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Peter Weber

Senior editor

Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band. Follow him on Twitter.

Supermarket Shooting

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Law and Order

Grocery store cashier shot dead after argument over face masks

Stephen Colbert

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Last Night on Late Night

Stephen Colbert gleefully returns to a live studio audience

A Trump rally.

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What Storm?

FBI: Disillusioned QAnon adherents may turn to violence

Ziona Chana family

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Rest in Peace

Indian Christian sect leader Ziona Chana dies, leaving 38 wives and 89 kids

Oregon lawmaker expelled

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Law and Order

Oregon House expels GOP lawmaker who helped mob breach Capitol

John Oliver

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Johnsplaining

John Oliver rebukes Texas for 'cooking prisoners to death'

Chris Jackson/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

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Nice Work if You Can Get It

Biden meets the queen before flying to Brussels

Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett

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Not going gentle

Israel's Netanyahu will not attend successor Bennett's inauguration

Don McGahn

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Secret Subpoenas

Trump DOJ reportedly subpoenaed records of Trump's White House counsel

Use cars

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Invisible hands

Used cars and trucks drove much of May's steep inflation

Joe Biden and Boris Johnson

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Well Isn't that special?

Boris Johnson tries to make 'indestructible relationship' happen

Joe Biden at Stonehenge

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Last Night on Late Night

Late night hosts thank anti-vaxxers for Biden's global vaccine generosity

COVID-19 memorial in UK

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Follow the vaccinations

Hundreds of Americans are still dying of COVID-19 every day

Greg Abbott

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Abbott's Wall

Texas governor claims Texas will build its own border wall

Donald Trump

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Viva la Vida

Trump is reportedly living in Florida 'like Napoleon at Elba'

Southern Ocean

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Ring of Ice

National Geographic adds 5th ocean to world map

Air Force One cicada attack

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Last Night on Late Night

Late night hosts joke about Joe versus the cicadas

Tim Geithner, Henry Paulson

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Death and Taxes

5 former Treasury secretaries endorse tax evasion crackdown

Ken Paxton

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Bar one

Texas AG Ken Paxton faces scrutiny from Texas bar association

EU COVID passport

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COVID passports

European Parliament approves to EU COVID passports

COVID-19 nasal spray

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Solving COVID

New antibody treatment shows promise against COVID-19 in mice

Rudy Giuliani

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Last Night on Late Night

Late night hosts joke about different Trump stories in the news

Marijuana grow warehouse

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Green new deal

The federal marijuana ban is contributing to climate change

Centrist senators

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Infrastructure week continues

Biden is now negotiating infrastructure with a bipartisan group of senators

Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists

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Capitol Riot Aftermath

Senate releases bipartisan Capitol insurrection report

North Korea has gone completely offline

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Anarchy in the UK and elsewhere

Massive internet outage takes down major sites

FBI agents execute warrant

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About-face

Justice Department tentatively embraces body cameras for federal agents

Jeff Bezos, Bernie Sanders

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Last Night on Late Night

Late night hosts joke about Jeff Bezos going to space

Donald Trump

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Last Night on Late Night

Late night hosts laugh at Trump's backward pants

E. Jean Carroll

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Principle above party?

Biden DOJ will continue to try to defend Trump in defamation suit

G-7 agrees to minimum corporate tax

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Death and Taxes and anti-Tax Republicans

GOP could sink G-7 minimum corporate tax agreement

John Oliver on Asian Americans

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Johnsplaining

John Oliver dismantles the Asian American 'model minority myth'

Benjamin Netanyahu

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Strange bedfellows

How Arab Israelis could seal Netanyahu's defeat

Simone Biles

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Defying Gravity

Simone Biles wins record 7th U.S. Gymnastics Championship

Israeli newspaper reader

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Shining City Upon a Hill

Israeli intelligence chief warns of violence as Netanyahu fights ouster

Train collision near Multan, Pakistan

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Train Wrecks

At least 25 dead in Pakistan train collision