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.

My Latest Work

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Humanoid robots being mass produced in China

A Chinese technology company announced earlier this week that it has begun the mass production of general-purpose robots.AgiBot, also known as Zhiyuan, a start-up that launched in February 2023, released a video on its website of its new robots on December 16.The firm has manufactured nearly 1,000 of the humanoid robots so far, according to The Global Times.Newsweek has contacted AgiBot via email for comment.The U.S. has also been pushing the development of humanoid robots, with Tesla showcasing...
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Has the government shutdown been averted? What we know

The U.S. is less than 12 hours away from a government shut down, if Congress is unable to pass a spending bill before midnight.On Thursday, 38 Republicans voted against a spending bill backed by President-elect Donald Trump in the House of Representatives that planned to avert a government shutdown. The bill failed by a vote of 174-235.Government funding is set to lapse on Friday night at midnight so lawmakers are expected to meet again on Friday morning to try to pass legislation to avoid gover...
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Nvidia unveils AI supercomputer the size of your hand

American technology company Nvidia has unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, which fits in the palm of a hand.On Tuesday, Nvidia revealed its new Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, which can perform almost two times higher than its predecessor, the Jetson Orin Nano Kit from 2022, and has 50 percent more memory bandwidth, despite being comparable in size to a person's hand.Supercomputers are designed to handle the complex algorithms AI uses and are used to train models f...
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Florida to lose PornHub access

PornHub is blocking website visits from Florida on the first day of 2025 in response to the state's new over-18 age verification law for access to adult websites.On Tuesday, visitors to the pornographic video site in the state received a message saying: "You will lose access to PornHub in 14 days."The site appeared to be saying in messaging that a requirement to provide driver's license details to gain entry will put everybody's privacy at risk.Newsweek has contacted PornHub for comment.The deci...
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Audio shows pilot's distress moments before plane crashes in Hawaii airport

Audio of a pilot's last words before a fatal crash in Hawaii has been shared by a local news outlet.On Tuesday, a plane hit a building near Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, and Hawaii News Now has published audio of the exchange between the pilot and the control tower that occurred moments before the crash."Kamaka Flight 689, you're turning right, correct?" the control tower said, per the outlet.The pilot responded, "Kamaka 689, we are, we have, uh, we're out of control here."...
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Fog advisory in 11 states as millions of drivers warned about visibility

The National Weather Service has put out a dense fog advisory for 11 states in the south of the country, warning millions of drivers about the poor visibility.In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the NWS implemented the advisory because of "visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog," which it warned "could make driving conditions hazardous."The advice given to drivers is to "slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you."The 11 states that have the advisory...
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Disneyland to pay $233 million in California's largest wage theft case

The Walt Disney Company agreed to settle California's largest wage theft lawsuit, costing $233 million, with Disneyland workers on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times.The lawsuit was first raised five years ago, after the workers alleged that Walt Disney Co. ignored the city of Anaheim's minimum wage law.The settlement comes as the city in California is set to increase it's minimum wages to nearly $20.50 in the new year, and will provide back pay to the workers at the Anaheim theme park w...
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Russia's weapons exports plunge 93 percent in three years

Exports of Russian weapons will have dropped by 93 percent in three years by the end of 2024, a defense policy expert has found.The country's arms exports have been falling since its President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and this year they have plummeted further.According to news outlet Agency, Pavel Luzin—a nonresident senior fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)—calculated that the re...
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Are 1.4 million American women using OnlyFans? What we know

It was stated that 1.4 million American women use OnlyFans in a post on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, which went viral earlier this week.OnlyFans is an online content-sharing platform that can be used to share any kind of content, such as photos, recipes and writing, but is particularly popular among sex workers.Creators upload content to their accounts that only their fans can see, but fans typically pay a fee, decided by the creator, to see it. The creator keeps 80 percent of...
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China opens new Antarctic station, targeting "polar great power" status

China announced that its first atmospheric monitoring station in Antarctica began operations earlier this week, according to the local outlet China Daily, which could be a move to push the country towards becoming a "polar great power."The National Atmospheric Background Station, which is part of the Zhongshan station, officially began its operations on December 1, to commemorate World Antarctica Day.The station is the first of its kind to have been established in Antarctica for China, but the n...
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Who is Jesús Pérez Alvear? Mexican mall shooting sparks US embassy alert

United States authorities have identified the man shot in a Mexican mall on Wednesday as Jesús Pérez Alvear, a 40-year-old Mexican music promoter.The shooting at a restaurant in Miyana Commercial Plaza, which happened at around 4:00 p.m. in the Polanco area of Mexico City, prompted the Mexico City U.S. Embassy to subsequently issue a security alert, warning U.S. citizens to "exercise caution and avoid the area if possible."The alert warned the public to "be aware of your surroundings, maintain a...
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Man in legal battle to recover $800 million bitcoin fortune from landfill

A man from the U.K. has been fighting to get back a hard drive containing $800 million worth of bitcoin after it was accidentally thrown into a landfill, The Guardian has reported.For more than a decade, James Howells, a 39-year-old from Newport in South Wales, has been trying to get back his hard drive holding 8,000 bitcoins after it was mistakenly thrown into the bin by his former partner, local outlet Wales Online reported.On Tuesday, a court at the Cardiff Civil and Family Justice Centre lis...
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America's 12 richest men now worth a combined $2 trillion

