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Iowa Dem Senate candidate says he's too busy campaigning to attend all state House votes
Democratic Iowa State Rep. Josh Turek defended his attendance record after being called out by his opponent, Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, during a Tuesday night debate for the state's open Senate seat.
Hinson remarked on Turek's absences while responding to a question posed to both candidates about Iowa's rising cancer rates.
"You have to show up to vote for things like pediatric cancer research, and I've invested in legislation to make sure that we're redirecting those resources to get to where it needs to go to help get to the bottom of this cancer crisis," Hinson said.
As Fox News Digital first uncovered, Turek missed 261 votes in Iowa's state legislature from Jan. 12, 2026, through May 3, representing nearly 58% of the total votes during that time.
The debate's moderator asked Turek directly why he missed the votes.
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"I have gone out there, and I have met with Iowans all over the state, all 99 counties, hundreds of public forums," Turek responded.
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"Meanwhile, Ashley Hinson, since she's decided to run for U.S. Senate, has not done one in-person town forum. Also, in my first three years in the legislature, [I had] more than a 90% attendance record," Turek continued.
"I want to ask again, though, why did you miss those votes?" the moderator repeated.
"I'm out campaigning. I'm out meeting Iowans all over all 99 counties. I've done hundreds of in-person town halls. Meanwhile, Ashley Hinson, since she's running for the U.S. Senate, has not done a single in-person town hall," he said.
Hinson objected to the notion that she hasn't done any town halls during the campaign cycle.
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"I've done more town halls than the percentage of time he showed up to work this year. 42% of the time is all Rep. Turek showed up to work this year. That's two out of every five days of work," Hinson said.
"Iowans, if you're watching tonight, you should know if you don't show up to work two out of five days, you're not getting a promotion. You're getting fired. I am proud of my bipartisan record working with both parties to get things across the finish line. I rank in the top 20% of bipartisan lawmakers in Congress and I have a 99% attendance record even while running a statewide campaign," she concluded.
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Turek, before the moderator moved on, chimed in, adding, "She also missed 193 votes."
A spokesperson for the Hinson campaign clarified to Fox News Digital that the 193 votes Hinson missed accounted for her entire time in Congress, while the 261 votes Turek missed were in the 2026 legislative session alone.
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The Hinson campaign also disputed the idea that she hasn't held any town halls.
"Since being elected to Congress, Ashley Hinson has held 47 in-person town halls and more than 30 telephone town halls — speaking directly to Iowans about the issues that matter most to them," Billy Fuerst, the Hinson campaign communications director, told Fox News Digital.
"Ashley has a 98.8% lifetime voting record while Josh Turek registered a 42% voting record in the State House this year. Ashley missed 16% (94 of 553) of committee amendment votes over the course of her congressional tenure, but has been present for all final passage votes (final passage votes include the amendment language) in her time on the Appropriations Committee — 70 total bills since 2021," Fuerst concluded.
Rep. Turek and his campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital for comment.
Fox News Digital's Leo Briceno contributed to this report.
Team USA hockey brothers connect to pull off historic NHL feat in dominant performance
The Tkachuk brothers have already shown what they can do on the global stage, but now, Matthew and Brady have the ability to wow the league more often.
After helping Team USA win Olympic gold together earlier this year, Brady was traded to his brother's Florida Panthers, who won the Stanley Cup in the two seasons before the Carolina Hurricanes took home the hardware last season.
When the move was made, hockey fans knew it was a matter of when, not if, the brothers would create magic together.
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It did not take long.
In just their seventh game of the season, Brady scored a hat trick on Tuesday night, with each of his goals being assisted by Matthew, who had two other assists on the night. Brady also had an assist, meaning the brothers combined for nine points in Florida's 7-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
All of Brady's goals came within 8:03 of ice time in the second period.
Brady Tkachuk became the ninth Panthers player with three goals in a period. He also had four points in the second as the brothers became the third and fourth Florida players with a four-point period.
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Brady became the ninth player in NHL history to have a hat trick in which each goal was assisted by his brother, and the first since Daniel Sedin got help from his brother, Henrik, in 2015.
The Tkachuks teamed up for the first time in the 4 Nations Face Off in 2025, where each brother got into a fight within the first three seconds of their game against Canada. It was the first time international hockey had been played in a best-on-best format since the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Canada won that tournament with an overtime gold medal game, but the United States got the ultimate revenge in February, taking home its first gold medal since 1980.
