Headlines for August 18, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#571HB)
- Virtual DNC Kicks Off with Calls for Unity, Speeches by Michelle Obama and Bernie Sanders
- UNC Switches to Remote Classes After 177 Students Contract COVID-19
- Indigenous Groups in Brazil Protest Gov't Inaction on Coronavirus; South Korea Outbreak Grows
- Postmaster General Agrees to Testify as Fears Mount over USPS Changes That Could Threaten Election
- Special Tribunal Delivers Verdict over 2005 Killing of Ex-Lebanese PM Rafik al-Hariri
- Mapuche Protesters Demand Hunger-Striking Leader Be Released
- Spanish Royal Family Confirms Exiled Former King Juan Carlos Is in UAE
- Trump Admin Finalized Plan to Open Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for Oil Drilling
- Death Valley Hits 130 Degrees, Possibly the Highest Temperature Ever Recorded
- Greenland's Ice Sheet Has Shrunk Past the Point of Return
- Ex-DHS Chief of Staff Under Trump Endorses Joe Biden for President
- New Bodycam Video Shows Officer Pushing Back Concerned Onlookers During Killing of George Floyd
- Louisiana Man Sentenced to Life for Stealing Hedge Clippers to Get New Hearing
- Black Man from NC Proves Death Sentence Was Racially Motivated, Has Life Sentence Reinstated
- Austin City Council Redirects Police Funds to Abortion Access Services