Headlines for March 8, 2024

Biden Talks Taxing the Rich, Abortion Rights, Immigration Crackdown and Gaza in Election Year SOTU, Hundreds of Activists Block D.C. Streets, Deliver People’s SOTU Calling for End to Genocide, “We Don’t Need Aid. We Need Them to Stop the Killing”: Gazans Respond to Biden Aid Port Plan, Palestinian Women Prisoners Share Accounts of Inhumane Treatment, Sexual Assault, Israel Hastens Illegal Construction in Occupied West Bank as It Decimates Gaza, At Least 275 Students Abducted in Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso Team Up for Security Force Days After 170 People Killed in Burkina Faso, Senegal Sets New Election for March 24 After Protesters and Court Push Back on Macky Sall’s Delay, Haiti Extends State of Emergency as PM Ariel Henry Remains Stranded Outside of Country, Narendra Modi Visits Kashmir for First Time Since 2019 Crackdown, Hong Kong Introduces New Draft National Security Law, Expanding Its Control on Dissent, U.S. Court Rejects Case Against Big Tech for Its Complicity in Child Labor in DRC, Google Fires Dozens of Contract Workers After They Unionized, Autopsy Shows Lewiston, Maine, Mass Shooter May Have Suffered from Traumatic Brain Injury, Biden Wins Hawaii Democratic Primary; “Uncommitted” Takes Nearly 30% of Votes, FDA Issues Warning for 6 Brands of Ground Cinnamon, “After Oct. 7, There Are No Longer Any Women”: Gazan Women Struggle to Survive on IWD