Jamaica accepts first flight of third-country deportations from US amid looming Supreme Court battle
Jamaica began receiving third-country deportations from the U.S. this week, with the first flight of migrants arriving on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's administration has used the third-country policy to deport migrants who claim that their home countries are too dangerous to return to.
Tuesday's flight saw 22 migrants land at Kingston’s Norman Manley International Airport in Jamaica.
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Jamaican authorities signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. in June to allow transfers to begin. The agreement caps the number of migrants arriving to 25 "per fortnight."
Jamaica's Ministry of National Security and Peace and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade released a joint statement clarifying the new program on Tuesday, according to NBC News.
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"The government reiterates that this is a transit arrangement intended to facilitate the return of Third Country Nationals to their country of origin or other receiving countries, with the support of the IOM (International Organization for Migration)," the statement read.
"The arrangement will not be funded by the Government of Jamaica," it continued. "No third-country national with criminal antecedents will be permitted to transit through Jamaica."
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Third-country deportations have faced heavy attacks from critics of the Trump administration, and the Supreme Court is set to consider the legality of the policy in December.
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration in September to continue its deportations while the question is being litigated.
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Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the administration's request for a stay.
The decision gives the administration the immediate relief it sought as it presses ahead with third-country removals, even as the Supreme Court has yet to decide whether the policy remains.
The dispute centers on the Trump administration's efforts to remove illegal aliens to third countries. Lower courts have not categorically prohibited those removals but have required procedures intended to give aliens an opportunity to raise claims that they could face persecution or torture in the destination country.
Foul-mouthed anti-war protesters repeatedly derail Hegseth's remarks at Army event in DC
Protesters repeatedly interrupted War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s headline appearance at the Army’s biggest annual conference on Wednesday, calling him a "war criminal" and a "coward" in protest of the Iran war.
At least five times in the first half hour of a panel, foul-mouthed anti-war protesters shouted at Hegseth, calling him a "f---ing Nazi" among other insults.
Hegseth responded with chuckles and sarcastic comments, at first — but his reactions became increasingly short and irritated as he slammed the "semi-coordinated" attack as one-by-one protesters emerged among the crowd in Washington, D.C.
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"You’re not a warrior you’re a coward!" one demonstrator shouted at Hegseth.
"She thinks highly of me," the Pentagon chief quipped after one outburst, which led to brief applause from the crowd.
The protesters were spread among the room and waited a few minutes between outbursts to interrupt the panel with their anti-war messages.
As Hegseth saw a pattern emerging among the outbreaks, he acknowledged: "Appears we have a bit of a tactic."
The demonstrators were forcibly removed by security for the event — with at least one woman needing to be carried out of the room by multiple officers while she continued to scream her protest.
The panel with Hegseth included acting Army Secretary Adam Telle, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink and assistant Secretary for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Derrick Evans.
As the disruptions continued, the speakers stopped pausing amid the din of shouting and tried to talk over the protesters.
It’s unclear how the protesters received credentials to attend the event known as AUSA, which brings together Army brass and the defense contractors that service them.
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The panel focused on Project Agincourt, the Pentagon’s initiative to accelerate the development and deployment of autonomous weapons and military systems.
Hegseth joined senior leadership from the service branches to discuss how the military plans to integrate drones, robotics and other autonomous technologies.
Phillies commit to Don Mattingly as full-time manager after up-and-down interim campaign
The Philadelphia Phillies are committed to Don Mattingly.
The Phils fired Rob Thomson from his managerial post in the midst of the season and brought in Donnie Baseball on an interim basis.
With Mattingly in the clubhouse, the Phillies turned their season around but narrowly escaped a late-season collapse, and they lost in the National League Wild Card Series to the Atlanta Braves.
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But the Phillies must have liked what they saw, Mattingly will have the interim tag taken off and be hired full time. He signed a two-year deal, the team announced Wednesday.
It, of course, should be noted that Mattingly's son, Preston, is the general manager of the team.
The Phillies were 9-19 when they fired Thomson, and Mattingly's Phillies went 73-45 in their next 118 games, but they lost five of their last 15.
