New information is coming out about the events leading up to Islamic State taking over Ramadi, Iraq, on Sunday — including that 30 car bombs were detonated in the city center, 10 of them similar to the Oklahoma City truck bomb.

The vehicles were able to get to the city center after an armored bulldozer plowed through barricades surrounding government buildings, ABC reports, and a senior State Department official said on Wednesday the blasts took out "entire city blocks." After the bombs went off, the Iraqis deployed a reinforcement column to the city center, the official said, but they came under heavy fire and had to retreat.

Although security forces left, the official said the situation is not like what happened in Mosul, where Iraqi forces abandoned their posts and equipment; the Ramadi forces have "regrouped" and "consolidated" and are planning a counter-offensive. Catherine Garcia

On Friday, a judge ordered Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking an iPhone in a Boston gang case, despite the tech company's objections about privacy and national security. The ruling comes as the Justice Department filed an appeal Friday requesting the company's help in another criminal case, this one involving the locked iPhone of a convicted drug dealer in a New York investigation. Though the Justice Department was able to move forward without Apple's help in breaking into the San Bernardino attacker's iPhone — another high-profile battle between the FBI and Apple — the FBI's director says the government's technique does not work on all iPhone models. Becca Stanek

On Thursday morning, Hillary Clinton rode New York City's 4 Train from Yankee Stadium to 170th Street, eliciting jokes and Michele Bachmann tutorials after failing to swipe through the turnstile with the grace of a seasoned city-dweller. However, some are now pointing fingers at Clinton for allegedly getting away with breaking a law — because in New York, it is technically illegal to campaign on the subway.

It is up for debate if Clinton was actually "campaigning" — but Ali Gharib at The Guardian argues that by "glad-handing on the train itself," Clinton's short ride was "all the more galling because there are actual, regular New Yorkers trying to make ends meet who are arrested for violating the same rules that Clinton disregards with impunity."

"When performers are playing music they are thought to be committing a crime and arrested, and apparently when Hillary Clinton does public speaking on a train car that is not considered a violation of the statute," Matthew Christian of BuskNY told The Guardian.

Still, some think that getting fired up about Clinton's ride is just looking for something to be angry about. "I've ridden the subway in NYC for almost 30 years. I have never, not once, seen a fine handed out for any type of performance. And I have probably seen hundreds," one Reddit user pointed out.

Watch Clinton's subterranean New York adventure below. Jeva Lange

A New Jersey man who has been illegally flying Donald Trump's campaign flags in front of his house could face up to $2,000 or jail time, which he says he's prepared to serve, NBC New York reports. West Long Branch resident Jon Hornick has been flying two "Make America Great Again" flags outside his home since February, although it is illegal to post political signage more than 30 days before an election according to a local ordinance. The New Jersey presidential primary is on June 7.

Hornick flies the flags around the clock, spotlighting them at night so they are visible from the street. He says they have been ripped down five times now. "Let them come, let them rip those flags down because I have a warehouse on alert, and I'll put up a flag every time they tear one down," Hornick said, calling his flags "glorious."

Hornick has been ticketed for flying the flag, but he says he's prepared to go to jail if he loses in court. "I'm not taking the flag down, and if I do 90 days in jail, I'll do 90 days in jail."

Having clearly decided this will be the hill he dies on, Hornick also said that if Trump isn't elected president, he'll shred his voter registration and never vote again. Jeva Lange

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) swears he's not running for president, but a video he released Thursday is leaving people further skeptical that's the case. The video, "Politics These Days," offers a sweeping view of Ryan's policy plans and an optimistic outlook on moving past today's partisan fighting. It's so inspirational, in fact, that some are suggesting it's a stealth campaign ad for 2016.

"What really bothers me the most about politics these days is this notion of identity politics: that we're going to win an election by dividing people, rather than inspiring people," Ryan says in a clip of a speech featured in the video, before moving on to a veiled attack on current Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. The video closes with a link to Ryan's #ConfidentAmerica slate of policy positions on health care, poverty, and job creation.

Take a look below. Becca Stanek

Broadcasters in Belgium are reporting the arrest of Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini, who is also believed but not confirmed to be the "man in the hat" shown in Brussels airport footage from just before the suicide bombings there last month. A second suspect held on Friday, Osama Kraiem, is thought to be a man who was seen with a suicide bomber before the metro station attack, Reuters reports.

Abrini's arrest in particular would be a major success for Belgium, as the country has faced criticism for its security failures. Abrini has been on Europe's most wanted list since he was seen on a service station CCTV video driving toward Paris with Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam two days before the bombings there killed 130 people in November.

Thirty-two people were killed in the Brussels attacks. Jeva Lange

Life is scary enough on dry land. If you ever set foot in an ocean, you'll have a better chance of emerging in one piece with a Sharkbanz shark-repellent wristband ($65), says HiConsumption.com. Created by two shark-fearing surfing enthusiasts, the band emits magnetic waves that disrupt the animals' electro-receptors. For the shark, the experience is similar to being in a dark room and suddenly confronting a very bright light: The flight instinct instantly kicks in. The band's patented technology works to depths of 200 meters, and no batteries are required because it's powered by Earth's magnetic field. The Week Staff

Only three airports in America — in Atlanta, Miami, and Orlando — require airport employees to go through full security, TSA administrator Robert Neffenger acknowledged this week in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

In hundreds of other airports across the United States, workers typically swipe a badge to access secure areas, though Neffenger said his agency was in the process of reviewing best practices at these three airports to implement new requirements nationwide.

However, a 2015 report from the Aviation Security Advisory Committee (ASAC), which advises the TSA on airport security practices, concluded that complete employee screening would be costly without being particularly effective to "lower overall risk," because it "is incapable of determining a person’s motivations, attitudes, and capabilities to cause harm, among other limitations." Of course, by that logic, we should nix the TSA altogether, as the same limitations surely apply to the agency's notoriously invasive, unequal, and insecure screening procedures for airline passengers. Bonnie Kristian