WASHINGTON – Democrats faced increasingly long odds as the battle for Senate control hangs in balance, and Republicans brushed back multiple challengers to protect their majority.

Still, it was too soon for the GOP to declare victory.In Michigan, Democrats were spared a loss late Wednesday when Sen. Gary Peters beat back a tough challenge from Republican John James.

But Republicans held on to Susan Collins in Maine and other key seats across the map.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said President Donald Trump’s campaign helped his GOP allies, but that state election officials were still counting ballots.

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Remote COVID trial design, social media outreach may boost enrollee diversity

Remote clinical trials with inclusive social media recruitment may help improve racial, ethnic, and geographic diversity among clinical trial participants, according to a US study published early this week in JAMA Network Open.

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Guelph hospital hopeful as restrictions lift, but pre-COVID-19 capacity issues still remain

Guelph General Hospital says they are hopeful and cautiously optimistic as COVID-19 restrictions begin to lift in the province.But Melissa Skinner said in an interview this week that capacity issues the hospital had pre-pandemic have not gone away.“Over the past several years, based on the size of our hospital and the size of our community, each day we have struggled with having enough beds,” she said. “COVID has just exacerbated that and really shown how much pressure there really is on a system and on our hospital.” Doctors’ group proposes Ontario fund new surgical centres to catch up on procedures Even before the pandemic, one official described the situation at Guelph General in October 2019 as “bursting at the seams.”For example, the hospital’s emergency room was seeing 15,000 more annual visits than it was originally designed to handle.Construction to expand the department by 6,400 square feet is currently underway to address overcrowding.As for the current COVID-19 situation, Skinner said the hospital is still seeing high volumes in the emergency department but added that it is manageable and an improvement from just a few weeks ago while Omicron COVID-19 cases were peaking in the community.“The impact of COVID — we are seeing a decline.

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COVID-19: LHSC caring for 71 COVID-19 inpatients, continuing downward trend

Middlesex-London Health Unit reported no new deaths on Wednesday and 85 COVID-19 cases.This marks just the fourth day this month that no new virus-related deaths were reported by the MLHU, with the other days being Feb. 7, 9 and 14.

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News Scan for Feb 16, 2022

A new study comparing excess years of life lost (YLL) during the first year of COVID-19 in parts of England and Wales shows that economically deprived areas suffered three times as many deaths as affluent regions, and young adults (15 to 44 years old) were 11 times more likely to die from the virus in poorer parts of the United Kingdom. The study is published in PLOS Medicine.Though excess deaths have been used as a metric during the pandemi

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Cambridge COVID-19 testing centre closed Wednesday afternoon after losing internet access

COVID-19 testing clinic on Holiday Inn Drive was forced to close on Wednesday afternoon after its phones and internet access went down.A spokesperson for the hospitals says all of the tests and assessments for the afternoon have been cancelled.

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Apple AirTag: Pennsylvania AG warns of 'malicious misuse' of device

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 30: A boxed AirTag on display at the Apple Store George Street on April 30, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Apple's latest accessory, the AirTag is a small device that helps people keep track of belongings, using Apple's Find My PHILADELPHIA - Attorney General Josh Shapiro is issuing a consumer alert Wednesday in regards to Apple AirTags. The consumer alert is an effort to share safety recommendations with Pennsylvanians that "will protect them from the malicious misuse of Apple AirTags." Apple AirTags have recently been used to track people in many situations, which has raised an alarm for authorities. According to the AG Shapiro, some individuals have reported finding unknown AirTags attached to their cars, in their purses, coat pockets, and other personal property while others have reported receiving alerts on their phones that their location information is being shared.

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Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of FOX, to serve as honorary starter for Daytona 500

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - NASCAR on Wednesday named FOX CEO Lachlan Murdoch the honorary starter of the season-opening Daytona 500.Murdoch, the executive chair and chief executive officer of FOX Corp., will wave the green flag Sunday to start "The Great American Race." Murdoch served as Executive Chairman of 21st Century FOX prior to the closing of the merger of 21st Century FOX and The Walt Disney Company in March 2019. RELATED: 64th annual Daytona 500 is sold out(Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) The 64th running will be aired live on FOX, which is in contract negotiations with NASCAR on the current television deal that expires at the end of the 2024 season.RELATED: Country music star Trace Adkins to sing national anthem at Daytona 500The Daytona 500 will have a heavy Fox presence: Pro Football Hall of Famer Charles Woodson, a Fox Sports analyst, will give the "Drivers, Start Your Engines" command as grand marshal for the Great American Race at 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday, Feb.

