Headlines for August 28, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#57F4B)
- Trump Assails Biden's "Socialist Agenda" in RNC Acceptance Speech Riddled with Lies
- CDC Projects Official U.S. Death Toll Will Top 200,000 in September
- Two Navajo Sisters Who Worked as Frontline Health Workers Die of COVID-19
- Alabama Professors Ordered Not to Warn Students of Exposure to Infected Classmates
- Hurricane Laura Leaves Path of Devastation in Louisiana, Triggers Chemical Plant Fire
- Hurricane Topples Confederate Monument That Lake Charles Officials Refused to Remove
- Jacob Blake, Left Paralyzed by Officer's Bullets, Reportedly Handcuffed to Hospital Bed
- Teenage Militia Member Charged over Shooting Deaths of Kenosha Protesters
- ACLU Demands Resignation of Kenosha Police Chief and County Sheriff
- Ronnie Long, Wrongly Convicted by All-White Jury, Freed After 44 Years in Prison
- Baseball, Basketball and Hockey Games Postponed as Players Protest Police Violence
- Thousands to March on Washington on Anniversary of MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech
- U.S. Jobless Claims Continue to Shatter Pre-Pandemic Records
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Resigns, Citing Poor Health
- Indigenous Protesters in AZ Block Border Wall Assembly Site
- Trump Administration Considered Using "Heat Ray" Against Asylum Seekers in 2018
- Cameroonian Refugees on Hunger Strike Denounce Inhumane Conditions at Louisiana ICE Jail
- Body of Missing Fort Hood Soldier Elder Fernandes Found Hanging from Tree
- Fifth Federal Execution of 2020 Back On Despite Lower Court Ruling on Lethal Injection Drug