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T here are two men bleeding in a chain-link cage in front of the next president of the United States. A week and a half ago, Donald Trump was elected for his second term, and now he is back home at the center of the world, underneath the lights at …

H ow many of you know that I’m suing the state of Louisiana?” teacher Chris Dier asks his AP U.S. history class. Twenty-two hands shoot up in the air — all but one student have heard the news about Dier’s lawsuit. Most had seen the Times-Picayune article two weeks earlier …

S hohei Ohtani walks up to home plate at New York’s Citi Field, and the L.A. Dodgers fans, who are well in attendance on this Wednesday afternoon, are up on their feet. “So, ideally you get a pop-up, right? You got like five seconds in the air. God forbid the …

J onathan Kanter is standing in the basement recording studio of his Bethesda, Maryland, home, surrounded by an enviable collection of dozens of vintage and limited-edition guitars. It’s a warm June evening and the place feels like the Platinum Room at Guitar Center, with the walls covered in blond wood …

This story originally ran in an April 1974 issue of Rolling Stone. In Peru, one kept a daily journal; now Kristofferson bends grinning over its pages, on which, in the winter of ’70, Andes mud spilled and dried like blood spots. “Hell,” he offers rurally, “wouldn’t surprise me none you …

This story is part of our Sondio Latino series for Hispanic Heritage Month. Read more here. NICKI NICOLE HAD the kind of earth-shattering breakout moment most artists dream of: When she was just 19, the first song she ever posted on YouTube — the moody, minimalist “Wapo Traketero” — exploded …

T he only thing that has kept me alive is that I’m a petty bitch,” says Stormy Daniels. “There would be too many people happy if I died. I’m alive because of spite.” Daniels is sitting on the back porch of an undisclosed domicile, in an undisclosed city in an …

F rancis Ford Coppola is sitting ina large, library-like space that is right next to the gift-shop area of his Inglenook Winery in Napa, California, behind a usually closed set of doors. The awards, family pictures, and massive collection of vintage zoetropes are all in the lobby. The tasting room, …

A few months before his death, Craig Mack was finally ready to talk. On the outskirts of Walterboro, South Carolina, where he had been living since 2007, the former rapper made himself comfortable in an armchair inside a well-lit hotel room. Prepping for his first interview in years, he stashed …

T his story waspublished in partnership withThe Trace,a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence.Subscribe to itsnewsletters SUSAN WEBB STOOD with her ­colleague on Parks Road. The Chesapeake Bay and the abandoned store with the sagging roof were behind them, the smell of discarded crab lingering in the air. Once again, someone …