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Jan 9, 2020: Pelosi Announces 'War Powers' Vote
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

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.

QUICKIES HEADLINES:

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.