Headlines for May 21, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#53R96)
- Global Coronavirus Cases Top 5 Million as WHO Records Record One-Day Spike
- Brazilian Mayor Fears "Genocide" from COVID-19, Accuses Bolsonaro of "Crime Against Humanity"
- Disease Modelers Say Delays in U.S. Lockdowns Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives
- Pro-Trump Doctors to Promote Reopening States Despite CDC Warnings
- Millions Flee as Cyclone Batters India and Bangladesh
- Dam Disaster in Michigan Threatens to Flood Toxic Sites
- Trump Threatens to Cut Funding to Michigan, Nevada over Mail-in Voting
- McDonald's Workers Strike to Demand Personal Protective Equipment
- Striking New Orleans Sanitation Workers Replaced by Prison Labor
- 68 U.S. Grocery Workers Die of COVID-19; Ford Temporarily Halts Production at 2 Plants
- Asylum Seeker Who Sued ICE Deported to Mexico Despite Judge's Order
- Immigrants in For-Profit ICE Jail Launch Hunger Strike as Coronavirus Spreads
- U.N. Envoy Calls Israel's Annexation Plans a "Violation of International Law"
- University of California Says It Has Divested Completely from Fossil Fuels