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Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 12:18 PM Was Obama Checking Out This Girl's Butt? Katie Connolly Photo courtesy Jason Reed / Reuters-Landov You may have seen this rather misleading photo doing the rounds this morning. The photo appears to depict President Obama checking out the rear of 16-year-old Brazilian girl Mayora Taveres. We admit that the shot is incriminating, but the real story is far les..

The U.S. Postal Service is on track to lose $23 billion a year for the next decade. Can reducing delivery to five days a week really save the system? By Matthew Philips | Newsweek Web Exclusive Mar 30, 2010 This year, the U.S. Postal Service will turn 235 years old. For most of its history, the USPS has not only delivered mail, but profits, too. Though not any more. In 2008, the agency began lo..

Egor Barbatunov / AP Two explosions hit the Moscow subway system Monday morning during rush hour. Home to Roost The Russian government told its citizens that it had defeated Islamists in the Caucasus. This morning's attack belies the point. By Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova | Newsweek Web Exclusive Mar 29, 2010 For most Russians who get their news from state-controlled television, this morning..

Sin Or Crime? 25 Mar 2010 11:54 pm [Re-posted from earlier today]. What's fascinating in the steady onslaught of new incidences of previous cover-ups of child rape and molestation in the Catholic hierarchy is the notion that the hierarchs tended to see child rape as a sin rather than a crime. Hence the emphasis on forgiveness, therapy, repentance - rather than removal, prosecution and investigat..

Why Pope Benedict XVI may not be able to heal his church. PHOTOS Papal Scandals Popes and their problems through the centuries Two years ago Pope Benedict XVI—once known as "God's Rottweiler"—displayed his gentler side on a pilgrimage to America. Television pundits spoke of his soft white hair, his smile, "his great warmth and his sense of humor," says Thomas Noble, head of the history depa..

Americans think the bill is too expensive because they don't understand its cost controls. By Ezra Klein | Newsweek Web Exclusive Mar 21, 2010 | Updated: 9:31 a.m. ET Mar 21, 2010 PHOTOS Health Care on the Cheap How some people try to mitigate the It's hard to overstate how important the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)—which makes the official judgments on how much bills cost and save—is ..

On the Web, privacy has its price. TECHNOLOGY How Well Do You Know Google? Can you pass this trivia test—without looking up the answers on you-know-what? Google recently introduced a new service that adds social-networking features to its popular Gmail system. The service is called Buzz, and within hours of its release, people were howling about privacy issues—because, in its original form,..

Courtesy of Dr. Lawrence Egbert Dr. Lawrence Egbert in a recent photo. Despite criminal charges in two states, the head of a radical right-to-die group insists his work is compassionate and necessary. By Sarah Kliff and Arian Campo-Flores | Newsweek Web Exclusive Mar 15, 2010 In 2006 John Celmer's body began to break down. He was diagnosed with oral cancer and had to undergo surgery to remove t..

Michelle on a Mission Michelle Obama How we can empower parents, schools, and the community to battle childhood obesity. By Michelle Obama | NEWSWEEK Published Mar 14, 2010 From the magazine issue dated Mar 22, 2010 For years, we've known about the epidemic of childhood obesity in America. We've heard the statistics—how one third of all kids in this country are either overweight or obese. We'..

In no other profession are workers so insulated from accountability. The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation's future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any other students in the world. Now, ranked against European schoolchildren, America does about as well ..