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Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night hosted former New York Times reporter and current coronavirus conspiracy theorist Alex Berenson on Tucker Carlson Tonight, which averages 3.2 million viewers a night and is the most-watched show on cable news. Berenson was given free rein to spout his views on vaccines. “I think …

The federal government will purchase half a billion at-home tests for Americans and provide them for free, President Joe Biden said in a national address about the fast rise over the past few weeks of the Omicron variant, now the most dominant strain in the U.S. “We have to do …

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Friday released a 46-page report confirming what was readily apparent to most reasonable, informed Americans: The Trump administration made “deliberate efforts” to undermine America’s response to Covid-19 for political purposes. Most of the documents cited in the committee’s report have already …

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, senior writer David Browne discusses his recent blockbuster feature on Eric Clapton, which delved into the rock icon’s embrace of Covid-19 vaccine skepticism and his anti-immigration rant onstage in the Seventies — which was, by Clapton’s own description, “full-tilt racist.” Plus, …

The standing ovation was inevitable. Not just because audiences getting to their feet and applauding has felt perfunctory and expected for decades. Pass Over is being lauded as the first play staged on Broadway since the coronavirus pandemic forced all live performances to stop in March 2020. And at the …

Dayna Frank didn’t think it would come to this. “Never in the last six months did I think we would be looking at a vaccination or test mandate,” says the president and CEO of First Avenue, the famed Minneapolis, Minnesota, music venue. “Never, ever thought we would do that.” But …

Conservative radio host Phil Valentine spent months preaching vaccine skepticism to his followers in Nashville. It seems like many of them listened. Tennessee has experienced a dramatic spike in the Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant has swept the nation, with the case rate ballooning over 220 percent over the …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Amid the stampede of festival announcements that occured over the past three months, we’ve now reached the part of the year where it’s time to actually pack some …

Chicago punk mainstays Naked Raygun have announced that they’ll be releasing their first new album in 31 years this spring, via Chicago label Wax Trax! Records. To coincide with the album reveal, the band released its first single, “Living in the Good Times,” on Tuesday. The accompanying video shows the …

UPDATE: The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday granted emergency use authorization to a single-shot vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson. “We are ready to roll it out!” White House Covid adviser Andy Slavitt tweeted after the authorization was official. The authorization comes days after the FDA released a report …