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Philadelphia will be the third team that Mattingly has been the manager of, along with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Miami Marlins. Mattingly was the bench coach for the Toronto Blue Jays from 2023 through their pennant-winning season of 2025 but stepped down shortly after they lost the World Series.
Mattingly has been in professional baseball since 1979 and has yet to win a World Series — the 2025 Fall Classic was the first one he appeared in.
The Phillies' main core of Bryce Harper, Trea Turner and Kyle Schwarber isn't going anywhere, while Aaron Nola and Christopher Sanchez are under contract for several more years.
Philadelphia has had an open window throughout this decade, as Harper won his second MVP in 2021. But they lost the World Series in 2022 and have gone backward since then, losing in the 2023 NLCS, the 2024 and 2025 NLDS and the Wild Card this year.
Missing Summer Wells' father arrested on domestic assault charge in Tennessee
Donald Wells, the 61-year-old father of missing Summer Wells, has been arrested again — this time on a domestic assault charge, according to court records in Tennessee.
Hawkins County Jail records show he was booked into custody at 4:15 a.m. Tuesday and was scheduled for arraignment at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Additional details were not immediately available. Neither a spokesperson for the Wells family or the sheriff's office immediately responded to requests for comment.
The elder Wells has been arrested before on domestic assault, DUI and firearms charges unrelated to his daughter's disappearance, which remains unsolved. He was also served with a civil order of protection on behalf of his wife back in 2020.
Summer Wells was 5 when she vanished from her family's home in rural Rogersville, Fox News Digital has reported previously. She would now be 10, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has released an age-progressed image showing what she may have looked like as a 9-year-old.
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Summer's mother, Candus Bly, told police she last saw her daughter at their home on Ben Hill Road in Rogersville on June 15, 2021 — when she said the child came inside from planting flowers with her grandmother.
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The parents have maintained that they believe someone entered their 11-acre property, lured the girl outside and took her.
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No suspects have been publicly identified but investigators had been looking for a potential witness — the driver of a red pickup truck that had full-sized ladder racks and white buckets in the bed.
When she was last seen, Summer was about 3 feet tall and around 40 pounds. At the time she went missing, she was wearing gray pants, a pink shirt, and may have been barefoot. She has blonde hair.
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The couple's other children were taken from their home after Summer vanished. According to the family's website, the parents were cleared by a Department of Child Services investigation but have not regained custody of their sons.
Summer’s parents both have criminal records, and Bly’s sister, Rose Marie Bly, was reported missing from Wisconsin in 2009 in a case that remains unsolved.
Anyone with information on Summer's whereabouts is asked to all the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office at 423-272-7121 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND. Tips can be emailed to TipsToTBI@tn.gov.
African nations on ‘knife’s edge’ as US embassy warns Americans of long-range attacks
The entire Horn of Africa region is said to be on a knife’s edge. As explosions reportedly claimed to be caused by drones hit Ethiopia's capital city in early October, the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa warned U.S. citizens of the danger of "long-range attacks."
Analysts say there’s a high probability that Ethiopia and Eritrea are about to erupt in a new war, with worrying regional backing for both sides.
Former CIA analyst and National Security Council Africa Director Cameron Hudson says the Trump administration needs to become more involved. He told Fox News Digital, "Regional leaders will say privately that they don’t want a regional war. But with so many armed actors and so much meddling going on in each other’s countries, a regional conflagration becomes increasingly likely. It is this kind of miscalculation that the Trump administration needs to be working now to guard against."
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa took to its website to caution Americans in Ethiopia that it "is aware of reports of possible long-range attacks directed at Ethiopian military installations on several instances in October of this year. U.S. citizens should accordingly exercise caution and follow the advice of local authorities."
The Embassy also hit out at reported disinformation, "some social media accounts contain false and misleading reports about the security situation in Ethiopia. U.S. citizens are urged to verify information using multiple sources or reliable information."
Indeed, although explosions in and around Addis Ababa, mainly at military installations, can be confirmed as having taken place, it cannot be established that the frightening spectacle of drones crashing into buildings in a major African city which houses the headquarters of the African Union happened.
Requests for comment to the Ethiopian government were not returned.
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Dr. Jalale Getachew Birru, regional expert of the U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data research group, told Fox News Digital this is potentially a worrying development. "If identified as an aerial or drone attack, they exceed the capabilities of Ethiopia’s domestic insurgent groups, confirming Ethiopia's allegation of foreign state involvement."
