Portia Smith's most vivid memories of her daughter's first year are of tears. Not the baby's. Her own.

"I would just hold her and cry all day," Smith said.

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When Sebastopol, California, resident Oren Noah lost his power without warning three days after the Kincade Fire broke out in Sonoma County on Oct. 23, he was confused.

"We were outside of the Pacific Gas and Electric power outage warning area," Noah says. "We also noticed greatly reduced connectivity because our Comcast cable and landline were both down and the cellular strength was lower than usual."

Read more at US News.

In London for the NATO summit, President Donald Trump found himself not in the typically central and influential role for an American president among his duly elected peers, but as the butt of jokes by fellow world leaders mingling at a Buckingham Palace reception. Back home, House Democrats faced down their GOP colleagues as they forged ahead this week with the historic step of drafting articles of impeachment. The Supreme Court is expected to imminently be called upon to resolve a burgeoning constitutional crisis over checks and balances. And voters? They're as divided as ever, not just in choice of candidates, but in their very worldviews.

The nation is in a December meltdown that is causing polarization and pain for both parties and all three branches of government as well as for America and its allies. Distrust and dissension were on full display this week abroad and on Capitol Hill.

Read more at US News.

A report by the judiciary committee setting out the legal and historical basis for impeachment comes ahead of Monday's public hearing to consider evidence against Mr Trump.

A vote on articles of impeachment could be held as early as next week.

Read more at BBC News.

Celebrity news website TMZ said he died after suffering a seizure at Chicago's Midway airport on Sunday morning.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said the cause was unknown.

Read more at BBC News.

Winning photographer Roberto Garcia Roa said: "Unfortunately, many areas of Madagascar are suffering huge anthropic pressures, including poaching and fires, and big snakes are becoming increasingly difficult to see.

"During my visit to Madagascar, I had the pleasure of finding this outstanding snake and photographing it.

Read more at BBC.

A woman who pretended to have health issues during a flight in order to get a bigger seat caused the pilot to make an emergency diversion.

The unnamed passenger from Florida was flying from Pensacola, Florida, to Miami on American Eagle flight 3508 when she claimed to have trouble breathing, the Pensacola Police Department told NBC News.

Read more on Independent.

Today, the world is warming. But from about 720 to 635 million years ago, temperatures swerved the other way as the planet became encased in ice during the two ice ages known as Snowball Earth.

It happened fast, and within just a few thousand years or so, ice stretched over both land and sea, from the poles to the tropics. Life lived in the oceans at the time, and the encroaching ice entombed that life, cutting it off from both the sun and the atmosphere.

Read more at NY Times.

Curious whether you're on track to live a long, healthy life into your golden years? Most health professionals would tell you to hop on a scale, since numbers like weight and BMI (body mass index) are often used to predict your chances of developing certain diseases and your life expectancy overall. The problem? Neither weight nor BMI is truly an accurate or adequate measure of your health.

That's because "weight and BMI are not customized to sex or body type, nor do they take into account muscle mass, bone density, overall body composition and ethnic differences," says John P. Higgins, MD, a sports cardiologist and professor of cardiovascular medicine at The McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

Read more at Livestrong.

T-Mobile today announced that it has launched "America's first nationwide 5G network," but T-Mobile's definition of "nationwide" doesn't include about 40% of the US population.

"America gets its first nationwide 5G network today, covering more than 200 million people and more than 1 million square miles," T-Mobile's announcement said.

Read more at Ars Technica.