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GOP captures second Democratic US House seat in California

LOS ANGELES – Republican Young Kim defeated U.S. Rep.

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Republican senators push for Biden to receive intelligence briefings

WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump refuses to allow President-elect Joe Biden to receive intelligence briefings — even those he was getting during the campaign — an increasing number of Trump's allies are calling for Biden to have access to the information.“I just don’t know of any justification for withholding the briefing," Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said Thursday.“I see no problem with that,” said Iowa Sen.

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A few cracks but no big GOP break with Trump on Biden's win

WASHINGTON – The most powerful Republicans in Washington are standing firmly behind President Donald Trump and his unsupported claims of voter fraud for now, but new cracks emerged among GOP leaders elsewhere who believe it's time to treat Democrat Joe Biden like the president-elect he is.New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who endorsed Trump's reelection, became the latest Republican official to say what Trump and his allies refuse to accept.

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The Latest: Graham giving $1M to help Georgia's GOP senators

WASHINGTON – The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):9:15 a.m.Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was just reelected in South Carolina, says he's donating $1 million of his campaign money to help two GOP senators win runoff races in neighboring Georgia.Graham told Fox News Channel's “Fox & Friends” on Thursday that Republicans need to counter a “tsunami of liberal money” flowing into Georgia ahead of the Jan.

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Incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan wins Alaska, giving Republicans half of US Senate seats

ANCHORAGE, A.K. - Incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan will keep his seat on the U.S.

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Florida Gov. DeSantis expands emergency for ‘erratic’ Eta

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Pointing to the “erratic nature” of the storm as it threatened a large part of Florida’s west coast, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday expanded a state of emergency and asked President Donald Trump for a federal emergency declaration as Tropical Storm Eta prepared to make landfall Thursday.Tropical-storm and storm-surge warnings and a hurricane watch were in effect Wednesday for much of the state’s west coast, including the Tampa metropolitan area.

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U.S. election: Democrats keep control of House, but majority likely to shrink

Democrats clinched two more years of controlling the House on Tuesday but with a potentially razor-thin majority, a bittersweet finale to last week’s elections that has left them divided and with scant margin for error for advancing their agenda.The party has now nailed down at least 218 seats, according to The Associated Press, and could win a few others when more votes are counted. While that assures command of the 435-member chamber, blindsided Democrats were all but certain to lose seats after an unforeseen surge of Republican voters transformed expected gains of perhaps 15 seats into losses potentially approaching that amount.

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Analysis: GOP lets doubts about Biden's legitimacy flourish

WASHINGTON – In backing President Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud, Republicans risk leaving millions of Americans with the false impression that the results of the 2020 race are illegitimate.And that may be the point.None of Trump's legal challenges and assertions of voting irregularities has revealed any substantive issues with the election that would overturn the results. And some GOP lawmakers and party officials privately acknowledge that Trump has no choice but to step aside by Jan.

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GOP presses ahead after election with Russia probe review

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump may have lost his bid for reelection, but that hasn’t stopped Senate Republicans from pressing forward with their politically charged probe of the FBI’s Russia investigation. The latest burst of activity came Tuesday when the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee grilled former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe about an investigation that was begun even before the 2016 presidential election.

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McConnell, Schumer re-elected to lead, but US Senate majority uncertain

WASHINGTON - Senators chose party leaders Tuesday with few changes at the top, but it's unclear who will be the majority leader in the new Congress with no party having secured control of the Senate until a January runoff election in Georgia.Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., won another term as Republican leader, his office said, cementing his role as the longest-serving GOP leader in U.S.

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White House races to complete regulations before Trump exits

Kelsey Brugger, E&E NewsOriginally published by E&E NewsNow that President Donald Trump has lost reelection, observers and advocates are bracing for agencies to finish a host of actions on energy and the environment.Trump made deregulation a centerpiece of his 2016 campaign.

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McConnell, Schumer to lead, but Senate majority uncertain

WASHINGTON – Senators chose party leaders Tuesday with few changes at the top, but it's unclear who will be the majority leader in the new Congress with no party having secured control of the Senate until a January runoff election in Georgia.Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., won another term as Republican leader, his office said, cementing his role as the longest-serving GOP leader in U.S.

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GOP unveils $1.4T spending bill amid post-election turmoil

WASHINGTON – Republicans controlling the Senate unveiled a government-wide, $1.4 trillion spending bill on Tuesday, a mostly bipartisan measure that faces uncertain odds during this period of post-election tumult in Washington.The GOP-drafted measure contains funding for President Donald Trump's border wall and other provisions opposed by Democrats, but top leaders in both parties want to try to mount a drive to enact the unfinished spending bills — which, along with a separate COVID-19 relief effort and annual defense policy bill, represent the bulk of Capitol Hill's unfinished business for the year.

