96-year-old Queen’s children and grandchildren have traveled to be by her side, including her son and heir, Prince Charles, and …
Read More »Queen Elizabeth II, Longest-Reigning Monarch, Dead at 96
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British and Commonwealth history, died on Thursday. Buckingham Palace confirmed the news. She was 96. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” the statement read. “The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London …
Read More »Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation
I t was the headline that made federal prosecutor Deborah Sines sit up straight in her chair. For nearly a year, she’d been investigating the murder of 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. During that time, she had watched as viral conspiracy theories and fantastical speculation about Rich had …
Read More »The Last Confessions of Italy's Most Infamous Mafia Murderess
“The mafia is a world based on deception and lies. I continued to live in the lie because I was forced into a double identity anda life in a secret location. Today even the smallest lie weighs on me.” —Piera Aiell Pupetta Maresca — murderess, mafiosa, diva, film-star wannabe — …
Read More »John, Yoko, and Me
J ANN WENNER FOUNDED Rolling Stone in the fall of 1967, when he was a 21-year-old UC Berkeley dropout working out of a tiny San Francisco loft. One of his main goals was to pull the curtain back on the most fascinating cultural and political figures of our time and …
Read More »Republicans Call Biden Divisive While Equating Him To Satan and Hitler
A red light? A podium? Two uniformed U.S. Marines? Looks like the summoning of Satan if you ask the GOP. President Joe Biden delivered one of his presidency’s strongest condemnations of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in a prime-time speech on the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The …
Read More »Meet the Apostle of Right-Wing Christian Nationalism
Dutch Sheets stood behind Marjorie Taylor Greene, the palms of his hands held up to God. Revered by followers as a modern Christian apostle, Sheets told a packed crowd at Gas South Arena, outside Atlanta, to pray with him for the GOP congresswoman, who touts herself as a Christian nationalist, …
Read More »Stacey Abrams' 2018 Humiliation of Brian Kemp Goes Viral Ahead of Nov. Rematch
A clip of Georgia Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams taking Republican Brian Kemp to task during a 2018 debate over his record on voting rights in the peach state once again went viral on Wednesday, as Abrams prepares to take on the now-sitting governor in a November rematch. In the clip, …
Read More »RIP to Olivia Wilde's 'Don't Worry, Darling' Female Orgasm Awareness Press Tour
Every week on Don’t Let This Flop, Rolling Stone‘s podcast about internet news and culture, we feature a segment called Straight People, about the comings and goings of toxic heterosexuals on the internet. While this segment most often features breakup and dating news, perhaps no online drama is more quintessentially …
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