Head spinning from Trump's controversy with Ukraine's president? Read this.

No Images? Click here           Raise your hand if your head is spinning  The White House released a summary of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) call for a formal impeachment probe on Tuesday. The probe will investigate whether the president urged a foreign power to investigate his political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden. While the president may think releasing the summary exonerates him from wrongdoing, the text tells a more troubling story. Below are some key takeaways from the record of the July conversation. READ MORE       WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING? The Senate on Wednesday voted for a second time to cancel President Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, 54-41. Trump, who declared the emergency in February after failing to convince Congress to allocate funds to construct a wall on the border, is expected to veto the measure after its likely passage by the House. He vetoed a similar measure in March that cleared Congress. READ MORE Ice sheets are melting, glaciers are shrinking and the planet’s oceans are changing in “unprecedented” ways, according to a shocking new report the United Nations released Wednesday, the latest confirmation that climate change is already wreaking havoc around the globe. READ MORE   A coalition of 17 states, the District of Columbia and New York City sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to block its recent rollback of the Endangered Species Act. The legal effort, led by the attorneys general of California, Massachusetts and Maryland, aims to safeguard one of America’s most important laws for protecting imperiled plants and animals. READ MORE             ICYMI House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday zeroed in on what he sees as President Donald Trump’s impeachable offense. Schiff said the summary of Trump’s call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, which the White House released Wednesday morning, revealed Trump put national security at risk and acted like “a mafia boss” while pressuring Zelensky to investigate his potential 2020 rival, Joe Biden, in a discussion about U.S. military aid. An intelligence community whistleblower has stunned Washington with possible evidence that President Donald Trump perverted U.S. foreign policy for his own personal gain. But there’s another whistleblower ― one with possible evidence that Trump tried to corrupt an Internal Revenue Service audit of his personal tax returns ― who has received relatively little attention.  After months of gradually returning to the public spotlight, former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken (D), who resigned in 2017 following serial sexual misconduct allegations from nearly 10 women, is now back with a prominent public platform.     Want more?  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 7 Other Latinx Trailblazers You Should Know The End Of The Line For Incompetent Men Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Wins ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’   👋You may have noticed our website is now www.huffpost.com. Don't worry, it'll still be the same HuffPost you know and love, just with a new URL. Make sure to update your bookmarks!     HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media Group. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Oath Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn More. How will Trump’s administration impact you? Sign up for our email and find out. Did a friend send you this? Subscribe here. Like what you see? Share it. Want more? Here are two other newsletters you'll love: The Morning Email and Must Reads. ©2019 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates from HuffPost Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe    .     .   - - Preferences  |  Unsubscribe