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There isn't a shortage of sweet and scary events in Rochester this weekend.

State Representative Barbara Lee, Angela Alsobrooks, and Lisa Blunt Rochester have launched or are likely to launch U.S. Senate bids in 2024.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2024 and will retire at the end of his current term.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2024 and will retire at the end of his current term.

Hundreds of people gathered at a historic church in Tulsa, Okla. to dedicate a prayer wall on the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

US must collaborate to provide the aid India needs, Congresswoman said. Washington: A top American lawmaker has proposed sending a mercy ship to India to help the country which is struggling to deal with a deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation in India is so dire that the US must organise and collaborate to provide the aid India needs, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said after the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston announced sending COVID-19 assistance to India. "...

It was an emotional moment when Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester found out her COVID-19 status Tuesday.

New Jersey Democrat thinks she contracted coronavirus during Capitol siege Jessie Hellmann © Greg Nash New Jersey Democrat thinks she contracted coronavirus during Capitol siege A Democratic congresswoman said Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19 after being locked in a room with maskless members of Congress during the riots at the Capitol last week. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) said she believes she was exposed to COVID-19 while being held in protective isolati...

New Jersey Democrat thinks she contracted coronavirus during Capitol siege Jessie Hellmann © Greg Nash New Jersey Democrat thinks she contracted coronavirus during Capitol siege A Democratic congresswoman said Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19 after being locked in a room with maskless members of Congress during the riots at the Capitol last week. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) said she believes she was exposed to COVID-19 while being held in protective isolati...

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Congress’s attending physician warned House members on Sunday that they may have been exposed to the coronavirus last week, after evacuating from the House chamber when pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol. In an email, attending physician Brian Monahan wrote that, after evacuating to “a large committee hearing space,” members “may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.” NEW — the attending physician has sent out an ...