The rebel groups opposing Ethiopia’s government have joined together to form the Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for Survival. This coalition claimed responsibility for the Addis Ababa attacks, stating they used drones.
Blen Mamo, executive director of the Ethiopian Horn Review thinktank, is also concerned about a new phase of conflict using drones. Mamo told Fox News Digital, "should the Alliance for Survival possess drone capabilities, it could fundamentally alter the dynamics of the conflict, refocusing strategic control on aerial dominance."
In early October, Ethiopian troops pushed out rebel groups who had occupied the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle. This operation ended a four-year-long ceasefire between Ethiopia and Tigray, the northernmost province of Ethiopia.
Last week, reports claimed Eritrean troops had entered Ethiopia. Although the allegations have not been independently verified, Fox News Digital has seen multiple videos showing what appears to be large convoys of trucks carrying uniformed soldiers passing through the Ethiopian city of Adigrat. Addis Ababa is said to have subsequently launched drone attacks and pushed the Eritreans back over the border.
The latest fighting was sparked principally by Ethiopia’s statements that it wants to get access to Red Sea ports. The country became landlocked when Eritrea became independent in 1993. In a speech as he was sworn in for a new five-year term Oct. 5, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said sea access was "of vital importance to Ethiopia’s civilization."
He added, "Based on the principle of give and take, we will work diligently to ensure that Ethiopia has an outlet to the sea."
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Possible regional expansion of any conflict also comes from the creation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Egypt and Sudan are at odds with Addis Ababa, after it built the dam across the Blue Nile, affecting access to water to these countries which are downstream. Egypt this month took up a formal position against Ethiopia, when it created a coalition with Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia.
The State Department has been active diplomatically to try and resolve the situation. A spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Allison Hooker met this month with Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and spoke with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timotheos.
Also, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Frank Garcia met with Minister Saleh. The spokesperson added, "Both U.S. officials underscored the importance of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity for all countries in the Horn of Africa."
Following these discussions, State Department spokesman Thomas "Tommy" Piggott released a statement, saying, "Increasing cross-border tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have the potential to affect the entire region. The Horn of Africa cannot sustain another military conflict and humanitarian crisis. A conflict jeopardizes ongoing U.S. collaboration on shared interests with both countries."
Piggott added, "We strongly urge Ethiopia and Eritrea to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of their neighbors, exercise maximum restraint and return to dialogue and cooperation as agreed in their 2018 peace framework. Peace through dialogue is the only path toward sustainable security, economic growth, and prosperity."
The Horn Review’s Mamo told Fox News Digital the reality on the ground is "increasingly pointing toward a conflict that may prove impossible to avoid," and warned of Egypt’s motives: "Parallel military and technical cooperation with Asmara (the capital of Eritrea) also adds strategic depth along Ethiopia’s northern frontier, while Egypt’s expanding role in Somalia and Red Sea port initiatives extends its regional influence."
"The situation in Ethiopia and in the region is extremely dynamic," analyst Cameron Hudson told Fox News Digital. Hudson added, "The question remains, given the weakness of the internal (rebel) coalition, will external forces attempt to step in and exert greater leverage against Abiy."
He continued, "We are seeing Eritrea begin to move forces into Ethiopia, while a coalition of regional states including Somalia, Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea have issued a statement that amounts to a veiled threat against Ethiopia and its regional ambitions to establish a Red Sea naval presence and expand a series of hydroelectric dams on the Nile. The entire Horn of Africa region is on a knife’s edge and it is being made only more complicated by Houthi efforts to shut Red Sea shipping and the war in Iran."
"The risk of regional conflict remains high," Hudson said. "Egypt would be happy to see Ethiopia bogged down in internal conflict and unable to pursue its ambitions on the Nile and in the Red Sea. Similarly, Sudan hopes that internal conflict in Ethiopia distracts Addis from its support of the rapid support forces militia in Sudan’s war."
"Local disputes can quickly become regional and international disputes with global consequences very quickly in this corner of the world," Hudson added, "Closure of the Bab el Mandab Strait, owing to unchecked tensions and violence across the Red Sea, will quickly be felt in the U.S."
Mystery woman sought after American found dead in Costa Rican tourist destination
Costa Rican authorities are searching for a woman who is suspected of homicide after an American citizen was found dead in late September.
