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Art that made the news in 2025
From a short-lived Banksy mural to an Egyptian statue dating back three millennia
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December 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Sudoku medium: December 27, 2025
The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week
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December 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Donald Trump’s squeeze on Venezuela
The US president is relying on a ‘drip-drip pressure campaign’ to oust Maduro, tightening measures on oil, drugs and migration
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December 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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US citizens are carrying passports amid ICE fears
‘You do what you have to do to avoid problems,’one person told The Guardian
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December 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Why is Trump killing off clean energy?
President halts offshore wind farm construction
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December 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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8 restaurants that are exactly what you need this winter
Old standards and exciting newcomers alike
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December 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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‘This is a structural weakening of elder protections’
Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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December 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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4 tips to safeguard your accounts against data breaches
Even once you have been victimized, there are steps you can take to minimize the damage
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December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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31 questions to see how well you remember 2025
Test how well you followed the news with our year-end quiz
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December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Sudoku medium: December 26, 2025
The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week
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December 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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The best tabloid stories of 2025
From a child named after the devil to a pothole-based theme park, some strange stories hit the headlines this year
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December 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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7 recipes that meet you wherever you are during winter
Low-key January and decadent holiday eating are all accounted for
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December 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Nine best TV shows of the year
From Adolescence to Amandaland
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December 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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How to save more for retirement next year
Secure yourself a suitable nest egg
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December 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Sudoku medium: December 25, 2025
The daily medium sudoku puzzle from The Week
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December 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Winter holidays in the snow and sun
Escape the dark, cold days with the perfect getaway
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December 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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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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Which side is JD Vance taking for MAGA’s infighting?
GOP insiders are battling over antisemitism with an eye on 2028
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December 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Campus security is under scrutiny again after the Brown shooting
Questions surround a federal law called the Clery Act
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December 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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8 new cookbooks begging to be put to good winter use
Booze-free drinks, the magic versatility of breadcrumbs and Japanese one-pot cooking
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December 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Bari Weiss’ ‘60 Minutes’ scandal is about more than one report
By blocking an approved segment on a controversial prison holding U.S. deportees in El Salvador, the editor-in-chief of CBS News has become the main story.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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‘Journalism is on notice’
Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A foodie guide to Edinburgh
Go all-out with a Michelin-starred meal or grab a casual bite in the Scottish capital
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December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM