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U.S. NEWS Thursday 26 November 2020
Continued from Front people to wear masks or
More than 88,000 people in keep their distance from
the U.S. — an all-time high others have caused de-
— were in the hospital with spair among health care
COVID-19 as of Tuesday, officials and front-line work-
pushing the health care ers.
system in many places to "I'll just to confess to you
the breaking point, and guys, I'm exhausted trying
new cases of the virus have to convince folks to do stuff.
been setting records, soar- It's just going nowhere," said
ing to an average of over Dr. Thomas Dobbs, Mississip-
174,000 per day. pi's state health officer.
Deaths have surged to Anne Moore, a 60-year-
more than 1,600 per day, old woman from Chicago,
a mark last seen in May, flew to Albany, New York,
when the crisis in the New to be with her daughter for
York area was easing. the holiday. Her daughter
The Centers for Disease is a senior at Dartmouth
Control and Prevention University, and Moore and
and state and local author- her husband were worried
ities have begged people about her driving back to
not to travel and urged Illinois by herself.
them to keep their Thanks- Vehicles travel westbound on Interstate 695, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Parkville, Md. Before the spike, the fam-
giving celebrations small. Associated Press ily had planned to hold a
"That'll make sure that Thanksgiving gathering of
your extended family are Tuesday, a drop-off of screening in the 11-day pe- adopted precautions. Trav- fewer than 10 people. But
around to celebrate Christ- around 60% from the same riod around Thanksgiving. elers to Los Angeles, either instead it will be just Moore,
mas and to celebrate the time a year ago. Still, those More Americans drive than by plane or train, were re- her husband and her
holidays next year," Ken- have been some of the fly during the holiday, but quired to fill out an online daughter. "I have friends
tucky Gov. Andy Beshear biggest crowds since the AAA has projected those form acknowledging Cali- who are alone. And I'm not
said. COVID-19 crisis took hold in numbers are also likely to fornia's request that people inviting them. And I feel
Around 900,000 to 1 million the U.S. in March. be lower this year. How quarantine for two weeks badly about that," she said.
people per day passed Last year, a record 26 mil- much lower the auto club after arrival in the state. "We'll take a walk or some-
through U.S. airport check- lion passengers and crew has not said. The resurgence of the virus thing instead. But yeah, the
points from Friday through passed through U.S. airport Many states and cities have and the refusal of many three of us are isolating."q

Republicans sue to stop Wisconsin

vote certification

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Re- presidential election," said Republican Party official
publicans filed a lawsuit Democratic Attorney Gen- who also represented rap-
Tuesday asking the Wis- eral Josh Kaul. "The Wiscon- per Kanye West in his un-
consin Supreme Court to sin Department of Justice successful lawsuit attempt-
block certification of the will ensure that Wisconsin's ing to get on the ballot in
presidential election results presidential electors are Wisconsin. Kaardal repre-
even as a recount over selected based on the will sents a conservative group
President-elect Joe Biden's of the more than 3 million called the Wisconsin Voters
win over President Donald Wisconsin voters who cast Alliance and a host of Re-
Trump is ongoing. a ballot." publican voters. Election workers recount ballots at the presidential election re-
The lawsuit echoes many The lawsuit also rehashes a Kaardal also filed an un- count at the Wisconsin Center Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Mil-
of the same arguments claim that a federal court successful federal lawsuit in waukee.
Trump is making in trying, rejected in September that Wisconsin that attempted Associated Press
unsuccessfully, to have Facebook CEO Mark Zuck- to block $6.3 million from
tens of thousands of ballots erberg tried to "illegally cir- being awarded to five
discounted during the re- cumvent Wisconsin absen- heavily Democratic cities
count. It also seeks to give tee voting laws" through from the nonprofit Center
the power to name presi- grants awarded by a non- for Technology and Civic
dential electors to the Re- profit center he funds. Life, which is primarily fund-
publican-controlled Legis- At least 10 cases have ed by Zuckerberg and his
lature. Wisconsin state law been filed across the coun- wife. A judge tossed the
allows the political parties try seeking to halt certifi- lawsuit that argued the
to pick electors, which was cation in parts or all of key money amounted to brib-
done in October. Once the battleground states, includ- ery to bolster Democratic
election results are certi- ing lawsuits brought by the turnout in Green Bay, Keno-
fied, which is scheduled Trump campaign in Michi- sha, Madison, Milwaukee
to be done Dec. 1, those gan and Pennsylvania. So and Racine.
pre-determined electors far none have been suc- Many of the same argu-
will cast their ballots for the cessful. Wisconsin's election ments alleging the money
winner on Dec. 14. results are scheduled to be was illegally awarded and
"The litigation filed this af- certified Dec. 1. therefore the election re-
ternoon seeks to disenfran- The Wisconsin lawsuit was sults should be nullified are
chise every Wisconsinite filed by attorney Erick Kaar- being made in the new
who voted in this year's dal, a former Minnesota lawsuit in state court.q