If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With a new Covid variant going around (again), and cold weather coming in (again), Covid-19 cases are looking like they’re set to spike as everyone’s social gatherings move …
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Global health authorities are scrambling to collect information about a new coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa that appears to both be extremely contagious and possess an “unusual constellation” of mutations that could challenge the effectiveness of available vaccines. The emergence of the omicron variant has led the United States …
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Bleachers is the latest artist to mandate that fans attending their upcoming tour either be vaccinated or supply a negative Covid-19 test. “Working with the promoters and venues now to make sure all shows are vaccine/negative test for entry for the Bleachers tour,” Jack Antonoff tweeted Wednesday. “We’re not messing …
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House Democrats, with little help from Republicans, voted to raise the amount of the coronavirus relief stimulus checks to $2,000. But, although the president says he supports an increase from the $600 already allotted in the relief bill that he finally signed into law on Sunday, the new legislation’s chances …
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“Can we sort of do a video version of an AIDS quilt?” That was the idea playwright Matthew López had when he reached out to actor friends and acquaintances to see if they would read passages from a pivotal monologue from his epic, two-part play The Inheritance, about gay life …
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I n an alternate universe, NicWeldon would be focusing one of his video cameras on Janet Jackson right about now. At 35, he’s spent most of his working life on road crews, as either a director or a cameraman on tours with the Eagles, Kings of Leon, and Ricky Martin. …
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This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sarah Johnson spent her entire life taking care of people — the six children she raised, mostly alone, and the hospital patients she served in her 25 years as a nurse. But at 86, she was the one who needed care. She was …
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The president told the meager audience who attended his rally in Tulsa on Saturday night that he gave an order to slow testing for coronavirus. Ever since, his staff have downplayed Trump’s claim by calling it a joke. But on Monday, the president himself refused to back down from the …
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A few weeks before President Trump was impeached last December for attempting to blackmail Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan warned the House Judiciary Committee of a future in which the president used similar tactics on his own country: “Imagine living in a part of Louisiana …
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made his latest late-night appearance onThe Tonight Show this week, speaking with Jimmy Fallon about the state’s latest coronavirus updates. Despite Fallon’s immense praise for Cuomo’s leadership during the pandemic, the governor stated that he wasn’t letting it get to his head during this time. …
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