Headlines for May 17, 2019
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#4FB5S)
- Trump Immigration Plan Favors Job Skills Over Asylum Claims and Family Ties
- Trump Officials Reportedly Clash Over U.S. Sabre-Rattling With Iran
- UNICEF Chief Calls Yemen War "a Test of Our Humanity" That "We Are Badly Failing"
- Venezuelan Government Blasts U.S. Seizure of Embassy as Vienna Convention Violation
- Brazilian Teachers and Students March Against Education Cuts
- Mexican Journalist Francisco Romero Killed in Playa del Carmen
- Lawyer Says Tennessee Prisoner "Suffered Excruciating Pain" During Execution
- Alabama Prisoner Put to Death After "Pro-Life" Governor Denies Reprieve
- Senate Confirms Anti-Choice Activist Wendy Vitter as a Federal Judge
- NYPD Commander Called Killing of Eric Garner "Not a Big Deal"
- Father of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Buys $91 Million Sculpture
- Trump Administration Plan to Redefine Poverty Would Cut Benefits to Millions
- New York Blocks Construction of Fracked Gas Pipeline
- Defiant Chelsea Manning Sent Back to Jail For Refusing to Testify About WikiLeaks