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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

Nancy Pelosi reminds Donald Trump that he’ll always be remembered as a big impeached loser.

Meanwhile, Trump’s Defense Secretary is raising doubts about Iran’s alleged threat to US embassies in the region.

And lastly, with just three weeks to go until the Iowa Caucuses, Bernie Sanders surges 5 points to lead the state’s most important poll for the first time.

QUICKIES HEADLINES:

A new Reuters poll finds 64% of Americans strongly or somewhat agreed that the very rich should contribute an extra share of their total wealth each year to support public programs.

Mike Bloomberg tells the New York Times that he’s prepared to spend a billion dollars of his own money on the 2020 presidential race.

The BBC reports that Keneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, has been denied entry to Hong Kong, where he had been planning to launch a report focusing on the Chinese government’s “intensifying assault” on human rights.

And lastly, two large bushfires in the southeastern region of Australia have reportedly merged into one “mega fire” spanning 1.5 million acres and straddling the populous states of New South Wales and Victoria.