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The Week contest: Post-surgery Spanish
<article> <p><strong>This week’s question: </strong>A Utah man has woken up from repeated surgeries speaking fluent Spanish, despite having learned only the basics in high school. Stephen Chase, 33, said he goes back to speaking English after about 20 minutes. If Chase were to write a book about his unusual trick for temporarily mastering a foreign language, what would it be titled?</p><p><a href="https://theweek.com/puzzles/the-week-contest-romance-and-recruitment" target="_blank">Click or tap here to see the winner of last week's question: Romance and recruitment</a></p><p><strong>How to enter:</strong> Submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:contest@theweek.com" target="_blank">contest@theweek.com</a>. Please include your name, address, and daytime telephone number for verification; this week, please type “Language book” in the subject line. Entries are due by noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, Jan. 20. Winners will appear on the Puzzle Page of the Jan. 30 issue and at <a href="http://theweek.com/contest" target="_blank">theweek.com/contest</a> by Jan. 23. In the case of identical or similar entries, the first one received gets credit. All entries become property of <em>The Week</em>.</p><p><strong>The winner gets a one-year subscription to </strong><em><strong>The Week</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p> </article>
January 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Magazine printables - January 16, 2026
<article> <h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-crossword-january-16-2026"><span>CROSSWORD - January 16, 2026</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block"><img align="middle" alt="A crossword puzzle." class="inline" height="737" id="XqidT22VLSzDKFtwwxJU6V" name="week-crossword-823" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XqidT22VLSzDKFtwwxJU6V.jpg" width="601" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-sudoku-january-16-2026"><span>SUDOKU - January 16, 2026</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 74.36%;"><img align="middle" alt="A sudoku puzzle." class="inline" height="322" id="YJurQmqvrQS47UqKyEQzzY" name="sudoku-823" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YJurQmqvrQS47UqKyEQzzY.jpg" width="433" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure> </article>
January 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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The Week contest: Romance and recruitment
<article> <p><strong>This week’s question: </strong>Desperate job seekers are using dating apps such as Tinder and Hinge to match with people who can give them job referrals, help land interviews, or offer tips on how to get hired by a desirable company. If a tech firm were to create a networking app that openly mixes romance with recruitment, what should the product be titled?</p><p><a href="https://theweek.com/puzzles/the-week-contest-octopus-album" target="_blank"> Click or tap here to see the winner of last week's contest: Octopus album</a></p><p><strong>How to enter:</strong> Submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:contest@theweek.com" target="_blank">contest@theweek.com</a>. Please include your name, address, and daytime telephone number for verification; this week, please type “Work app” in the subject line. Entries are due by noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, Jan. 13. Winners will appear on the Puzzle Page of the Jan. 23 issue and at <a href="http://theweek.com/contest" target="_blank">theweek.com/contest</a> by Jan. 16. In the case of identical or similar entries, the first one received gets credit. All entries become property of <em>The Week</em>.</p><p><strong>The winner gets a one-year subscription to </strong><em><strong>The Week</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p> <div class="nominee__article"> <span class="award__category"></span> <a href=""><p><img src="/media/img/missing-image.svg" /></p></a> <h2></h2> <div class="subtitle__description"><p></p></div> </div> </article>
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Magazine printables - Dec. 12, 2025
<article> <h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-crossword-dec-12-2025"><span>CROSSWORD - Dec. 12, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block"><img align="middle" alt="A crossword puzzle" class="inline" height="729" id="4GcHqhSDr38h75vfHHJiqJ" name="crossword-820-dec-12" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4GcHqhSDr38h75vfHHJiqJ.jpg" width="611" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-sudoku-dec-12-2025"><span>SUDOKU - Dec. 12, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 73.95%;"><img align="middle" alt="A sudoku puzzle." class="inline" height="318" id="8GB9gDPp3bvpF9zJhwWj4S" name="sudoku-dec-12" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8GB9gDPp3bvpF9zJhwWj4S.jpg" width="430" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure> </article>
January 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Magazine printables - Nov. 28, 2025
