Jasmine Laws

About Me

I work as a Live News Reporter for Newsweek, reporting on news across the globe and the US.

I completed my fast-track NCTJ with gold-standard at News Associates, and graduated from Durham University with a BA degree in Liberal Arts (English Literature and Philosophy).

Previously, I worked as a digital journalist at News UK, a Senior Political and Media Consultant for the Bridgehead Group, and was also Co-Editor for Comment Central. I have also written for the Metro, Byline Times and The Express as a freelancer. 



While training with News Associates, I worked as a reporter for The Londoners, and as a news-reader, presenter, producer and reporter at Riverside Radio.


I previously worked as Assistant Editor of Ski Luxe Magazine of Beau Monde Media, and as the UK and Middle Eastern Correspondent for the Human Perspective.


Aside from journalism, from March to June 2023, I taught English in Bari, Italy with Lord Byron College, as a Cambridge CELTA qualified teacher. I also produced commissioned artwork during the first lockdown to raise money for charity. 

My Latest Work

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Pro-Kyiv saboteurs blow up critical bridge in Russia-held Berdyansk: Report

A railway bridge in a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine has reportedly been sabotaged by Ukraine's military intelligence and pro-Kyiv resistance.A source from the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (GUR) told The Kyiv Independent on Monday that the bridge had been blown up in Berdiansk.The bridge was reportedly between a Vodokanal utility company building and a car wash at Skhidnyi Avenue, the Ukrainian outlet reported. On Google maps, a building named Berdyans...
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Tucker Carlson's response to NYT reporter: 'I told you to f*** off'

Tucker Carlson has shared the response he purportedly sent a New York Times reporter who asked him to comment on a story that alleged some of Carlson's social content contained election misinformation.Carlson shared screenshots of what appeared to be text messages between him and the reporter on his X account on Monday.The sender, who was saved in Carlson's phone as "Nico," identified themselves as Nico Grant, a technology correspondent for the New York Times.The initial text says he is working...
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Puerto Rican celebrities for Harris could reach over 300 million followers

Five Puerto Rican celebrities have collectively reached up to 340 million followers on Instagram showing support for Kamala Harris after Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Rico was widely criticized.The comedian said at a Donald Trump rally on Sunday that the territory was a "floating island of garbage." The comment was called out by both Democrats and Republicans, including former member of the Trump administration, Peter Navarro, and Republican New York Representative Mike Lawler.Senior advi...
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Astronaut captures how one of Australia's biggest cities looks from space

A U.S. astronaut has captured an image of Australia's second most populated city from the International Space Station.Don Pettit captured the image of Melbourne from the space station on October 9, 2024.The image was taken as the station, which orbits at an altitude of between 370 to 460 kilometers, 230 to 285 miles, above Earth, was approximately 270 miles above the city,Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, is the second most populated city in Australia as of June 2023, accordi...
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Kamala Harris as popular among Democrats as Obama in 2008: poll

A poll has found that Kamala Harris is as popular today as Barack Obama was in 2008 among Democrat voters.Harris received a 72 percent favorability rating among the party's supporters in a recently released Gallup poll. This figure is likely the highest for a Democratic candidate going back almost 70 years, and ties Harris with Obama just before he was elected president for the first time.The survey compared own-party favorability for both presidential candidates in 2024 to candidates in almost...
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Teen girl caught after 3-month police hunt over fatal restaurant shooting

A teenage girl who was accused of fatally shooting a fast-food restaurant manager in North Texas was arrested on Tuesday after a three-month search, according to local reports.Adiah Roberson, 17, was wanted on suspicion of killing 33-year-old Daniel Shrewsbury on July 7 at a Sonic Drive-In in the 5500 block of Babcock Road in San Antonio at around 9.30 p.m., according to a police news release obtained by local ABC affiliate KSAT.Police say Roberson went to the restaurant with two other individua...
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Map shows states with the most remote workers

