Nearly one third of Americans think another civil war could break out in the U.S. in the next five years over opposition to President Donald Trump's policies with more than one in ten believing it is very likely to happen. Of the 59 percent of people who do not believe that a second civil war could happen sometime before 2023, only 29 percent said the scenario is "not at all likely" according to a

With the unthinkable now cautiously possible, peace between North and South Korea, speculation about President Donald Trump becoming a Nobel Peace Prize winner has begun. If peace in the Korean Peninsula truly happens, the Nobel committee could be left with a difficult choice regarding Trump's candidacy. Recognizing those who helped bring peace to the region would seem like an easy choice, but a d

Japanese scientists may have discovered a cure for baldness—and it lies within a chemical used to make McDonald's fries. A stem cell research team from Yokohama National University used a "simple" method to regrow hair on mice by using dimethylpolysiloxane, the silicone added to McDonald's fries to stop cooking oil from frothing. Preliminary tests indicated that the groundbreaking method was likel

Suicide Prevention Expert on '13 Reasons Why': 'Contagion is a Real Concern Here' The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and other groups are issuing guidance around the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why.” Beth Dubber/Netflix Updated | A leading suicide prevention foundation said Tuesday it has serious concerns over the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. The American Foundation for Suicide Preven

Stephen Hawking Will Show How Humans Can Move Planet in 100 Years Published May 03, 2017 at 10:04 AM EDT Updated May 08, 2017 at 10:16 AM EDT Stephen Hawking sits onstage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York City, on April 12, 2016. Hawking, the English physicist, warns humanity needs to become a multiplanetary... More REUTERS/Lucas J

Little wonder that those diagnosed with cancer are more than 2.5 times more likely to declare bankruptcy than those without cancer, according to a 2013 study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. And a 2014 survey conducted by the Cancer Support Community, a national nonprofit network, revealed that almost half of the 7,000 patients they polled were riddled with anxiety becau

Published Sep 22, 2016 at 11:10 PM EDT Updated Sep 27, 2016 at 11:16 PM EDT President Hassan Rouhani of Iran arrives to address the 71st United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22. Giulio Terzi writes that there is no longer any serious argument to be made... More Mike Segar/reuters Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attended the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday. It onc

"I was surprised by the magnitude of changes and the rapid onset of improvement," says study first author Tone Henriksen, a researcher with the University of Bergen and Valen Hospital in Norway. Even drug treatments aren't typically known to lead to such quick and significant turnarounds, she adds. These are "knock-your-socks off results," says Dr. James Phelps, a researcher and psychiatrist with

One year ago, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Mughassil prepared to board a flight from Beirut to Tehran, Iran's capital. Before he could, foreign intelligence agents who had slipped into the country weeks earlier snatched him and whisked him back to their capital, where to this day he sits in detention. The men who carried out the arrest were from Al-Mukhabarat al-A'amah—the foreign intelligence service of the

BREAKING: Health Author Suzanne Somers Mostly Wrong About Science, Medicine Published Oct 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM EDT Updated May 19, 2010 at 9:34 AM EDT It's the book every medical writer in the country wants to ignore. Suzanne Somers's latest "health" tome hit the bookstores this week, and this time she's offering her advice on how to cure and prevent cancer. As if people with cancer don't have eno

Kobane Diary: 4 Days Inside the City Fighting an Unprecedented Resistance Against ISIS I chose to stay to report about the reality on the ground and tell millions of Kurds what is really happening in Kobane, as opposed to the propaganda and lies spread by Islamic State media and several other media outlets. My reporting is for Kurdish people to know that Kobane is alive and well because the realit

Islamic State Intensifies Its Fight In Response to U.S. Attacks Published Sep 24, 2014 at 12:36 PM EDT Updated Feb 29, 2016 at 9:16 PM EST Residents inspect damaged buildings in what activists say was a U.S. strike, in Kfredrian, Idlib province September 23, 2014. Abdalghne Karoof/Reuters DAMASCUS/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - U.S. planes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria for a second day

Published Jul 08, 2014 at 5:41 PM EDT Updated Feb 21, 2016 at 10:16 PM EST Mourners carry the body of a Hamas militant during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 7, 2014. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Can Hamas survive the latest onslaught in Gaza? The terrorist organization has clearly learned from past confrontations and is trying to hone its military abilities in the current exc

This story has been appended to include a statement from Dorian Nakamoto received on March 19th when Newsweek was first contacted directly by Mr. Nakamoto's attorney, denying his role in Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed. He's wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks, without shoes, like he has left the house in

Published Jun 05, 2011 at 1:00 AM EDT Updated Jun 05, 2011 at 9:45 PM EDT Egypt incurred an estimated $1.7 billion in economic losses when crowds thronged Tahrir Square. Miguel Medina / AFP-Getty Images I recently sat at the desk where John Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace, his coruscating 1919 polemic against the Versailles Treaty. I asked myself what Keynes would be wr

Published Feb 06, 2011 at 12:00 AM EST Updated Feb 08, 2011 at 4:00 PM EST Considering that anxiety makes your palms sweat, your heart race, your stomach turn somersaults, and your brain seize up like a car with a busted transmission, it's no wonder people reach for the Xanax to vanquish it. But in a surprise, researchers who study emotion regulation—how we cope, or fail to cope, with the daily sw

Published Feb 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM EST Updated Feb 15, 2011 at 12:19 PM EST The night before he finally stepped down as Egypt's president, the protesters in Tahrir Square heard Hosni Mubarak deliver his final address as their head of state. "A speech from a father to his sons and daughters," he called it, and like many of his orations in the past, it was filled with lies, although he may have beli

Published Feb 13, 2011 at 10:00 AM EST Updated Feb 13, 2011 at 9:08 PM EST After spending almost two weeks in detention, Ghonim found himself anointed a leader by the leaderless movement he'd helped to create. Khaled Desouki / AFP-Getty Images The telephone call from Cairo came late on Thursday, Jan. 27. "I think they're following me," the caller told the friend on the other end. "I'm going to des