UPDATE:Attorneys for Kodak Black filed a notice Wednesday that they plan to appeal the rapper’s 46-month prison sentence, which was handed down last week. A potential hearing has yet to be set and Kodak Black’s lawyers did not immediately return Rolling Stone‘s request for comment. ** Kodak Black was sentenced …
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In a new interview with Axios, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi described Saudi Arabia‘s assassination of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi as a “mistake,” likening it to his company’s misfires with self-driving cars. “I think that government said they made a mistake,” he said when asked whether Yasir …
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked the vitamin E acetate additive in vaping products to a spate of illnesses that have killed over 30 people, The New York Times reports. In a new report, the CDC called vitamin E acetate a “very strong culprit” in the vaping crisis, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Cactus rainsticks have been around for an extremely long time. They were made and used by Native American tribes when they performed dances, in the hope to bring …
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The first thing you see in Earl Sweatshirt’s “EAST” music video is Earl standing on a city beach, enjoying the sunset and holding a joint and a Corona. A giant superimposed moon darts haphazardly across his body. Earl’s friends grin and point at the camera and throw up middle fingers …
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President Donald Trump received bad polling news on Sunday, with a Fox News poll and NBC/WSJ both showing that 49 percent of voters want him impeached and removed from office. Not surprisingly, the president dismissed the results saying that he has “the real polls” and that all others are “fake” …
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Six months after the release of Blue, her 1971 masterpiece, Joni Mitchell pondered on what to gift her friends with for Christmas. “All my friends were kind of nouveau riche, so buying Christmas presents was going to be really difficult,” Mitchell said. “I had put the drawings into a ring …
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