The Judicial Investigation Agency in Costa Rica, the country's equivalent of the FBI, said the agency is seeking the public's help to identify a woman suspected of homicide after an American citizen, identified as "Fleming" was found dead on Sept. 27 at a condominium near the beach.
The 74-year-old American citizen entered a condo in Playas del Coco, a seaside town in a popular tourist area on Costa Rica’s northern Pacific coast, at 4:50 p.m. on Sept. 27, according to Costa Rican authorities. The woman was allegedly seen leaving the condo without him.
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Authorities then located his body, which had head injuries that were likely caused by blunt objects, according to officials.
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The woman hasn't yet been identified, but authorities say she has "a fair complexion, a slender build, and black hair, and stands approximately 1.60 meters tall."
At the time of the alleged homicide, the woman was wearing blue denim shorts, sandals and a white bra that had chain-like accessories on it. She was seen in security video released by police walking down a street with another woman.
The Judicial Investigation Agency in Costa Rica is asking anyone who may have information about the incident or the woman to contact 800-800-0645.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the State Department for comment.
NPR affiliate apologizes for sponsoring anarchist event linked to anti-ICE attackers
An NPR affiliate is apologizing after sponsoring an anarchist book fair that publicly expressed solidarity with defendants prosecuted over a violent attack on a Texas ICE detention facility that left a police officer wounded.
New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) acknowledged it "erred" by accepting an invitation to sponsor and host a table at the "New Hampshire Anarchist Book Fair" in Hanover, New Hampshire, saying the decision ran afoul of its standards against involvement in activities that could be viewed as political.
"NHPR erred in accepting an invitation to sponsor and host a table at the Anarchist Book Festival in Hanover on Saturday," the station said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital by NHPR President and CEO Jim Schachter. "Our code of ethics makes clear that we should not compromise the integrity of our journalism by involvement in anything that can be viewed as political."
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"No one from NHPR's newsroom was aware of or involved in the decision to participate in this event," the statement added. "We remain committed to our mission of independent, trustworthy journalism for everyone in New Hampshire, and we are evaluating our internal processes to ensure mistakes like this don't happen again."
The controversy centers on promotional materials for the event that declared, "Solidarity with the Prairieland Defendants" — a reference to defendants prosecuted in connection with a July 4, 2025, attack on the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas.
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Federal prosecutors said members of what they described as a North Texas Antifa cell launched a coordinated attack on the facility, using fireworks and vandalism to draw law enforcement officers outside while armed participants positioned themselves nearby. An Alvarado police officer responding to the scene was shot in the neck.
Nine defendants were later convicted of federal offenses stemming from the attack, while seven others pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists, according to the Justice Department.
"NHPR didn't 'err,' they got caught," posted the Carroll County Republicans on X. "There better not be any taxpayer money going to this domestic terrorist allied corporation."
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"NHPR promoting Antifa (shocking, I know)," added New Hampshire state Rep. Kristin Noble.
Referring to NHPR's statement that its journalists were not aware of the event, state Rep. Keith Ammon quipped: "Don't feel bad. I thought it was a fair about cookbooks."
Dem senator says 'zero interest in running for president' in debate with GOP opponent
Incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., who has repeatedly shot down the prospect of mounting a 2028 presidential bid, reiterated his position during a Tuesday night Georgia U.S. Senate debate.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution chief political reporter Greg Bluestein pressed Ossoff about the issue during the Atlanta Press Club U.S. Senate debate at the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios.
"Senator Ossoff, you've repeatedly said you won't run for president in 2028, but your name continues to surface as a potential contender," Bluestein said, adding, "So will you pledge right now tonight to serve your full six-year term if you win?"
"Yes, I will," Ossoff replied. "I have zero interest in running for president. I'm not running for president. I'm running for re-election to the Senate."
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The Democrat faces Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., in the Peach State contest, a Republican congressman who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since early 2023.
Collins pushed back during the debate, saying Ossoff "is running for president" and will "be your DSA candidate," apparently referring to the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Ossoff has served in the U.S. Senate since early 2021.
While President Donald Trump has endorsed Collins, former President Barack Obama is backing Ossoff.
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The state — which currently has a Republican governor and two Democratic senators — went to Trump in the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections and to Joe Biden in 2020.