Rolling Stone pays tribute to Lou Reed, the outsider who changed the course of rock & roll, on the cover of our new issue. In an exclusive essay for RS, Laurie Anderson reflects on her 21-year relationship with Reed and his final moments.
Last year, a well-known street vendor in Los Angeles' Culver City neighborhood was detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Ambrocio "Enrique" Lozano had been selling ice cream in the area for decades — a photo of his abandoned paletero cart soon went viral on social media, a striking representation of beloved community members being targeted by heightened immigration raids. Artist and activist Dali Colorado, who grew up in LA and now lives in Oregon, saw the photo as a call to action.
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Editor’s note: In recent shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the federal government has withheld the names of the officers involved. This is a departure from the practice of many law enforcement agencies — including Texas’ biggest police departments — and contradicts advice the federal government has reportedly given local agencies in the past.
Today, we are publishing the name of the officer who allegedly shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston this summer. In recent weeks, local law enforcement and members of Congress have said their questions about the shooting have not been answered. We are publishing because we believe transparency in the case is of vital public interest as investigators, lawmakers and the public seek to understand what happened and how ICE operates more broadly in this state.
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Bo French, Republican candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, attends the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, March 27. Daniel Cole/Reuters
By Andrew Kaczynski
Updated 9 hr ago
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
Fairford, England — US President Donald Trump criticized the United Kingdom’s response to a suspected terror plot to attack a UK airbase used by the US military, saying he was “surprised” the five suspects were released on bail on Monday afternoon.
Jonathan McKinsey, head of engineering and games player experiences for The Times, was found on the ground at a park with multiple gunshot wounds, police said
Sept. 28, 2026, 11:17 AM PDT / Updated Sept. 28, 2026, 1:31 PM PDT
By Alicia Victoria Lozano
A New York Times engineering executive was killed by his in-laws Saturday amid an ongoing domestic and child abuse legal battle, according to Bay Area police.
The United States is embroiled in a war that has thrown global petroleum supplies into turmoil, all while it confronts soaring domestic diesel prices and faces historically tight inventories. It is also positioned as a crucial diesel supplier to the world, yet there are talks of restricting those exports. This situation is a perfect storm, and Trump is poised to tackle it incorrectly.
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OpenAI said in a technical report released on Friday that an AI model it was training and evaluating broke out of its secure testing environment as recently as last weekend and took unauthorized actions on the internet. As a result, the company said that it is pausing the training of its most advanced AI models for the second time in less than three months while it tries to figure out how to stop these “rogue AI” incidents from recurring.
There was one message the leaders of Canada and the European Commission were keen to hammer home in their back-to-back speeches earlier this month: they are not going to take the dismantling of the rules-based international order lying down. In Strasbourg, Mark Carney and Ursula von der Leyen vowed to create a deeper alliance to make their economies more resilient and their sovereignty more effective. It was enough to rile up Donald Trump — but what it all means has yet to be decided.
The new directive follows the DOD dramatically reducing its officially recognized faith list earlier this year by roughly 180. Two deadlines are set.
By Nick Mordowanec
The United States Air Force announced Friday that the service is updating its personnel data systems to align with the Department of Defense's (DOD) standardized list of Religious Affiliation Codes. Dozens of Airmen and Guardians have already expressed concerns, Military.com has learned.
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The Left has learned that slogans alone don't win elections or build mass movements. Its new weapon is simpler — and harder to ignore: organization as a method. And in classic internationalist fashion, that method has crossed borders and found its echo in Berlin, where another ideological battle is taking shape.Something is happening on the political left that is larger than Zohran Mamdani, larger than New York and, increasingly, larger than the United States. A campaign method is traveling. It begins with an old idea — knock on the door, talk to the voter, listen to the grievance, organize the neighborhood — but it is being rebuilt for the age of social media, political polarization and the cost-of-living crisis. The most visible American precursor was Bernie Sanders, whose presidential campaigns helped turn democratic socialism from a marginal American political tradition into a mass electoral movement. In 2020, Democratic Socialists of America said its volunteers had knocked on more than 500,000 doors for Sanders in working-class and multiracial communities.
Two decades ago, scientists seemed on the verge of understanding biology in a new, quantum way.
Life unfolds over an incomprehensible span of scales, from our planet-enveloping biosphere at one end, to individual cell-building biomolecules at the other. Even at its most microscopic, though, biology doesn’t really reach down to the quantum realm, in which particles act like waves, become entangled with one another, and exist in superpositions of multiple states at once. But scientists in the field of quantum biology are searching for ways that organisms might be able to push quantumness into the space, time, and temperature domains relevant to life, to make use of its strange properties.
Donald Trump Jr.’s former fiancée has a mystery shadow.In her capacity as U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle has been working to secure deals with European countries to buy American liquefied natural gas—and ultimately wean themselves off Russian energy.
LONDON — British police arrested several men on suspicion of terror and explosives offenses on Sunday and evacuated homes near an air base that the U.S. Air Force had been using to facilitate strikes on Iran.
