Jasmine Laws

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

Below is a selection of some of the articles I have written for Newsweek. 

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Animal testing map shows 12 states with cosmetics ban

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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How animal testing in US could be transformed under Trump

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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Map shows states where drinking water contamination is highest

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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New IVF tool allows parents to screen genetics of embryos: is it ethical?

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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America's drinking water is changing how babies are being born: study

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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CEO says new tool allows couples to 'genetically optimize their children'

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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Can tackling addictions reduce Medicaid costs?

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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How Trump Administration can tackle America's addiction problems: Experts

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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UnitedHealthcare is struggling to recover from Luigi Mangione

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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Could Gen Z kill off the American hamburger?

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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New Medicaid work requirements "impossible" for people to navigate

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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Will drug costs plummet 90% under Trump? Experts weigh in

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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 t...
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Man's bedroom invention could radically change how Americans drink beer

Jasmine Laws is a Live News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about 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...
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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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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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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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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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