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5 days ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
Mass protests across the country are being scheduled for Tesla CEO Elon Musk's birthday on June 28, led by the Tesla Takedown movement. Despite no longer being part of the government, Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) policies and his continued impact as a private citizen are still being felt across the country, from mass governmental layoffs to his involvement in running companies with large government contracts.
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6 days ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark |Shane Croucher
By Sophie Grace Clark is a Live News reporter based in London, with a focus on crime stories. She has also covered politics and entertainment extensively. Sophie joined Newsweek in 2024 from a freelance career and had previously worked at The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Star, OK Magazine, and MyLondon. She is a graduate of Middlebury College. You can get in touch with Sophie by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
Millions of tons of seaweed could hit Florida shores by the summer holidays, according to scientists. Record-breaking quantities of sargassum seaweed have already surged through the Caribbean and parts of the Atlantic, leaving beaches from Puerto Rico to Guyana blanketed in algae, said Live Science, citing a report by the University of South Florida's (USF) Optical Oceanography Laboratory. Authors of the USF study have been contacted via email for comment.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
Fears that a serial killer is at large were reignited by the recent discovery of a body in a Texas lake where 38 corpses have been found over the past three years. The Austin Police Department has been contacted via email outside of working hours. A woman on Lady Bird Lake, Austin, Texas, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. A woman on Lady Bird Lake, Austin, Texas, Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
Local leaders in several Republican-led states are pushing back against bans on pride flags being hung from government buildings by creating legal loopholes to allow for LGBTQ+ displays. From city halls to public monuments, these acts of defiance come in the face of increasingly common legislative efforts to limit or ban pride flag displays on government property.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark |Shane Croucher
By Sophie Grace Clark is a Live News reporter based in London, with a focus on crime stories. She has also covered politics and entertainment extensively. Sophie joined Newsweek in 2024 from a freelance career and had previously worked at The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Star, OK Magazine, and MyLondon. She is a graduate of Middlebury College. You can get in touch with Sophie by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
An 81-year-old Florida woman has been arrested and accused of using bear mace against her 3- and 6-year-old neighbor's children after they were blowing bubbles in their own driveway. Ada Anderson was taken into custody following the incident on May 30, 2025, in Ocala in northern Florida, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office's (MCSO) probable cause arrest affidavit.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
By Sophie Grace Clark is a Live News reporter based in London, with a focus on crime stories. She has also covered politics and entertainment extensively. Sophie joined Newsweek in 2024 from a freelance career and had previously worked at The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Star, OK Magazine, and MyLondon. She is a graduate of Middlebury College. You can get in touch with Sophie by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
U.S. Marshals, the FBI, and local police are searching for the father of three girls who were found dead after spending time with their father, Travis Decker. The three girls, Evelyn, Paityn, and Olivia Decker, were reported missing on June 1 after Decker failed to return them home from their regular visitation hours with him. They were found deceased on June 3 near their father's white truck, but their father remains missing.
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1 week ago | 
newsweek.com | Sophie Grace Clark
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is looking to rename several Navy ships which honor civil rights leaders, according to documents obtained by CBS. These memos show Secretary Hegseth is changing the name of the USNS Harvey Milk at the beginning of Pride Month. The USNS Harvey Milk honors the memory of the gay rights campaigner who served in the Navy during the Korean War before being discharged for his sexuality. The USNS Harvey Milk is not the only ship that the Secretary wants to rename.
