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.

Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli over the Trump administration's immigration policies Wednesday amid speculation that he's being considered to become the new acting Homeland Security secretary. "After declaring that I'm not a white supremacist, as you alluded," Cuccinelli said. Cuccinelli maintained that he made the decision alone, but conceded he thought it was a "mistake to implement this on a retroactive basis." Instead, USCIS said it would defer discretion for deportation relief to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Minutes before the hearing began, Cuccinelli and Albence, seated next to each other, barely interacted.

Former Presidents, America's top lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans all turned out to say farewell to political giant and Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings. Distributed by LAKANA. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

(CNN) - Congressional leaders will honor the late Rep. Elijah Cummings on Thursday as his body lies in state in National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol. Cummings appears to be the first African American and African American lawmaker to lie in state in the US Capitol, according to congressional historians. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office announced last week that Cummings' body will lie in state with a formal ceremony to take place on Thursday morning. Congressional lawmakers, members of the Cummings family and invited guests will be permitted to attend. Cummings, who grew up during the civil rights movement, became a leading voice among African American lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

2017 Getty Images via CNNWASHINGTON (CNN) - The body of Rep. Elijah Cummings will lie in state in the National Statuary Hall of the US Capitol next week, the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday. A formal memorial service for the Maryland Democrat is scheduled for Thursday morning, also in Statuary Hall, for all members of Congress, Cummings' family and invited guests. Cummings, a key figure leading investigations into President Donald Trump, died Thursday morning at age 68. "In the House, Elijah was our North Star," Pelosi said. His work and voice on so many fronts will be very hard, if not impossible, to replace," he said in a Tweet.

Hours before his passing, staffers drove the subpoenas to Baltimore for Cummings' signature, said a Democratic committee aide. "Chairman Cummings felt so strongly about the children, that he was going to fight until the end," said the aide. Cummings' office announced the death of the veteran Maryland Democratic lawmaker on Thursday morning. "The Committee has tried for more than a month to obtain this information voluntarily, but USCIS and ICE have obstructed the investigation," wrote Cummings. The subpoenas signed by Cummings on Wednesday request records related to the decision to end deferred action, including emails, memoranda, and guidance "discussing the rationale and transition process for the deferred action policy change."

(CNN) - Former President Barack Obama remembered the late Rep. Elijah Cummings on Thursday, saying the longtime Maryland Democrat "stood tallest and most resolute when our country needed him the most." "Michelle and I are heartbroken over the passing of our friend, Elijah Cummings. "Steely yet compassionate, principled yet open to new perspectives, Chairman Cummings remained steadfast in his pursuit of truth, justice, and reconciliation. As Democrats and Republicans remembered Cummings Thursday as a strong leader, Clinton called Cummings "a man of principle who championed truth, justice and kindness." "America lost a giant with the passing of Rep. Elijah Cummings, a man of principle who championed truth, justice and kindness," she wrote on Twitter.

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.

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings wrote in a memo to members on Thursday that he plans to subpoena USCIS acting Director Ken Cuccinelli and Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Director Matthew Albence to testify on October 17. "The Committee has tried for more than a month to obtain this information voluntarily, but USCIS and ICE have obstructed the investigation," wrote Cummings, a Maryland Democrat. The committee will also subpoena documents related to the decision. Public outcry quickly followed and in September, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan ordered that USCIS to reverse the decision. "Deferred action allows individuals with compelling humanitarian need -- including children with life-threatening conditions such as cancer, muscular dystrophy, and cystic fibrosis -- to remain in the country," wrote Cummings.

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.

Zach Gibson/Getty Images(CNN) - House Democrats say they plan to subpoena the White House on Friday for a host of documents as part of the House's impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and Ukraine. The subpoena threat to the White House escalates the impeachment investigation from House Democrats fueled by the U.S. intelligence community's inspector general's review of a whistleblower complaint alleging President Donald Trump sought help from Ukraine's government to interfere in the 2020 elections. House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, who is issuing the subpoena as part of the probe along with the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees, sent a memo to members saying the subpoena was being issued after the White House would not provide documents. The subpoena includes requests for documents related to Trump's July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as the holding up of Ukrainian foreign aid. The memo, which noticed Cummings planned to issue a subpoena Friday, comes as several House committees are bracing for a last-minute briefing from the State Department's Inspector General.

CNN Video(CNN) - President Donald Trump addressed the House Republican Conference Member Retreat dinner in Baltimore Thursday evening -- his first time visiting the city since he called it a "rat and rodent infested mess." "We're going to fight for the future of cities like Baltimore that have been destroyed by decades of failed and corrupt rule," Trump said. Trump's previous comments about Baltimore being unlivable sparked a weeks-long back-and-forth between Trump and Cummings, who oversees multiple investigations of Trump and top administration officials as House Oversight chairman. One topic that will surely be broached during the retreat is how House Republicans will recapture a majority. After the tweets criticizing the state of Baltimore, Trump called for for Cummings to use the resources of the House Oversight Committee to investigate Baltimore's corruption.

CNN Video(CNN) - President Donald Trump is heading to Baltimore -- the same city he recently called "a rat and rodent infested mess" -- on Thursday to speak at the 2019 House Republican Conference member retreat dinner, according to a White House schedule released Sunday. CNN has reached out Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott, Baltimore Mayor Bernard "Jack" Young and Cummings for comment on Trump's upcoming visit. Young told CNN's John Berman on "New Day" Trump should send federal assistance to the city and other cities similar to Baltimore and criticized Trump for "childish tweets." Trump appeared to sarcastically mock Cummings after his Baltimore home was burglarized in July, calling the incident "too bad" in a tweet. At an event opening for an outdoor play space in Baltimore after the burglary, Cummings said he was open to Trump visiting the city.

(CNN) - The House Oversight Committee has been investigating for several months whether increased military expenditures benefiting the Trump Turnberry golf course and resort in Scotland represent a conflict of interest for the President, according to committee documents. But the Defense Department has refused to comply with investigators' requests to date, a senior Democratic committee aide told CNN on Friday. They allege that the airport, a key location as the closest airport to Turnberry, has seen an uptick in military spending since Trump won the presidency. "Despite Prestwick Airport's struggling operations, US military expenditures at the airport appear to have increased substantially since the election," the lawmakers wrote. The committee requested all documents related to military expenditures at both Turnberry and Prestwick, as well as all communications between Defense Department employees and Turnberry representatives.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Oversight Democrats say they were blocked this week by the Department of Homeland Security from visiting 11 immigration facilities after inspections by the committee previously "revealed potentially serious ongoing problems" of how migrants are treated. Detainees at Border Patrol facilities also told committee staff that they were pressured into signing documents in English without translation and denied access to telephones." Cummings states in his letter that DHS told the committee that it would bar access to 11 Customs and Border Protection facilities "in which immigrants are being held." Additionally, the chairman writes that the department "imposed new restrictions on committee staff's access to detention centers run by ICE and for-profit contractors." The department did this "without warning" even as committee staff were "en route to these sites," according to the letter.

A last-minute announcement that the president would participate in the commemoration Tuesday marking the first representative assembly in the Western Hemisphere has injected tension into an event years in the making. The boycott comes after Trump's weekend comments referring to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings' majority-black Baltimore-area district as a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess." Ralph Northam told a gathering of dignitaries that the ideals of freedom and representative government spread from Jamestown in 1619. Trump is scheduled to give remarks later Tuesday morning, joining with state and national leaders and others at a commemorative session of the Virginia General Assembly. Today's Virginia General Assembly, considered the oldest continuously operating legislative body in North America, grew out of the assembly that first gathered in 1619.