Pop Spotlight

The video starts with an enthusiastic preteen girl stampeding onstage in a jewel-toned V-neck to an infectious pop beat, inexplicably holding a jumbo-sized pencil. “Dear Elle, he’s a lucky guy/I’m like gonna cry/I’ve got tears […]

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are both literally and figuratively red-hot, in that they’re trendy and also contribute to global warming. In the last few months, environmentalists have slammed blockchain enthusiasts for catapulting a technology into […]

Early on a June morning in 2007, a family of five from Oswego, Illinois, had piled into their red Ford Expedition for a surprise trip to a water park three hours away. They never made […]

In the early hours of a September morning last year, Nicolas Morales Besanilla, a 37-year-old farmworker, woke his 12-year-old son and namesake, Nicolas Jr., from sleep in their home in Immokalee, Florida. He told his […]

Michael Avenatti was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Thursday after being found guilty in February 2020 of all three charges stemming from his Nike extortion trial. Federal guidelines recommended a prison sentence of between nine […]

The known global death toll from Covid-19 has surpassed four million people, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The most recent data comes from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, […]

In 1997, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was on the defensive. Locked up for the past five years, cornered by enemies, isolated from his family by the enemy gunmen he worried could be lurking outside […]

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is posted here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone.  The story was produced with support from the Doris O’Donnell Innovations in Investigative […]

Over the weekend, a bizarre roadside standoff on a major highway in Massachusetts stymied holiday traffic for nearly nine hours before ending in 11 arrests of people from a militia group called Rise of the […]

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July/August issue of the magazine. Catherine Townsend’s career — dating columnist, private investigator, true-crime podcast host — is straight out of a […]

It was Shawn’s first time tripping on psilocybin mushrooms. He took them with friends, but hours later, they’d all gone home or fallen asleep. Overwhelmed by the energy of two quarreling dogs, he took refuge […]

Darnella Frazier, the teen who filmed the police killing of George Floyd, announced that her uncle was killed during a car crash involving the Minneapolis police and a robbery suspect. Frazier claimed that Leneal Lamont […]