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Trump vows to push ahead with fight But says it’ll be hard for election lawsuits to reach Supreme Court Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appeared Sunday to acknowledge dwindling chances of success in his legal battle to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election won by Joe Biden. “It’s hard to get into the Supreme Court,” he said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” his first extended question-and-answer
session since the balloting. Adding to a string of legal defeats for Trump’s campaign, results of a partial recount in Wisconsin announced Sunday added slightly to Biden’s margin of victory. In a 45-minute call to a friendly host who failed to challenge his statements, Trump mused that federal law enforcement agencies were failing to come to his aid – or had even been complicit in what he continued to describe, without founda-
tion, as “massive fraud.” “Maybe they are involved,” he said of the FBI and the Justice Department, without providing any evidence to support his conjecture. At another point, he described the bureau and the Justice Department as “missing in action” when it came to investigating purported elec- Trump toral wrongdoing. Asked about his legal plans, Trump said he would devote “125% of my energy” to pushing ahead with a court fight, even though his backers have notched dozens of defeats, including a rebuff Saturday night from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
“You need a judge that’s willing to hear a case, you need a Supreme Court that’s willing to make a real big decision,” said Trump, adding that it would take a “brave judge, or justice” to back him because of alleged threats against jurists and his lawyers. Before Republicans pushed through last month’s confirmation of conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Trump alluded to the importance of getting her into place quickly, in case of election disputes coming before the Supreme Court. See Trump, Page A7
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the U.S. were renter-occupied and 64 percent were owner-occupied. The report found in certain areas renters significantly outnumber homeowners. Prospective home buyers face many challenges, including a lack of inventory and rising prices, which is keeping homeownership rates low in certain areas. Many older homeowners don’t want to move, which limits available options for first-time buyers. According to
WASHINGTON — Members of President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force fanned out across Sunday talk shows to promise a rapid rollout of coronavirus vaccines to millions of Americans by year-end. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the federal government hopes to quickly review and approve requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their Covid-19 vaccines. While Adams said Pfizer Inc. “will be submitting” an Emergency Adams Use Authorization request on Dec. 10 for the vaccine it developed with Germany’s BioNTech, Pfizer filed its EUA on Nov. 20, the first to seek such clearance. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee of outside experts will meet on Dec. 10 to review the Pfizer/ BioNTech clinical trial data in public, which could precede rapid approval. “We, from a federal perspective, have promised and set everything up so we can quickly review those EUAs and hopefully start sending out vaccines within 24 to 48 hours,” Adams said on “Fox News Sunday.” Adams said he expects 40 million vaccine doses to be produced by the end of the year and for most Americans to have access to a vaccine by early in the second quarter of 2021. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” top U.S. infectious-diseases specialist Anthony Fauci said the government “almost
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Houses in northern Fairfield are seen from Air Base Parkway, Friday.
Homeowners occupy about 60 percent of housing in Fairfield, report shows
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FAIRFIELD — A new report from Roofstock analyzing the distribution of U.S. homes that are renter-occupied compared to owner-occupied reports that in Fairfield owners occupy about 60 percent; 40 percent call a rental home. Nationally, 64 percent of homes were owner-occupied prior to the pandemic. In some cities, however, more than 75 percent of homes are occupied by renters.
The report includes median household income data for both owner- and renter-occupied homes. Owner-occupied households in Fairfield report a median household income of $100,534, compared to just $70,707 for renters. While homeownership has been on the rise since 2016, and early data suggests it could be surging during Covid-19, the national homeownership rate remains below peak levels and out of reach for many Americans. Prior to the pandemic, approximately 36 percent of households in
Iran under intense pressure over how to respond to top scientist’s killing Los Angeles Times BEIRUT — The U.S. drone missile punched through the car of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, instantly killing the 62-year-old Iranian spymaster and national hero as he drove through the streets of Baghdad last January. Days later, Iranian leaders who swore “severe revenge” lobbed
ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in Iraq, leaving scores of American servicemen and contractors with traumatic brain injuries. Iran also mobilized its irregular forces, including Iran-supported militias in Iraq, which regularly fired rockets at the U.S. Embassy and bases with American troop presence. Now, Iran finds itself the target of another
attack, this time the broad-daylight assassination on Friday of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, one of Iran’s top nuclear scientists. The killing, by what many believed was a U.S.sanctioned Israeli hit team, has ratcheted up the pressure on Iran’s leaders for vengeance again. But a similar response, analysts say, could result in a precarious situation at a time when Iran is
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eagerly counting the days to the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who may well be amenable to bringing the U.S. back into the international nuclear treaty with Iran that President Donald Trump pulled out of while imposing tough new economic sanctions. Reacting lethally to the killing, said Elie See Iran, Page A7
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