Elijah Cummings, Democratic Leader at Forefront of Trump Investigations, Dies at 68

Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings of Maryland died early Tuesday due to complications stemming from longtime health issues, the Democratic leader’s office announced. He was 68. Cummings, who has played a high-profile role in a myriad of investigations into President Donald Trump as the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, underwent a medical procedure last month but had not yet returned to his office this week when the House was back in session.

“A sharecropper’s son, Cummings became the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President...