Innholdsfortegnelse for March 14, 2025 i Newsweek

INCOMING CHANCELLOR FRIEDRICH MERZ ISN’T the only one who’s happy after Germany’s February 23 elections: Elon Musk and his European party of choice, Alternative for Germany, are too. Nationalist party AfD, led by Alice Weidel, became the country’s second-largest in terms of vote, overtaking the incumbent center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and the Free Democratic Party in just one election cycle. AfD doubled their vote share since the 2021 elections, growing from 10.4 percent to 20.8 percent. AfD took 152 seats in the Bundestag, Germany’s federal Parliament, second only to Merz’s center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, which won a combined 208 seats of the chamber’s 630 total. The SPD received just 16.4 percent of the vote and 120 seats. The new…

COMPANIES IN EVERY INDUSTRY STRIVE for excellence. There are certain perks when you’re a notch above the rest: A prestigious name attracts talented employees, a trusted brand draws a loyal customer base. But greatness often comes at a price for consumers. As the adage goes, “You get what you pay for.” While many of us forego the daily luxuries for our wallets’ sake, there are a few areas where no one can afford to skimp. Health care is one of them. When you or a loved one are sick, you want the utmost confidence in the care that they’re receiving. But what should you look for in a hospital, and what separates the good from the great? Newsweek connected with some of the nation’s top health system leaders to learn…

Workers roll cigars at La Corona cigar factory in Cuba during the 25th Festival del Habano on February 27. The annual Cuban cigar festival is the most important week of the year for the local cigar industry. It features talks, new product announcements and rolling demonstrations. Since 1916, La Corona has produced many popular brands of cigars, which are one of the island’s primary exports. In 2024, Cuba’s leading cigar maker, Habanos, achieved record-high sales of $827 million. According to company vice president Jorge Pérez Martel, revenue increased 16 percent from the previous year, with interest from smokers in Asia boosting demand.…

COMIC EFFECT“He’s such a broken lunatic and I love him so much.” ▸ P.62 SOME STORIES SEEM TOO IMPOSSIBLE TO BE TRUE, AND Last Breath is one of them. The film, based on real events, follows commercial diver Chris Lemons, who was stranded deep underwater with no oxygen, no light and no way to escape. What should have been a routine job turned into a race against time, technology and human endurance. With Finn Cole, Simu Liu and Woody Harrelson leading the cast, Last Breath delivers a high-stakes, pulse-pounding thriller that takes audiences into the dangerous, isolated world of deep-sea saturation diving. Director Alex Parkinson, who also helmed the 2019 documentary of the same name, returns to bring this gripping true story to the big screen—with an intense, cinematic reimagining…

Mourners watch a livestream of the funeral of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas in what’s known as Hostages Square, Tel Aviv, on February 26. The young family was abducted on October 7, 2023, by Hamas militants and died in captivity. Shiri’s husband, Yarden, who was also held by Hamas but released on February 1, paid tribute to his family at the funeral, adding: “I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you all.... Please watch over me.”…

THE U.S. WHITE-COLLAR JOB market has experienced a dramatic slowdown in recent years, leading to a growing number of unemployed workers in tech, law, communications and media struggling to find new roles. While the U.S. jobs market looks healthy overall, with the unemployment rate at 4 percent in January, reports of white-collar workers getting laid off and having a hard time finding new jobs are surging, as demand appears to have softened in these industries. According to S&P Global, millions of Americans are currently employed in the professional and business services sector—though their numbers have recently stalled. From April 2020 to April 2024, the number of U.S. workers employed in this sector reached 22.9 million, growing by nearly 3.8 million in four years. But after reaching almost 23 million, that…

JAMIE CHADWICK IS SUCCEEDING AGAINST the odds. The 26-year-old racing driver has risen from 11-year-old rookie to one of the most decorated female racers of all time. Now, she’s turning her success into positive change for the generations that will come after her. “Ultimately, the rate of success in motor sport is very small. The percentage that make it to the top is very small. But at the same time, if we can just increase the levels of participation, particularly for women, then it’s only going to make the odds greater for anyone to progress to the higher levels,” Chadwick, who is from the Isle of Man in the British Isles, told Newsweek. Chadwick started her career in karting, switching over to cars two years later. She found success quickly,…