Headlines for August 25, 2021
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5NRNK)
- Biden: U.S. "On Pace" to Withdraw from Afghanistan by Aug. 31
- Taliban Blocks Afghans from Accessing Kabul Airport
- World Bank Cuts Funds for Afghanistan as U.N. Warns of Looming Catastrophe
- House Democrats Approve $3.5 Trillion Budget Resolution
- House Passes John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
- Immigration: Supreme Court Revives Trump's "Remain in Mexico" Program
- Judge Faults DHS for Not Considering Ecological Harm of Militarizing Border
- U.S. Records 1,400 New COVID Deaths as AMA Calls for Broad Vaccine Mandates
- U.S. & Cuba Pledge Vaccines for Vietnam, But Only Cuba Offers to Share Vaccine Technology
- Minnesota Court Denies Appeal Aimed at Halting Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline
- Indigenous Groups Protest Against Bolsonaro in Brasilia
- Student Leader Assassinated in Colombia, Three Years After He Lost Eye in Police Shooting
- Israel Shoots Palestinian Teen Dead as He Documents Raid on Refugee Camp
- Israel's New PM Naftali Bennett Pushes Hard-Line Positions Ahead of Meeting Biden
- Wildfires: Biden Approves Major Disaster Declaration for Northern California
- Black Police Groups Back Release of Ex-Black Panther Sundiata Acoli, Jailed Since 1973
- Former U.S.-Backed Dictator of Chad, Hissene Habre, Dies
- Lucille Times Dies at 100, Inspired Montgomery Bus Boycott
- "Lies My Teacher Told Me" Author James Loewen Dies at 79