Headlines for December 2, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5B4NG)
- U.K. Becomes First Country to Approve Use of Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine
- CDC Recommends Healthcare Workers, Nursing Home Residents and Staff Receive First Vaccines
- COVID-19 Was Likely on U.S. Soil in Mid-December 2019
- Senators Unveil $908 Billion Bill, But Passage Remains Uncertain as Millions Face Unemployment, Hunger
- Trump Considers Pardons for Family, Associates as DOJ Probes Pardon Bribery Scheme
- William Barr Says DOJ Found No Evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud in 2020 Election
- Georgia Election Official Slams Trump, GOP Leaders for Enabling Violence Against Election Workers
- U.N. Reaches Deal for Humanitarian Access to Tigray as Food Runs Out for Refugees
- Bobi Wine Suspends Presidential Campaign in Uganda After Targeted Attacks
- Hong Kong Sentences Joshua Wong to 13.5 Months for "Illegal Assembly"
- Climate Groups Take Big Oil to Court: "Shell Is on a Collision Course with the Global Climate Target"
- Fraser Island Devastated by Massive Bushfire Amid Record-Breaking Australian Heat Wave
- New Zealand Declares Climate Emergency
- Saudi Arabia to Try Women's Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul in Terrorism Court
- SCOTUS Considers Whether U.S. Companies Can Be Held Liable for Enslavement Abroad
- 19-Year-Old Black Oregon Teenager Shot Dead by White Man for Playing Music Too Loudly
- Hollywood Actor and Activist Elliot Page Comes Out as Transgender
- Miguel Algarin, Poet, Writer & Founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Dies at 79