Headlines for December 30, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5C7QZ)
- McConnell Blocks Move to Up Stimulus Checks to $2,000; Progressive Senators Plan Filibuster on NDAA Veto
- U.S. Reports Record Deaths and Hospitalizations as New COVID Variant Identified in Colorado
- COVID-19 Ravages U.S. Prisons; Cases Four Times Higher Among Prisoners
- Biden Slams Slow Rollout of Vaccination, Reiterates Plan for Mask Mandate
- U.K. Approves Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as Cases Surge; Germany, South Korea Report Record Deaths
- WHO Warns COVID-19 Is Not Necessarily "The Big One"
- Argentina Legalizes Abortion in Historic, Long-Fought-For Vote
- China Sentences Hong Kong Activists Who Fled by Boat to Up to 3 Years; Tony Chung Gets 4 Months for Protest
- At Least 15 People Feared Dead in Papua New Guinea After Landslide at Informal Gold Mine
- Bangladesh Moves Second Group of Rohingya Refugees to Remote Island Amid Fears of Coercion
- Magnitude 6.4 Earthquake in Croatia Kills at Least 7 People, Cuts Power and Water for 10,000s
- Two More Louisville Officers Terminated over Police Killing of Breonna Taylor
- DOJ Will Not Pursue Criminal Charges Against Officers Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice in 2014
- Boston Statue of Enslaved Man at Lincoln's Feet Removed After Intense Pressure
- Kansas City Star Apologizes for Its Racist History
- Nashville Bomber's Girlfriend Reported He Was Making Bombs Over One Year Before Christmas Day Blast
- New Info About GA Sen. Kelly Loeffler's Conflicts of Interest Emerge as She Heads to Runoff Next Week
- Boeing 737 MAX Makes Its First U.S. Commercial Flight After Being Grounded Since March 2019