Headlines for October 16, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#595XS)
- COVID-19 Hospitalizations on the Rise Across U.S. as Confirmed Cases Hit 8 Million
- French Police Raid Homes of Government Officials in Probe of Failed Coronavirus Response
- WHO Finds Remdesivir Fails to Prevent COVID-19 Deaths
- World Health Organization Warns Many Will Have to Wait Until 2022 for Vaccine
- Senate on Track to Confirm Far-Right Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Oct. 26
- Joe Biden Defends 1994 Crime Bill and Calls for More Police Funding
- President Trump Refuses to Disavow Far-Right Anti-Semitic QAnon Conspiracy Theory
- Trump Celebrates Apparent Extrajudicial Killing by U.S. Marshals Carrying Out His Orders
- Chris Christie Says "I Was Wrong Not to Wear a Mask" at White House, After Release from ICU
- Pandemic Forces 8 Million Americans into Poverty Amid Mass Unemployment
- Kansas City Housing Activists Chain Themselves to Doors of Eviction Court
- Chicago Police Department Rejects Use-of-Force Reforms as Ex-Chief Accused of Rape
- L.A. Lakers Fan Loses Eye as Police Fire "Less Lethal" Rounds into Crowds of Revelers
- University of Miami Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Discipline Student Protesters
- GOP Sen. Ben Sasse Says Trump Coddles Dictators and Racists While Profiting from Presidency
- Cameron Peak Fire Becomes Largest in Colorado's History
- Yemen's Saudi-Backed Government Swaps Prisoners with Houthi Rebels
- Mexican Ex-Defense Secretary Arrested in L.A. on Drug and Money Laundering Charges
- Jesuit Priest Sentenced to 33 Months for Peaceful Anti-Nuclear Protest in Georgia