What’s New A new map by Newsweek highlights the flurry of mysterious drone sightings reported at U.S. military bases both at home and abroad. Newsweek has contacted the Department of Defense for comment via email outside of standard working hours. Why It Matters A spate of unidentified drone sightings, both domestic and international, have been […]

Fortnite is about to get a whole lot wackier with its latest crossover, featuring the internet sensation Skibidi Toilet. Starting Dec. 18, players can access a range of quirky, bathroom-themed cosmetics, including a Plungerman skin, a Skibidi Toilet backpack, and a plunger pickaxe, all available in the Item Shop. What’s Coming to the Item Shop? […]

High in the mountains of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Majdal Shams is home to members of one of the Middle East’s most insular religious communities: the Druze. With its roots in 10th century Ismailism, a branch of Shia Islam, the roughly one million-strong minority is spread across Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Golan Heights. Although […]

I gave birth to my first three children between 1998 and 2000. When they were growing up, I knew enough about the internet to remind them never to share their personal information online, but that was the extent of it. Then, I gave birth to my fourth child in 2011 and quickly realized how much […]

LONDON — The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper confirmed Wednesday that it has sold the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media for an undisclosed fee. The Scott Trust, which owns , said in a statement that Tortoise Media is purchasing the Observer through a combination of cash and shares. The Observer, which […]

Shortly before the first domestic flight since Bashar al-Assad’s fall landed at Aleppo International Airport late Wednesday morning, the final preparations were still being made. Workers rushed to remove about a dozen empty ammunition boxes, gas masks and helmets from a grassy patch next to the runway. When the Syrian Air flight from Damascus landed, […]

The first time I got a Novavax Covid vaccine, it felt almost subversive.  Over the previous few years, every mRNA-based booster I’d gotten — the ones made by Moderna and Pfizer — had felt like a two-day bout of the flu. I’d gamely booked sick days into my calendar and sucked it up through fevers, headaches, […]

Even Vice President Kamala Harris was laughing at her own word salads during a post-election speech Tuesday. As many of her supporters still reel from her defeat in November, Harris urged an audience of young people to “stay in the fight” during a visit to Prince George’s Community College in Maryland.  “I ask you to […]

What’s New A Russian tanker with 19 crew aboard broke down due to engine failure in the Pacific Ocean in the fourth incident involving Russia’s ships in the last week. Newsweek has contacted Russia’s emergency situations ministry for comment. Why It Matters Monday’s incident in the Pacific Ocean with the tanker Mercury comes amid growing […]

Earlier this year, Simon Harris became Ireland’s youngest-ever Taoiseach as he was sworn in watched by his wife Caoimhe and young son and daughter Cillian and Saoirse. Once known as the ‘Baby of the Dáil’, at 37 years old, he led Fine Gael into the recent general election after just seven months in the job, […]

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