<article> <h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-crossword-nov-28-2025"><span>CROSSWORD - Nov. 28, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block"><img align="middle" alt="A crossword puzzle." class="inline" height="697" id="T3ZAdRAimAFKtacLTYUqJS" name="crossword-818-nov-28" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/T3ZAdRAimAFKtacLTYUqJS.jpg" width="582" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-sudoku-nov-28-2025"><span>SUDOKU - Nov. 28, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 73.71%;"><img align="middle" alt="A sudoku puzzle." class="inline" height="314" id="tKK9KK3U7j5PmickWo6xic" name="sudoku-nov-28" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tKK9KK3U7j5PmickWo6xic.jpg" width="426" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure> </article>
January 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Magazine printables - Nov. 21, 2025
<article> <h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-crossword-nov-21-2025"><span>CROSSWORD - Nov. 21, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 90.94%;"><img align="middle" alt="A crossword puzzle" class="inline" height="693" id="KhAnxfyBPthryxixxCg8vY" name="crossword-817-nov-21" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KhAnxfyBPthryxixxCg8vY.jpg" width="762" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-sudoku-nov-21-2025"><span>SUDOKU - Nov. 21, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 73.78%;"><img align="middle" alt="A sudoku puzzle" class="inline" height="318" id="2RWbteSuwVN3RdEk5S2N25" name="sudoku-nov-21" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2RWbteSuwVN3RdEk5S2N25.jpg" width="431" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure> </article>
January 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Magazine printables - Dec. 19, 2025
<article> <h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-crossword-dec-19-2025"><span>CROSSWORD - Dec. 19, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block"><img align="middle" alt="A crossword puzzle." class="inline" height="731" id="EaQ2uJHSLC93rZTGweFgwX" name="crossword-821-dec-19" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EaQ2uJHSLC93rZTGweFgwX.jpg" width="585" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-sudoku-dec-19-2025"><span>SUDOKU - Dec. 19, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 73.94%;"><img align="middle" alt="A sudoku puzzle." class="inline" height="315" id="qMLi3HZTvGmJX8E7M4XKi3" name="sudoku-dec-19" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qMLi3HZTvGmJX8E7M4XKi3.jpg" width="426" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure> </article>
January 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Magazine printables - Dec. 5, 2025
<article> <h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-crossword-dec-5-2025"><span>CROSSWORD - Dec. 5, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block"><img align="middle" alt="A crossword puzzle." class="inline" height="724" id="eJyYeScU26TDZRYfXxnnQb" name="crossword-819-dec-5" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eJyYeScU26TDZRYfXxnnQb.jpg" width="593" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-sudoku-dec-5-2025"><span>SUDOKU - Dec. 5, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 74.65%;"><img align="middle" alt="A sudoku puzzle." class="inline" height="321" id="7EJpct2MK2o35wAFDhBpem" name="sudoku-december-05" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7EJpct2MK2o35wAFDhBpem.jpg" width="430" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure> </article>
January 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Magazine printables - Dec. 26, 2025
<article> <h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-crossword-dec-26-2025"><span>CROSSWORD - Dec. 26, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block"><img align="middle" alt="A crossword puzzle." class="inline" height="740" id="x7VpLML8n83eGzkJdYM4We" name="crossword-822-Dec-26" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/x7VpLML8n83eGzkJdYM4We.jpg" width="591" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure><h3 class="article-body__section" id="section-sudoku-dec-26-2025"><span>SUDOKU - Dec. 26, 2025</span></h3><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout"><div class="image-full-width-wrapper"><div class="image-widthsetter"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top: 73.88%;"><img align="middle" alt="A sudoku puzzle." class="inline" height="495" id="aRnbMU8nRkMEw9BgYhtkd6" name="sudoku-december-26" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/aRnbMU8nRkMEw9BgYhtkd6.jpg" width="670" /></p></div></div><figcaption class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit">(Image credit: Future)</span></figcaption></figure> </article>
January 2, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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Jack Smith: Trump ‘caused’ Jan. 6 riot
