
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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Honduras votes amid Trump push, pardon vow
speed read President Trump said he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving 45 years for drug trafficking
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Congress seeks answers in ‘kill everybody’ strike report
Speed Read Lawmakers suggest the Trump administration’s follow-up boat strike may be a war crime
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Vaccine critic quietly named CDC’s No. 2 official
Speed Read Dr. Ralph Abraham joins another prominent vaccine critic, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Trump’s Ukraine peace talks advance amid leaked call
Speed Read Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is set to visit Russia next week
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Memo signals Trump review of 233k refugees
Speed Read The memo also ordered all green card applications for the refugees to be halted
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Pentagon targets Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video
Speed Read The Pentagon threatened to recall Kelly to active duty
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X update unveils foreign MAGA boosters
Speed Read The accounts were located in Russia and Nigeria, among other countries
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South Africa wraps up G20 summit boycotted by US
Speed Read Trump has been sparring with South Africa in recent months
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Paramount, Comcast, Netflix bid for WBD
Speed Read The outcome of this bidding war ‘could alter the trajectory of the entertainment business’
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Judge halts Trump’s DC Guard deployment
Speed Read The Trump administration has ‘infringed upon the District’s right to govern itself,’ the judge ruled
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Trump pushes new Ukraine peace plan
Speed Read It involves a 28-point plan to end the war
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Summers out at Harvard, OpenAI amid Epstein furor
Speed Read Summers was part of a group being investigated by Harvard for Epstein ties
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Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
Speed Read The Texas congressional map ordered by Trump is likely an illegal racial gerrymander, the court ruled
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Congress passes bill to force release of Epstein files
Speed Read The Justice Department will release all files from its Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking investigation
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Trump says he will sell F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia
Speed Read The president plans to make several deals with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week
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UN Security Council backs Trump’s Gaza peace plan
Speed Read The United Nations voted 13-0 to endorse President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to withdraw Israeli troops from Gaza
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Chile picks leftist, far-right candidates for runoff vote
Speed Read The presidential runoff election will be between Jeannette Jara, a progressive from President Gabriel Boric’s governing coalition, and far-right former congressman José Antonio Kast
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Ecuador rejects push to allow US military bases
Speed Read Voters rejected a repeal of a constitutional ban on US and other foreign military bases in the country
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Trump pivots on Epstein vote amid GOP defections
Speed Read The president said House Republicans should vote on a forced release of the Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein files
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Blue Origin launches Mars probes in NASA debut
Speed Read The New Glenn rocket is carrying small twin spacecraft toward Mars as part of NASA’s Escapade mission
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GOP retreats from shutdown deal payout provision
Speed Read Senators are distancing themselves from a controversial provision in the new government funding package
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US mints final penny after 232-year run
Speed Read Production of the one-cent coin has ended
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Catholic bishops rebuke Trump on immigration
Speed Read ‘We feel compelled’ to ‘raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,’ the bishops said
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Newsom slams Trump’s climate denial at COP30
speed read Trump, who has called climate change a ‘hoax,’ declined to send any officials to this week’s summit
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