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The majestic album cover features the icon sitting atop a silver holographic horse, wearing a custom diamond-encrusted body harness. While Beyoncé is no stranger to working with horses and has many times throughout her career, this latest artwork has sparked some bizarre but fascinating comparisons as the Beyhive attempts to uncover secret metaphors and meanings. Twitter is convinced that in her Renaissance imagery, Beyoncé is referencing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse....

On the ABC special The Lion King: Can You Feel the Love Tonight hosted by Robin Roberts Tuesday evening, the music video for her new song “Spirit” premiered. Fans took to social media to praise the new music video. One fan tweeted: “BEYONCE!!!!! This is the first music video that has ever moved me to tears. It was completely breath taking [sic]. The Melanin. The Art. The Spirit. Africa!! Omg!...

That’s not to say that Mda is not interested in politics. “I criticize everybody,” he says gleefully from his home in Johannesburg. “I’m quite outspoken about anything I see that’s wrong with this country.” In “The Heart of Redness,” this list includes political patronage, corruption, widening class divisions, the dissolution of traditional cultures, globalization, poverty, land sustainability and development. But not–most emphatically not–the racial fallout from apartheid. “Ultimately I’m just too taken with the number of stories that haven’t been told,” he says....

Currently held by Rhea Ripley, the brutal Aussie defends her title against Bianca Belair, someone who is no stranger to the title scene. The 30-year-old from Knoxville, Tennessee has had multiple opportunities to win the NXT Women’s Championship against Shayna Baszler but was thwarted each time. Heading into NXT Takeover: Portland things are different. After a star-making performance at this year’s Royal Rumble, Belair has so much momentum that fans are beginning to question who will win on Sunday....

Yet Netanyahu, at 46 just three years younger than the president and equally quick-witted, seemed at times to echo his counterpart. During his whirlwind round of meetings in Washington and New York last week, he all but appropriated the axiom of the last Clinton campaign: ““It’s the economy, stupid.’’ On relations with the Palestinians, he stuck to the broad generalizations that won him a narrow victory over Clinton’s favorite, Shimon Peres, in May elections....

“While the flag was still flying half staff, another American city has been scarred by gun violence and resulting trauma,” Biden told reporters at the White House on Tuesday, hours after a gunman opened fire inside a King Sooper’s grocery store, killing 10 people, including a responding police officer. He called on lawmakers to expedite two measures that have passed the Democrat-controlled U.S. House, which would require more rigorous background checks for gun purchases....

Biden’s winter plan to tackle COVID included a provision to allow the 150 million Americans with private health insurance to claim reimbursement from the cost of at-home tests from their insurers. The president also announced on December 2 that free tests will also be made available to those without health insurance and would be provided “at thousands of convenient locations.” Some 50 million tests will be distributed in this way....

Plus, Newsweek Misinformation Watch also delves into the debate around Meta’s moderation policy on nudity, and finds the source of the footage of a mysterious floating fireball, dubbed St. Elmo’s fire. Conspiracy Claims Linking Biden to Chinese Company and Afghan Lithium The Reddit post purporting conspiratorial connections between the U.S. president, a Chinese battery maker and a lithium mine in Afghanistan went viral over the past week. “This is a must read....

The event on Tuesday will celebrate the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also informally known as “Obamacare,” the reform of the health care system promoted by Obama which aimed at making health insurance affordable to every American. According to a White House official, Obama will ​​"deliver remarks celebrating the success of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid in extending affordable health insurance to millions of Americans." Biden, on his part, “will take additional action to further strengthen the ACA and save families hundreds of dollars a month on their health care,” according to the same official....

Between October 3 and November 3, the Democratic presidential candidate’s page grew by 709,199 likes, up by 25.28 percent. In comparison, Trump’s account on the social network had a like growth of 1.3 million, equivalent to a 4.44 percent rise. That amounts to Biden’s likes growing five times faster than Trump’s. Data from Facebook-owned analytics tool CrowdTangle shows 3.51 million users currently like Biden’s official page, but that’s dwarfed by the 30....

