The cost of everything.

The president’s former lawyer tells Congress that the president manipulates financial records, pays to cover up extramarital affairs, and says racist crap, among other things. 1/21

Basically: “My loyalty to Mr Trump has cost me everything.” 2/21

To prove that Trump is not racist, a Republican Senator invites a black woman to stand by silently while he tells Cohen she disagrees with him. 3/21

“I have seen them sink pretty damned low in the over 25 years I have been a member of and staffer to the Republican Party.” 4/21

Meanwhile in Virginia: The state’s First Lady gives cotton to black kids during a tour of the governor’s mansion and asks them to imagine being slaves. 5/21

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used her questions for Cohen to lay the groundwork for a subpoena of the president’s tax returns. 6/21

A legal expert explains what was learned from Cohen’s testimony, and where the Trump-Russia story now stands. 7/21

The second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un collapsed early. 8/21

For perhaps the first time, Kim Jong Un answered questions from journalists. 9/21

The company that brought us the AK-47 introduces the KUB-UAV, a “suicide drone” yielding “a step toward a completely new form of combat.” 10/21

Perhaps not surprising: A white paper finds popular support for eugenics. 11/21

A new Brexit crisis: In the event of a no-deal exit, the UK doesn't have the right kind of shipping pallets for import or export. 12/21

The language in which children are taught can be contentious. Inertia and coercion favor English—but so does popular demand. 13/21

The World Bank says women have equal rights with men in only six countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg, and Sweden. 14/21

Why can't bots beat those CAPTCHA screens? They're not adequately human, i.e., messy. 15/21

An astrophotographer stitches together 50,000 images to make one picture of the moon. 16/21

Items left behind during a year in the life of a university library. 17/21

What it’s like to win a lifetime supply of ice cream, toilet paper, fried chicken, or books. 18/21

She is neither overwhelmingly feminine nor masculine. She exists outside of any mundane binary. She is something else, a species unto herself. She truly is unusual. Paying praise to Whoopi Goldberg. 19/21

RIP, pioneering trans soul singer Jackie Shane. 20/21

God is a fly you can’t swat. A poem for your Thursday: "Elegy for a Kaleidoscope," by Fady Joudah. 21/21

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