Jasmine Laws

I am currently working as a Live News Reporter at Newsweek, and all of my articles can be found on my author's page here: Jasmine Laws

Below, there is a selection of some of the articles I have written for Newsweek so far. 

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Donald Trump walks the line on Medicaid

Jasmine Laws is a Live News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on U.S. politics, crime and global affairs. Jasmine joined Newsweek in 2024 from News UK and had previously written for the Metro, Byline Times, The Human Perspective magazine and The Express. She has previously extensively covered stories within the U.K. art industry, human rights, health, and human trafficking. She was one of the nominees for Best News Piece at the U.K's Anti-Slavery Day 2023 Awards i...
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Health care cyberattacks are on the rise. What's being done about it?

Jasmine Laws is a Live News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on U.S. politics, crime and global affairs. Jasmine joined Newsweek in 2024 from News UK and had previously written for the Metro, Byline Times, The Human Perspective magazine and The Express. She has previously extensively covered stories within the U.K. art industry, human rights, health, and human trafficking. She was one of the nominees for Best News Piece at the U.K's Anti-Slavery Day 2023 Awards i...
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Map shows locations of NATO and Russian military bases in the Arctic

Jasmine Laws is a Live News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on U.S. politics, crime and global affairs. Jasmine joined Newsweek in 2024 from News UK and had previously written for the Metro, Byline Times, The Human Perspective magazine and The Express. She has previously extensively covered stories within the U.K. art industry, human rights, health, and human trafficking. She was one of the nominees for Best News Piece at the U.K's Anti-Slavery Day 2023 Awards i...
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Before-and-after satellite images show destruction of California wildfires

New satellite images from Maxar Technologies show the scale of the destruction and damage left so far by the wildfires raging in Southern California.As of Wednesday afternoon, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported that the Palisades Fire had spread to 17,234 acres with 0 percent containment.As the fire rapidly continues to spread, there are several reported injuries to both civilians and firefighters as well as significant destruction of infrastructure and homes. At least five people have bee...
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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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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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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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Chart shows net worth of US presidents before and after office

Bill Clinton is the U.S. president who earned the most money during his time in office, increasing his original new worth by more than a whopping 9,000 percent.The president-elect, Donald Trump, was the only president who lost money during his time as president, which was thought to be driven largely by the COVID-19 pandemic.However, Trump had by far the highest net worth overall among U.S. presidents dating back to John F. Kennedy.Clinton, the Democratic president who was in office for two term...
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Map shows US states with highest levels of Long COVID

Around 400 million people worldwide are believed to have long COVID, and 17.8 million of those are in the U.S., according to medical journal Jama.The state with the highest rate of long COVID is West Virginia with 10.6 percent of its population having experienced the illness, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Other states with high rates of long COVID included Montana, Alabama, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.More From Newsweek Vault: What Is a Health Savi...
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Donald Trump's Cabinet is on track to be the least diverse this century

Donald Trump's new Cabinet is on track to become the least racially diverse administration since the start of the 21st Century.Since winning the race for the White House last week, Trump has turned to the transition and appointing members of his new Cabinet, most of which so far have been been white men.When Trump was elected president in 2016, his Cabinet included 18 white men, making it the least racially diverse Cabinet since former President Ronald Raegan's time in office in 1980, the New Yo...
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Meet Knowa De Baraso, the 13-year-old Democrat who became a viral sensation

Last week, as millions woke up to the news that Kamala Harris had been defeated, one Democrat processing the news was only 5-years-old the last time Donald Trump was elected as president.While not yet being old enough to vote, 13-year-old Knowa de Baraso is one of the youngest faces of the Democratic Party, and used his online platform of over 112,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, to advocate for the Harris campaign.When asked if he was optimistic for the future, Knowa told Newsweek, "to be...
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Human trafficking is on the rise, what will the next president do about it?

The number of human trafficking suspects prosecuted has increased under the Biden-Harris administration, new data from the Department of Justice (DoJ) shows.Border security is an important issue in voters' minds as Vice President Kamala Harris goes head to head with former President Donald Trump as they make a late appeal to voters in the race for the White House ahead of election day.In 2022, 1,656 suspects were prosecuted, which was double the number prosecuted in 2012, the October 2024 report...
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Ann Selzer Responds to Iowa Poll Backlash

Ann Selzer, the pollster behind the Iowa poll that unexpectedly predicted a November 5 victory for Kamala Harris in the state, has responded to criticism from Donald Trump.The former president took to his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday, writing, "No President has done more for FARMERS, and the Great State of Iowa, than Donald J. Trump. In fact, it's not even close! All polls, except for one heavily skewed toward the Democrats by a Trump hater who called it totally wrong the last ti...
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Trump vs. Harris: Who will rack up most debt for the US?

Neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump has put forward a plan to address the rising debt burden, according to a report released today from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.The Committee said in their report that both presidential candidates would increase deficits and debt, but the debt would be higher under Trump.Estimates from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget stated Harris' policies would increase the national debt by $3.50 trillion b...
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Is this the closest Presidential Election race in history?

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain in a close race for the White House, with less than 40 days to go until the election.Recent polling averages have given Harris a slim lead nationally over Trump, well within the margin of error, and many battleground states remain toss-ups. The narrow gap between the candidates has prompted experts and commentators to say this is the closest presidential election history in decades, if not more than a century.It is an "incredi...
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Texas prisoners fake suicide attempts to escape heat: lawsuit

Prisons in Texas are so hot that prisoners have been faking suicide attempts so that they can be moved to cooler medical areas, advocates told a federal judge on Tuesday.Advocates asked U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman to declare the state prison system's lack of air conditioning as unconstitutionally cruel, saying inmates had also been splashing themselves with toilet water to cool down, the Associated Press (AP) reported.The suit was originally filed in 2023 by Bernie Tiede, an inmate w...

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