In 2019, working from home was rare for Americans. But when COVID-19 hit in early 2020, everything changed.According to research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, between April and December 2020 an estimated 50 percent of all paid work hours were from home, compared with just 5 percent prior to the pandemic.Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that by 2023 that figure had dropped. Out of 155 million American workers, only 20 percent worked from home, and around half o...
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CNN anchor apoloogizes for reading alleged Trump quote on air

CNN anchor Erin Burnett has apologized after repeating a quote attributed to Donald Trump in a report, leading her to use the F-word on live TV.During Tuesday's edition of her current affairs show Out Front, Burnett discussed an article published in The Atlantic which alleged that Trump became angry at learning the cost of a burial for a Mexican-American soldier.The report says that Trump had previously offered to pay for the funeral of Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old who was murdered in 2020 whi...
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Russia's alcohol empire suffers devastating quadruple blow

Ukraine drones bombed four different distilleries in Russia early Tuesday, in what has been reported by a Telegram outlet as the largest attack on alcohol production lines that are now potentially being used to fuel Moscow's war effort.At around 2 a.m. on October 22 explosions rang out as drones flew to the Tula region and attacked one distillery in Efremov town and another in Luzhkovsky, said Mash. A few hours later, at 5 a.m. there were reports of a drone attacking an alcohol plant in the Tamb...
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Elon Musk and Mark Cuban trade low blows in latest spat: 'find a friend'

Mark Cuban is embroiled in another spat with Elon Musk which has seen the two billionaires exchange jibes on Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter.On Sunday night, Musk replied to a clip of Cuban's interview with CNN host Erin Burnett on October 17, in which Musk was wearing eye glasses.Musk wrote, "Why did he steal @maddow's glasses?" tagging MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.Cuban then replied, "I know you can't get me out of your head @elonmusk. Time to stop thinking about me, find a friend...
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Arrest allegedly "staged" for reality TV leads to $2.5 million settlement

A Texas father will receive a settlement of $2.5 million from Williamson County after he said his son's arrest was staged for a reality TV show.On Tuesday, it was agreed that Williamson County Sheriff's Office will pay Gary Watsky the multi-million dollar sum after his son Asher was arrested in 2019, which he argued was staged for the formerly canceled show Live PD, Variety reported.Per the outlet, officers broke down Watsky's front and back doors, deployed a non-lethal explosive grenade and ent...
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Asian nation plans $1.2B airport to try and become 'second Singapore'

A country in Southeast Asia has started developing a new airport at a cost of $1.2 billion in a move to make the country a "second Singapore."The first phase of Cambodia's new airport is being constructed around 12.5 miles from its capital, Phnom Penh, and will be able accommodate between 13 to 15 million passengers and around 175,000 tons of cargo each year.The three-phase construction plan aims to have the Techo Takhmao International Airport host 50 million passengers a year by its completion,...
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Woman who infiltrated football field with MAGA sign speaks out

A Trump supporter who made headlines after running through a football field with a MAGA sign during an NFL game in Pennsylvania has identified herself and discussed her reasons behind the stunt.On Sunday, Donald Trump attended a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets while campaigning in the crucial swing state.During the game, a woman dressed in Steelers colors ran onto the field holding a sign that read, "Trump, secure border. Kamala open border." Clips of the incident widely c...
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Russia suffers second-biggest single-day loss since war began: Kyiv's data

Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has shared data showing that Russia endured its second-highest single-day loss of military personnel on October 18.Citing reports from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russia lost 1,530 personnel on Friday, which would be the second-highest number of men lost in one day since Russia began its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.According to an index sourced from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the highest numb...
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Teen girls beat man to death because they were "bored," defendant says

One teen in a group of five girls arrested and charged with the murder of a 64-year-old man in Washington, D.C., said they did it because they were "bored," according to reports.WUSA, a local CBS affiliate, reported that one of the girls, age 15, pleaded guilty last week to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon and was subsequently sentenced to three years in juvenile prison.The 15-year-old was required to testify at the trial of two of the other girls thought to be involved in the inciden...
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Mark Cuban defends Kamala Harris after Fox News interview backlash

