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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

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.

QUICKIES HEADLINES:

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.