Former President George W. Bush went out of his way to thank his Secret Service staff, who are currently working without pay due to the government shutdown, by bringing them pizza on Friday. Although Bush said he hoped the shutdown ended soon in an Instagram post, he did not express …
Read More »VIDEO: What Really Happened at the UN Climate Conference
For Rolling Stone‘s February issue, contributing editor Jeff Goodell reported on the United Nations climate negotiations held last month in Katowice, Poland (“Saving the Paris Agreement“). The conference was tasked with fleshing out the rules for the landmark Paris Agreement, the 2015 accord signed by nearly every nation in the …
Read More »YouTube Won't Allow 'Dangerous' Stunt Videos Anymore
The viral Bird Box challenge, in which people blindfold themselves in daily life in the style of characters from Netflix’s cult-status sci-fi flickBird Box,will no longer have a home on YouTube. Videos that “cross the line” between funny and harmful are prohibited from the platform from now on, the video-streaming …
Read More »Hear Kelsea Ballerini's Honeyed Cover of Shawn Mendes' 'Lost in Japan'
Kelsea Ballerini applies a velvety-smooth touch to Shawn Mendes‘ “Lost in Japan” in her new cover version of the pop hit, recorded in Nashville for Spotify Singles. Written about a globe trotter who finds himself only a few hundred miles from his paramour, Mendes first released the funk-and-R&B-influenced tune as …
Read More »Carlos Santana on the Power of 'The Mona Lisa,' Today's New Hippies
Although Carlos Santana has been playing concerts in Paris since the early Seventies, he never set foot inside the Louvre until 2016. In fact, when his family asked if he wanted to go there, he asked, “What’s there?” “They said, ‘Oh, my God, man. You can spend a whole year …
Read More »Hear Susto's Laid-Back New Songs 'If I Was' and 'Está Bien'
Charleston, South Carolina-based rockers Susto have a name that loosely translates to “ongoing spiritual panic attack” in Spanish, but two new tracks premiering on Rolling Stone Country show founder and frontman Justin Osborne to be supremely chill — in a worldly, self-questioning sort of way. Both “If I Was” and …
Read More »Trump Goes to Extreme Lengths to Hide What He and Putin Talk About Behind Closed Doors
President Donald Trump has taken drastic measures to conceal his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a report in theWashington Poston Saturday. The bombshell story comes just one day after theNew York Timesrevealed that the FBI opened a joint counterintelligence and criminal investigation into whether the president …
Read More »Aretha Franklin Biopic Recruits Award-Winning Director, Screenwriter
The Jennifer Hudson-starring Aretha Franklin biopic has recruited a director and writer to bring the Queen of Soul’s life story to the big screen. MGM announced Friday that Liesl Tommy, an award-winning stage director who has also helmed episodes of The Walking Dead and Insecure, will serve as director on …
Read More »Noted Racist Steve King: 'It's Not About Race'
While the mainstream media continues to pretendthat President Trump’s white supremacy is debatable, the same can’t be said for Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the most racist man in Congress for almost 20 years. On Thursday, the New York Times published a story fleshing out King’s anti-immigrant history, which includes a …
Read More »True-Crime Podcast: 'Uncover: Escaping NXIVM'
Since last year,Rolling Stonehas been tracking the bizarre story of NXIVM, a secretive alleged sex cult founded bymulti-level marketing guru Keith Ranierein Albany, New York. This investigative podcast from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation looks at the case from the inside perspective of actorSarah Edmondson, a high-ranking NXIVM memberwho alleged to …
Read More »