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Groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank — best known to rock fans as the director of the notorious 1972 Rolling Stones fly-on-the-wall tour documentary Cocksucker Blues — died September 9th at his home in Inverness, Nova Scotia. He was 94. “We’re very sad to hear the news that the visionary …

Since 2016, podcast hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark have been recounting gruesome crimes to each other weekly on My Favorite Murder. Their unabashed appreciation for the gorier things in life — plus quippy advice like “fuck politeness,” and frank talk about anxiety and mental health — draws thousands of …

In a joint operation with the New York Police Department, the New York State Police, and several other agencies, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency seized nearly 3,200 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $77 million at the Port of Newark/New York late last month. The bust is reportedly …

UPDATE: In an emailed statement, Scott Rudin reiterated to Rolling Stonethat he was working to “enforce the agreement” made with the estate of the late author, Harper Lee. He also added that he has been “hard at work” creating a solution for this problem. “In an effort to ameliorate the …

One evening in late 1972, a young mother of 10 named Jean McConville was taken from her home in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, by four men and four women in masks. McConville’s children would never see or hear from her again. She had been disappeared and likely killed, …

A private investigator delves into a shocking case of police brutality and wrongful imprisonment in the new true-crime podcast, Conviction. Reporter Saki Knafo will host the show, with all seven episodes of its first season set to arrive February 4th. Season One of Conviction will center around the case of …

Jennifer and Sarah Hart, 38, were a married pair of crunchy white liberals who, by all outside appearances, seemed like dedicated mothers to their six adopted black children: Markis, Hannah, Abigail, Devonte, Jeremiah and Ciera. They moved around the country with their home-schooled brood, but in2017 they settled — for …

Daniel Borden — an Ohio man charged in the beating of a black man during 2017’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — has been sentenced to just under four years in prison, Associated Press reports. Borden, 21, who was one of four men charged with beating DeAndre Harris …

As Bernie Sanders gears up for a likely second presidential bid, accounts of sexism, harassment and pay disparity from female staffers on his 2016 campaign have surfaced, raising questions about his “progressive bona fides,” the New York Times reported on Wednesday. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday …