News from the multiverse.

“This will only strengthen him,” a bartender at the president’s hotel said as he prepared another round of cocktails. “Right?” 1/19

For his conduct toward Ukraine and his refusal to cooperate with an inquiry, Donald Trump is the third president in US history to be impeached. 2/19

At his annual end-of-year news conference, Putin eagerly defends Trump with Trump's talking points. 3/19

The middle aisle in the House of Representative separates the parties, but on Wednesday “it seemed to separate two parallel universes.” 4/19

Demonstrations are planned in 20 Indian cities as anger mounts over a citizenship bill that discriminates against Muslims. 5/19

This past weekend, Vancouver witnessed a (short) flight of the world’s first all-electric harbor plane. 6/19

A new nuclear reactor from an energy startup in Oregon is not only comparatively tiny, but said to be demonstrably safer. 7/19

For the second time in two months, New South Wales declares an emergency as wildfires rage around Sydney. 8/19

The Climate Action Tracker monitors 32 countries’ progress on tackling the climate crisis. 9/19

Photographs of the French Alps not covered in snow. 10/19

An American types up some notes on Europeans during a flight home from Germany, after working for a Danish company. 11/19

In struggling towns that are "infrastructurally obese," expansion compounds problems and prevents bouncing back. 12/19

Did you know? The median price of a funeral in 2017 was $7,360. 13/19

In case you were focused elsewhere: 99 stories of good news from 2019. 14/19

Art critic Peter Schjeldahl, with only a few months left to live, is “taking in every last detail of the pulsating world.” 15/19

Some landscape prints of the California coast influenced by the Japanese Ukiyo-ë style. 16/19

Very rarely do the worlds of mass celebrity and independent book publishing intersect—except in the case of Kendall Jenner. 17/19

Watch: How to alternate between monophonic and polyphonic overtone singing. 18/19

A list of the 12 top-performing movies in the US last weekend contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. 19/19

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