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-6">What happened</h2><p>The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “does not happen without” President Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told the House Judiciary Committee in closed-door testimony last month, according to a transcript and video released Wednesday.</p><p>The Dec. 17 deposition on the two defunct criminal cases against Trump was “conducted privately despite Smith’s request to testify publicly,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-jan-6-congress-537fcb8673e385202c354a3e83897194" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a> said. The panel’s Republicans released the transcript “on New Year’s Eve — while most of Washington was tuned out for the holiday,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/31/takeaways-jack-smith-congressional-testimony-00708747" target="_blank">Politico</a> said. </p><h2 id="who-said-what-6">Who said what</h2><p>Smith mounted a “robust” and “granular defense” of his investigations while “repeatedly restating his view that Trump was guilty of a historic crime” and a jury would have convicted him for it, Politico said. <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/jack-smith-congress-trump-crimes">Smith</a> was obliged to drop the cases after Trump won reelection, and some of his “most substantive testimony centered on his never-implemented trial strategy: using Republicans who believed in Trump to make the case against him.” The <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/trump-pardons-jan-6-defendants">Jan. 6</a> case was “built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party,” Smith told the lawmakers. <br /><br />The evidence “made clear” that Trump was “by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person” in the <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/ashli-babbitt-jan-6-settlement">Capitol riot</a>, Smith said. Trump “caused” the violence, “exploited it” and “refused to stop it,” and his private admissions that he lost the election he was trying to overturn were “corroborative of the larger case.”</p><h2 id="what-next-6">What next?</h2><p>Smith said he had “no doubt that the president wants to seek retribution against me,” and he would not be surprised if Trump directed the Justice Department to indict him “because of my role as special counsel.” </p> </article>
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Fire at Swiss ski resort bar kills 40, injures 115
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-12">What happened</h2><p>About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured early yesterday when a fire tore through a bar in the Swiss ski resort town of Crans-Montana. <a href="https://theweek.com/business/economy/switzerland-trump-tariffs-economic-headache">Swiss</a> President Guy Parmelin, who took office yesterday, called the New Year’s Day fire at the bustling bar, Le Constellation, “one of the worst tragedies our country has ever experienced.” </p><h2 id="who-said-what-12">Who said what</h2><p>Le Constellation is “popular with teens” and “offers a ground-floor lounge with a speakeasy-style bar in the basement,” <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/fire-at-swiss-ski-resort-kills-several-people-6b840d3f?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfE29HhNbspttUefJoVhw5u5uizqaUU5pBLhcPLgSZ14CpDw15d9PoGnhhedeg%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6957f747&amp;gaa_sig=IGKbuU7v4fWDSO2PzBNHGufNx4HRQxDRufwmeNPsX8OzBqsvuxV9uqjlR9ysRiqm0V6dtUOsAXNGo9NSaeWXcw%3D%3D" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a> said. According to witnesses cited by French and Swiss media, “sparkler candles used by staff when serving drinks” may have “inadvertently started the blaze” in the underground portion of the bar, which a “crush of people” then “attempted to flee from a single staircase.” Officials said the explosive fire did not appear to be intentional or an act of terrorism.<br /><br />About 50 people who survived the <a href="https://theweek.com/environment/worst-wildfires-california-history">blaze</a> are believed to have “suffered severe burns,” a number that “far exceeds the capacity of Switzerland’s burn units in Zurich and Lausanne and its national disaster center” in Bern, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/world/europe/switzerland-fire-burn-centers-hospitals.html" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> said, citing Dr. Robert Larribau of Geneva’s University Hospital. Burn patients are being transferred to hospitals in France, Germany and Italy.</p><h2 id="what-next-12">What next?</h2><p>Many of the people “celebrating in the bar appeared to be from different countries,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/several-killed-after-explosion-swiss-ski-resort-bar-bbc-reports-2026-01-01/" target="_blank">Reuters</a> said, citing witnesses. But <a href="https://theweek.com/education/international-students-us-alternatives-visas-colleges">foreign governments</a> trying to “establish whether their nationals were among the victims” were “facing a lengthy process because the severity of the burns had rendered identification challenging.” Identifying the victims is “expected to take several days,” the Journal said.</p> </article>
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Mamdani vows big changes as New York’s new mayor
