Headlines for December 28, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5C57E)
- Trump Reverses Course, Signs Stimulus and Gov't Funding Bill But Makes Demands of Lawmakers
- December Deadliest Month in Pandemic as 1 in Every 1,000 Americans Has Now Died of COVID-19
- Death of Black Doctor from COVID-19 Provokes Outrage over Racist Disparities in Healthcare
- Officials Acknowledge Vaccine Efforts Will Fall Short of Initial Year-End Goal
- EU, Latin America Roll Out Vaccine; New COVID Variants ID'd in Africa as Countries Report U.K. Variant
- U.K. and EU Reach Post-Brexit Trade Deal After Months of Talks and Years of Uncertainty
- Mass Shooting Kills 220+ People in Western Ethiopia
- Hundreds of Refugees at Risk of Freezing to Death in Harsh Winter on Bosnian-Croatian Border
- At Least 20 Refugees Die at Sea Off the Coast of Tunisia
- Niger Holds Second Democratic Elections
- Three U.N. Peacekeepers Killed Ahead of Elections in CAR as Women Demand Peace
- Top Afghan Election Monitor Yousuf Rasheed Shot Dead
- Saudi Arabia Sentences Loujain al-Hathloul to 5+ Years in Prison for Her Activism
- Trump Admin Moves Ahead with $500 Million Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia
- Trump Issues New Wave of Pardons to Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner
- Nashville Bomber Identified as 63-Year-Old White Man, But Motive Remains Unknown
- Officer Who Shot and Killed Andre Hill, a Black Man from Ohio, Faces Termination Hearing
- Special Forces Soldier Kills 3, Wounds 3 at Illinois Bowling Alley in "Completely Random Act"
- Judge Delays Execution of Lisa Montgomery, Only Woman on Federal Death Row