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Cummings died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 2:45 a.m. Thursday morning from “complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” his office said. He hadn’t returned to work after having a medical procedure he said would only keep him away for about a week, the Baltimore Sun noted. The procedure already caused Cummings to miss a September hearing on Washington, D.C., statehood.

LORDSTOWN, Ohio — They stood outside in the dark, illuminated by barrel fires and the headlights of trucks lurching by, and they were angry. The Chevrolet Cruze plant behind them had been idle for six months and shed thousands of jobs. They were the laid-off, reassigned, and retired factory workers who had spent decades inside, fitting headlights and slipping windows into doors as compact sedans took shape on the assembly line. Some of the plant’s former employees had stayed here in Northeast Ohio, perhaps without a job or with a worse-paying one, while many of their neighbors moved away.

The top Democratic presidential candidates are locked in a close race in the 2020 Iowa caucuses, with Senator Elizabeth Warren slightly ahead of Senator Bernie Sanders, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, and former vice president Joe Biden, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll of likely Democratic caucusgoers. Warren appears to have solidified her gains in the first voting state while Buttigieg has climbed quickly to catch up with Sanders and overtake Biden, the onetime front-runner.

Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday released her proposal to pay for Medicare for All, a plan to move every American to government-run health insurance that would reshape the US health care system. Warren’s plan, outlined in a 9,275-word Medium post, included complex ideas for paying for health care costs after private insurance is ended . It’s a lot to digest, so here are five takeaways. The plan released by Warren on Friday is primarily aimed at answering the question of how to pay for single-payer health care.

WASHINGTON — Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman, announced Friday that he was ending his Democratic presidential campaign, which failed to recapture the enthusiasm, interest and fundraising prowess of his 2018 Senate race. Addressing supporters in Iowa, O’Rourke said that while his campaign was ending, he planned to stay active in the fight to defeat President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON — If there is anything that has changed in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s remarkably consistent campaign for president, it is how intensely and specifically she now embraces Medicare for All. She used to discuss it in broad and flexible terms, rattling off “different pathways” the country might take to an entirely government-funded health care system.

tweet sent immediately after the vote Thursday morning, Trump declared the impeachment probe “The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History” — echoing language he has often used to describe the impeachment inquiry and special counsel MORE’s Russia investigation before that. White House press secretary voted 232-196 in favor of advancing impeachment inquiry procedures.

A federal judge on Thursday fast-tracked a case involving a key impeachment witness caught between House Democrats seeking to compel his testimony and a White House order to defy a congressional subpoena.  

The House on Thursday took its first major step toward making MORE just the third president in history to be impeached, approving procedures for an inquiry likely to burst into full public view in weeks. The measure, which establishes rules for open hearings and the questioning of witnesses by members and staff, passed in a 232-196 party-line vote with just two Democrats voting against it and no Republicans supporting it. The Democrats who voted no were Rep

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