Headlines for May 29, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#542RB)
- Protests Rage After Minneapolis Prosecutor Does Not Bring Charges Against Officers Who Killed George Floyd
- Scores Tear-Gassed, Arrested as Protests Against George Floyd's Killing Spread to Other Cities
- Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Glorifying Violence After President Attacks Minnesota Protesters as "THUGS"
- Trump Executive Order Threatens to Punish Social Media Companies over Fact-Checking
- U.S. Economy Sheds Another 2.1 Million Jobs, Leaving 40.7 Million Unemployed Since Start of Pandemic
- Pennsylvania Democratic Lawmakers Accuse Republicans of Knowingly Exposing Them to Coronavirus
- Protesters Demand ICE Empty Its Jails as COVID-19 Continues to Spread
- Hector Garcia Mendoza, Immigrant Who Sued ICE over COVID-19, Disappears After Deportation
- Iowa Tyson Foods Plant Halting Operations After 500+ Workers Test Positive for Coronavirus
- Brazil Reports Record Number of COVID-19 Cases & Over 1,000 Deaths Within 24 Hours
- Haiti Human Rights Groups Warn Hundreds Could Die of COVID-19 in Prisons
- Trump Administration to Cancel Visas for Thousands of Chinese Graduate Students
- House Democratic Leaders Pull Bill to Reauthorize Government Surveillance Powers
- U.N. Climate Summit Pushed Back to 2021 Amid Pandemic