The collective net worth of America's richest 12 men has hit $2 trillion, less than $2 trillion short of the wealth of the bottom half of the U.S.An analysis by Forbes showed that as of December 3, America's top billionaires, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, accumulated a collective net worth of more than $2 trillion.This sum is only $1.8 trillion off the total net worth of the nation's bottom 5...
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Big tech increases spending on infrastructure amid AI boom

Big tech companies have increased their spending on infrastructure as the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand, Construction Drive reported.Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft expanded such investments by 81 percent year over year during the third quarter of 2024, according to an analysis by business consultancy Dell'Oro Group, seen by Construction Dive, and are on track to have spent $180 billion on data centers and related costs by the end of the year.The push to expand a...
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Map shows states with highest number of workplace sexual harassment reports

Georgia had the highest number of reported sexual harassment cases last year, new data shows.A study conducted by the sexual harassment lawyers J&Y Law of data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) revealed that the Peach State had the most sexual harassment cases per capita, at 36, in 2023. The EEOC defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.Mississippi and Arkansas were th...
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US 'concerned' by report of Russian interference in NATO ally's election

The U.S. has voiced concern over Romania's presidential election after declassified documents showed the NATO member was the target of "aggressive hybrid Russian attacks," according to Reuters.Romania, an Eastern European country that shares a border with Ukraine, held the first round of its presidential election on November 24, where the pro-Russia candidate Calin Georgescu secured victory after previously receiving only single digits in the polls.According to Politico, the Romanian Intelligenc...
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'Hawk Tuah Girl' launches crypto: 'I used to think it was a scam'

Influencer Haliey Welch, known as the "Hawk Tuah Girl," has launched her own cryptocurrency - but admitted she previously thought it was just an "easy way for you to lose money."Welch, who went viral after she was filmed by YouTube creators using the onomatopoeic phrase "hawk tuah" to describe an intimate act has since transformed her newfound fame into a successful merchandise line and a podcast, featuring notable guests like entrepreneur Mark Cuban.However Welch told Fortune that her memecoin,...
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Could the US housing market see a 'Trump bump' in 2025?

The housing market could see a "Trump bump" next year if the president-elect goes ahead with some of his proposed policies, according to a new forecast for 2025 by realtor.com.The analysis predicted that next year's housing market could experience a boost for the better if Donald Trump brings in his proposals to make more federal land available for homebuilding and addressing regulation.Regulation typically makes up almost 24 percent of a house's cost, according to a study by the National Associ...
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Men more likely to have financial secrets than women, study finds

Men are more likely than women to have financial secrets, a new study has found.According to the findings of an online survey by the personal finance company WalletHub, which involved 220 Americans nationally, 77 percent more men have financial secrets compared to women.WalletHub also found that 1 in 4 people said they lied about money all the time, with 58 percent of Americans saying they have financial secrets.Secrets were kept about different financial matters, such as large purchases, income...
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Map shows which states spend the most on dating apps

New York is the state the spends the most money on dating services, a new study has shown.The new report by Slotsup, an online betting platform, found that New York spends $0.74 per capita on dating apps, while the national average across the U.S. is $0.40.Dating apps are popular in the U.S., with three in 10 American adults saying they have used a dating platform, and more than 40 percent saying they found the services have made dating easier for them, according to Forbes.Commenting on its find...
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Satellite image shows airport linking US to world's northernmost capital

A newly released satellite image gives a bird's-eye view of Greenland's latest international airport, which will be the first to offer direct flights to the island's capital from the U.S.Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, officially opened its eponymous airport with a flight from Air Greenland touching down on the new 2,200 meter runway at around 12:30 p.m. local time on November 28, according to Aviation Week.The runway can be seen in the satellite image below taken by the European Union satellite...
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Video reveals inside restored Notre Dame ahead of Trump visit

A video shows what the inside of Notre Dame looks like after its reconstruction following a major fire five years ago.The catastrophic blaze destroyed the roof and spire of the historic medieval cathedral in Paris caught fire in April2019, after which French President Emmanuel Macron set a five year deadline for its restoration, which cost around $737 million, according to the BBC.The new footage from inside the iconic monument was posted to X, formerly Twitter, by @Rainmaker1973, and shows the...
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Gas prices lowest in more than three years

Gas prices have dropped to their lowest level in more than three years, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).Data from the EIA shows that the retail price of gas fell to $3.175 per gallon in November, down from $3.261 in October and down from $3.443 one year ago. While this is the cheapest gas prices have been since June 2021 ($3.157), they are still higher compared to when President Joe Biden first entered office in January that year.The price of gas has been an on...
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Russia seizes Ukraine territory the size of Singapore

Russia's advances on Ukraine last month amounted to the size of Singapore and was its largest territorial gain since the first weeks of the conflict, new analysis shows.Research conducted by Agence France-Presse (AFP), using data from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), found that the Russian army seized more than 725 square kilometers (279.9 square miles) of land in Ukraine during November.The area is larger than Singapore, which covers around 719 square kilometers (277.6 square...
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