A son of the reputed leader of the Sinaloa Cartel testified against Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán in Brooklyn federal court this week for a spectacular two days of testimony that laid bare the inner workings of the one of North America’s most notorious crime organizations. Following a break for the …
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) made history in November when she became the first Muslim woman to win a seat in Congress. Not long after she and her new colleagues passed a continuing resolution to re-open the government without funding for a border wall, Tlaib on Thursday night spoke at a …
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Pegi Young, the singer-songwriter who was married to Neil Young for 36 years, died Tuesday after a yearlong battle with cancer. She was 66. “[She] passed away surrounded by her friends and family in her native California,” reads a short statement on her official Instagram account. “We request that the …
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Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours“— consider this Rolling Stone’s unofficial film club. This week’s last-column-of-2018 edition: David Fear on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s J-horror cyber-nightmare Pulse. “Would you …
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The holidays are a time of giving, receiving and, in some cases, apologizing for wildly offensive lyrics. On Christmas Day, Lil Pump and 21 Savage— in completely separate incidents — both addressed the backlash to their recent songs. Unfortunately, in expressing regret for their racist lyrics, it became clear both …
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Three years after N.W.A manager Jerry Heller sued the producers of the Straight Outta Comptonbiopic for $110 million – and over two years after Heller died at the age of 75 – a judge has dismissed the copyright infringement suit. Heller initially sued N.W.A members and biopic producers Dr. Dre …
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Spotify announced on Thursday that it has settled the lawsuit brought forth a year ago by Wixen Music Publishing, the publisher representing the works of artists including Neil Young, The Doors and Tom Petty. The massive lawsuit alleging that Spotify was using thousands of songs without the proper licensing and …
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It had the vibe of a campaign event, even if it wasn’t one. A few hundred of America’s highest-profile liberal politicians, academics and journalists, many of them old friends — a “progressive Bar Mitzvah,” as one friend jokingly put it — met on a crisp Thursday night in late November …
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It’s the season for year-end lists, but one of 2018’s biggest albums is missing from nearly every major publication’s ranking: The soundtrack to Red Dead Redemption 2. Less than two weeks after the blockbuster video game‘s release, Rockstar Games was estimated to have shipped 17 million copies to stores around …
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A lma woke before 6 a.m. She dressed quickly, roused her four children and packed a lunch. It was a chilly spring morning, a Thursday. Light bloomed across the low green hills of east Tennessee as she drove past tomato fields and cow pastures and old cemetery plots until she …
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