Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona vowed to crack down on the largest Christian university in the country during a House committee hearing.

The sportswomen disagreed with creating competition based on body or gender identity.

What you eat can have an impact on your sleep. Two sleep experts shared foods that promote sleep, foods to avoid, and how to know if your dietary choices are keeping you up at night.

The Duchess of Sussex's close friends have received jars of her exclusive American Riviera Orchard jam.

German billionaire Karl-Erivan Haub was officially declared dead in 2021, three years after vanishing in the Swiss Alps.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesPay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding. Subscribe here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.A watchdog group is asking the Justice Department to investigate whether Donald Trump repeatedly lied in sworn statements to the federal government—including his own administration—about a $50 million loan that apparently never existed in the first place, and which could be evidence of tax evasion.The criminal complaint, filed on Thursday by watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and first obtained by The Daily Beast, asks the FBI and the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Unit to probe whether Trump “knowingly and willfully” lied about the mystery loan on his personal financial disclosures.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesTaylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album, The Tortured Poets Department, drops this Friday. But given the somewhat scattered LP rollout thus far, you’d be forgiven for wondering just what exactly has been running through the pop star’s mind in terms of strategy this time around. Case in point: Like a luxury brand looking to seduce penny-pinching skeptics, Swift and Spotify appear to have collaborated on a Tortured Poets activation at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles this week. The resulting semi-ramshackle, adult-sized dioramas look rather like proposed pop-up experiences that were rejected from Harry Potter World at Universal Studios: You, too, can wait in line for hours to look at a West Elm birdcage perched on a fake bookshelf, and ponder its meaning! Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyWordle is actually making us crazy.Therapists tell The Daily Beast that some of their patients are confessing just how much time they are spending on The New York Times Games app and how it’s messing with their mood or mental health.“When I see it as a problem is when a patient says ‘I was not able to complete my tasks at work today because I spent so much time on Wordle’ or when they say they were asked to go to dinner with their friends but chose to stay home to play Connections,” New York psychologist Jennifer Gittleman said.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty“You can either die as speaker and worry about them taking you out, or live every day as your last.”As Speaker Mike Johnson ponders what to do this week, I hope he heeds that advice that came from Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) back in February.In case you have missed it, the next week or so will determine whether Johnson is going to remain the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and (just as important) whether that title is even worth a warm bucket of spit in the first place.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Until these autism programs produce the likes of Elon Musk or Greta Thunberg en masse, they remain vulnerable targets.

LionsgateGuy Ritchie loves movies about rough-and-tumble bros—or, rather, blokes—and at its best, his work generates amusing excitement from having tough guys band together to complete intricate and daring action-adventure missions. The director’s cinema is one of attitude and flair, and over the course of his prior three features (Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Covenant), he’s moved confidently between stern and silly modes, all while maintaining the rugged swagger that has long been his trademark. Thus, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare would seem to be an almost ideal project for Ritchie—which is why its lethargy comes as such a dispiriting surprise.A low-wattage affair that goes through the spy motions without ever providing more than formulaic reasons to care about its plot or its players, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (April 19, in theaters) is a dramatized real-life saga whose specifics were declassified by the British government in 2016. Loosely based on Damien Lewis’ book Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII, it concerns Winston Churchill’s clandestine attempt to stave off the escalating Nazi threat by mounting an unauthorized exercise to end Hitler’s stranglehold on the Atlantic Ocean and, by doing so, to allow the United States to involve itself in the global conflict. Dubbed “Operation Postmaster,” it was an endeavor of the utmost secrecy and importance. Yet even though its characters repeatedly state those obvious facts to each other (and the audience), Ritchie’s film never feels like it has high stakes, largely because every element is dramatized as a cliché, devoid of personality or suspense.With Nazi U-boats keeping America out of World War II, and with his cowardly commanders advising him to surrender to Hitler, Churchill (Rory Kinnear, in crummy make-up) decides that victory hinges on destroying this oceanic blockade. To turn the tide, he devises a plan to neuter the U-boats by blowing up the Duchess, the Italian cargo ship that provides the German submarines with supplies. The Duchess is refueled and restocked in the neutral West African coastal island of Fernando Po, and on the recommendation of his co-conspirators Brigadier Gubbins “M” (Cary Elwes) and Ian Fleming (Freddie Fox)—as in, the future creator of 007—Churchill enlists the services of Gus March-Phillipps (Henry Cavill), a convict who doesn’t follow orders and derives great grinning-with-his-tongue-out pleasure from killing Nazis.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesIt’s always a little sad when someone doesn’t understand that everyone’s laughing at them, not with them. You kind of want to tell them about the behind-the-scenes giggles, but then if you do tell them, you have to see the sad look reach across their eyes. The final option is to simply go along with the crowd, performing the scandalous act of giggling in secrecy, all at someone else’s expense. That’s what I—along with most of the world—have chosen to do with JoJo Siwa as she enters this forced goth-bad-girl era of her singing career.Siwa, who has recently reinvented her rainbow persona to be darker, grittier, and “gay pop,” seems to have no idea that the world has made her the butt of the joke. Siwa’s “Karma” music video, released April 4, is perhaps the most unsettling video released in 2024. It also features Siwa animatedly humping her dance partner as vigorously as a dog thrusts his hips against a stranger’s shin. But at least when the dog does it, it’s not wearing a webbed jumpsuit with fishnets and leather, something Spider-Man might purchase if he landed on a sex shop somewhere in Queens.Since the video’s release, folks all over the internet have been recreating the dance in particular, as well as making other Siwa moments go viral. The dance trend includes bigger names, too; Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts Tour dancers have recreated Siwa’s zombie-like dance moves, while just last Saturday, Billie Eilish reenacted Siwa’s dance moves at a Coachella afterparty.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/RokuThe past few years have brought harrowing stories of streaming platforms shelving completed projects as tax write-offs. This time, at least, there’s a happy ending for the YA series The Spiderwick Chronicles, which was originally made for Disney+, only to be scrapped as a cost-cutting strategy and sold to Roku instead.Based on Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s bestselling fantasy novels about a family who move into their old ancestral home and discover a hidden world of magical creatures, Spiderwick certainly would’ve made sense as a companion to Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians. (Both are based on mid-aughts book series that gained massive popularity in the post-Harry Potter publishing landscape.) On Roku, however, it gets to be an uneven but mostly charming flagship series for the free, ad-supported streamer, which debuts all eight episodes on April 19.Spiderwick enthusiasts should know that creator Aron Eli Coleite has taken some fairly drastic liberties with the source material—including aging up its twin protagonists from 9-year-olds to teenagers and giving its mystical baddies far more human motivations. In place of the Amblin-inspired whimsy of the 2008 big-screen adaptation starring Freddie Highmore, Coleite’s series tries to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer for tweens. In practice, however, that’s a high-water mark the show can only occasionally reach.Read more at The Daily Beast.

