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LINES OF POWER
Tennessee state Representative Justin J. Pearson marches with protesters outside the state Capitol in Nashville on May 5, as the Republican-led legislature convenes a governor-called special session to redraw the state's congressional districts.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
Can We Finally Retire the Vacation Cruise?
I Let's play a game: Guess the worst vacation ending. Sunburn? A bad buffet? Trying to avoid exposure to a deadly virus? That last one is not a metaphor.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
CHILD OF CHERNOBYL
Forty years on from Ukraine's nuclear power plant disaster, one woman, whose father worked on Reactor No. 2, reflects on its life-changing impact
3 min |
May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
Spirit Leaves the Runway
Flyers have come to expect hidden fees, canceled flights and winding TSA lines.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
District 3 Sends a Message to Mamdani
City Council District 3 covers Manhattan's West Side, takes in the site of the 1969 Stonewall riots and has been represented by an openly gay council member since 1991.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
What's In Store for the Future of Shopping?
The era of faceless shopping may be giving way to a return to something more tactile—and sociable.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
CHUCK SCHUMER'S LAST STAND
A series of high-stakes primaries across four states is testing whether the Senate leader's playbook still works
7 min |
May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
Let's Talk About Kevins
If you are reading this, there is a fair chance you know a Kevin. While no longer a fashionable name— just 196th for boys in the latest U.S. rankings-it still carries the residue of a certain American order: Little League, short-sleeved competence.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
The Long and Short of TV's Fight for Your Attention
Television has survived countless technological shocks, but the shrinking attention spans of audiences may pose a more existential test.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
Coming In From the Cold
Dozens of members of the Pussy Riot anti-Putin feminist protest group stormed Russia's space at the Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition on May 6—joined by Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN, who filled the Giardini venue with blue and yellow smoke.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
The Competency Crisis
ONE OF THE THEMES OF LATE IN OUR DAILY NEWSLETTER has been what I've taken to calling the Competency Crisis.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
Hidden Strengths of Transferable Skills
When Japan's elder care homes began hiring retired sumo wrestlers, MMA fighters and bodybuilders, it sounded like a punch line. It wasn't.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
ISLAND OF DESPAIR
The pageantry of Charles III's visit to the U.S. belies the reality of life in Britain, one mired by low growth, crumbling infrastructure and shrinking global influence
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
LAURIE METCALF
The Tony and Emmy-winning actress reflects on her remarkable Broadway season, Death of a Salesman, co-star Nathan Lane and the enduring legacy of Roseanne's Aunt Jackie
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
VOTE OF CONFUSION
As Republicans push a sweeping election-law strategy through the courts and Congress, voting rules are shifting late in the cycle-raising the risk of disruption, mistrust and fresh legal chaos ahead of the midterms
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
A Case of Medical Whiplash
A fast-moving court fight over mifepristone has turned a familiar prescription into a legal fault line and revealed how far the shock waves from the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision travel beyond abortion care.
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May 22, 2026
Newsweek US
The Missing Bombers of Trump 2.0
President Donald Trump's second term is easy to read if you focus only on the visible damage: tariffs, agency purges, courtroom fights, public threats.
1 min |
May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
'CALIFORNIA IS DESPERATE FOR CHANGE'
Steve Hilton is looking to become the first Republican elected governor in the Golden State since Arnold Schwarzenegger. Can his focus on housing, homelessness and the cost of living guide him to victory in November?
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
RICHARD GADD
The actor follows Baby Reindeer with Half Man, an HBO limited series about two repressed “brothers” in Glasgow. “I came up with the two characters, and I couldn't shake them.”
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
Q&A STEVE HILTON
It's politics.
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
THE MIDDLE EAST THAT BENJAMIN NETANYAHU BUILT
How the vision of Israel's longest-serving premier came to reality—that strength, not agreement, delivers security
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
INTO THE LION'S DEN
Charles III's visit to the United States came as the nation is at loggerheads with the U.K. over the war in Iran. Can the king rescue the special relationship?
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
CUTTING THROUGH THE CHAOS
It’s business as usual for Mohammad Mehdi as he cuts Ayman Al Zein’s hair on April 18—despite being surrounded by rubble after his barber shop, in Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburb, was damaged in an Israeli strike.
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
One Personal Download, One Corporate Nightmare
When Vercel-a cloud platform used by businesses worldwide confirmed in April that customer credentials and internal data had been compromised, the attack that caused it required no sophisticated malware, zerodays or insider access.
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
Live Nation Lost. But Who Won?
At the height of Pearl Jam's success in 1994—and nearly eight months after the rock band filed an antitrust complaint against Ticketmaster—Rolling Stone asked, \"If Pearl Jam couldn't do it, who can?\" Well, 31 years later, it turns out the Swifties can. Kind of.
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
THE BENEFITS OF A GUIDING HAND
Well-designed Al governance does not suppress innovation—it shapes its direction in socially beneficial ways
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
Apple's New CEO May Return to Company's Core
As Apple says goodbye to CEO Tim Cook (below, right, affectionately known as Tim Apple by President Donald Trump), its senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, is stepping up at a crucial time.
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
Are Foreign Operatives Killing Scientists in the US?
President Donald Trump is hoping it's a \"coincidence.\"
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
The Human Cost of America's Longest Carrier Deployment
The USS Gerald R. Ford has now spent more than 300 days at sea-the longest deployment of any U.S. aircraft carrier since the Vietnam War-and for the nearly 4,500 sailors on board, many of them under the age of 20, the record comes at a cost.
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May 08-15, 2026
Newsweek US
The Worst Job in the World?
Sulfur miner, portable toilet cleaner, Kanye West's publicist—all pretty rough jobs. But still, people are sending in applications.
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