Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria is spending the closing days of her reelection campaign in the new parts of her Virginia district to gain the support of Black residents whose votes could well determine if she gets a third term.

FILE - U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., describes the events of Bloody Sunday during a visit to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 7, 2010. The film "John Lewis: Good Trouble" will debut on CNN on Sunday night. The unexpected commercial success of the “RBG” film in theaters two years ago had CNN looking for another contemporary leader whose life could be seen in historical terms. Porter finished the film late last fall, just before learning that Lewis had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. It offers a deeper dive into Lewis' life for people who became intrigued about his story around the time he died.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - OCTOBER 25: Former U.S. President Barack Obama pauses while speaking during funeral services for late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) at the New Psalmist Baptist Church October 25, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. Rep. A sharecroppers son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Cummings died last week of complications from longstanding health problems at the age of 68. (Photo by Lloyd Fox-Pool/Getty Images)Hide Caption

BALTIMORE - Congressman and civil rights leader Elijah Cummings was remembered Friday as a fierce champion of truth, justice and kindness at a funeral that brought Washington politicians and ordinary people alike to the Baltimore church where he worshipped for nearly four decades. that Elijah Cummings shared a name with an Old Testament prophet, said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the first in a series of dignitaries scheduled to deliver remarks. Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were also among the scheduled speakers at the 4,000-seat New Psalmist Baptist Church. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is greeted by former President Barack Obama during funeral services for her late husband U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) at the New Psalmist Baptist Church Oct. 25, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. Cummings casket arrived at the church before daybreak and was placed, open, in front of the sanctuary.

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Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings has died at the age of 68. - Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has died at the age of 68 due to health complications, according to a statement from his office. The Democrat was a major player in the impeachment inquiry surrounding President Donald Trump. Cummings had been away from Capitol Hill for more than week after having an undisclosed medical procedure. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Vice President Mike Pence delivers a speech at the Flight 93 National Memorial on Sept. 11, 2019, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. WASHINGTON (CNN) - House Democrats are seeking documents from Vice President Mike Pence as part of their impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump and his conversation with the President of Ukraine. The demand for documents came in a letter Friday from House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel and House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings. Rather than traveling to Warsaw, Poland, last month to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump decided to stay home to track the damage from Hurricane Dorian. In his place he sent Pence, whose face-to-face meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky now puts him at the heart of events that led to the impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives.

The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed. "I was notified of the intrusion by my security system, and I scared the intruder away by yelling before the person gained entry into the residential portion of the house," Cummings said. Trump attacks Cummings and BaltimoreOn Saturday, Trump attacked Cummings, the chair of the House Oversight Committee, as a "bully" and slammed Baltimore, as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," suggesting that "no human being would want to live there." His tweets had followed a segment that aired an hour earlier on Fox News, in which a Republican strategist claimed conditions in Cummings' district were worse than those at the southern border. The son of former sharecroppers, Cummings was born in 1951 and graduated from Baltimore City College High School in 1969.

Al Sharpton on Monday, escalating a series of attacks on prominent black leaders and minority progressives. In his tweets on Monday, Trump called Sharpton a "con man, a troublemaker" who "Hates Whites & Cops!" In response, Sharpton tweeted a photo of Trump speaking to him, the Rev. Trump ignited a racial controversy earlier this month when he repeatedly used racist language to attack four minority Democratic lawmakers. In response, Cummings tweeted that "Each morning, I wake up, and I go and fight for my neighbors.

(CNN) - Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is defending his company's hometown after President Donald Trump attacked Democrat Elijah Cummings, whose congressional district includes Baltimore, and criticized the city. Plank posted an old commercial on his personal Instagram account Sunday showing Under Armour's adoration of the Maryland city. Under Armour launched that marketing campaign in 2017 to become more engaged with Baltimore. He stepped down from Trump's American Manufacturing Council in 2017 after the president didn't directly criticize neo-Nazis, the KKK and other white supremacists at a Charlottesville, Virginia rally. "I think there is blame on both sides," Trump previously said and equated the white supremacists on one side with the "alt-left" on the other side.

Conway is not expected to appear on Wednesday on the advice of White House counsel for the committee's scheduled hearing. "Ms. Conway's violations, if left unpunished, would send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act's restrictions," wrote the OSC, which is unrelated to special counsel Robert Mueller's office. Trump has said that he's not going to fire Conway over the alleged Hatch Act violations and White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter Monday that Conway does not need to testify before Congress. "As you know, the precedent for members of the White House staff to decline invitations to testify before congressional committees has been consistently adhered to by administrations of both political parties, and is based on clearly established constitutional doctrines," Cipollone wrote. Last month, Conway mocked that finding.