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Photos of the Week: a Train Wreck, a Tax Bill, Christmas Preparations (35 photos)

Preparations for Christmas around the world, big surf in Portugal, taming the Thomas Fire in California, an Amtrak crash in Washington state, celebrating Hanukkah in Jerusalem, passage of a major U.S. tax bill in Washington, D.C., and much more.

A photo shows the work Eggs of Yodafoetus by French artist Alexandre Nicolas at the science fiction museum Maison d'Ailleurs (translated as “House of Elsewhere”) during the exhibition entitled I Am Your Father! on December 21, 2017, in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. The museum presents the works of thirteen contemporary international artists who use the Star Wars myth to elicit different perspectives, including the relationship between reality and fiction, the LGBT movement or the making of myths and idols, until October 14, 2018. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/12/photos-of-the-week-a-train-wreck-a-tax-bill-christmas-preparations/549110/