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December 20, 2021

Headlines for December 20, 2021

  • Build Back Better in Jeopardy After Sen. Joe Manchin Announces He Will Not Vote in Favor
  • Federal Company Vaccine Mandate Reinstated; New Data Show Moderna Booster Helps Fight Omicron
  • Southwest CEO Tests Positive After Senate Hearing; Sens. Booker and Warren Announce They Have COVID
  • Omicron Sends COVID Cases Surging, Prompts New Restrictions in Israel, U.K., the Netherlands
  • 35-Year-Old Progressive Activist Gabriel Boric Will Be Chile's Next President
  • Death Toll from Super Typhoon Rai Rises to 375 in Philippines; Floods Kill 8 in Malaysia
  • Hong Kong's "Patriots Only" Election Sees Record Low Turnout
  • Hundreds of Thousands of Sudanese Protesters March Against Military Rule
  • U.N. Human Rights Council to Probe War Crimes in Ethiopia
  • Islamic Countries Pledge Humanitarian Trust Fund for Afghanistan
  • NYT Reveals Widespread Pattern of Civilian Deaths and Cover-Ups in U.S. Air Wars
  • Capitol Rioter Gets 5 Years in Prison, Stiffest Sentence Yet for January 6 Insurrection
  • Rahm Emanuel, Who Covered Up Police Killing of Laquan McDonald, Confirmed as Ambassador to Japan
  • Claudette Colvin, Who Resisted Segregation in Alabama, Has Juvenile Court Record Expunged
  • Black Panther Russell "Maroon" Shoatz, Who Spent 22 Years in Solitary Confinement, Dies at 78


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