Innholdsfortegnelse for May 31 - June 07, 2024 i Newsweek

A controlled demolition rips through wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on May 13 in a bid to free the stuck cargo ship that crashed into it. An estimated 500-foot bridge section, weighing up to 12 million pounds, was shifted in the final stage of efforts to move the Dali into port. Its crew, 20 from India and one from Sri Lanka, have not been allowed to leave the ship stuck in the Patapsco River since the March 26 collision that caused the bridge’s collapse, killing six construction workers. The men have been maintaining the vessel and helping investigators.…

HAVING JUST COMPLETED SIX months of radiation and chemotherapy for stage 3B colorectal cancer, I’m thankful for an exceptional health care experience and the best possible outcome, which doctors cautiously call “No Evidence of Disease.” Though I’ll need anxiety-provoking scans every few months for the foreseeable future, my oncologist reviewed my recent results, congratulated me with all the usual caveats and emphasized: “It’s not every day I’m able to share such good news.” His declaration left me relieved but painfully aware of persistent disparities, not only in cancer care but [also] in the way we treat other diseases; namely, addiction. I’m a white, middle-class, well-insured man who has worked in nonprofit behavioral health services for more than 30 years, so my social determinants of health are admittedly different to others…

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISGEOPOLITICS WHAT HAS BECOME AN ANNUAL PARADE IN midtown Manhattan for Asian Americans was set up with the blessing of New York City Mayor Eric Adams by the CEO of a company that is a registered foreign agent of China, according to documents obtained exclusively by Newsweek. The findings raise new questions over Chinese influence on operations in the U.S., and particularly in New York, where Adams and some other top politicians have previously received campaign donations from members of groups linked to China’s ruling Communist Party. Newsweek has reported on the extensive network of such groups in the U.S. The annual Asian American parade began in 2022 and was expected to take place on Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue on May 19 as part of the city’s “Asian…

POLITICS AMERICANS AREN’T FIGHTING abroad in Ukraine or Gaza as they once did in Vietnam and Iraq. But growing protests over U.S. military support for Israel have increased the likelihood that 2024 may join 1968 as a rare foreign policy-influenced election—and the fallout could cost President Joe Biden in the critical battleground states he needs for reelection. The young people, progressives, Arab and Muslim Americans and others—including some Jews—voicing outrage over the killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza in Israel’s war on Hamas make up a relatively small part of the electorate, though they’ve commanded outsized attention by clashing with police on college campuses in an echo of past protests over foreign wars. But the 2024 election will come down to close races in swing states such…

AS THE POSSIBILITY OF A U.S. ban on TikTok looms, influencers have found themselves grappling with the potential ramifications on their careers and livelihoods. The video-sharing app—which has 150 million users in the United States—is the cornerstone of many influencers’ online presence, a crucial avenue for audience engagement and a significant source of income. But, fueled by concerns over national security, on April 24 President Joe Biden signed into law the bill that started a 270-day clock for TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest their stake in the company, otherwise a U.S. TikTok ban comes into effect. “It’s like a stab in the back,” said Noah Jay Wood, a content creator and actor with 7.2 million followers for his account @noahjaywood on the app. “TikTok is the foundation of…

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN MAY BE looking across the Atlantic with trepidation as Britain’s left-leaning Labour Party suffers heavy losses among Muslim voters across the country. Earlier this month, England and Wales saw hundreds of local council, mayoral and police crime commissioner elections taking place, with the opposition Labour Party scoring a number of key victories in the latest sign that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Tory Party are on course for a crushing defeat in the next as-yet unannounced U.K. general election. Nevertheless, Labour lost scores of votes in areas with significant Muslim populations, with the BBC reporting that the party’s vote is down 8 percent compared to last year in wards where more than one in 10 residents identify as Muslim. The falling Muslim support is seen as…