Headlines for February 8, 2021
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5DXHS)
- Dems to Introduce $3,000 Benefit for Children as They Push Ahead with $1.9 Trillion Stimulus
- Pentagon to Deploy Troops for Vaccination Effort as Fans Defy Warnings Around Super Bowl Parties
- South Africa Halts Rollout of Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine
- Wyoming GOP Censures Rep. Liz Cheney for Backing Trump's Impeachment
- Judge Rules NY Republican Claudia Tenney Won Last Open House Race
- Mass Protests Continue in Burma Opposing Military Coup, Removal of Aung San Suu Kyi
- Indian Farmworkers Blockade Roads as Mass Protests Show No Sign of Slowing Down
- Scores of People Missing and Feared Dead After Himalayan Glacier Collapse
- Leftist Economist Andres Arauz Claims Victory in First Round of Ecuador's Presidential Election
- Protests Break Out in Chile After Police Shoot and Kill Street Performer
- Haitian Gov't Claims It Halted a Coup Amid Dispute over Jovenel Moise's Presidency, Ongoing Protests
- Biden Says U.S. Will Not Remove Trump-Era Sanctions on Iran
- Egypt Frees Al Jazeera Journalist Mahmoud Hussein, Jailed for Four Years Without Trial
- Israeli PM Netanyahu Pleads Not Guilty to Corruption Charges Ahead of Fresh Elections
- U.S. to Remove Yemen's Houthis from Terrorism List Amid Warnings of Humanitarian Catastrophe
- Biden Ends Trump-Era "Safe Third Country" Agreement on Central American Asylum Seekers
- Cameroonian Asylum Seekers in Louisiana Say ICE Threatened Them with COVID-19 Exposure
- Black Sheriff's Deputy in Louisiana Dies by Suicide After Condemning Police Violence and Racism
- Amazon Workers in Alabama Begin Historic Vote on Unionization
- Teachers in Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco Fight for Coronavirus Safety Measures
- Virginia Poised to Become 23rd State to Abolish Death Penalty