It’s become an annual spectacle across the NFL.

Every team trying to come up with the most creative way possible to announce their schedule.

This time around the Vikings convinced various fans to get tattoos to help them make their announcement.

Here’s a look at the full schedule for the Vikings:

Week 1: Vikings at Bears, Monday, Sept. 8, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Week 2: Vikings vs. Falcons, Sunday, Sept. 14, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)

Week 3: Vikings vs. Bengals, Sunday, Sept. 21, Noon (CBS)

Week 4: Vikings at Steelers (Dublin, Ireland), Sunday, Sept. 28, 8:30 a.m. (NFL Network)

Week 5: Vikings at Browns (London, England), Sunday, Oct. 5, 8:30 a.m. (NFL Network)

Week 6: Bye

Week 7: Vikings vs. Eagles, Sunday, Oct. 19, Noon (Fox)

Week 8: Vikings at Chargers, Thursday Oct. 23, 7:15 p.m. (Amazon Prime)

Week 9: Vikings at Lions, Sunday, Nov. 2, Noon (Fox)

Week 10: Vikings vs. Ravens, Sunday, Nov. 9, Noon (Fox)

Week 11: Vikings vs. Bears, Sunday, Nov. 16, Noon (Fox)

Week 12: Vikings at Packers, Sunday, Nov. 23, Noon (Fox)

Week 13: Vikings at Seahawks, Sunday, Nov. 30, 3:05 p.m. (Fox)

Week 14: Vikings vs. Commanders, Sunday, Dec. 7, Noon (Fox)

Week 15: Vikings at Cowboys, Sunday, Dec. 14, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)

Week 16: Vikings at Giants, Sunday, Dec. 21, Noon (Fox)

Week 17: Vikings vs. Lions, Thursday, Dec. 25, 3:30 p.m. (Netflix)

Week 18: Vikings vs. Packers, Sunday, Jan. 4, TBD (TBD)

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By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A former model reproached one of Harvey Weinstein ’s lawyers for suggesting that her sexual abuse allegations against the ex-studio boss are lies.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” Kaja Sokola retorted. In her fifth and final day of testimony at Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial, she maintained that she was telling the truth and that Weinstein’s alleged conduct in her teens had changed the course of her life.

“It changed the course of your life in that you got $3.5 million from false accusations?” defense lawyer Mike Cibella pressed, referring to compensation she was awarded through civil proceedings in recent years.

“No. That’s very unfair,” Sokola said softly. “That’s not true.”

Kaja Sokola appears state court in Manhattan to testify in the sex assault case against Harvey Weinstein, Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

During her days on the witness stand, she said Weinstein repeatedly offered to foster her acting ambitions but then made unwanted physical advances, beginning when she was 16 in 2002.

Weinstein, 73, faces a sexual assault charge related solely to her allegation that he forced oral sex on her when she was 19. He also faces charges based on two other women’s claims. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, and his attorneys assert that his accusers had consensual sexual encounters with the Oscar-winning producer because they wanted movie and TV work.

Weinstein’s lawyers grilled Sokola about her requests for career help from him after the alleged assault, her motives for her civil lawsuits and criminal trial testimony, as well as her personal struggles, and even a private journal she kept for an alcohol-abuse program in her native Poland.

After apparently getting the decade-old writings via the witness’ sister, the defense was allowed to bring up portions in which Sokola said two other men had sexually assaulted her over the years but didn’t say the same about Weinstein. Instead, she wrote that he promised her help but didn’t deliver.

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

Sokola testified Wednesday that she had left out Weinstein’s alleged sexual abuse partly because she couldn’t come to terms with it at the time. Also, she said, her sponsor was in the film business in Poland and knew who Weinstein was.

Cibella questioned that explanation, noting that the text mentioned only “Harvey W” and nothing about his profession. Sokola said her sponsor nonetheless knew his identity because they talked about it.

Tearing up as she spoke, she said she hadn’t seen the black notebook for 10 years, never gave anyone permission to share it and was stunned and appalled to be confronted with it in court.

“I felt very violated,” said Sokola, now 39 and a psychotherapist.

She was the second of Weinstein’s accusers to testify at the retrial, and the only one who wasn’t involved in his first trial in 2020. That proceeding led to a landmark #MeToo-era conviction that was subsequently overturned, setting up the retrial. Prosecutors decided to add Sokola’s allegations to it.

Another woman, Miriam Haley, already has told jurors at the retrial that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006. The third accuser, Jessica Mann, is expected to testify in the coming days or weeks. She alleges that Weinstein raped her in 2013.

The Associated Press generally does not name people who allege they have been sexually assaulted unless they give permission to be identified. Haley, Mann and Sokola have done so.

By GERALD IMRAY and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied by South Africa — that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority Black country.

The meeting, announced Wednesday by the South African government and set for May 21, also comes after the U.S. welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees this Monday, the start of what the Trump administration said is a larger relocation plan for minority Afrikaner farmers who Trump has claimed are being persecuted in their homeland because of their race. South Africa denies the allegations and says whites in the majority Black country are not being singled out for persecution.

Ramaphosa’s office said he will be in the U.S. from Monday to Thursday of next week, and will meet with Trump on Wednesday at the White House. Ramaphosa’s trip would aim to “reset the strategic relationship between the two countries,” his office said.

