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Jan 14, 2020: Republican Senators Turn on McConnell
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

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.

QUICKIES HEADLINES:

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.