"Connections" is the second-most played game on the New York Times' app after "Wordle."

A madman randomly whacked a woman with a hockey stick on a Manhattan street last Tuesday in the latest unprovoked attack targeting New York City women.

The former president may have broken a gag order in his hush money case, legal experts said.

A college football player from the University of Oregon has been arrested in connection to a fatal hit-and-run crash that killed a 46-year-old man, police say.

The "Blessed" hitmaker was arrested and booked in Gwinnett County, Ga., on suspicion of allegedly driving under the influence.

National correspondent Griff Jenkins tells Dana Perino about his standout reporting assignments, the most adventurous thing he's ever done and the three presidents he'd invite to a dinner party.

Police in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district shut down an illegal flea market only for some vendors to return and continue selling their goods.

Huey Lewis has a new Broadway show based on his music set to debut next week, which has helped him cope with his sudden hearing loss caused by Ménière’s disease.

The Department of Education's latest on-campus crime stats for colleges and universities show crime is reverting back to pre-pandemic levels

Polling conducted exclusively for Newsweek shows more Americans say states should decide abortion limits rather than the federal government.

Indonesia’s foreign minister said the two countries share the same view about the importance of resolving the Palestinian problem through a two-state solution.

If you can't figure out today's "Wordle," Newsweek has provided some handy hints to help you over the finish line.

Sean Combs has 60 days to respond to the summons.

Greene has proposed an amendment to the Ukraine aid bill seeking to require anyone who votes in favor to be required to "conscript in the Ukrainian military."

Jury selection in the trial of former President Donald Trump accelerated on Day 2. He is accused of falsifying business records to conceal hush money to a porn star.

A controversial TikTok mother from New York revealed how she "can't afford" to feed her 12 children, struggling to stay afloat amid the cost of living crisis.

Dear Abby weighs in on a husband whose ignoring his wife during her pregnancy and a woman jealous of her younger sister's success.

On a day when Anthony Volpe’s red-hot bat cooled off, he let his glove take the spotlight.

The quick-thinking dad jumped on the stranger, forcing the child out of his abductor's grasp and falling to the ground, according to surveillance video from inside the store.

The 911 call line outages began late on Wednesday evening across all of South Dakota and in parts of Nebraska, Nevada and Texas.

Johnson laid down the gauntlet to the critics in his own party, noting that "history judges us for what we do."

Hitting one milestone on Wednesday was a formality for Kyle Palmieri, whereas hitting another required something to go his way in the season finale.

The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.

"America needs to take our national security seriously and deserves the same type of defense for our border that Israel has and proudly uses," Greene said.

Google has fired 28 employees after they were involved in protests against Project Nimbus, project to provide the Israeli government with AI and cloud services.

Authorities across multiple U.S. states are reporting 911 outages and disruptions Wednesday in South Dakota, Nevada and Texas.

Kanye West has been identified as a suspect in a battery case in Los Angeles after allegedly punching a man who grabbed his wife Bianca Censori, according to a report.

“We do think that the bear probably had a pretty traumatic experience.”

The moniker is usually deployed when the 77-year-old former president makes outrageous comments, such as when he appears to praise the murderous Nazi dictator.

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.

911 service crashed across at least three states Wednesday evening.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser traveled to the Masters using city funds, with the trip part of a business plan to "promote sports and economic development."

Several users saw the mistake as a sign that the president – well-known for his frequent gaffes – is in cognitive decline. 

“In the months and years ahead, we’re excited to show what the world’s most dynamic humanoid robot can really do – in the lab, in the factory, and in our lives,” the company also said.

Coby White scored a career-high 42 points, and the Bulls advanced in the play-in tournament, knocking out the Hawks with a 131-116 victory.