Headlines for June 16, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#54NQ7)
- In Long-Awaited Victory, SCOTUS Rules LGBTQ Workers Protected by the Civil Rights Act
- Atlanta Mayor Orders New Police Rules After Killing of Rayshard Brooks
- 911 Dispatcher Raised Concerns About Police Treatment of George Floyd During His Arrest and Killing
- Protester Shot in Albuquerque While Toppling Racist Statue; Right-Wing Militia Members Arrested
- 19-Year-Old BLM Protester Oluwatoyin "Toyin" Salau Found Dead One Week After Disappearance
- Mourners Demand Justice for Killing of Black Teenager Na'Kia Crawford in Ohio
- FBI, DOJ to Review Probes into Two Black California Men Found Hanging from Trees
- U.N. Human Rights Body to Hold Urgent Debate on Racism and Police Brutality in the U.S.
- Cities and States Adopt New Police Rules Amid Mass Uprising
- SCOTUS Hands Down Decisions on CA Sanctuary Law, Second Amendment Cases, Atlantic Coast Pipeline
- Trump Defends Hydroxychloroquine for COVID, Blames Testing for Surge in Cases
- Latin American Countries Grapple with Surging Coronavirus Cases
- Federal Gov't Schedules Four Executions, Breaking Nearly 2-Decade Moratorium
- Trump Admin Reinterprets Cold War Arms Treaty to Allow Saudi Arabia, UAE to Buy U.S. War Drones
- Russian Court Sentences U.S. Citizen Paul Whelan to 16 Years for Espionage
- South Korea Reports North Korea Blew Up Liaison Office as Tensions in Region Mount
- Hundreds of Nigerian Refugees in Netherlands Missing, Likely Victims of Trafficking
- European Human Rights Court Grants Victory to Palestinian Rights Activists, Says BDS Is Free Speech