"Release Them All": Calls Grow to Stop Jailing Immigrants as Transfers & Deportations Spread COVID & "It's Basically a Death Sentence": Hunger Strikers Demand Release as Virus Surges in ICE Jails & More
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Public Health vs. Politics: White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States ([link removed])
As the U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 155,000, there is still no national testing program, with widespread shortages and delays hampering efforts to contain the ... Read More → ([link removed])
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"Release Them All": Calls Grow to Stop Jailing Immigrants as Transfers & Deportations Spread COVID ([link removed])
The U.S. government continues to hold tens of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants in detention centers and jails, ignoring the advice of ... Read More → ([link removed])
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"It's Basically a Death Sentence": Hunger Strikers Demand Release as Virus Surges in ICE Jails ([link removed])
People being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails are holding work strikes and hunger strikes over the lack of access to personal protective ... Read More → ([link removed])
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Militarized BORTAC Border Patrol Raids & Ransacks Medical Camp on U.S. Border, Arrests 30 Migrants ([link removed])
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WHO Warns There May Never Be a Coronavirus “Silver Bullet” ([link removed])

Trump Threatens to Sue Nevada After It Expands Voter Access ([link removed])

Leaked Video Shows George Floyd Pleaded for His Life, Cooperated with Police, Before He Was Killed ([link removed])

Video Shows LAPD Shot Peaceful Protester in the Head as He Held His Arms in the Air ([link removed])

Prosecutor Clears Arkansas Officers Who Pushed Black Man into the Ground for 6.5 Minutes Before He Died ([link removed])

Census Bureau Cuts Short Collection Efforts by One Month ([link removed])

Mexican Man Dies After Falling from Border Wall ([link removed])

Mexican Journalist Pablo Morrugares Shot Dead in Guerrero ([link removed])

3 Salvadoran Officers Sentenced to 20 Years for Killing a Trans Woman Who Was Deported from the U.S. ([link removed])

Egypt Sentences 6 Women to Prison over TikTok Videos as Calls Grow to Free Activist Sanaa Seif ([link removed])

Former Spanish King Juan Carlos Goes into Exile over Corruption Scandal ([link removed])

U.S. to Permanently Station Thousands of Troops in Poland ([link removed])

Manhattan DA Investigating Trump for Bank and Insurance Fraud ([link removed])

NJ Federal Judge, Whose Son Was Killed by Racist, Misogynistic Lawyer, Calls for Privacy for Judges ([link removed])

FDA Expands List of Dangerous Hand Sanitizers to Over 100 Products ([link removed])

John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Architect of Irish Peace Deal, Dies at 83 ([link removed])


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