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An Ohio real-estate investor is planning to take a two-person submersible down to Titanic-level depths to prove that the journey can be carried out safely following the Titan sub's implosion last year. The investor, Larry Connor, told The Wall Street Journal: "I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way." He's working with Patrick Lahey, a cofounder and the CEO of the submersible manufacturer Triton Submarines. They aim to show that such an expedition can be carried...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders over the weekend after the lawmaker demanded the wealthy pay their “fair share.” Sanders, an advocate for redistributing wealth, tweeted Saturday afternoon that “we must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period.” Early Sunday, Musk fired back at the Vermont independent. “I keep forgetting that you’re still alive,” he wrote in a tweet. Musk followed that up with another message for Sanders. “Want me to sell more stock, Bernie?” he asked. “Just say the word …” Musk falls under Sanders’ description of “the extremely wealthy” as the...

@ChadPergram A) Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT, President Pro Tempore of the Senate and third in line to the presidency, announces he won’t seek reelection next year. First elected in 1974. Chairs the Appropriations Committee. Is the only Democrat ever elected to the Senate from Vermont. B) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) caucuses with the Democrats. Late Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-VT) caucused with the Democrats at the end of his career.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the longest-serving member of the Senate, said Monday he will not seek reelection in 2022 to the seat he has held for eight terms. Leahy, 81, said he and his wife, Marcelle, have concluded that “it is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter who will carry on this work for our great state. It’s time to come home.”

Sunday on New York WABC 770 AM radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris predicted that “there may be only a handful of white Democrats in Congress” after the 2022 midterm elections. In reaction to new polling after the GOP’s takeover of Virginia, Morris told host John Catsimatidis there would be an “unbelievable wipeout of Democrats. He said the majority of the remaining Democrats would be “black or Latino.”

Sen. Patrick Lahey is holding a press conference on Monday morning in the Vermont statehouse, heightening speculation about his looming potential retirement. Leahy, the longest serving Democrat in the Senate, is up for reelection next fall. Leahy stepping back would open up a new likely Democratic seat, raising the question of whether Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will endorse the state’s lone congressional representative, Peter Welch, or allow an open primary to play out. Welch, a Democrat, is known to be planning a run to replace Leahy if and when he retires. If Sanders endorses Welch, he functionally forecloses any challenge...