The immigration rule, known as Title 42, allows U.S. Customs and Border Protection to turn away migrants at the border to prevent the spread of the virus. The controversial policy was enacted under former President Donald Trump and has been used more than 1.7 million times. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week that the rule would be suspended starting May 23. The White House has acknowledged the change would likely lead to an influx of migrants to the U....

That was the takeaway from his speech before a joint session of Congress Wednesday night. Like a kindly grandfather, the President assured a fretful and frankly traumatized nation that everything will be okay, because he has a plan and a Werther’s Original. That plan includes a $2 trillion investment in the nation’s infrastructure over the next decade—creating millions of jobs in the process—and $1 trillion in America’s families, including universal pre-k and making community colleges free....

The administration is considering the step, which has not been previously reported, as part of ongoing negotiations with the American Civil Liberties Union to settle a federal lawsuit over family separations. “We are currently in the process of discussing a [way] to sort out which crimes were too minor to warrant the separation of children from their parents,” Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead attorney in the lawsuit, told Newsweek....

Myanmar’s military has spectacularly failed to win hearts and minds during the eight months since launching the coup and arresting the country’s civilian leadership including Aung San Suu Kyi. Anti-coup resistance and protests have never let up despite brutal military tactics to suppress opposition to their rule. Myanmar’s people are not prepared to work for military rulers. A civil disobedience movement and nationwide strike have crippled the bureaucracy, banking and transport sectors....

President Joe Biden announced VinFast, a Vietnamese automaker, plans to expand its operation to the U.S., investing $4 billion to create its first North American automotive assembly and battery manufacturing plant. The company says it will employ at least 7,500 workers by 2027. The Biden administration says VinFast’s announcement is the latest effort to build a clean energy economy. “Since taking office, we have implemented an industrial strategy to revitalize domestic manufacturing and create good-paying American jobs, strengthen American supply chains, and supercharge the industries of the future like electric vehicles—and we see that strategy paying off day after day,” Biden said in a statement....

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has set the bill on a course for a crucial Senate vote on Wednesday to proceed, but some Republicans who have taken part in the bipartisan negotiations expressed concern that the vote could come before a final deal is reached. Meanwhile, it also faces pushback from progressives in the House, who will have to sign off on the plan and who say it’s not big enough and doesn’t include parts of the Green New Deal climate initiative that they see as critical for their support....

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan gave a tough-talking readout of last week’s Zoom summit between the two presidents, saying Biden “looked President Putin in the eye” and informed him that the United States was “prepared to do now” the “things we did not do in 2014,” when Russia illegally annexed Crimea. Biden said that he was certain that Putin “got the message.” But what was the message? It was odd that Sullivan highlighted the weak American response to the 2014 incursion, since then-Vice President Biden was the one who led the U....

In a fiery speech Tuesday, Biden said there was “no option” but to scrap the filibuster so the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act can get through Congress. “It gives me no satisfaction in saying that, as an institutionalist, as a man who was honored to serve in the Senate,” Biden said as he delivered remarks in Atlanta. “But as an institutionalist, I believe the threat to democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills, debate them, vote, let the majority prevail....

Fallon, while participating in the photo opportunity, at first tells Biden he’s going to support him “if he wins the nomination.” “But what are we going to do about climate change?” Fallon asks. Pointing out that Biden has said he’s “against pipelines,” he also points out that Biden’s declared he wanted to replace “these gas lines.” “That’s not going to work,” Fallon says. “We’ve got to stop building and replacing these pipelines....

It’s a little late for that. After last week’s hearing, consumers should have whiplash from all the confusing charges and countercharges between Ford and Firestone. Federal safety investigators now say they will review Firestone’s allegations against the Explorer’s stability. Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John Lampe testified that the SUV should “pull over, not roll over,” after its tires shred on the highway. Congressional sources say Ford might yank some of the tires off its list of acceptable replacements as early as this week....