Headlines for May 31, 2022
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5ZV17)
- Uvalde Police Waited Over an Hour to Confront Shooter as Students Begged for Help
- Texas State Senator Confronts Gov. Greg Abbott: "We Have to Do Something"
- Canada to Freeze Purchases and Transfers of Handguns
- Thousands Protest Outside NRA Convention as Trump Calls for More Guns in Schools
- French Journalist Among the Dead as Russian Forces Press into Severodonetsk
- EU Pledges to Gradually Ban Most Russian Oil Imports, with Hungary Exempted
- Iran Seizes Greek Oil Tankers After Greece Confiscates Iranian Oil
- Flooding and Landslides Kill at Least 91 in Brazil
- Agatha Hits Mexico as Eastern Pacific's Strongest-Ever May Hurricane
- "Earth Is Already Too Hot and Unsafe": Vanuatu Declares Climate Emergency
- Colombia's Gustavo Petro to Face Rodolfo Hernandez in Presidential Runoff
- China Eases COVID Restrictions in Shanghai and Beijing
- 20-Year-Old Emanuel Sullivan Becomes 22nd Rikers Island Prisoner to Die Since 2021
- Starbucks Labor Organizers Win 100th Unionized Store