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On the eve of the Senate’s impeachment trial, House Democrats dump a trove of new evidence that looks pretty bad for Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, Seattle’s city council votes to ban foreign-influenced corporations like Amazon and Bank of America from spending in the city’s elections.

And lastly, the US government finally begins to lift Trump’s hold on over $8 billion in disaster aid for Puerto Rico.

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While there wasn’t one breakout winner of CNN’s Democratic debate in Iowa, Vox dot com notes that Bernie Sanders managed to continually return the discussion to climate change.

Climate change is the second-most-important issue to Democratic voters, according to Pew, narrowly behind health care, and Sanders clearly commanded the issue on Tuesday.

A new Gallup poll shows that there’s still “substantial uncertainty” among Americans about whether vaccines cause autism, particularly among Republicans.

More than 60 people, including 20 children, were treated for minor injuries after being exposed to jet fuel or fumes Tuesday when a Delta flight was forced to dump fuel over a Los Angeles schoolyard and school buildings during an emergency shortly after departing Los Angeles International Airport.

And lastly, Ex-Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti was led out of the State Bar Court in Los Angeles by federal agents on Tuesday evening.

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Republican Senators say Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn’t have enough votes to dismiss the House’s articles of impeachment against Trump.

Meanwhile, with weeks to go until the Iowa Caucuses, the Warren campaign helps the corporate media’s attempt to divide progressives.

And lastly, a new study finds that the world's oceans are heating at the same rate as if five Hiroshima atomic bombs were dropped into the water every second.

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A lawsuit filed Monday against Donald Trump's loosening of regulations in pork inspection plants aims to stop the rules from taking effect to protect consumers from illness and death.

The Trump administration is planning to divert an additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding to go toward the construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, The Washington Post reports.

The New York Times reports that the federal budget deficit surpassed $1 trillion in 2019, the Treasury Department reported on Monday, as tax cuts and spending increases continued to force heavy government borrowing amid a record-long economic expansion.

And lastly, Rudy Giuliani is begging Donald Trump to make him part of the team of lawyers who will argue the case against his removal from office on the Senate floor, CNN reports.

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Nancy Pelosi reminds Donald Trump that he’ll always be remembered as a big impeached loser.

Meanwhile, Trump’s Defense Secretary is raising doubts about Iran’s alleged threat to US embassies in the region.

And lastly, with just three weeks to go until the Iowa Caucuses, Bernie Sanders surges 5 points to lead the state’s most important poll for the first time.

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A new Reuters poll finds 64% of Americans strongly or somewhat agreed that the very rich should contribute an extra share of their total wealth each year to support public programs.

Mike Bloomberg tells the New York Times that he’s prepared to spend a billion dollars of his own money on the 2020 presidential race.

The BBC reports that Keneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, has been denied entry to Hong Kong, where he had been planning to launch a report focusing on the Chinese government’s “intensifying assault” on human rights.

And lastly, two large bushfires in the southeastern region of Australia have reportedly merged into one “mega fire” spanning 1.5 million acres and straddling the populous states of New South Wales and Victoria.

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The House of Representatives on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to block Donald Trump’s ability to engage in further military action without congressional approval.

Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell reportedly tells Republicans that he expects Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate to begin early next week.

And lastly, California’s new governor unveils a plan to create the state’s own generic prescription drug label.

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House Democrats pressure Nancy Pelosi to bring the most comprehensive rewrite of U.S. labor law in decades to House Floor for a vote.

New York Senate Democrats on Thursday passed legislation that would automatically register people to vote when they interact with certain state government agencies.

Kansas’ Democratic governor and a top Republican lawmaker on Thursday outlined a new proposal for expanding the state’s Medicaid program to cover as many as 150,000 additional people.

The New York City Bar Association on Thursday urged Congress to launch a formal investigation into Attorney General William Barr, alleging recent statements and actions by the country's top law enforcement official show he is a right-wing partisan "willing to use the levers of government to empower certain groups over others."

And lastly, a Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to appease conservatives drooling for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results.

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Nancy Pelosi announces a House vote to limit Donald Trump's war powers against Iran.

Meanwhile, Mike Lee and Rand Paul join Democrats to shred Mike Pompeo’s official briefing on Trump’s assassination of Iran’s General Soleimani.

And lastly, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tries to delay the disclosure Donald Trump’s Secret Service spending until after the 2020 election.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells CNN that she no longer has cancer, following recent health scares.

Planet-heating pollution from the U.S. oil, gas, and petrochemical industries could rise about 30% by 2025 compared with 2018 because of additional drilling and 157 new or expanded projects "fueled by the fracking boom," this according to the U.S.-based Environmental Integrity Project.

