A new directive signed last week by President Donald Trump gives the Pentagon authorization to use military force against Latin American drug cartels designated as terrorist organizations, according to administration sources. A U.S. official familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone certain details regarding the Trump-signed directive, which was …
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Every so often, Donald Trump assembles America’s most powerful grovelers at the White House to take turns telling him how great of a job he’s doing while the cameras are rolling. The president held his latest Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a day after celebrating his first 100 days in office. …
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T he man at the West Burnside Street bus stop looks stone dead, sprawled out on the sidewalk with his eyes rolled back. Lucky for him, he overdosed on a weekday, just five blocks from the downtown Portland, Oregon, fire station, where the quick-response unit is on duty, and they’re …
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Healing Appalachia, a music festival that raises awareness for and celebrates recovery from opioid addiction, is moving from West Virginia to eastern Kentucky this September with the fest’s co-founder Tyler Childers headlining alongside Chris Stapleton. The benefit concert will take place on Sept. 19th and 20th in Ashland, Kentucky, on …
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Future shared a new music video for “Lost My Dog,” a single from his seventeenth mixtape, aptly titled Mixtape Pluto, which was released in September. The song and video are dedicated to the memory of a close friend of Future’s who died of a fentanyl overdose. The rapper has announced …
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Within Donald Trump’s government-in-waiting, there is a fresh debate over whether and how thoroughly the president-elect should follow through on his campaign promise to attack or even invade Mexico, as part of the “war” he’s pledged to wage against powerful drug cartels. “How much should we invade Mexico?” says a …
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ home state of California is on track to reject a ballot measure that would ban forced labor in state prisons. Proposition 6 was an effort to ban slavery by creating voluntary work programs with a focus on rehabilitation. As of Wednesday evening, Proposition 6 was trailing …
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A lex Neville was one of those boys who was always in costume, wearing his obsessions on his sleeve. At three, he went around dressed as a mummy, earnestly explaining the embalming process to children in Aliso Viejo, a town in Orange County, California. At seven, he was SoCal’s shortest …
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D RUGS NEVER SEEMED like a problem to Elvie Shane. Dabbling in cocaine, meth, and heroin were all part of the future country singer’s college days in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Even when he got hooked on speed, the dangers didn’t seem real. He could take it or leave it, he …
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PORTLAND, Ore. — On a bleak block of Portland’s historic Chinatown, where dozens of people experiencing homelessness have pitched tents draped with plastic tarps, evidence of drug use litters the sidewalk. Among discarded cigarette butts lie squares of tin-foil, indented in the middle, with distinctive scorch marks, used to smoke …
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