The White House had no immediate comment on the meeting, which would be Trump’s first with the leader of a nation in Africa since he returned to office in January.

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Trump has criticized South Africa’s Black-led government on multiple fronts and issued an executive order Feb. 7 cutting all U.S. funding to the country as punishment for what he said were its anti-white policies at home and anti-American foreign policy.

The Republican president has singled out South Africa over what the U.S. calls racist laws against whites and has accused the government of “fueling” violence against white farmers. The South African government says the relatively small number of killings of white farmers should be condemned but are part of the country’s problems with violent crime and are not racially motivated.

Trump said Monday — the same day that the first batch of Afrikaner refugees arrived at Dulles International Airport in Virginia — that there was “a genocide taking place” against white farmers that was being ignored by international media.

The U.S. criticism of what it calls South Africa’s racist, anti-white laws appears to refer to South Africa’s affirmative action laws that advance opportunities for Black people, and a new land expropriation law that gives the government power to take private land without compensation. Although the government says the land law is not a confiscation tool and refers to unused land that can be redistributed for the public good, some Afrikaner groups say it could allow their land to be seized and redistributed to some of the country’s Black majority.

Since returning to office in January, Trump has issued orders to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government. The administration has also threatened nongovernmental institutions like colleges and universities with the loss of financial aid unless they do the same.

Trump also required government contractors and other recipients of federal funds to certify, under threat of severe financial penalties, that they do not operate DEI programs that violate anti-discrimination laws.

Afrikaners are descendants of mainly Dutch, French and German colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. They were the leaders of the country’s previous apartheid system of racial segregation. There are around 2.7 million Afrikaners among South Africa’s population of 62 million, which is more than 80% Black. There are also nearly 2 million other whites of British and other descent.

Trump has also accused South Africa of taking “aggressive positions towards the U.S. and its allies” in its foreign policy and of being a supporter of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, and Iran.

Trump’s executive order cited South Africa’s decision to accuse U.S. ally Israel of genocide in Gaza in an ongoing case at the International Court of Justice as an example of its anti-American stance. Israel opened a military offensive in Gaza after Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in an October 2023 intrusion into southern Israel.

The Israeli operation has killed over 52,928 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants. Almost 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke a ceasefire on March 18, the ministry said.

Israel has resumed blocking food, fuel, medicine and all other supplies from entering Gaza for weeks, worsening a humanitarian crisis for 2.3 million Palestinians

Ramaphosa has spoken repeatedly of his desire to engage with Trump diplomatically and improve the relationship. He says Trump’s criticism is based on false information he’s being given about South Africa’s laws and the attacks on farmers.

Superville reported from Washington.

The Breakaway Music Festival will roll into the parking lots outside Allianz Field next month like a lamb and depart like a lion, gradually ramping up volume throughout two days of electronic dance music performances.

Facing criticism from residents from at least as far away as Lilydale that last year’s music festival got too loud for comfort, the St. Paul City Council voted 5-2 on Wednesday to accept a compromise proposal from event organizers, adjusting hours and maximum volumes to step up gradually throughout DJ sets on June 6 and June 7, a Friday and Saturday.

The latest plan — the fourth to be presented to the council in as many weeks — calls for nightly sound level limits at the main stage of 94 decibels at 3 p.m., 96 decibels around 4 p.m., 98 decibels at 5 p.m., and so forth, topping out at 103 decibels by 10:30 p.m., as measured at 125 feet from the speakers.

Organizers said speakers this year would be reoriented toward the soccer stadium itself, using Allianz Field as a noise buffer, and they will pay for city staff from the Department of Safety and Inspections to assist with sound testing throughout the event, among other efforts to mitigate noise.

“If it sounds good at 101 decibels at 9:15 p.m. we won’t crank it to 103,” said Jarrod Fucci, Breakaway Music Festival president, in a brief interview after the vote. “We’re stepping the sound as we go.”

Unlike last year, this year’s event won’t include a Thursday night sound check and will end at 10:30 p.m., 30 minutes earlier than previously proposed.

Those and other efforts won the favor of Council Members Matt Privratsky and Anika Bowie, whose wards both surround Allianz Field. Bowie had signaled support last month for a blanket sound level limit of 103 decibels but later changed course and called for a lower limit, under pressure from the Union Park District Council and other constituents, before working with Privratsky on the latest plan.

“The request for 103 decibels is not for them to be at that ceiling the entire time,” Bowie noted.

Organizers said they have already sold nearly 25,000 tickets across the two days of performances. “Any event like this is going to have some level of disruption,” acknowledged Privratsky, noting he lives near Allianz Field and welcomed the added vibrancy and tourism dollars.

DSI had recommended a lower sound limit of 100 decibels at 100 feet from the main stage. Not lost on some council members was that the music festival last year was approved for 97 decibels at 50 feet from a sound source but likely blew well past those limits, rattling windows down past Highland Park and into Dakota County.

Council President Rebecca Noecker and Council Member Cheniqua Johnson voted against the compromise proposal, noting previous events throughout the city had been limited to 90-100 decibels at 50 feet without issue.

The new limits are “higher than the entire Kellogg Bridge demolition,” Johnson said. “It’s higher than the Yacht Club Festival. … It’s not, for me, consistent with what has been done (before). Literally, the one thing that hasn’t changed is the sound, and that was the issue.”

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