When Angeline Boulley was working on her young adult fiction debut, Firekeeper’s Daughter, she decided she needed to know how to make meth. “I learned how to make meth from the State Police Academy,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I was able to take a workshop at the Academy and it …
Read More »How Covid Left a Generation in Limbo
& nbsp; According to most standards, Harkirat Anand did everything right. He went to one of the best schools in the country, Washington University in St. Louis. He focused on STEM fields, double-majoring in economics and math. And when he finished his internship with a major telecommunications firm during his …
Read More »Inside Miami's Most Chaotic Year
Ten days before Christmas 1979, 33-year-old Arthur McDuffie, a Marine and a manager at a life insurance company, had already wrapped presents for his two young daughters, but he never got the chance to deliver them. In the early hours of December 17th, a group of cops beat McDuffie into …
Read More »'Hamilton' Cast to Host Virtual Fundraiser for Joe Biden Campaign
Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign has announced that it will be holding a virtual fundraising event with the cast of the hit musical Hamilton, streaming October 16th at 9:00 p.m. ET. Original Broadway cast members Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Javier Muñoz, Leslie Odom Jr., …
Read More »No, Skipping Prime Day Won't Make Your Election Mail Arrive Faster
The USPS is refuting a viral post that suggests shopping on Amazon during their Prime Day event next week could slow down the handling of election mail. The post, which has been circulating online in various formats since last week, encourages people not to shop on Amazon during Prime Day, …
Read More »The Faces of Deportation
The year Donald Trump was carried into office on a frothing anti-immigrant platform, there were an estimated 10.5 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Roughly two-thirds had been here for more than a decade. Prior administrations had abysmal records, but generally acknowledged that the U.S. was enriched by …
Read More »Authorities Identify Possible Victim of Long Island Serial Killer 20 Years After Disappearance
The Suffolk County Police Department has identified a former Jane Doe, believed to be a victim of the so-called Long Island Serial Killer, as Valerie Mack. In a Facebook post Thursday, the SCPD said Mack also went by the name Melissa Taylor, and she disappeared in the spring or summer …
Read More »Barack Obama to Deliver Virtual Graduation Commencement Speeches
UPDATE 6/5/2020: The Dear Class of 2020 has been rescheduled to Sunday, June 7th at noon E.T., in honor of George Floyd’s memorial service on June 6th. UPDATE 5/19/2020:More participants have been added to theDear Class of 2020event on June 6th, including Beyoncé, who will “deliver an inspirational message to …
Read More »Fred 'Curly' Neal, Harlem Globetrotters Legend, Dead at 77
Fred “Curly” Neal, the bald-headed, ball-handling trickster who was a core member of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team during the act’s peak in popularity, has died at the age of 77. The Harlem Globetrotters confirmed that Neal died at his home in Houston, Texas Thursday. No cause of death was …
Read More »Women Shaping the Future: Josée Perreault, Grace Potter, Katori Hall on Battling Sexism
On March 4th, Rolling Stone hosted its second annual Women Shaping the Future event, celebrating, raising, and honoring the influential female voices in culture. The event was the first to take place at the new Edge venue in Hudson Yards, which overlooks New York City. Playwright Katori Hall, whose first …
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