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WASHINGTON — Hackers affiliated with the Russian government have expanded their targets to include the U.S. Senate as well as two American think tanks critical of Russia. The discovery comes from a new report by Microsoft, which says it helped detect this new wave of hacking and is going public …

For a song that starts off painfully real – “Should I call first? I can’t decide/ I want to, but a bitch got pride” – the video for “Ring” is delightfully surreal. Cardi B raps about the emotional heft of having no missed calls from the inside of a floating …

You were instructed to call her “Ms. Franklin.” In 2014, Aretha Franklin sat for her last extensive Rolling Stone interview to promote 2014’s Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, her first project in years with her former Arista Records boss Clive Davis.The timing of the interview was unfortunate: it …

The trappings are all there: the smattering of polite applause, the tinkling piano laying out the chord changes of a familiar tune — Erroll Garner’s “Misty,” in this case. But with the entrance of the singer, something shifts; suddenly the record isn’t jazz as usual. Aretha Franklin lands on an …

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA —For the past two weeks, the trial in the case of United States of America v. Paul J. Manafort Jr. has played out inside a courtroom sealed off from the outside world. Phones and laptops are not permitted in the Albert V. Bryan Courthouse in suburban Virginia. There …

Paul McCartney teamed with Grammy-winning hitmaker Ryan Tedder for his new single “Fuh You.” The song has a bouncy piano and harpsichord line, helium-voiced backing vocals and a danceable rhythm, as the former Beatle recalls meeting a lover. “I just wanna know how you feel, I want a love that’s …

For years, DeWayne “Lee” Johnson drove a truck with a 50-gallon tank of Monsanto’s Ranger Pro pesticide mounted on top. A groundskeeper for the Benicia Unified School District in Solano County, California, north of San Francisco, Johnson went through hundreds of gallons of the stuff every week between the truck …

Following Radiohead‘s triumphant summer tour, Thom Yorke will next embark on a solo U.S. trek this winter. Like Yorke’s recent solo shows, the concerts are billed as “live electronic performances” with the singer accompanied by longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and visual artist Tarik Barri. The month-long tour begins November 23rd in …

Issa Rae stopped byThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert ahead of Sunday’s return of her Emmy-nominated showInsecure. She talked about meeting celebrities and her mom’s concern for the show’s racy content. At the top of her segment, Colbert congratulated Rae for her Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy …

Almost 30 years later, Eddie Vedder still remembers the man who stopped him in his tracks one day on a Seattle street. “He just looked interesting,” Vedder told the crowd packed into Seattle’s Safeco Field Wednesday night for the first of the band’s two Home Shows, the tentpole events in …