It was just after Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, had fired off a blunt text to the No. 3 House G.O.P. leader — featuring two f-bombs and four demands that needed to be met to gain her vote for the party’s debt limit plan — that she experienced a momentary flash of dread. “Now…
WASHINGTON — Representative A. Donald McEachin, Democrat of Virginia, died on Monday after a battle with colorectal cancer, his office said. “Valiantly, for years now, we have watched him fight and triumph over the secondary effects of his colorectal cancer from 2013,” Tara Rountree, the chief of staff for Mr. McEachin, said in a statement…
The actress Anne Heche, who had been in a coma since a car crash last week, has been declared brain-dead and is being kept alive on life-support to see if her organs are viable for donation, one of her representatives said Friday. Ms. Heche, 53, was critically injured on Aug. 5 when she crashed the…