Headlines for August 11, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#56S83)
- Lebanese Gov't Steps Down in Wake of Catastrophic Beirut Explosion and Mounting Protests
- Trump Mulls Barring Americans from Reentry into U.S.; Coronavirus Cases Rise in Kids
- Russia Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine; New Zealand Goes Back into Lockdown
- Unrest in Chicago Sparked by Police Shooting Leads to 100+ Arrests
- 16 People Arrested in Portland, OR Protests, Including Hate Crime Survivor Demetria Hester
- Belarus in Turmoil as Lukashenko Cracks Down on Protests, Opposition Candidate Flees to Lithuania
- Bolivia Protests Against Interim Right-Wing Gov't Intensify; Union Calls for General Strike
- Fires in Brazilian Amazon on Pace to Create Record-Breaking Destruction
- Last Intact Ice Shelf in Canadian Arctic Has Collapsed
- EPA to Rescind Methane Regulations
- Advocates Call for ICE to Free Persecuted Mexican Prisoner; Family of South Korean Man Demands Probe into Suicide
- New Bodycam Footage Reveals More Devastating Details in George Floyd's Killing by Police
- NC Jail Staffers Face Manslaughter Charges over Killing of Black Prisoner
- Baltimore Gas Blast Kills One Person, Injures Seven
- President Trump's Deal with Kodak on Hold Amid SEC Probe
- Florida Court Rules School Cannot Discriminate Against Transgender Students