Mark Cuban has defended Kamala Harris on social media after the vice president faced some backlash following her Fox News interview with Bret Baier.Harris was interviewed by the host of Fox News' Special Report on October 16 in Pennsylvania three weeks before the 2024 election, and has faced backlash online from conservative commentators and Trump supporters, with Megyn Kelly noting that Baier took charge while Harris appeared "incapable."Cuban, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump and supporter...
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Security guard accused of killing 90-year-old at facility where she worked

A female security guard has been accused of killing a 90-year-old resident at a Georgia elderly apartment complex by stabbing him around 50 times.Janet Williams, 65, was taken into custody on Thursday after she was identified as the suspected murderer of Chun Ki Kim who had been killed in Atlanta in the 760 block of Sidney Marcus Boulevard NE, Law and Crime reported.According to an arrest update on the Atlanta Police Department website, on September 25 not long before 8 in the morning, Atlanta c...
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Map shows which countries get the most hurricanes

When the hurricane season began on June 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its predictions for what this year's season would look like, predicting there would be 17 to 25 named storms.This would make it an above-average hurricane season, and of those storms, it was forecast that eight to 13 would be hurricanes, and four to seven deemed major hurricanes.So far, nine named hurricanes and 13 major storms had hit by October 15, according to NBC, with seven weeks o...
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Videos show moment boat collides with crane in major crash

Footage has captured the moment a Chinese barge in Taiwan was suspected of colliding with a crane as the boat was docking on Monday.The videos show the crane next to the carrier ship as it pulls along the harbor in Northern Taiwan to dock. The crane tilts to the side and then collapses onto the pier, as a couple of people can be seen running away.The China Container Terminal Corporation crane weighed 750 tons and was 70-100 meters (230-328 feet) tall, and it was used to lift containers weighing...
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Trump tells followers to buy family-backed cryptocurrency

Donald Trump has posted a video encouraging his followers to purchase a cryptocurrency supported by his family after the new token's sale went live.On October 15, World Liberty Financial crypto tokens were made available to purchase, Bloomberg reported—with each of the ethereum-based $WLFI tokens costing $0.015.In a video on his X account, the former president announced the sale, saying: "Big news. The World Liberty Financial token sale is now live. Crypto is the future. Let's embrace this incre...
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German official predicts Russian strike on NATO, vows response

German intelligence chiefs have warned that a military confrontation between NATO and Russia is "becoming an option" for Vladimir Putin.The country's foreign intelligence chief Bruno Kahl told a parliamentary hearing in the Bundestag on Monday that Russia could be able to launch an attack on NATO by 2030.The comments are the latest in a series of warnings that Russia's conflict with Ukraine could escalate towards a much wider scale war.In the hearing, Kahl said: "Whether we like it or not, we ar...
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Donald Trump 'OK with people fainting from heat at event: 'WWe lose weight'

Donald Trump said he was "OK" with the heat during a Pennsylvania town hall event, after it reportedly caused some attendees to faint.Trump's Monday night event was held in Oaks, Pennsylvania, moderated by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. It was paused twice due to apparent medical incidents among the crowd, which led Trump to call for a doctor while commenting on the heat."We have incredible people that come here hours before and it's a little hot, so they're with us all the way, respect them...
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Mom of Texas realtor who mysteriously disappeared says she fears the worst

The mother of Suzanne Simpson, who disappeared a week ago in Texas, shared at a candlelight prayer vigil that she didn't think her daughter was still alive.Barbara Clark told the local news outlet WOAI that she normally heard frequently from Suzanne, who is a 51-year-old realtor working at Nix Realty in San Antonio.The fact they'd not spoken since she went missing made her think that her daughter was not still alive.Barbara told the outlet that she'd spoken to Suzanne on the night she went missi...
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Phase 1 of Dubai's $2.7 billion construction project underway

The first phase of the $2.7 billion project to extend Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC) is now underway after a United Kingdom-based construction company was appointed to begin the development.Mace, the company behind London's famous Shard building and Battersea Power Station, have been assigned the task of building phase 1 of the extension by Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).There are three phases to the development, and specifically, phase 1 will reportedly be completed by 2026 and bring the center...
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