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Afghanistan is rapidly deteriorating into the world's worst humanitarian crisis; U.S. President Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping in a virtual summit to discuss the climate, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other sources of tension between the two countries. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Climate activists respond to the international agreement struck at COP26; We look back on the Indigenous-led protests at the climate summit urging protection for the Amazon rainforest; Reverend William Barber on the Ahmaud Arbery case and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A long-overdue commemoration was held this month in Wilmington, North Carolina, in memory of Joshua Halsey, who was killed by white supremacists during the November 10, 1898, Wilmington massacre.

Headlines for November 12, 2021; Climate Crisis = Health Emergency: Air Pollution, Pandemics & Displacement Make the World Sick; Walkout: Outraged by New COP26 Pact, Civil Society Holds People's Plenary & Leaves Climate Summit; East Timor Massacre Remembered: U.S.-Armed Indonesian Troops Killed 270 Timorese 30 Years Ago Today

Journalist Elie Mystal and antiracist activist Bree Newsome Bass on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial; The latest updates from the COP26 U.N. climate summit. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Nigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey on the disappointing agreement being drafted at the U.N. climate summit; Activists on how wealthy nations spend more on militarizing their borders than combating climate change; Postcolonial scholar and writer Amitav Ghosh on how combating fossil fuels threatens Western dominance. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

How the U.S. military is fueling the climate crisis; Julian Assange's partner Stella Moris on WikiLeaks exposés of corporate and state meddling in climate crisis resolutions. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The latest updates from Friday and Saturday's protests outside COP26, the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland; A report from Global Witness finds hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists allowed to attend COP26. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse in Wisconsin and the three men being tried in Georgia for killing Ahmaud Arbery; Youth activists take to the streets of Glasgow, outside the COP26 U.N. climate summit, to demand world leaders do more to avert a climate catastrophe. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, on how rising seas threaten low-lying islands; A lawyer who helped write the 2015 Paris Agreement says the world is running out of time; Leaders pledge more funds to help small countries adapt to the climate crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Nation's John Nichols on elections in Virginia and elsewhere; Updates from the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland; Puerto Ricans continue to suffer regular power outages, four years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island's power grid; Youth climate activists plan a march and rally in Glasgow to demand more action from global leaders. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Latest updates from COP26, including 350.org's Bill McKibben, Indigenous environmental campaigner Tom Goldtooth and Samoan climate justice activist Brianna Fruean; The Supreme Court hears arguments against the near-total ban on abortions in Texas. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

As the U.N. Climate Change Conference known as COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, Scotland, we speak with climate experts and activists; A Guantánamo Bay detainee describes his torture at CIA black sites for the first time in court, prompting military jurors to call his treatment a "stain on the moral fiber of America." Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Democrats remain divided over two major bills promising trillions in new spending on infrastructure, climate and the social safety net; A human rights network along the U.S.-Mexico border raises alarm over Border Patrol "shadow units" that help agents evade accountability; Toni Morrison's acclaimed novel "Beloved" becomes a flashpoint in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Historian Tariq Ali on Julian Assange's extradition hearings in London and his new book on 40 years of foreign interference in Afghanistan; A new analysis finds wealthy countries received over 16 times more COVID-19 vaccines than poorer countries. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe