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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

Acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor delivers a stunning 9-hour testimony before Congress that confirms there was indeed a quid pro quo demand during Trump’s now infamous call with Ukraine’s president

Meanwhile, buoyed by the youth vote, Bernie Sanders is back in the number two spot in a new national 2020 poll.

And lastly, the death toll in Chile rises to 15 as protesters demand reforms for a fifth straight day.

And our QUICKER QUICKIES HEADLINES:

Focus groups conducted by Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 campaign over the summer found that being gay was “a barrier” for black South Carolina Democratic primary voters, particularly for the men —some of whom, McClatchy reports, seemed “deeply uncomfortable even discussing it.”

The British Parliament voted to reject the government’s timetable for the passage of the bill that would implement Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, The Guardian reports.

The Trump administration has announced a controversial new plan to divert water to California farmers. The move is opposed by federal biologists who say the plan will drive endangered salmon closer to extinction and cause further harm to the Sacramento River ecosystem.

And from the Intercept; Bernie Sanders told the Intercept Tuesday that if elected president in 2020 he’d refuse to to use the repressive, century-old Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers.