U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) won't run for re-election in Vermont, but an incumbent Vermont congressman will run for U.S. Senate in the state next year.
Peter Welch, the at-large U.S. representative for the state, will run for U.S. Senate next year. The Democrat has represented the entire state since 2006. Before that, he was a Vermont state senator.
A jury unanimously found 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of intentional homicide, reckless and attempted homicide, and reckless endangerment. Twelve citizens concluded that when he killed two men and wounded another during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin in August 2020, he did so in self-defense.
And how could they have found otherwise? The evidence was so overwhelming that the jury had no other option than to acquit Rittenhouse on all charges.
