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Democrats won the popular vote in this year’s presidential election yet again, marking seven out of eight straight presidential elections that the party has reached that milestone. President-elect Joe Biden has so far won 50.8% of the vote compared to…
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Democrats went into Election Day with a 232-197 House advantage, plus an independent and five open seats. President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to get sweeping health care changes through a closely divided Congress, but there’s a menu of narrower acti…
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A daily pill combining four cholesterol and blood pressure medicines taken with low-dose aspirin cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart-related deaths by nearly one third in a large international study that’s expected to lead to wider use of …
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A Brexit deal could be agreed in as little as ten days, a senior MEP said, after Michel Barnier briefed the European Parliament on the UK-EU trade negotiations on Friday. The EU’s chief negotiator told MEPs he expected trade talks to continue until the “last possible moment” after negotiations closed in London today. It now appears certain that the unofficial deadline of Thursday’s EU summit, where the bloc’s 27 leaders were expected to give their political blessing to the deal, will be missed. The European Parliament told Mr Barnier that the absolute latest they could get the negotiated deal was December 10, the first day of the next scheduled EU summit. Sources warned that the deal would have to be agreed before then to allow time for translation into the EU’s official languages and for related decisions in the council. After EU leaders approve the deal, MEPs must back it before the end of the year, and the transition period, to prevent a no deal, which will mean the UK and EU trading on less lucrative WTO terms. “Given the information I have I expect the negotiation to last another seven to ten days,” said Philippe Lamberts, a senior MEP on the European Parliament’s Brexit committee on Friday. Clément Beaune, France’s Europe minister, said, “I think a deal is possible. Both parties want one. It will require several days, possibly two to three more weeks, of negotiation”. He heaped pressure on Mr Barnier to get the deal done before December 10. “If it happens after the end of November, we will be in trouble,” he said. The two sides remain divided over fishing, the level playing field guarantees and the deal’s enforcement. The EU and UK have shared new proposals on fishing rights but Downing Street said there were still significant differences over the three major obstacles to a deal. Informal talks could continue through the weekend but formal negotiations will resume in Brussels on Monday. Mr Lamberts, who is leader of the European greens, said that the departure of Dominic Cummings was “probably the sign that Johnson has begun his U-turn and will in the end accept EU conditions”. Manfred Weber, the leader of European People’s Party, the largest group in the Brussels and Strasbourg parliament, urged Mr Johnson to cave on his red lines after Mr Cummings announced his resignation. The political ally of Angela Merkel told the BBC, “I see what is happening now in Downing St (Cummings). We can also see this as a quite chaotic situation where we don’t have an idea what is really the line in Great Britain. “So don’t tell us we should be ready for compromise. We need a clear idea from Boris Johnson now. ” British sources conceded the negotiations could not go on for “much longer” than the next nine days. Both sides need to ratify the deal but there was more pressure on the EU side’s timetable, they said. “We never said Thursday’s summit was any sort of deadline,” an EU official said, “it’d be nice and tidy but I am not sure it is going to work out like that.” MEPs were originally scheduled to vote on the deal on December 16. They could now hold the vote after Christmas but before the end of the year and transition period. An EU diplomat said the onus was on the parliament and the council to be creative in accelerating its procedures to beat the no deal deadline of January 1.
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Republicans suffered setbacks to court challenges over the presidential election in three battleground states on Friday while a law firm that came under fire for its work for President Donald Trump’s campaign withdrew from a major Pennsylvania case. T…
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Slovakia will open theatres, cinemas and churches at half capacity from Monday and let fitness centres and pools operate with limited visitors as it starts easing coronavirus curbs, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said. Slovakia’s ice hockey and soccer le…
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Details presented at annual meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA) held virtually this year follow the release in October of initial results for the 8,256-patient trial. The benefit, while deemed statistically significant, was not dramatic, w…
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John Stumpf agreed to pay $2.5m to settle the latest claims arising from the bank’s fake accounts scandal.
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Italy has registered a record 40,902 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday, up from 37,978 on Thursday. Infections in Italy since the disease first came to light in February total 1.107 million, while 44…
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Britain reported 27,301 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, a slight fall from the previous day’s all-time high but the second-highest daily figure recorded, official government statistics showed. The figure was down slightly on Thursday’s case number of 33…
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Spain’s government is stepping up its response to a surge in the number of migrants crossing the Atlantic from Africa to the Canary Islands, though there was little new in the measures announced Friday. More than 16,000 migrants have arrived in the Sp…
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