Headlines for December 16, 2021
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5T3YX)
- Unprecedented December Storms Hit Central U.S. as Biden Tours Kentucky Tornado Damage
- U.K. and South Africa Set Coronavirus Records as Omicron Spreads Rapidly
- Senate Approves Record $778 Billion Pentagon Budget
- Build Back Better Act Stalls in Senate Again as Joe Manchin Rejects Expanded Child Tax Credit
- Civil Rights Leaders Demand Senate Democrats Pass Federal Voting Rights Legislation
- Democrats Call on Biden to Extend Student Loan Pause, Grant Debt Forgiveness
- Syrian Conflict Has Stripped Civilians of Access to Healthcare, Created Humanitarian Disaster
- Protesters Demand Mexico Decriminalize Immigration to U.S. After Recent Death of 55 Migrants
- Keechant Sewell Named NYPD's First Black Woman Commissioner; 2 Top Officers Falsified Vaccine Cards
- Derek Chauvin Changes Plea to "Guilty" in George Floyd Federal Civil Rights Case
- Texas County Settles in Police Killing of Black Motorist Javier Ambler
- Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Moves to Defense Arguments After 2 Weeks of Harrowing Survivor Testimony
- bell hooks, Pioneering Black Feminist, Prolific Writer and Social Critic, Dies at 69