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-18">What happened</h2><p>Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City early yesterday during a private ceremony in a disused subway station under City Hall, then publicly inaugurated hours later before thousands of people who braved freezing temperatures to witness the historic moment. The 34-year-old democratic socialist is the first Muslim to lead the city and its “youngest mayor in a century,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/01/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-inauguration-nyc-mayor" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> said. He is also New York’s “first millennial mayor, its first South Asian mayor and its first mayoral soccer fanatic.”</p><h2 id="who-said-what-18">Who said what</h2><p>“I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations,” but the “only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations,” <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/zohran-mamdani-victory-democrat-party-elections">Mamdani</a> said after being ceremonially sworn in by Sen. <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barnstorming-tour-anger-trump-red-state">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-Vt.). “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.” He vowed to “govern as a democratic socialist,” but said he would be a mayor for all New Yorkers, “regardless of whether we agree.” <br /><br />Mamdani “largely stuck to repeating the campaign pledges of universal child care, <a href="https://theweek.com/transport/new-york-city-zohran-mamdani-free-buses">free city buses</a> and freezing the rent for rent-stabilized tenants” that set his “longshot campaign alight and rocketed him to international fame,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/01/mamdani-vows-to-purse-bold-agenda-as-he-takes-the-helm-of-new-york-city-00708878" target="_blank">Politico</a> said. “Notably absent” from his speech were “any direct shots aimed at President Donald Trump.” <br /><br />Trump, like other Republican politicians, has “sought to paint Mamdani as a radical communist and the face of a Democratic Party out of touch with mainstream voters,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/01/01/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-sworn-in/" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> said. But the new mayor’s “friendly visit to the Oval Office after being elected last year undercut some of those attacks and displayed the political skills that have propelled him to prominence.”</p><h2 id="what-next-18">What next?</h2><p>Mamdani is “arguably the most charismatic New York City mayor of the 21st century,” with his “personal magnetism, warm, engaging smile” and “unusual ability to communicate his ideas to the masses in plain English (and Urdu and Bengali and Spanish) on social media,” the Times said. But he is “also one of the least proven city managers in New York’s history,” and he now has to oversee 300,000 workers in the nation’s largest city while “managing deep cuts to federal funding, an erratic and often vengeful president and a more moderate governor facing her own re-election this year.”</p> </article>
January 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Oklahoma fires instructor over gender essay grade
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-6">What happened</h2><p>The University of Oklahoma has removed a graduate student after she gave a student a failing grade on a psychology paper that cited the Bible as proof that “belief in multiple genders” is “demonic.” A review determined that the instructor, Mel Cuth, was “arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper,” the university said Monday, and she “will no longer have instructional duties.”</p><h2 id="who-said-what-6">Who said what</h2><p>The junior psychology major who wrote the essay appealed her zero grade and filed a <a href="https://theweek.com/education/education-public-schools-religious">religious discrimination</a> claim. “Her case became a flashpoint in the ongoing debate over academic freedom on college campuses” after the university suspended Cuth and struck the student’s failing grade, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oklahoma-instructor-removed-teaching-failing-bible-based-gender-128660973" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a> said. Conservative groups and commentators made it an “online cause, highlighting” the junior’s argument “she’d been punished for expressing conservative Christian views.”<br /><br />The University of Oklahoma’s Graduate Student Senate called Cuth’s removal “reprehensible.” The failed essay, meant to discuss academic research on <a href="https://theweek.com/feature/1020838/jk-rowlings-transphobia-controversy-a-complete-timeline">gender expression</a> and bullying in middle school, included a “prayer” that America’s youth “would not believe the lies being spread from Satan” about multiple genders. Cuth responded that the paper “does not answer the questions for the assignment,” relies on “personal ideology” and “is at times offensive,” though “I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs,” according to a screenshot posted online by the school’s <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/tp-usa-maga-civil-war-vance-fuentes-carlton-owens-kirk">Turning Point USA</a> chapter.</p><h2 id="what-next-6">What next?</h2><p>Cuth said through a lawyer yesterday she was “considering all of her legal remedies, including appealing this decision.”</p> </article>
December 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Trump appears numerous times in new Epstein batch
