By Saajan Jogia is a motorsport and automotive writer with over ten years of experience. His passion for cars and motorcycles has been a driving force behind his evolution as a writer. He has extensively covered Formula 1, MotoGP, IndyCar, NASCAR, WEC, and technology for publications including Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, Newsweek, and Men's Journal.

President Donald Trump has been in office a little under two months, but the economic landscape looks vastly different than it did last year. A trade war is heating up, the stock market has shown increasing volatility, fears of a recession are on the rise and some consumer prices are skyrocketing. Now nearly $6 a

By Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, fertility and birth rate issues around the world, multiple disease outbreaks in the U.S. and ongoing vaccination discourse. Jordan joined Newsweek in 2024

Candidates running for the Summit Hill Elementary District 161 Board addressed the recent closing of two elementary schools at a forum Wednesday, noting that it is important to improve communication and community relations and heal the division that it caused. Ten candidates are seeking five board seats in the April 1 election. Incumbent Katie Campbell

By Effie Orfanides is a contributing entertainment writer for Newsweek, based in Tampa, Florida. Her focus is on entertainment news, celebrity relationships, and reality television. Effie joined Newsweek in 2025. An entertainment news veteran, she has bylines at People magazine, Heavy, NickiSwift, CBS Local, SheKnows, and more. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts with

Trump’s tariffs threats and actions have ignited a trade war that many economists say threatens to undermine global economic stability. On Thursday, Trump said he would impose a 200% duty on wine and champagne imported from the E.U. in response to the region’s targeting of U.S. whiskey imports — itself a reaction to the president’s

Todd Siwak, the former CEO of Ferrara Candy Co., on Wednesday placed his three-bedroom, 3,693-square-foot duplex condominium on the 17th floor of the Near North Side building at 9 W. Walton Street on the market for $4.79 million. Now a private equity executive, Siwak, who is based in St. Louis, led Ferrara Candy and then

On a highway in Arizona is a new billboard criticizing the Trump administration for "screwing the American people." The double-sided billboard, which is privately owned by activist and artist Beatrice Moore, depicts Elon Musk holding President Donald Trump as a puppet on one side with the words: "Project 2025: Trump, Musk and Enablers, are shredding

By Alice Gibbs is a Newsweek Senior Internet Trends & Culture Reporter based in the U.K. For the last two years she has specialized in viral trends and internet news, with a particular focus on animals, human interest stories, health, and lifestyle. Alice joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously wrote for The Observer, Independent, Dazed

By Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You can get in touch with Micah by emailing m.mccartney@newsweek.com. Micah McCartney China News Reporter Video has surfaced of China's newly constructed landing barges that

The U.S. is in talks with the German government and Russian officials to resume refinement of Russian oil from a major pipeline snaking through the NATO country, according to German and independent Russian media reports. Newsweek has reached out to the White House, the German chancellor's office and Berlin's finance ministry for comment via email.

The Democratic- and Republican-aligned candidates running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court are headed toward a tight race in the first major election for the battleground state since November. Why It Matters The Supreme Court race could have implications for issues ranging from abortion to redistricting for the Midwestern state, which is roughly divided evenly between