Peter Weber, The Week US
Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University. He graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in international studies and performance studies and served in the Peace Corps in Honduras.
Peter has lived in Italy and all major quadrants of the continental U.S. and currently resides in Austin, Texas, where he plays bass and rhythm cello in a garage band.
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Zelenskyy says 31,000 troops dead in 2 years of war
Speed Read Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a rare official military death toll
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Trump wins South Carolina, Haley loses big donor
Speed Read Former President Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley 60% to 40% in Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary
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Nvidia sees historic stock rise on AI chips success
Speed Read U.S. chipmaker Nvidia achieved the biggest one-day increase in value of any company in history
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Texas judge OKs hair-based suspension of Black student
Speed Read The judge said the Houston-area Barbers Hill school district did not violate the state's CROWN Act
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Biden meets Navalny's widow, sets sanctions
Speed Read The president expressed his condolences to the family of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
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US spacecraft nearing first private lunar landing
Speed Read If touchdown is successful, it will be the first U.S. mission to the moon since 1972
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Alabama clinics stop IVF care after court ruling
Speed Read The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos have the same legal protections as children
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Is the House GOP's Biden impeachment drive dead?
Speed Read FBI informant Alexander Smirnov has been indicted after admitting Russian intelligence fed him a false story about President Joe Biden
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The Beatles are getting 4 intersecting biopics
Speed Read Director Sam Mendes is making four separate movies, each told from the perspective of one band member
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New York may seize Trump's assets for $450M penalty
Speed Read The former president likely owes $600 million from two civil judgments in New York
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US vetoes Gaza cease-fire resolution at UN
Speed Read America was the only country to vote against the resolution
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Capital One to buy Discover for $35B
Speed Read The deal, if cleared by regulators, would create the biggest credit card lender in the country
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Haitian judge indicts slain president's widow
Speed Read Former first lady Martine Moïse is charged as an accomplice in the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
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Wisconsin ends GOP gerrymander
Speed Read Gov. Tony Evers signed "fair maps" he drew after the state Supreme Court struck down the old district lines as unconstitutional
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Greece legalizes same-sex marriage
Speed Read Greece becomes the first Orthodox Christian country to enshrine marriage equality in law
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Russia close to capturing Ukraine's Avdiivka
Speed Read After months of brutal fighting, Russia is on the verge of capturing the strategically located Ukrainian city
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FBI informant charged with fabricating Biden bribes
Speed Read Alexander Smirnov falsely reported Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company Burisma
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Shooting at Chiefs victory rally kills 1, injures 21
Speed Read Gunfire broke out at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade in Missouri
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Scientists create 'meaty' rice for eco-friendly protein
Speed Read Korean scientists have invented a new hybrid food, consisting of beef muscle and fat cells grown inside grains of rice
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Russian nuclear 'satellite killer' report roils Congress
Speed Read Rep. Mike Turner has released an odd warning about an unidentified 'serious national security threat'
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Supreme Court says US border agents can remove Texas razor wire
Speed Read The 5-4 ruling is a win for the Biden administration in its broader fight over border authority with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
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Ron DeSantis exits GOP race before New Hampshire primary, leaving a Trump-Haley contest
Speed Read The Florida governor and his allies spent more than $100 million on his promising presidential campaign, only to come in a distant second place in Iowa
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Uvalde parents want indictments after DOJ's scathing school shooting report
Speed Read The Justice Department's damning review of the May 2022 school shooting in Texas details 'cascading failures,' but families of the victims want justice
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Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba have a rough day in defamation court
Speed Read Trump's audible grousing as E. Jean Carroll testified earned him a warning he could be thrown out of court, and Habba showed she 'doesn't know what the hell she's doing'
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