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The Milwaukee Bucks clambered aboard the team plane, a Delta charter departing from Wisconsin, where coronavirus cases were about to triple over the course of the NBA Finals. Players and essential support staff squirmed down the aisle of the Boeing 727, bound for Arizona, where 900 new cases would be …

On a warm June evening, Lily Marotta and Steven Phillips-Horst, comedian hosts of the podcast Celebrity Book Club with Steven and Lily, are talking over each other at Cafe Mogador in Manhattan. “That’s why we love the East Village, because we feel like — ” Marotta says. “We’re total Patti …

Wearing earplugs, a swimsuit, and a belt made of foam rubber that cradled the small of her back, Wally Funk stretched out in the water, spread-eagle, and got comfortable. Then it hit her: She couldn’t feel a thing. She splashed some water on her face — still nothing. Prior to …

This piece originally appeared as part ofRolling 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 hard-boiled detective novel. But, as she notes, the jobs do intersect. “I think there’s no …

By now, the story of Jeffrey Epstein is well known. When the accused sex trafficker died — officially ruled a suicide by hanging in his jail cell almost two years ago — the public was left baffled alongside victims that were denied justice. There seemed to be much more to …

O n Christmas Eve, Steven Brandenburg, a Milwaukee-area pharmacist, attempted to destroy more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine, because, he admitted, he feared the Moderna drug would “alter the recipient’s DNA.” Described in law-enforcement documents as a “conspiracy theorist,” Brandenburg, 46, had reportedly warned his wife that “the world …

I lost my mind during the plague year. The fact that my country also lost its mind was of little comfort. Maybe you lost your mind too. There were so many opportunities. Maybe you were hiding from an invisible virus in an oppressive New York apartment, listening to the sirens …

“It’s very…important…that you do as I say,” a lithe woman with wavy ombre hair purrs into the camera, clad in only an Easter-egg-blue bra with lacy trim. She purses her lips. “It’s for your own benefit. It’s for the greater good. For your future.” She starts caressing her breasts. “You …

At 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, an hour after sunrise, about 100 protesters and two dozen police faced off on the edge of City Hall Park in New York City. “I don’t see no riot here! Why are you in riot gear?” chanted the crowd, locked arm-in-arm three rows deep …

An inexpensive and widely available steroid used since the early 1960s and known for its anti-inflammatory properties is being touted as the next life-saving treatment for COVID-19 — but it’s not the miracle cure people have been hoping for. It’s called dexamethasone, and is one of several drugs tested in …