A new Pew Research poll found that the majority of people around the world do not have confidence that Mr. Trump will do the "right thing" in global affairs.

Rueters is reporting that a Mexican asylum-seeker slit his own throat on a bridge across the Rio Grande after being denied entry into the United States, two Mexican security officials said on Wednesday.

And lastly, NBA star Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks has partnered with RIP Medical Debt to relieve more than a million dollars in past due medical debts for people in Atlanta who cannot afford to pay them.

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Trump tweets “All is well!” after Iran launches a missile attack on a U.S. base in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the White House quietly begins to decimate Social Security Disability Insurance benefits for hundreds of thousands of Americans.

And lastly, a new study shows Medicare for All could actually save the United State over $600 billion every year.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats in a closed-door meeting Tuesday night that she would not move to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate until she learns more about how the other chamber would conduct the trial; this according to the Washington Post.

Politico reports that Top House Democrats’ plans to push a measure limiting the Trump administration’s war-making powers are in flux following an Iranian missile attack Tuesday on U.S. bases inside Iraq.

Joe Biden told donors on Tuesday that he believes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will suddenly become “mildly cooperative” with Democrats once Donald Trump is no longer president.

And lastly, the New York Times is reporting that a longtime Facebook executive told employees in a memo that the company had "a moral duty" not to tilt the scales against President Trump as he seeks re-election.

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Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says the Pentagon will not commit war crimes against Iran - - despite Trump’s explicit threats to attack the country’s cultural sites.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney says he would like to hear testimony from John Bolton in a Senate impeachment trial.

And lastly, U.S. and coalition forces are not leaving Iraq, despite a Department of Defense letter sent to reporters on Monday that said they were.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Monday to inform him that he would not run for Senate in Kansas in 2020; this according to Politico.

The AP reports Puerto Rico has been plunged into darkness after a powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck early Tuesday.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the IRS audited 0.45% of personal income-tax returns in 2019, marking the eighth straight year of decline.

And lastly, more than 26,000 lives in the U.S. were saved over the course of a decade as a result of a drop in carbon emissions, along with smog and other pollutants tied with asthma and other ailments: this according to a University of California, San Diego study published in the journal Nature.

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The Iraqi Parliament votes to expel all U.S. troops from the country following the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.

Meanwhile, Iranian-American’s returning from a concert in Canada are detained at the US Border and interrogated about their political views.

And lastly, a new CBS poll shows Bernie Sanders leading in New Hampshire and tied for first in Iowa with less than a month to go before caucusing begins in that state.

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The House of Representatives will vote on a War Powers Resolution this week aimed at setting limits on President Trump’s military actions against Iran, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced late Sunday.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted that he would respond to any Iranian attacks on Americans or American assets by targeting 52 Iranian sites that he said are “important to Iran and the Iranian culture.”

The Australian government department responsible for managing emergencies closed down its Canberra office due to poor air quality Monday as the 20th death from deadly bushfires in New South Wales was confirmed.

And lastly, NBC is reporting that Michael Bloomberg has hired 500 organizers and staff in more than 30 states, including all 14 of the delegate-rich Super Tuesday states, NBC News reports.

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Iran’s top military leader is assassinated by the US military during a drone attack near the Baghdad airport in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Two right-wing Democrats join hundreds of Republican lawmakers in asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade.

And lastly, a new study connects climate change to daily weather patterns for first time.

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U-Haul said it will stop hiring people who use nicotine in the 21 states where companies are allowed to consider tobacco use when making hiring decisions.

Critics accuse U-Haul of cherry picking healthier workers to cut healthcare costs.

Senior United Nations official Nils Melzer has accused U.S. authorities of imposing a penalty that amounts to torture against former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who is currently jailed in a federal facility after refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

And lastly, CBS News reports that Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson has laid off her entire campaign staff, but is not expected to completely exit the race.

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On eve of legal recreational pot sales in Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker pardons more than 11,000 people with marijuana convictions.

Meanwhile, the EPA’s own scientific advisers warn that the agency’s regulatory rollbacks under Trump are at odds with established science.

And lastly, Bernie Sanders’ campaign hit its goal of 5 million individual donations - - the most contributions any campaign has ever received this early in a presidential election.

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The Military Times reports that the Pentagon deployed 750 soldiers to the Middle East Tuesday and is preparing to send up to thousands more troops in the coming days amid ongoing protests at the American Embassy in Baghdad.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested immunity from prosecution in three corruption cases in which he faces indictment on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

Uber and Postmates are suing California over its controversial new law that requires "gig workers" be considered employees rather than independent contractors.

And lastly, North Carolina voters in the 2020 primary election won’t have to show photo identification at the polls, after a federal judge ruled the voter ID law was written with discriminatory intent against black voters.