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When Brielle Asero used to think about her life after college graduation, she imagined that she might start her own business or work in a non-conventional schedule, one that gave her plenty of flexibility to […]

At least 16 people are dead, and dozens more injured following a mass shooting at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, according to multiple reports. The gunman, who was […]

A self-described “former incel” named Michael Pengchung Lee was allegedly planning a mass shooting at the University of Arizona before he was arrested, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. He is charged with “transmit[ing] […]

Scholastic, the children’s book publisher, will no longer separate titles that deal with race, gender, and sexuality at book fairs, according to The New York Times. The company, which runs more than 120,000 book fairs […]

Nick Perkins was fast asleep when he got the call that his brother, Steve, 39, had been shot dead by police. The authorities weren’t the ones on the other end of the line — instead, […]

Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of building and operating platforms that have caused serious harm to young people and adolescents.  The lawsuit, filed Oct. 24 […]

In the middle of a wave of rampant misinformation, excessive hate speech, and endless harassment, X owner Elon Musk set his sights on Wikipedia. On Sunday, Musk aimed a series of tweets at Wikipedia and […]

Beef is the true currency of the NBA. OK, that’s not true. It’s money, like it is everywhere else. But when you read that didn’t it feel right? Everyone involved wants you to think this, […]

Earlier this month, Retton suffered a “scary setback” in her battle with a rare form of pneumonia  After “fighting for her life” in the ICU with pneumonia, Mary Lou Retton is now back home and recovering. […]

Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells […]

Rolling Stone was founded in 1967 in San Francisco by a music critic and his 21-year-old protégé, a Berkeley dropout who borrowed money from his future in-laws to get it off the ground. For decades, […]

A version of this response appeared on the Black Rock Coalition’s website. When Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner made offensive comments in The New York Times about women and Black artists, the Black Rock Coalition, […]