Headlines for May 5, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#532EX)
- Dire Forecasts Warn U.S. Death Toll Could Surge in Coming Weeks as States Move to Relax Restrictions
- China Rebukes Trump Admin Claim That Coronavirus Was Man-Made
- Report Says Brooklyn Jail Destroying Medical Records to Hide Toll of COVID-19
- J. Crew Files for Bankruptcy
- Betsy DeVos Sued for Garnishing Wages of Student Loan Holders During Pandemic
- EU, World Leaders Pledge Billions to Fund Coronavirus Vaccine; U.S. Sits Out
- Questions Raised After 3 Doctors in Russia Fall from Hospital Windows
- U.K. May Have Second-Highest Coronavirus Death Toll; France Identifies COVID-19 Case from December
- Venezuela Detains Ex-U.S. Special Forces After Failed Coup
- Report: Colombia Spied and Collected Data on Journalists, Union Leaders, Politicians
- Sudan Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation
- Senate Rejects Request to Search Records for Tara Reade Complaints Against Joe Biden
- Amazon VP Quits over Retaliatory Firings of Protesting Workers
- King County, WA, Apologizes, Reaches Settlement for 2017 Police Killing of Black Teen
- Jose Soler, Puerto Rican Independence Activist and Labor Journalist, Dies at 75
- 2020 Pulitzer Prizes Recognize Work on Immigration, Sex Crimes, Labor and Slavery