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The Wait
A camp of asylum seekers waiting for U.S. authorities to allow them to start their migration process outside El Chaparral crossing port on March 17. President Biden’s pledge of a more humane approach to immigration has sparked a new rush to the borde
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The Archives
Talented cover designer Ron Meyerson, who worked at Newsweek from 1972 to 1992, passed away on March 7 of this year. Meyerson joined Newsweek’s staff as the cover art director, eventually held a senior editor position and over his career designed ove
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War for Sale
A Syrian child poses on a stack of neutralized shells at a metal scrapyard on the outskirts of Maarrat Misrin on March 10. A Syrian family who was displaced from a village in Hama’s northern countryside four years ago, has found a source of income in
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Making Zoom More Personal
SINCE THE SUDDEN ONSET OF LOCK DOWNSAND REMOTE WORK A YEAR AGO, reliance on digital platforms has grown exponentially. For example, Zoom Video Communications’ revenue in 2020 was $622.7 million, up 88 percent from the previous year. Despite the myria
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A Marshall Plan for Moms
RESHMA SAUJANI IS ANGRY, TIRED AND DETERmined—angry at the damage the pandemic has done to women, tired from the past year’s struggles to balance work and family life and determined not to let those challenges interrupt her mission to close the gende
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Looking Forward, Not Back
THE FLOOR STARTS TO SWAY. The windows rattle. Your heartbeat quickens. They’re the telltale signs of an earthquake, and here in northeastern Japan we felt them as recently as February, when a magnitude 7.3 tremor struck off the Pacific coast and inju
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Prayer Service
Iraqi mourners pray at the funeral of eight people killed a day earlier in attacks claimed by the Islamic State in the village of al-Bou Dor on March 13. A statement from Islamic State officials said those targeted had been spying for Hashed al-Shaab
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Q&A: Susan McPherson
Are your suggestions for how to strengthen business relationships particular to women? Absolutely not. This book, and the method I provide is for everyone. Leading with the idea of “how can we help and best support others,” will strengthen any busine
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A Crypto Cheat Sheet
Can you give us a plain-English explanation of cryptocurrency, as if you were explaining it to your grandfather? These are digital assets, as opposed to currencies. You can’t touch and hold bitcoins, but when you log into your online banking, you see
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Is Bitcoin Too Big to Fail?
JUST BEFORE THE LAST BITCOIN BUBBLE popped, around the time socialite Paris Hilton issued her own “digital token” and idealists and amateurs across the globe were still tipsy on the idea of circumventing Wall Street, central banks and the usual billi
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AMERICA’S MOST Trusted BRANDS
WHETHER YOU’RE SHOPPING FOR SPECIAL TREATS OR EVERYDAY ITEMS, YOU WANT TO FEEL GOOD about your choices—and that confidence is more important than ever in a shaky economy. To help our readers, Newsweek has partnered with leading market research firm B
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SyFy’s Killer From Space With A Heart
SYFY HASSOMETHING A LITTLE UNUSUAL FOR basic cable, a hit original show. Resident Alien is a comedy/drama/murder mystery starring Alan Tudyk as an extraterrestrial struggling to pass for human in a small Colorado town. It is not only funny, it is als
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2021’s Most Anticipated New Art
As the world slowly emerges from pandemic shutdowns, opportunities to visit museums and see art in person are once again becoming more plentiful. And just in time, because this year, there are so many new art museums and innovative visual art exhibit
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Danielle Brooks
DANIELLE BROOKS WAS PREPARING TO PLAY MAHALIA JACKSON, THE Queen of Gospel, long before she got the part in Lifetime’s Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (April 3). “I was consciously reading, watching clips, just getting inspired. And that was before r

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