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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

Nancy Pelosi dismisses Trump’s refusal to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, telling the President, “You are not above the law.”

Meanwhile, a new report claims that a White House official who listened-in on Trump's Ukraine call was “visibly shaken” by what they heard the president say.

And lastly, Montgomery Alabama elects the first black mayor in its 200-year history.

And our QUICKER QUICKIES HEADLINES:

The AP reports that thousands of indigenous protesters have converged on Ecuador’s capital after anti-government demonstrations and clashes prompted the president to move his besieged administration out of Quito.Violence has persisted since last week when President Lenín Moreno’s decision to cut subsidies led to a sharp increase in fuel prices.

After returning from his visit to the cardiologist Bernie Sanders told a crowd of reporters that he is preparing to change the nature of his campaign. Sanders said he plans to scale back his travel and the number of events he participates in.

A day after President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria, Turkey on Tuesday said it is moving ahead with military operations in the country targeting Kurdish forces.The Syrian Democratic Forces reported on Twitter that Turkey had begun shelling an SDF post in a border city, but said none of its forces were injured and that it had not responded to the unprovoked attack.

And, heralded as the first of its kind in Europe, a proposed constitutional amendment in Sweden seeks to enshrine the rights of Nature to ensure that creatures, fona, and features of the natural world are protected from exploitation and abuse by endowing them with legal status previously reserved only for humans and select animals.Common Dreams dot org reports that the change to Swedish law will mirror that of other countries around the world but, if passed, would set a new precedent in Europe.