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HE NCAA DIVISION 1 MEN’S BASKETBALL Tournament, which just got underway, is the pinnacle of college sports, an annual all-American rah-rah celebration of athletic competition. The Big Dance. The Final Four. March Madness! It is also, increasingly, a

IF LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, THEN LILY TOMLIN IS GETTING all the revenge, especially in her new film Moving On (March 17). She and Jane Fonda team up once again to get retribution—the murderous kind—against a widower who wronged them. “What ex

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TWICE ARE READY TO START THE next chapter of their career. The nine members of the Korean girl group are established titans of K-pop, but Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung and Tzuyu are seeking out new ways to connect with

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BY THE TIME JOE NAEGELE LEFT HILLCREEK Rehabilitation and Care, he appeared a shell of the man who entered. The 87-year-old’s face was gaunt and his hair disheveled. Speaking exhausted him. It took three women to hoist his body out of a wheelchair an

WHEN RIHANNA PAUSED MIDWAY through her Super Bowl halftime performance to wipe the shine from her face with Fenty Beauty blotting powder, it was her flair for business, not her voice, that was momentarily on bold display. That three-second touch up,

The regional cuisines of Mexico and India are soulmates. Chiles, for example, are native to Mexico but proved to be an incredible find for India. Mole, that most layered of sauces, weaves in those very same chiles plus herbs, spices, nuts and chocola

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THESE ARE CHALLENGING TIMES for hospitals. COVID-19 put unprecedented stress on health systems, as have inflation and global financial uncertainty. Around the world, leading hospitals are dealing with rising costs, aging populations and an exhausted

“WE HEAR THAT WE STARTED THE WAR IN DON-bas, Ukraine—No.” Russian President Vladimir Putin says grimly to the camera, flanked by the colors of the Russian flag. “It was unleashed by the collective West, which organized and supported the unconstitutio

IN 1978, WAYNE CILENTO, THEN A rising young Broadway performer, got the chance to try to impress Bob Fosse. Fosse, who died in 1987, was at the time a firmly established legend, best known for his distinctive jazzy choreography for musicals like The

I KNEW A GUY IN COLLEGE WHO COULD consume heaping bowls of ice cream without any discernable effect on his six-pack abs. I’ve been wondering ever since why my body doesn’t respond that way to my favorite dessert—or, for that matter, if I’ll ever find

IF YOU’RE GOING TO ADD ON TO THE LEGACY OF A CLASSIC MEL BROOKS film, you’ve got to do it with a parade of superstars (and, of course, the blessing of Brooks himself). That’s exactly what Nick Kroll has done with Hulu’s History of the World: Part II

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NEVER HAS A TITLE FIT A SHOW’S SUBJECT MORE THAN EUGENE LEVY’S new Apple TV+ travel show The Reluctant Traveler (February 24). When the idea was pitched to him, he thought, “That’s so not me. What am I going to do? I don’t care to travel that much.”

FROM OUR FIRST ISSUE ON FEB-ruary 17, 1933, Newsweek has been committed to journalism that is factual and fair, aiming to inform readers not just about the most important news developments of the week but also to provide insights and perspectives to

TWENTY YEARS AGO, WHEN VIRONIKA WILDE was 12 years old, she began to lie. A lot. She lied about her age and her weight. She lied about having a speaking role on the hit TV show Degrassi when she had only been an extra. She lied that she had been in a

“These women trusted that science would be a meritocracy.” ▸ P.22 ONE YEAR SINCE THE START OF RUSSIA’S FULL-scale invasion, roughly half of Ukraine’s pre-war population of 40 million people has been driven from their homes, creating the largest refug