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February 16, 2021

Headlines for February 16, 2021

  • Speaker Pelosi Authorizes Independent Commission to Investigate Jan. 6 Insurrection
  • Deadly U.S. Cold Snap Leaves Millions Without Power
  • New Orleans Cancels Mardi Gras Parade One Year After It Became Coronavirus Superspreader Event
  • Gov. Cuomo Acknowledges Not Reporting Nursing Home Deaths But Stops Short of Apology
  • New World Trade Organization Chief Warns Against Vaccine Nationalism
  • One Killed, 9 Injured in Missile Attack on U.S. Military Base in Northern Iraq
  • As Taliban Fighters Surround Afghan Cities, Biden Weighs U.S. Withdrawal Plans
  • U.S. Removes Houthis from Terror List as Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
  • Western Sahara Independence Activist Sultana Khaya Assaulted by Moroccan Police
  • Dozens Dead and Hundreds Missing After Overloaded Boat Capsizes in Congo River
  • Palestinians Say Israel Has Halted Shipment of Vaccines to Gaza Strip
  • Federal Court Overturns Arkansas Law Requiring Pledge Not to Boycott Israel
  • St. Louis Reaches $5 Million Settlement with Black Undercover Cop Assaulted by White Officers 
  • L.A. Police Officers Circulated Racist Meme Mocking George Floyd's Killing
  • New Jersey Attorney General to Investigate Cops Who Beat Arab American Teen
  • Guatemalan Women and Girls Protest Skyrocketing Cases of Femicides

This post was originally published on Democracy Now!.

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