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-12">What happened</h2><p>The Justice Department yesterday released its second large batch of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and unlike the tranche released over the weekend, President Donald Trump is mentioned multiple times. The latest 30,000 pages also reference “10 co-conspirators” the FBI wanted to interview in July 2019, days after Epstein’s arrest and before his death in custody. The only Epstein co-conspirator charged was <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-records-release">Ghislaine Maxwell</a>, now serving 20 years in federal prison. </p><h2 id="who-said-what-12">Who said what</h2><p>In a January 2020 email, an unidentified federal prosecutor in New York said Trump had flown on Epstein’s<a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/855241/jeffrey-epsteins-personal-pilots-reportedly-subpoenaed-by-federal-prosecutors"> </a>private jet at least eight times between 1993 and 1996, “many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware).” Two flights carried just Trump, <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/epstein-trump-files-documents-damaging">Epstein</a> and two “women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case,” the email said. Last year, Trump claimed on social media he “was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island.” <br /><br />The newly released files also “include several tips that were collected by the FBI about Trump’s involvement with Epstein,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/22/epstein-trump-file-release/" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> said, though it’s not clear “whether any of the tips were corroborated.” A limousine driver in Dallas reported that during one ride, “Trump continuously stated the name ‘Jeffrey’ while on the phone, and made references to ‘abusing some girl,’” the FBI said. The driver also claimed that a woman told him Trump and Epstein raped her. The Justice Department said on social media yesterday that some of the documents contain “untrue and sensationalist claims” about Trump that, if credible, would have already been “weaponized” against him.</p><h2 id="what-next-12">What next?</h2><p>The <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/house-approves-epstein-files-bill">Epstein files</a> release has been “marred by DOJ mishandling, and that’s continuing,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/epstein-files-latest-drop-takeaways" target="_blank">CNN</a> said. The Justice Department sounds like Trump’s “personal lawyer,” and the documents contain “curious and heavy-handed redactions that go beyond the limits of the law.” The files “involving Epstein’s 2007 sweetheart plea deal” are so “heavily redacted,” it’s “almost impossible to understand” how he escaped federal prosecution, the <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article313920022.html" target="_blank">Miami Herald</a> said. </p> </article>
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Supreme Court bars Trump’s military use in Chicago
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-18">What happened</h2><p>The Supreme Court yesterday blocked President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard in the Chicago area to bolster his <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/deportations-growing-backlash">mass deportation</a> push. “At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the court said in an <a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klpyjblewvg/25A443%20Order.pdf" target="_blank">unsigned emergency docket opinion</a>. Three conservative justices — Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch — publicly dissented. </p><h2 id="who-said-what-18">Who said what</h2><p>The ruling was a “rare setback” for Trump before a <a href="https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1016630/what-the-conservative-supreme-court-spells-for-america">conservative Supreme Court</a> that has “frequently backed his broad assertions of presidential authority,” <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-supreme-court-rejects-trumps-military-deployment-chicago-area-now-2025-12-23/" target="_blank">Reuters</a> said. This was the “first time the justices have weighed in on Trump’s efforts to dispatch the military to American cities,” <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/supreme-court-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-chicago-area-7797cdea?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqd6TB-8BFDRYtNM2cLhwRcbc6KLO8r5oHn5SISxdzzeI-CO7Vw4K9AVtDlxsus%3D&amp;gaa_ts=694c5350&amp;gaa_sig=SWSLuEEDAKS59FPAqIODc6iPsQwRT7IoAcxa8FAPIi44bj_PuOR8ySRrmY6qqEWT9uuP-btAAyu7g8kY8M8mGg%3D%3D" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a> said, and their “preliminary” ruling suggests they are “unwilling to rubber-stamp Trump’s assertions of broad authority to use the National Guard to manage protests and violent crime.” <br /><br />Yesterday’s ruling “hinged on the definition of ‘regular forces,’” the Journal said. Lower courts had blocked Trump’s deployment after determining that anti-ICE protests aren’t a brewing “rebellion,” but the justices found that Trump had failed to meet the other condition needed to nationalize the Guard over the objections of state officials: showing he was “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” The court’s majority agreed with Illinois that “regular forces” likely meant the U.S. military, not federal agents. They also noted that presidents can only use the regular military for domestic law enforcement under “exceptional” circumstances because of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. <br /><br />Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) <a href="https://www.threads.com/@govpritzker/post/DSnvGjlk_Tk/today-is-a-big-win-for-illinois-and-american-democracy-i-am-glad-the-supreme" target="_blank">welcomed the ruling</a> as “an important step in curbing the Trump administration’s consistent abuse of power and slowing Trump’s march toward authoritarianism.” The White House said the ruling doesn’t detract from Trump’s “core agenda” of immigration enforcement and protecting federal personnel from “violent rioters.”