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Exit Plans
Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Rod Nordland has covered global conflicts for almost five decades for the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, NEWSWEEK and THE NEW YORK TIMES. Reporting on wars and government upheavals in over 150 countries from Nicar
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Earning Her Stripes
Kala, a 3-month-old Sumatran tiger cub, plays with her father at Bioparco, the zoological gardens in Italy’s capital, on March 7. The smallest species of tigers and critically endangered, with barely 400 left in the world, Kala made her world debut t
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Could A European Military Go It Alone?
PIPE DREAM, A FANTASY—JUST TWO OF the phrases bandied about whenever the idea of a European or European Union army resurfaces. This time, it was Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, who prodded the conversation awake. “If we want to be peacekeep
Newsweek1 min readCrime & Violence
Chaos Engulfs Capital
A man points toward burning tires in Haiti’s capital on March 7, the same day Haiti’s government extended its state of emergency. As gangs demand the prime minister resigns, they have attacked government buildings, freed more than 4,500 prison inmate
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James Marsden
JAMES MARSDEN IS GOOD AT KEEPING FANS on their toes. Following his Emmy-nominated success with Jury Duty, Marsden has three very different projects in 2024, the first being Michael Keaton’s Knox Goes Away (March 15). “I like to take opportunities tha
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America’s Best Regional Banks And Credit Unions 2024
REGIONAL BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE financial fabric of communities nationwide. Unlike their larger counterparts, these institutions are deeply rooted in local economies, understanding the unique needs of the people they serve
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Setting the Agenda
President Joe Biden delivers the annual State of the Union address—the final one of this presidential term—on March 7 in the nation’s capital. Addressing his “predecessor” and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump throughout, without mentioning
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‘Deadly Risk’ of Fat-Loss Drugs
“MIRACLE” FAT-MELTING DRUG OZEMPIC HAS been linked in a study to a series of rare but potentially fatal psychiatric episodes, scientists have warned. The injectable prescription drug was developed to manage blood sugar levels in patients with Type 2
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Regina King
BRINGING THE LIFE STORY OF ACTIVIST SHIRLEY CHISHOLM TO SCREEN wasn’t an easy task for Regina King. “This has been a labor of love. My sister [Reina] and I have been at this for close to 15 years now.” Netflix’s Shirley (March 22) focuses on Chisholm
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Millennials Are Shifting the Housing Market
FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF MILLEN-nials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, the time to buy a home has never been quite right. Older millennials were not yet 30 when the financial crisis of 2007-2008 upended the housing market and the U.S. economy
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GLOBAL EDITOR IN CHIEF _ Nancy Cooper VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL _ Laura Davis DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS _ Melissa Jewsbury OPINION EDITOR _ Batya Ungar-Sargon GLOBAL PUBLISHING EDITOR _ Chris Roberts SENIOR EDITOR-AT-LARGE _ Josh Hammer EDITORIAL Managi
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The Archives
“[Michael] Jordan was the greatest player in the game, and after he retired, he vowed ‘I’m never coming back to play basketball... Unless I change my mind.’ Sometime in the last two weeks, Jordan appears to have done just that,” Newsweek wrote. After
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Country Has Won Our Achy Breaky Hearts
COUNTRY MUSIC IS ENJOYING A HUGE RESUR-gence—and showing signs that it is becoming more inclusive. With both Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey having announced that they’re releasing country albums this year, and country songs regularly going viral on TikTok,
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The Eastern Front
NEWSWEEK POLSKA: Are you a minister of peace or war? WŁADYSŁAW KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ: The Minister of Defense must be prepared for any situation. Until the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, most of us thought that we lived in times of peace and viewed the M
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Rod Nordland
Q _ You’ve been up close with some of the world’s worst terrorist leaders, giving you a unique perspective. What should we understand about extremism? A _ You can’t understand it in isolation. You have to see it in context of the conflict that’s taki
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Marine Menace
The cargo ship Rubymar lists sideways as it sinks off the coast of Yemen on March 7, three weeks after a Houthi missile attack damaged its hull. It was the first vessel sunk in the rebel group’s violent campaign against alleged Israeli assets to show
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We’re Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORDS “woolly mammoth,” what picture does it paint in your mind? It’s an iconic, extinct mega-fauna from the ice age so well-recognized and beloved by all of us, especially children; they see it in movies and documentaries, and in t
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Scoring Legend
Iowa Hawkeyes’ star Caitlin Clark helps defeat the Minnesota Golden Gophers on February 28 at the sold-out Williams Arena. With her 33 points, she became the all-time leading scorer in women’s college basketball. Four days later, on March 3, she brok
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Defiant Until the End
SIX MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH in an Arctic penal colony, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote of his hopes for his country, his love for his family and for literature, and the maxim that shaped his thinking. “I believe that Russia will be hap
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New to NATO
Members of the Swedish Armed Forces participate in a military exercise 20 miles outside of Stockholm on February 27. The day before, Hungary, the last country to do so, approved Sweden’s NATO application, solidifying the strategic coalition around th
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Border Divisions
Volunteers with Border Vets, military veterans worried about illegal migration, install barbed wire along the California-Mexico border wall on February 29. Immigration and border security are top concerns in the 2024 presidential election. Both Presi
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The World’s Best Hospitals 2024
HERE AREN’T MANY DECISIONS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHOOSING THE RIGHT HOSPITAL to provide care for yourself or a loved one. To help, Newsweek has partnered with Statista for its annual ranking of the world’s best hospitals, a series that began in March 2
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How China’s ‘Thought Eradication’ Led to Genocide
CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JIN-ping’s crackdown on the “disease” of separatism encouraged officials in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang to sweep up as many detainees as possible for internment camps, where they faced what the U.S. has described as ge
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Annette Bening
UNDERSTANDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN DARK COMEDY AND MYSTERY is a unique quality of Annette Bening, which she puts to good use in Peacock’s limited series Apples Never Fall (March 14), based on Liane Moriarty’s book. “Everybody has a secret, and that’s
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Gayle King
WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T CALL GAYLE KING an icon. “Diana Ross, to me, is an icon.” Fair. But one moniker she is fine with is America’s best friend. “I’ll take that as a compliment. I like that.” And it fits, considering her many titles: center anchor o
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Disconnected From a Lifeline
FOR ELLIMAE KALINOSKI AND HER FAMILY, THE internet is a lifeline. She and her husband, who cannot work because of long COVID, get discounted web access through the Affordable Connectivity Program, which they also use to homeschool their autistic son.
Newsweek10 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
The AI Hospital Revolution Is Here
LEADERS AT SOME OF THE WORLD’S best hospitals find themselves in a unique moment. Just a few years after the COVID-19 pandemic pushed global health care systems to a breaking point, many of these top hospital executives are now on the leading edge of
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Hunger Emergency
Palestinians facing a severe food crisis in northern Gaza wait for aid on February 26. U.N. officials warn at least 576,000 are near famine, with the World Food Program’s deputy director citing unprecedented levels of child malnutrition. Humanitarian
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A Cloud Still Hangs Over East Palestine
IT’S BEEN A YEAR SINCE A TRAIN CARRYING various toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio—yet, as a federally managed recovery operation continues, locals still sometimes smell something “rotten” in the air. “I can’t tell anyone where I live w
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