Headlines for July 29, 2021

Senate Votes to Open Debate on $1.2T Infrastructure Bill, WTO Fails to Agree on Waiving IP Rights for COVID Vaccines, Vaccination Mandates Expand Across the Nation, Report: Pandemic Aid Helped Poverty Fall by 45%, But Gains May Be Just Temporary, Pelosi Argues Against Broad-Based Student Debt Cancellation, Peru: Pedro Castillo Sworn In, Vows to Be Champion of the Poor, Israeli Forces Shoot Dead 12-Year-Old Palestinian Boy in West Bank, Israel Launches Campaign Against Ben & Jerry’s, But Some U.S. Jewish Groups Back Ice Cream Maker, Macron: Polynesians Owed “Debt” for French Nuclear Tests, U.S. and Russia Hold Nuclear Talks in Geneva, Whistleblowers: Migrant Children Are Being Mistreated at Fort Bliss, Acetic Acid Leak in Texas Kills Two, 30 Hospitalized in Texas, Voting Rights Activists Begin Selma-to-Montgomery-Style March in Texas, Virginia Cop Sent Back to Jail on Jan. 6 Charges After Ordering 37 Guns, Jailed Gymnastics Coach Spent $10K on Himself in Jail While Just $8 a Month to Victims, Black Agenda Report Founder Glen Ford, 71, Dies