Headlines for May 22, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#53SS5)
- Unemployment Claims Reach 38.6 Million in Worst U.S. Economic Crisis Since Depression
- As Millions Lose Jobs, the Billionaire Class Sees Wealth Soar by $434 Billion During Pandemic
- COVID Cases Spike in Brazil, Mexico, India & Indonesia as Outbreak Grows in Global South
- World Bank: 3 Billion People Don't Have Access to Clean Water & Soap
- U.S. COVID Death Toll Tops 95,000
- Trump Refuses to Wear Mask in Front of Media at Ford Plant in Michigan
- Report: Striking Racial Divide Found in Nursing Homes Impacted by COVID Outbreak
- COVID Racial Data Tracker Documents How Pandemic Is Devastating Communities of Color
- Police in Georgia Arrest Third White Man in Murder of Black Jogger Ahmaud Arbery
- U.S. Threatens to Spend Adversaries "Into Oblivion" in New Nuclear Arms Race as Trump Withdraws from Arms Treaty
- Progressive Democrats Call for Reducing Military Spending in Wake of COVID Outbreak
- Cyclone Death Toll in Bangladesh and India Tops 80
- China Considers New Security Law in Hong Kong
- Oxfam to Lay Off 1,450 and Close Operations in 18 Countries
- Senate Confirms John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence
- Republicans Back Installing Ally of Steve Bannon to Head State-Run Media Agency
- The Atlantic Magazine Lays Off 68
- Food Not Bombs to Mark 40th Anniversary