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Paul Findley, a moderate Republican congressman from Illinois who sought to limit presidents’ power to wage war and pressed the United States government to engage with the Arab world, died on Friday in Jacksonville, Ill. He was 98. The cause was complications of congestive heart failure, his son, Craig, said. …

Representative Kenny Marchant of Texas is planning to announce his retirement on Monday, according to two Republican officials, becoming the fourth Republican House member from Texas in recent weeks to head for the exits rather than face re-election in 2020 in a state that is rapidly becoming more competitive. Mr. …

Donald Trump has goaded black congressman Elijah Cummings about his home being burgled in Baltimore – the city the president described as “disgusting” and “rat and rodent infested”. In the latest in a spate of attacks on the Democratic politician, the president tweeted: “Really bad news! The Baltimore house of …

A Republican congressman has urged Donald Trump not to allow a repeat of the racist chants he appeared to encourage at a recent rally, when he holds a campaign event in the crucial state of Ohio. The president was widely condemned after he stood silent at an event in North …

The only black Republican in the House of Representatives – who recently criticised Donald Trump’s tweets as “racist and xenophobic” – has announced he is quitting politics. In what will be seen as a major blow to the credibility of the Republican Party amid a storm of outrage over racists …

In 2015, Representative Adam Kinzinger had an unusual visitor at his constituent office inside a bus station in Rockford, Ill. A woman from India had flown to meet Mr. Kinzinger, claiming that she had developed a relationship with him on Facebook. “She waited around in that bus station for two …

Bernard Young, Baltimore’s mayor, has called on Donald Trump to stop tweeting and help urban cities.   “My message to the president is: stop tweeting and send federal help and federal resources to the city of Baltimore.   “Not just to the city of Baltimore, to urban cities around the …

Mr. Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, defended the president on the Sunday shows and insisted that there was nothing racist about his attack on Mr. Cummings’s district. “Does the president speak hyperbolically? Absolutely,” he said on “Face the Nation” on CBS. “Have we seen this type of …

Donald Trump has attacked a senior Democratic congressman of colour for the second day in a row, after sparking backlash over claims Elijah Cummings represented a “rodent infested” district in tweets widely viewed as racist. The president continued his criticism of the Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings on Sunday after tweeting that he “does NOTHING for …

Donald Trump called Elijah Cummings a “racist” on Sunday after describing the senior Democratic congressman of colour’s district as a “rat and rodent infested mess”. “If racist Elijah Cummings would focus more of his energy on helping the good people of his district, and Baltimore itself, perhaps progress could be …