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- CDC: Florida Accounts for One in Five of All U.S. COVID Cases
- Study: Lifting of Eviction Moratoriums Resulted in Over 10,000 COVID Deaths
- Tokyo Reports Record Number of COVID Cases as It Hosts Olympics
- Protesters Denounce “Coup” as Tunisian President Expands Power Grab
- U.S. Troops to Remain in Iraq, But Biden Says “Combat Mission” Is Ending
- 57 Feared Dead as Migrant Boat Capsizes Near Libya
- Human Rights Watch Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Gaza Assault
- Lebanese Billionaire Tapped to Be Next Prime Minister
- U.S. Sends Over 2 Dozen F-22 Fighter Jets to Guam as Tensions Rise with China
- Filipino Police Shot Dead Activists Who Spray-Painted “Oust Duterte” Sign
- Haiti Makes More Arrests in Moïse Assassination Probe
- Nicaragua Arrests More Opposition Candidates; Ortega Accuses U.S. of Meddling
- Six Rohingya Refugees Die in Mass Flooding at Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camp
- 85 Wildfires in U.S. Burn Over 1.5 Million Acres of Land as Drought Spreads
- Biden Administration to Expedite Removal Proceedings of Migrant Families
- House Select Committee Begins Probe of January 6 Insurrection at the Capitol
- Tom Barrack Pleads Not Guilty for Secretly Lobbying for UAE
- Mary Simon Becomes Canada’s First Indigenous Governor General
- Revs. Jesse Jackson & William Barber Arrested at Sit-In at Sen. Sinema’s Office
- Frito-Lay Workers Win a Day Off After 19-Day Strike
- Steven Donziger, Who Sued Chevron over Amazon Oil Spills, Blasts Contempt of Court Conviction
- Naomi Osaka Eliminated from Olympics; Simone Biles Pulls Out of Team Finals
- France Approves COVID Health Pass; Germany Considers Restrictions for Unvaccinated People
- COVID Cases Skyrocket in Southeast Asia, with Children Making Up 12.5% of Indonesian Death Toll
- Fauci Says U.S. “Going in the Wrong Direction”; St. Louis Reintroduces Indoor Mask Mandate
- 4,000 Homebound Detainees Could Be Sent Back to Prison After Pandemic Emergency Order Lifted
- Tunisia’s President Sacks Prime Minister, Suspends Parliament Following Protests
- Afghanistan Sees Record Number of Casualties in 2021; U.S. Could Continue Airstrikes Beyond August
- U.S. Launches Second Drone Strike in Somalia in Under a Week
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ColumnJul 22, 2021In the West Texas Desert, Billionaires Rocket Above as Migrants Die Below
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The west Texas town of Van Horn was in the news this week, as the site of the private space flight launched by the world’s richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Bezos made a ten-minute suborbital trip in his New Shepard space capsule. Far below, countless others make a far weightier trip, attempting the perilous trip from Mexico, across the desert furnace on foot, seeking refuge in the United States. Many of these migrants, exhausted and dehydrated, perish in the desolate terrain.
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