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CHUCK SCHUMER

The Murdo native and Sioux Falls resident reaches the top job in the U.S. Senate 20 years after defeating another majority leader from South Dakota, Tom Daschle.
'I think that what she talked about is things that she should have or could have done the last three and a half years,' said Rep. Pete Stauber, who represents Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District
It marked another blockbuster legal triumph for Trump, following a July 1 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that as a former president he has immunity from prosecution for many of his actions in office.
"I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear," Trump said on his Truth Social platform following the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.

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The House approved the measure to fund the government through Dec. 3 in a bipartisan 254-175 vote, hours after it passed the Senate 65-35. It will now go to Biden for signing before funding runs out at midnight.
The push to build support for the federal proposal comes days before the U.S. Senate could vote on the funding bill.
Trump is on trial in the U.S. Senate on a charge of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection by supporters who stormed the seat of Congress in Washington to stop lawmakers from certifying Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory, resulting in the deaths of five people, including a police officer.
The Democrats appear highly unlikely to secure a conviction and bar Trump from ever again holding public office given that only six Republicans voted with Democrats in the 100-seat chamber to proceed with the trial.
Pastors call for peace and unity after Pastor Darryl Knappen's video calling for President Donald Trump to institute martial law.
The Senate's Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell, rejected Democratic calls for a quick impeachment trial, saying there was no way to conclude it before Trump leaves office. But even if he has left the White House, a Senate conviction of Trump could lead to a vote on banning him from running for office again.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called on Vice President Mike Pence to remove Trump under the Constitution's 25th Amendment, which allows Cabinet members to oust a president who has been incapacitated. At least one Republican and 19 Democrats in the House of Representatives also called for that step.
One woman died after being shot during the mayhem, Washington police said. The FBI said it had disarmed two suspected explosive devices.
Though likely to fall short of a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority, Democratic Senate control would greatly aid a Biden legislative agenda or help stymie a second Trump term.
Klobuchar's office says that after attending a hearing with two mask-less U.S. senators who have since tested positive for coronavirus, she has tested negative.
MILWAUKEE — Live coverage of the Democratic National Convention continues for the second night Tuesday, Aug. 18, with Jill Biden, wife of U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, headlining.

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