Atlanta — US Congressman Elijah Cummings, the Democrat chair of a leading congressional committee investigating US President Donald Trump, has died at age 68, his office said on Thursday.

Cummings was chair of the US House oversight and reform committee, a top investigative committee in the House of Representatives that, along with two others, is overseeing an impeachment inquiry into the Republican president...

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