Tonight, the first month of 2020 will be behind us, and as of midnight Greenwich time, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Meanwhile, on both sides of the Pond, here are some things going on:
From National Review, there is no precise legal standard for impeachment.
From FrontpageMag, the Coptic New Year arrives with assaults on Christians.
From Townhall, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticizes Democrats for allegedly lying about "blocking" witnesses.
From The Washington Free Beacon, former congresscritter John Delaney (D-MD) drops out of the Democratic presidential race.
From the Washington Examiner, one rich powerful white guy demands that another rich powerful white guy is removed from his job. (In case anyone is wondering, neither is named "Trump".)
From The Federalist, according to the director of a documentary on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, he got tired of his story being distorted.
From American Thinker, the case for Republican Senators calling witnesses in the impeachment trial.
From CNS News, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) suggests that Chief Justice Roberts, presiding over the impeachment trial, lacks "legitimacy".
From LifeZette, congresscritter Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduces a bill to make President Trump's "Muslim ban" illegal.
From NewsBusters, MSNBC anchor Chuck Dodd fears the Democrats "folding too quickly" in impeachment.
From Canada Free Press, European snowflakes will soon reenact the 2016 election night meltdown of their Hillary Clinton-supporting American counterparts.
From CBC News, the Canadian government agress to DNA-test the remains of an Iran airplane crash victim.
From Global News, when seals strike back.
From CTV News, a Nova Scotia court rules that a man whose last name is "Grabher" has no right to use it on a personalized licence plate.
From TeleSUR, one person is killed and 124 arrested at a protest in Santiago, Chile.
From The Portugal News, the wine tourism business is doing well in Portugal.
From El País, 19 Spaniards fly back to Spain from Wuhan, China.
From France24, about 200 French citizens arrive at a military base near Marseille, France from Wuhan, China.
From RFI, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announces his run for mayor of the city of Le Havre.
From SwissInfo, asylum requests in Switzerland reach a 12-year low.
From ANSA, a coronavirus emergency is declared in Rome after two people are found to be infected.
From Free West Media, the number of Holocaust deniers in Italy rises sharply.
From the Malta Independent, about 40 non-E.U. children still don't know if they will be deported from Malta.
From Malta Today, Identity Malta will contact U.K. citizens with valid documents about a 10-year residency status.
From Total Slovenia News, the E.U. Court of Justice rules that a lawsuit filed by Slovenia against Croatia is inadmissible.
From Total Croatia News, Brexit doesn't stop a Croatian tech company from opening an office in London.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, Greek legislators argue over a proposed 2.7-kilometer floating barrier.
From Ekathimerini, Greece strengthens its border patrols and plans to use cameras against illegal entry by migrants.
From the Greek Reporter, "spectacular" new discoveries are made at the archaeological site of Akrotiri, on the Greek island of Santorini.
From Novinite, according to Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva, three Bulgarians in Wuhan, China will leave tomorrow.
From The Sofia Globe, a remembrane ceremony is held at the Sofia Central Synagogue to honor victims of the Holocaust and people who rescued Bulgarian Jews.
From Radio Bulgaria, Zaharieva meets with her Turkish counterpart.
From Romania-Insider, a magnitude-5.2 earthquakes strikes in Romania, which is felt in Budapest. (If you read Romanian, read the story at Digi24.)
From Russia Today, Russia convirms its first two cases of the coronavirus, both of the sufferers being Chinese citizens.
From Sputnik International, five people are killed in a gas explosion at a factory in Mtsensk, Russia.
From The Moscow Times, Russia threatens Facebook and Twitter with fines for allegedly failing to comply with its data laws.
From the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban accuses a "Soros Network" of organizing migration across the Balkan countries.
From Daily News Hungary, former Hungarian Prime Minister Gyurcsány declares that the Hungarian republic "is dead".
From Hungary Today, Hungarian cities light themselves up in pink ahead of the Giro D'Italia bike race, which will start in Hungary.
From About Hungary, Hungary will double the number of soldiers protecting its southern border.
From Radio Prague, more U.K. expatriates in the Czech Republic become Czech citizens as Brexit approaches.
From Polskie Radio, Poland signs a deal to buy 32 F-35 fighter jets from the U.S.
From the CPH Post, the construction of a 320-meter-high skyscraper in Brande, Denmark is postponed for the second time.
From Deutsche Welle, the Berlin International Film Festival suspends its Alfred Bauer Silver Bear award, because its namesake was involved with the Nazis.
From the NL Times, a body that washed up on a beach in Terschelling, Netherlands in 1967 is finally identified.
From Dutch News, about 20 Dutch citizens in Wuhan, China are expected to fly back to the Netherlands.
From VRT NWS, three doctors are acquitted of poisoning charges in a trial in Ghent, Belgium.
From The Brussels Times, the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels will display the world's oldest preserved saxophone.
From EuroNews, crowds gather in London and Edinburgh as Brexit approaches.
From Euractiv, a "senior Tory" gives his opinion of what caused the impass over Brexit.
From the Express, at a Brexit celebration in Parliament Square in London, a man burns the E.U. flag.
From the Evening Standard, a live blog of celebrations in Parliament Square.
From the (U.K.) Independent, the E.U. offers a muted "goodbye" to the U.K.
From the (Irish) Independent, the perpetrators of an acid attack in Waterford, Ireland are given only "juvinile cautions".
From the Irish Examiner, people living on one side of the U.K.-Ireland border reportedly have a hard time getting mortgages and insurance.
From The Conservative Woman, a "thank you" to the 17.4 Brexit voters.
From The Stream, the never-Trumpers collaborating with the impeachment could be called "Vichy conservatives".
From Reason, the real problem with Trump defense lawyer Alan Derschowitz's positions on impeachments and quid pro quos.
From the New York Post, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might be able to qualify for the Democratic presidential debate under new DNC rules.
From LifeNews, TikTok bans and soon afterwards un-bans a pro-life group.
From WPVI-TV, Fiona the hippo appears to have picked the San Francisco 49ers to win the Super Bowl.
And from Twitchy, conservative journalist Byron York drops a nuclear truth bomb on House Democrats hoping that the Senate will call witnesses in the impeachment trial.
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