On the morning of Sept. 27, 2021, Josh Hargis opened a private video-chat link for what the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee billed as an open dialogue about its newly implemented mandate. Everyone on Team USA would need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by Nov. 1, unless they could …
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Next month’s Winter Games in Beijing will be the last Olympics for Shaun White. They’ve gotta be, right? “Oh, for sure,” the three-time gold medalist confirmed to Rolling Stone on Wednesday, a little jet-lagged — and very wistful — over the phone from Switzerland. Too bad the man who re-invented …
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One July day in 2020, Julie Fallon, a second-grade teacher from Massachusetts, found herself standing in a dumpster in her driveway, shaking and enraged. She doesn’t remember what had triggered her anger that summer afternoon, but recalls reaching for the nearest items and smashing them against the other contents. “I …
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President Biden had harsh words for Republican governors who are fighting Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the midst of the pandemic. “We’re facing a lot of pushback, especially from some of the Republican governors,” Biden said in a speech delivered from the White House on Thursday. “The governors of Florida and …
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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) have been fined for refusing to wear a mask on the House floor back in early August, the House Ethics Committee said Wednesday. The committee did not specify the size of the fine, but the House resolution requiring masks says a …
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Update:One hospital has denied Dr. Jason McElyea’s claim that ivermectin overdoses are causing emergency room backlogs and delays in medical care in rural Oklahoma, and Rolling Stone has been unable to independently verify any such cases as of the time of this update. The National Poison Data System states there …
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The Eagles have added an additional Seattle date to their rescheduled Hotel California tour, but unlike the other shows, attendees will have to provide proof of vaccination upon entering. The November 5th show at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena requires that guests be fully vaccinated 14 days prior to the show, …
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John Cameron Mitchell has teamed up with Alynda Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff) for a new single, “American Sickness.” The two singer-songwriters co-wrote the song, which touches on the state of the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and they perform it in a surreal music video …
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Bono, Penélope Cruz, David Oyelowo, and more have lent their voices to a new animated series, Pandemica, created to raise awareness about the severely limited access to the Covid-19 vaccine in the world’s poorest countries. Pandemica was spearheaded by the One Campaign, the global health and anti-poverty organization co-founded by …
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On the day he almost died, Kimbal Musk had food on the brain. The internet startup whiz, restaurateur, and younger brother of Tesla’s Elon had just arrived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, from a 2010 TED conference where chef Jamie Oliver had spoken about the empowerment that could come from healthy …
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