</p><h2 id="what-next-18">What next?</h2><p>The decision was “not a final ruling,” but it could affect pending legal challenges to Trump’s “attempts to deploy the military in other Democratic-led cities,” <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/supreme-court-trumps-national-guard-deployment-blocked-chicago-128660275" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a> said. Lower courts have blocked Trump’s deployments in Oregon and California. But some Republican governors have welcomed National Guard missions in their Democratic-run cities, and minutes after yesterday’s ruling, <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/denmark-outraged-trump-greenland-landry">Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry</a> (R) announced that about 350 Guard troops will join immigration agents in New Orleans before New Year’s Eve.</p> </article>
December 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Danes ‘outraged’ at revived Trump Greenland push
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-6">What happened</h2><p>President Donald Trump yesterday revived his early-term campaign to take control of <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/why-does-donald-trump-want-greenland">Greenland</a>, a self-ruling territory of NATO ally Denmark. Trump has publicly coveted the large Arctic island’s mineral wealth, but “we need Greenland for national security, not for minerals,” he told reporters yesterday. “We have to have it,” he added, and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) will “lead the charge.” </p><h2 id="who-said-what-6">Who said what</h2><p>Trump unexpectedly named <a href="https://theweek.com/law/louisiana-10-commandments-law-ruling">Landry</a> as his “special envoy to Greenland” on Sunday. Landry said on <a href="https://x.com/LAGovJeffLandry/status/2002950029494124986" target="_blank">social media</a> yesterday he would work to “make Greenland a part of the U.S.” in his new “volunteer position,” which “in no way affects my position as Governor of Louisiana!”</p><p>It’s illegal to “annex another country,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/denmark-summon-us-ambassador-trump-greenland-envoy-appointment" target="_blank">joint statement</a>. “Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the U.S. shall not take over Greenland.” <br /><br />Trump’s <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/greenland-sending-advance-guard-vance">fixation on Greenland</a> “gradually drifted out of the headlines” following his initial push, <a href="https://www.kvue.com/article/syndication/associatedpress/denmark-insists-on-respect-for-territorial-integrity-after-trump-appoints-envoy-to-greenland/616-6a683cc8-8f19-4416-a551-143af14ccf00" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a> said. But Danish officials protested in August after “at least three people with connections to Trump” reportedly “carried out covert influence operations in Greenland.” And earlier this month, the Danish Defense Intelligence Service assessed that the U.S. was using its economic power to “assert its will” and threaten military force against both friends and foes.</p><h2 id="what-next-6">What next?</h2><p>Opinion polls in Greenland “show overwhelming opposition to becoming part of the US,” <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgmd132ge4o" target="_blank">the BBC</a> said. And Trump’s refusal to “rule out using force to secure control of the island” has “shocked Denmark.” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told local media yesterday he was “deeply outraged” by the developments and would summon U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Ken Howery for an explanation. </p> </article>
December 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Trump unveils new ‘Trump class’ US warships
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-12">What happened</h2><p>President Donald Trump yesterday announced he was working with the U.S. Navy to design and build a “Trump class” fleet of “battleships” that would form a centerpiece of America’s revamped “Golden Fleet.” The new warships will “be the fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago, standing alongside <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/hegseth-congress-boat-strike-video">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth</a>, Navy Secretary John Phelan and renderings of the proposed vessel. The last U.S. battleship was decommissioned in 1992.</p><h2 id="who-said-what-12">Who said what</h2><p>Trump said construction would begin “almost immediately” on the first of up to 25 Trump-class ships, the USS Defiant, which would be delivered in “two and a half years.” A U.S. official told <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2025/12/23/trump-announces-plans-for-new-navy-battleship-as-part-of-a-golden-fleet/" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a> that construction was planned to begin in the early 2030s. “There is no funding in the current Pentagon budget” for the <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/why-is-trump-going-after-venezuela">warships</a>, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/trumps-new-trump-class-battleship-will-carry-nuclear-weapons-00704179" target="_blank">Politico</a> said.