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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says the Pentagon will not commit war crimes against Iran - - despite Trump’s explicit threats to attack the country’s cultural sites.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney says he would like to hear testimony from John Bolton in a Senate impeachment trial.

And lastly, U.S. and coalition forces are not leaving Iraq, despite a Department of Defense letter sent to reporters on Monday that said they were.

QUICKIES HEADLINES:

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Monday to inform him that he would not run for Senate in Kansas in 2020; this according to Politico.

The AP reports Puerto Rico has been plunged into darkness after a powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck early Tuesday.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the IRS audited 0.45% of personal income-tax returns in 2019, marking the eighth straight year of decline.

And lastly, more than 26,000 lives in the U.S. were saved over the course of a decade as a result of a drop in carbon emissions, along with smog and other pollutants tied with asthma and other ailments: this according to a University of California, San Diego study published in the journal Nature.