Quid pro whoa.

President Trump openly encourages China and Ukraine to investigate his political rival while his impeachment defense is under siege. 1/22

Text messages show that Ukraine-US relations depended on Ukraine’s new president investigating Biden and discrediting Robert Mueller's Russia probe. 2/22

A private pilot explains what it's like to accidentally violate the president's airspace. 3/22

Twitter clamps down on Trump—for posting a Nickelback video. 4/22

Another whistleblower complaint, this time from the IRS, appears amid an escalating battle over the release of Trump’s tax returns. 5/22

The IRS admits it audits the working poor at the same rate as the wealthiest 1%. 6/22

The next president could achieve many progressive goals without Congress, but is that a good thing? 7/22

About 1 in 4 adults age 65 and older is now in the workforce, and that number is expected to increase. 8/22

The number of poor people living in US suburbs has exploded to 16.3 million, an increase of 56% since the 2000 census. 9/22

“The last of the first responders,” Las Vegas’s death investigators struggle to heal after the Route 91 shooting. 10/22

A third day of anti-government protests in Baghdad leaves 33 dead. A massive protest is expected in Haiti to demand the ouster of the president. 11/22

North Korea and the US resume working-level talks aimed at dismantling North Korea's nuclear program. 12/22

More than 383,000 people have died in five years of conflict in South Sudan. 13/22

From a list of the best African films from 2019, a poetic meditation on migration (that won the Grand Prix at Cannes). 14/22

A new study in Kenya finds that cash transfers reduce rates of sexual and physical violence against women. 15/22

An interview with Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey shows why Bob Woodward is a bad interviewer on anything related to MeToo. No, really: terrible. 16/22

Related/unrelated: An oral history of Lilith Fair. 17/22

Using a quantum computer, researchers did a calculation in three minutes that a supercomputer needs 10,000 years to execute. 18/22

Almost half of the men who sat at Stalin's leadership table for dinner from 1937-38 shot themselves or were killed. 19/22

Banksy opens a shop in London to fight a greeting card company that’s contesting the trademark he holds to his art. 20/22

It's that time of year again: Tokyo's International Coin-Operated Laundry EXPO awards its Laundromat of the Year Award. 21/22

Related: This year’s fall foliage prediction map for the United States. 22/22

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