<br /><br />The new ships, as described by Trump, “will be armed with hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, rail guns and high-powered lasers,” the AP said, “all technologies that are in various stages of development by the Navy,” with some previously abandoned as impractical. Massive new $5 billion warships are “exactly what we don’t need” to defend “against the Chinese threat,” retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, now at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-hegseth-new-warship-the-battleship-63367854?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfuW9PmZz8ih4DPnzWV_dGkZgWBz1MXJg82VF45RwCXIWHKrK77C9EZVqiz3jA%3D&amp;gaa_ts=694af8c8&amp;gaa_sig=ctQy_hj4i78aI0ScmICMfCC0ibzG8hT583t92lscs9tO3aR3X5-BRA68LLFyXd3WPY3Jo6bboSMjHRsM8oDQhg%3D%3D" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a>. “They are focused on the president’s visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship.”</p><h2 id="what-next-12">What next?</h2><p>“This ship is <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/golden-fleets-battleship-will-never-sail" target="_blank">never going to sail</a>,” Mark Cancian, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told The Washington Post. He predicted it would “take four, five, six years” <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/-navy-us-china">to just develop the ship</a>. Trump said he would meet with defense contractors in Florida next week to accelerate production.</p> </article>
December 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Trump halts wind power projects, citing ‘security’
<article> <h2 id="what-happened-6">What happened</h2><p>The Interior Department yesterday said it was “pausing — effective immediately” — all “large-scale offshore wind projects under construction” in the U.S. “due to national security risks” identified by the Pentagon in “recently completed classified reports.” The announcement effectively halts five wind energy projects off the East Coast from Virginia to New England, leaving just two operational wind farms in U.S. coastal waters.</p><h2 id="who-said-what-6">Who said what</h2><p>Halting the <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/windmills-wind-power-turbines">wind farms</a> was the “most sweeping broadsides yet against the renewable energy source” most directly in President Donald Trump’s “crosshairs,” <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/trump-offshore-wind-leases-construction-halt" target="_blank">Axios</a> said. Trump has boosted fossil fuels and hampered renewable energy throughout his time in office, but he has been on a personal “crusade” <a href="https://theweek.com/politics/trump-energy-production-wind-industry">against wind power</a> “ever since, 14 years ago, he failed to stop an offshore wind farm visible from one of his golf courses in Scotland,” <a href="https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2025/12/23/nation-world-news/trump-halts-5-wind-farms-off-the-east-coast/amp/" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> said. Now his administration is “essentially gutting” America’s “nascent offshore wind industry.” <br /><br />Interior Secretary Doug Burgum cited the classified “emerging national security risks” in a statement, but White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said Trump “has been clear” that “wind energy is the scam of the century.” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D), whose constituents were among the 2.5 million households and businesses expected to benefit from the blocked wind farms, <a href="https://portal.ct.gov/governor/news/press-releases/2025/12-2025/governor-lamont-statement-on-trump-administration-latest-attempt-to-stop-revolution-wind" target="_blank">said</a> Trump’s “erratic anti-business move” would “drive up the price of electricity” across the region. <br /><br />Trump’s “bogus ‘national security risks’” excuse will also “set back the cause of generating enough energy to meet the demands of the AI boom,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/22/permitting-reform-offshore-wind-pause/" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> said in an editorial. A federal judge two weeks ago struck down Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, calling it illegal, “arbitrary and capricious.” But the “administration’s decision to cite potential national security risks could complicate legal challenges” going forward, <a href="https://www.wral.com/news/ap/c0ac1-trump-administration-suspends-5-wind-projects-off-the-east-coast-cites-national-security-concerns/" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a> said.</p><h2 id="what-next-6">What next?</h2><p>Burgum said on Fox News he was working with wind farm companies “to see if there’s a way to actually mitigate this.” But the indefinite “pause” has already “threatened to stymie a long-debated bipartisan energy permitting bill winding its way through Congress,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/trump-leaves-wind-industry-reeling-at-a-perilous-moment-for-his-party-00704170" target="_blank">Politico</a> said, and the “rising electricity prices” from sidelining nearly complete “major new power sources” could pose a “political problem for Trump’s party.” </p> </article>
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