Innholdsfortegnelse for 6/12/2020 i Newsweek International

Demonstrations broke out on May 29 in New York City to protest the death of Floyd, who passed away in police custody four days earlier. Thousands, for instance, gathered in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. According to The New York Times, some demonstrators “hurled bottles... at police, who responded with pepper spray.” Pictured here: New York police officers arrest a protester during a “Black Lives Matter” rally.…

THE MISINFORMATION MONITOR is a monthly roundup of trending stories about the creation, dissemination and monetization of false and misleading news, based on exclusive data from NewsGuard, which applies basic journalistic criteria to provide news consumers warnings about misinformation by rating the reliability of news and information sites ELECTION UPDATE: AMERICAN POLITICAL groups invest in deceptively-named websites to make their arguments seem more legitimate The Free Telegraph and the American Ledger: One of these purported news organizations is run by a Democratic super PAC and Association.” But on Twitter, where the Free Telegraph shares its articles to 54,000 followers, the website is described only as “your home for breaking conservative news and political opinion,” with no mention of its connection to a major political organization. Articles are shared on Facebook…

ONE OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT’S GREATEST gifts was his oratory, an area that Joe Biden himself admits is not his strong suit. If anything, the self-described “gaffe machine” leans in hard on the narrative that he overcame a childhood stutter through grit and determination that, at age 77, he still occasionally battles. Even more challenging, Biden has become infamous, both as vice president during the Obama administration and in his current presidential campaign, for garbled statements and inappropriate remarks—most recently when he told popular African American radio host Charlamagne tha God that, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Yeah, that didn’t go over too well for him. Yet between his stuttering youth and his current occasionally irascible elder statesman…

Protests, some violent, spread across the nation into the weekend after the deadly May 25 arrest and apprehension of George Floyd, an unarmed African American, was captured on video. The Third Precinct and surrounding stores, pictured here, were set aflame on May 28. The police abandoned the building after protesters pushed through barriers. Demonstrations broke out in cities from Atlanta, New York and Louisville, Kentucky, to Houston and even Milan, Italy.…

TOM INSEL HAS WATCHED THE NATION GRAPPLE with plenty of psychologically challenging situations over his long career in the field of mental health. The trim, bespectacled, salt-and-pepper haired psychiatrist became director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in the months following 9/11, when Americans were traumatized over the Twin Tower bombings. He watched residents of Louisiana and Mississippi dig out from the waterlogged rubble of Hurricane Katrina. He’s seen mass shootings in Tucson, Arizona; Fort Hood, Texas; and Newtown, Connecticut. But nothing in Insel’s experience has tested the nation’s psychological resilience like COVID-19, which has millions of Americans living in fear of contracting a deadly new disease, hunkering down in involuntary confinement, contemplating rising unemployment and the prospect of a worldwide economic collapse, cut off and worried about…

During the second phase of the Coronavirus National Lockdown in Italy, a crowd protesting Floyd’s death gathered in front of the U.S. consulate in Milan last Thursday. The protesters held signs that read “Black Lives Matter” and Justice for George Floyd.” They also wore face masks, as pictured here, with the words “I can’t breathe,” the words spoken by Floyd after a Minneapolis police officer placed his knee on Floyd’s neck, which led to Floyd’s death. Protesters also gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy in Rome.…

IN THE COMING MONTHS, ISRAEL IS expected to apply its civilian law and administration to the 30 percent of Judea and Samaria (or the “West Bank”) that President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan anticipates remaining with Israel after a final peace agreement. One might expect that Israel’s plan would be hailed for advancing peace and the equal rights of Israelis and Palestinians alike. But the more common response of many so-called experts has been to distort the facts and preemptively condemn Israel. Across platforms, “experts” fret over what they call “Israeli annexation.” As I explained in my 2014 book The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, Israel cannot “annex” any part of Judea and Samaria. Annexation is an act under which a state…

LISA KUDROW IS UP THERE WITH LUCILLE BALL, CAROL BURNETT AND Julia Louis-Dreyfus as one of the great icons of TV comedy. With her new Netflix series Space Force, released May 29, one thing is also becoming clear: Kudrow loves leisurewear. For nearly the entire season, her character, Maggie, wears a prison jumpsuit similar to the tracksuit she wore on The Comeback. “It was just as comfortable as Aunt Sassy’s tracksuit.” Space Force, created by The Office alums Greg Daniels and Steve Carell, finds Kudrow’s character in prison while her husband, played by Carell, leads a new government agency to get the U.S. back on the moon. However, why Maggie is in prison is just as much a mystery to Kudrow as it will be viewers. “She’s still sort of…