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What Happened Today – April 22, 2026

Rep. David Scott presides over a House Agriculture Committee hearing as chairman

Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., the first Black chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, died Wednesday at 80, vacating Georgia's 13th District and shrinking the House Democratic caucus further. (Official campaign photo)

The country’s top cop spent this week suing The Atlantic and sending his FBI after a New York Times reporter. The reporter had called Patel’s 27-year-old girlfriend while writing about the FBI SWAT team that guards her full-time. Yesterday, a federal judge tossed Patel’s other defamation suit as “rhetorical hyperbole,” and at a press conference … Read more

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