Diane Ravitch: Biden's Pick for Education Secretary Must Overturn DeVos's Attack on Public Schools & California Is 40% Latinx. In Alex Padilla, It Will Finally Have Its First Latinx Senator
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Democracy Now! Daily Digest

A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

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As the U.S. averages more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, we speak with Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency physician who has been treating patients ... Read More →
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Connecticut public schools commissioner Miguel Cardona for secretary of education, tapping a third Latinx person to ... Read More →
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been named by Governor Gavin Newsom to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, ... Read More →
Today a Democracy Now! exclusive report from Jeremy Scahill about a 9-year-old boy, shot in the head and killed by Blackwater in the infamous Nisoor Square ... Read More →

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Trump Calls Stimulus Bill a “Disgrace” as Dems Seize on Call to Up Direct Payments to $2,000

Trump Pardons Blackwater Mercenaries, Ex-GOP Lawmakers, and Border Guards Who Shot a Man

U.N. Official Calls for Julian Assange Pardon; Trump Mulls Granting Immunity to Mohammed bin Salman

Dozens of Al Jazeera Journalists Hacked with Israeli Company’s Spyware

Targeted Murders of Journalists Doubled in 2020, with Mexico Worst-Affected Country

Israeli Voters Will Head to Polls for Fourth Time in Less Than 2 Years After Gov’t Collapse

Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Palestinian Teenager in Occupied East Jerusalem

Pakistani Human Rights Activist Karima Mehrab Baloch Found Dead in Canada

Alex Padilla Will Replace Kamala Harris in Senate, Becomes CA’s First Latinx U.S. Senator

DOJ Sues Walmart for Helping Fuel the Opioid Epidemic

ICE Guards Threaten to Force-Feed Hunger Striker as More Immigrant Prisoners Join Protest

Essential Workers in Chicago Walk Off Job to Demand Fair Pay and Safe Working Conditions

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