Headlines for April 12, 2021
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5GFQE)
- Protesters Take to Minneapolis Streets After Police Kill 20-Year-Old Black Man Daunte Wright
- Medical Examiner Reaffirms George Floyd Homicide Ruling, Caused by Derek Chauvin's Restraint
- Black Army Lt. Sues After Virginia Police Attack, Pepper-Spray Him in Face Without Provocation
- Maryland Passes Sweeping Police Reforms
- Alabama Amazon Warehouse Organizers Lose Union Vote But Plan Legal Challenge
- India Has World's 2nd-Highest COVID Caseload; WHO Blasts Vast Global Vaccine Inequality
- Michigan Remains Major COVID Hot Spot But Refrains from Imposing New Lockdown
- Death Toll Mounts in Burma as Military Fires on Demonstration, Killing Over 80 People
- Iran Accuses Israel of "Nuclear Terrorism" over Sabotage at Natanz Nuclear Plant
- Conservative Ex-Banker Defeats Leftist Economist in Ecuadorian Presidential Election
- Peru Appears Headed to Runoff as Voters Cast Ballots in Deadliest Week of COVID-19 Pandemic
- 16,000 Evacuated as Volcano Erupts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Biden Proposes $1.5 Trillion Federal Budget
- White House Establishes Commission to Study Supreme Court Reforms
- Texas Man Who Joined January 6 Capitol Riots Charged with Plot to Blow Up Data Center
- Off-Duty Pentagon Police Officer Charged with Murdering Two in Maryland
- Mark Colville Gets 21-Month Prison Term over Anti-Nuclear Action at Kings Bay Submarine Base
- Ramsey Clark, Ex-Attorney General Who Became Fierce Opponent of U.S. Foreign Policy, Dies at 93
- Standing Rock Sioux Historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Who Led Fight Against Pipeline, Dies at 64