Headlines for October 18, 2021
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5QV3E)
- Gutting Democrats' Climate Plans, Manchin Opposes Renewable Energy Program in Reconciliation Bill
- Manchin Wants Strict Conditions on Child Tax Credit, Which Has Lifted Millions of Kids from Poverty
- FDA Panel Unanimously Recommends Booster Shots of J&J COVID-19 Vaccine
- Bronx Man Dies of COVID-19 One Hour After Release from Rikers Jail
- COVID Cases on the Rise in the U.K, Russia; Melbourne Ends World's Longest Lockdown
- U.S. to Compensate Afghan Families over August Drone Strike That Killed 10 Civilians
- Death Toll in ISIS-K Mosque Attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Rises to 47
- British Lawmaker David Amess Fatally Stabbed
- 17 Missionaries and Children Kidnapped in Haiti
- IATSE Reaches Tentative Deal with Hollywood Producers, Averting TV and Film Crew Strike
- Advocates Walk Out of Virtual Meeting with White House over "Remain in Mexico" Policy
- China Denies Report It Tested Nuclear-Capable Hypersonic Missile
- Chinese Authorities Sentence More Hong Kong Democracy Campaigners to Prison
- Heavy Monsoon Rains Bring Floods and Landslides to India's Kerala State
- Argentine Judge Indicts Franco-Era Spanish Minister Martin Villa on Homicide Charges
- Two Indigenous Children in Brazil Killed in Mining Dredge Used by Illegal Gold Miners
- Puerto Ricans March to Protest Ongoing Power Outages After Privatization of Electric Grid
- Texas Republicans Pass Bill Banning Trans Youth from School Sports
- Donald Trump to Give Video Deposition over Guards' Assault of Protesters in 2015
- Jury Selection Begins in Trial of Three White Men Charged with Killing Ahmaud Arbery
- Colin Powell, Whose False 2003 Testimony at U.N. Helped Launch U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Dies of COVID-19