Author: BRIAN WITTE
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Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died
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BALTIMORE – Maryland U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the powerful chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68. Cummings was a formidable orator who…