It is over. Finals are done and you have crawled out of a cocoon of studying, tests and essays only to find that the world did not stop while you were busy and you have an entire week of news to catch up on. Start here to see what you missed. It was an interesting week.

1. Russia Cheated Big to Dominate Sochi

There was no is no athletic problem in our doping program.#WADA #WadaReport pic.twitter.com/M3tWYesVkS
— Vladimir Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) November 12, 2015

A New York Times article published on May 12th reads like a piece of satire. During the Sochi Olympics in 2014, Russia ran an elite scheme to dope their athletes, including 15 medal winners. The director of the anti-doping laboratory at the time, Grigory Rodchenkov, admitted to mixing a cocktail of three banned substances in liquor during interviews with documentary filmmaker Brian Fogel. In the dark of night, anti-doping experts and intelligence agents passed urine through holes in a wall to make sure over a hundred samples would come out clean.

After being forced to resign when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) identified him as the lynchpin in a state-sponsored doping program, Rodchenkov moved to Los Angeles, afraid for his life. Don’t call him paranoid for doing so: two of his colleagues died in February within weeks of each other.

Russia had denied that any such program exists, but their athletes currently face expulsion from the Rio Olympics. WADA will make that decision on June 17th.

2. Donald Trump and Paul Ryan Had an Encouraging Meeting

In an “encouraging” meeting, Speaker of the House met with the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump. So encouraging that Ryan said the words ‘encouraging’ or 'encouraged' eleven times in the press conference that was held afterward. Although no one else was in the room where it happened, the media chose to hype the meeting, likely because Speaker Ryan has yet to endorse his party’s nominee. Even in the press conference, Ryan refrained from even promising to give his endorsement to Trump at a later date.

Unifying the Republican party is a key goal if the GOP intends to win the Oval Office come November. Factions such as the Freedom Caucus hinder Republican unity in Congress and the divisions which became clear during the primary battle threaten to hand the election to the Democrat, regardless of who wins. Finding a platform to unite all wings of the party will be a challenge, but they claim to be to committed to working on it.

3. Trump Refuses to Admit to Posing as a PR Rep

Despite this happening in 1991, Donald Trump refuses to admit to posing as a PR rep named John Miller in a phone interview done for "People" magazine. In fact, Trump is known to have repeatedly used fake names, either John Miller or John Barron, to do telephone interviews with journalists in the '80s and '90s. He's even admitted this call is his before. Why the man won't admit to it now is unclear, but so is why he refuses to release his tax returns.

One thing the tape, retrieved by the Washington Post, shows, is the way Trump describes women. For a man who has a women problem, considering he has consistently insulted prominent women such as Megyn Kelly and Carly Fiorina, women of his own party at that, having a tape in which he is candidly speaking of how 'appealing' he is to women cannot help him.

Yet the denial of the tape is perhaps more interesting than the tape itself. Why deny something so farcical? With the denial, the news story continues. If he had simply admitted to it, it likely would have been a minute at the end of broadcasts as a funny, "Oh hey, look at this," story, rather than a big deal.

4. George Zimmerman is Selling the Gun Used to Kill Trayvon Martin

George Zimmerman's gun was returned to him by the Justice Department after he was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter in 2012. The Florida man decided the best thing that he could do with the weapon was auction it off online so that he can use the proceeds to fight Black Lives Matter violence against law enforcement officers, Clinton's anti-gun rhetoric, and the special prosecutor who investigated Martin's death.

The auction has not gone off without a hitch. The original listing was on the site Gunbroker.com but was taken down. It reopened on the United Gun Group website, was pulled briefly on Thursday but has since gone back up. Plus, the trolls of the internet have done their part to keep the gun out of racist's hands, using names such as "Racist McShootface," and "Tamir Rice" to push the price up to over $65 million. One man, however, does legitimately want to buy the gun for the starting bid of $5000, just to make sure it stays out of the hands of someone who would wave it around on YouTube for the next 30 years.