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GOP backs Trump as he fights election results, transition

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration threw the presidential transition into tumult, with President Donald Trump blocking government officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General William Barr authorizing the Justice Department to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud. Some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, rallied behind Trump's efforts to fight the election results.

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Stacey Abrams raises millions for Democrats in Georgia Senate runoff

Stacey Abrams poses for a picture, after her speech at the National Press Club Headliners Luncheon in Washington, D.C. (Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)ATLANTA - Stacey Abrams says she and her organization Fair Fight have raised millions since Friday to help Democrats in their attempt to win Georgia's two Senate runoff elections.The one-time candidate for Georgia governor tweeted Monday morning that her group has raised $6 million so far for the campaigns of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and the Rev.

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Chatham County judge dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit

CHATHAM COUNTY, Ga. - A Georgia judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the state Republican Party and President Donald Trump's campaign that asked him to ensure a coastal county was following state laws on processing absentee ballots.Chatham County Superior Court Judge James Bass did not provide an explanation for his decision Thursday at the close of a roughly one-hour hearing. Chatham County includes the heavily Democratic city of Savannah.The suit had raised concerns about 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots.

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2020 election: Clyburn says Trump, GOP should accept Biden win

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) speaks during a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other members of House Democratic Leadership on Capitol Hill on January 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON - The highest-ranking Black member of Congress says President Donald Trump should concede the presidency to President-elect Joe Biden, although he says it’s more crucial what the rest of the Republican Party does in the wake of the 2020 election.RELATED: After President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss, can he run again in 2024?U.S.

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Fight for Senate control awaits in Georgia after Biden's win

WASHINGTON – Control of the Senate likely won’t be decided until a January runoff in Georgia, even after Democrat Joe Biden won the White House on Saturday.That post-election cliff-hanger will determine the balance of power in Washington, as neither party appears to have a lock on a Senate majority right now.So far, the tally for the next Senate is 48 Republicans and 48 Democrats after Tuesday's election. Two seats in Georgia are headed to runoffs on Jan.

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Balance of power: VP-elect Kamala Harris to become potential tie-breaking Senate vote

LOS ANGELES - On Saturday, Joe Biden won the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 race for the White House, according to projections by the Associated Press and FOX News. Biden’s projected win catapults California Sen.

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U.S. election: Senate control up in air as Georgia races head to January runoffs

Georgia headed to runoff elections.Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff will face off in a Jan.

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America Votes 2020: How Biden was able to get ahead by flipping key states

U.S. President Donald Trump could be forced to exit the White House after one term in office, a rarity for any incumbent president. Eric Sorensen looks at how Biden was able to get ahead by flipping key states.

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America Votes 2020: Biden poised to become U.S. president, leads in key states

Joe Biden is leading in the race against Donald Trump, as crucial battleground states continue counting outstanding ballots. As Jackson Proskow reports, that has Trump ramping up attacks on the electoral process.

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Trump, GOP test out rallying cry: Count the 'legal' votes

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and some of his Republican supporters are testing out a rallying cry for his uphill fight to reverse the lead that Joe Biden holds in key battleground states: count all “legal” votes.The language is freighted with a clear implication, namely that Democrats want illegal votes counted, a claim for which there is no evidence.But it underscores Trump's strategic imperatives as Biden closes in on securing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency, tactics that are rooted more in political messaging than legal precedent.“It’s not the use of the word ‘legal’ vote, it's the constant insinuation that there are so many illegal or fraudulent votes out there," said Rick Hasen, a professor of law

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US election: Pennsylvania remains key focus in victory for either candidate

Pennsylvania remains a key focus in the election as the state that could hand victory to either President Donald Trump or Democratic candidate Joe Biden, with the count still continuing.

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Pennsylvania GOP turns to US Supreme Court

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Republicans are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court to ask for an order that mail ballots arriving after Election Day in the battleground state be segregated.

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Perdue vs Ossoff: Georgia Senate race likely headed to runoff

ATLANTA - Georgia’s second of two U.S. Senate races is likely headed to a runoff.U.S.

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Some in GOP break with Trump over baseless vote-fraud claims

WASHINGTON – Some Republican lawmakers are criticizing President Donald Trump’s unsupported claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election, saying Trump's comments undermine the U.S. political process and the bedrock notion that all Americans should have their vote counted.Sen.

