US sets records for Covid deaths and hospitalizations as it nears 14m cases – live updates ed.4
More than 3,000 deaths recorded on Wednesday, data showsFauci suggests UK has not scrutinized vaccine data ‘carefully'Biden team to meet with Latino lawmakers over cabinet picksIvanka Trump was quizzed as part of inauguration fund lawsuitSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email 6.48pm GMT Attorneys for Wisconsin's Democratic governor Tony Evers called the Trump lawsuit dismissed by the state supreme court today an “assault on democracyâ€.“President Trump's (lawsuit) seeks nothing less than to overturn the will of nearly 3.3 million Wisconsin voters,†Evers' attorneys said in filings with the court. 6.39pm GMT Wisconsin's conservative-controlled Supreme Court has refused to hear Donald Trump's lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the battleground state, saying the case must first wind its way through lower courts.It's the latest legal defeat in a string of losses for the president's post-election lawsuits.Trump had asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state's two biggest Democratic counties, alleging irregularities in the way absentee ballots were administered. His lawsuit echoed claims that were earlier rejected by election officials in those counties during a recount that barely affected Biden's winning margin of about 20,700 votes.Trump had wanted the Supreme Court to take the case directly, saying there wasn't enough time to wage the legal battle by starting
