No Oversight of $1.5 Billion Electric Project Raises Alarm over Privatization of Puerto Rico's Power & Meet Jamaal Bowman, the Bronx Principal Challenging One of the Most Powerful Dems in Congress
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** Democracy Now! Daily Digest
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"Disruptor on Road to Reconciliation": Trump Doubles Down on Rally in Tulsa, Site of 1921 Race Massacre ([link removed])
President Donald Trump says he will push ahead with a massive campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, even as COVID cases are surging there as the ... Read More → ([link removed])
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No Oversight of $1.5 Billion Electric Project Raises Alarm over Privatization of Puerto Rico's Power ([link removed])
As hurricane season begins, we look at moves to privatize Puerto Rico's electric grid and a new investigation that reveals the island's government failed ... Read More → ([link removed])
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Meet Jamaal Bowman, the Bronx Principal Challenging One of the Most Powerful Dems in Congress ([link removed])
In the Bronx, the second most economically unequal district in New York state, the insurgent primary campaign of former middle school principal Jamaal ... Read More → ([link removed])
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Supreme Court Bars Workplace Discrimination Against LGBTQ People; Ruling May Be Transformative ([link removed])
In a historic 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, forbidding workplace discrimination on the basis of sex, applies to ... Read More → ([link removed])


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U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Surpass World War I Toll; Nine States Report New Highs for COVID Cases ([link removed])

Trump to Hold Rally in Tulsa as COVID Cases Reach New High in Oklahoma ([link removed])

Prison COVID Cases Double in U.S.; Nursing Home Deaths Top 50,000 ([link removed])

U.S. Exports Record Amount of Pork as Meatpackers Risk Lives to Keep Factories Running ([link removed])

WHO Hails New Study Showing Widely Used Steroid Could Reduce COVID-19 Deaths ([link removed])

Daily Coronavirus Deaths Reach New Highs in India & Pakistan; Beijing Locks Down Again ([link removed])

Honduran President Tests Positive for Coronavirus ([link removed])

U.S. Extends Border Closures with Mexico & Canada ([link removed])

Study: 450,000 Coronavirus Cases Could Have Been Avoided If States Mandated Face Masks ([link removed])

Trump’s Executive Order on Policing Decried as “Toothless” and “Anemic” ([link removed])

Justice for Jayson: Protest Encampment Outside Bridgeport, Conn., Police HQ Enters 5th Day ([link removed])

Richmond Police Chief Ousted Days After Forces Tear-Gassed Protesters ([link removed])

Buffalo Peace Activist Martin Gugino Suffered Brain Injury & Fractured Skull After Police Assault ([link removed])

Air Force Sergeant Tied to Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Arrested for Killing Two Officers ([link removed])

Police Probe Hanging Death of Black Trans Woman TeTe Gulley in Portland, Oregon ([link removed])

Study: Nearly 2,000 Lynchings Occurred in U.S. Between 1865 and 1877 ([link removed])

Chinese & Indian Troops Involved in Deadly Fight in the Himalayas ([link removed])

Tensions Escalate on the Korean Peninsula ([link removed])

Syria Braces for Sweeping New U.S. Sanctions ([link removed])

Utility Firm PG&E Confesses to Killing 84 People for Starting Devastating 2018 California Fire ([link removed])


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Tulsa Still Faces Historical Trauma from 1921 Riot That Left 300 Dead on Black Wall Street ([link removed])


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