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Trump lambastes Detroit in ballot counting criticism, calling it corrupt

FOX 2 - President Donald Trump struck a subdued but defiant tone saying Democrats are trying to rig the election. He took shots at the ballot tabulating process in Democratic-run cities like Detroit, in battleground states too close to call in a press conference Thursday night.Detroit did not escape Trump's wrath as he attacked the process of ballot counting at the TCF Center.

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Confounding Democrats, Trump makes inroads with Latinos

President Donald Trump and his Republican allies made significant inroads with Latino voters in Tuesday’s election, alarming some Democrats who warned that immigration politics alone was not enough to hold their edge with the nation’s largest minority group. Trump's strong performance with Cuban Americans in South Florida narrowed the traditional Democratic edge in Miami-Dade County and helped put Florida in Trump's column early Tuesday.

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Twin Senate runoffs in Georgia could shape Biden presidency

ATLANTA – The outcome in several contested states will determine whether Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump. But if the Democratic challenger wins, the ambitions of a Biden presidency could well come down to Georgia.Georgia, long a Republican stronghold — but one with rapidly changing demographics — could be the site of two runoffs on Jan.

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America Votes 2020: Tracking tight races as states continue counting votes

As vote counting continues long after polls have closed, Joe Biden is closer than Donald Trump to those coveted 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House. Eric Sorensen is tracking the tight races.

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Balance of power: With several races still undecided, Senate control remains at a deadlock

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden also undecided, the Senate is in limbo because the vice president of the eventual winner's party would serve as a tie-breaker in a split chamber.“We’re waiting — whether I’m going to be the majority leader or not,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday.FILE - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gives election remarks at the Omni Louisville Hotel on November 4, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)That was still the case Thursday.AdvertisementRELATED: Who won? Biden pushes closer to victory with 5 states outstanding in 2020 presidential electionThere already is a Jan.

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With another Florida loss, Democrats begin second guessing

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Perhaps only in Florida is a loss by fewer than 4 percentages points considered a public drubbing. In a state famous for razor-thin margins, the size of former Vice President Joe Biden's loss to President Donald Trump was humiliating for Democrats and sent many searching for answers to how they failed to close the deal with voters — again.

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Gov. DeSantis’ office delays critical White House Coronavirus report for a 2nd time

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Election officials scramble to count ballots in key states

ATLANTA – Election officials in several key states furiously counted ballots Wednesday as the nation awaited the outcome of the race between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden and braced for possible recounts and legal challenges.Unlike in previous years, states were contending with an avalanche of mail ballots driven by the global pandemic. Every election, what’s reported on election night are unofficial results and the counting of votes extends past Election Day.

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Gov DeSantis: Other states should learn from Florida’s success in 2020 election

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – “Perhaps 2020 was the year that we finally vanquished the ghosts of Bush vs. Gore,” Florida Gov.

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US election: No clear winner as votes still being counted in key battleground states

Joe Biden and Donald Trump both predicted wins in the U.S. election early Wednesday morning, but a winner has yet to be decided.

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Coronavirus: U.S. Senate Leader McConnell says he wants COVID-19 aid bill by year’s end

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday said Congress needed to approve a new coronavirus aid bill by the end of 2020 as lawmakers return to work following Tuesday’s elections.

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Democrats' Senate drive halted by GOP, but control teeters

WASHINGTON – Democrats had a disappointing night in the battle for Senate control, but it was too soon for Republicans to take a victory lap Wednesday, although they brushed back multiple challengers to protect their now teetering majority.Key races in North Carolina, Maine and Michigan remained undecided, and at least one in Georgia was headed to a January runoff.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said President Donald Trump's campaign helped his GOP allies, but it's still to soon to declare victory as state election officials count ballots.“We're waiting — whether I'm going to be the majority leader or not,” McConnell said at a press conference in his home state of Kentucky.In a delicate pushback against Trump's own premature claims

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House Latest: Republican Lauren Boebert wins Colorado House

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the 2020 House races (all times local):9:55 a.m.Republican Lauren Boebert has won the Colorado House seat held by five-term GOP Rep. Scott Tipton.Boebert is the owner of Shooters Grill, an open carry “family friendly” restaurant.

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Presidency hinges on tight races in battleground states

WASHINGTON – The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.It was unclear when or how quickly a winner could be determined. A late burst of votes in Wisconsin gave Biden a small lead in the state, but it was still too early to call the race.

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Democrats' Senate drive halted by GOP; key races undecided

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