{"id":87486,"date":"2026-10-17T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87486"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:48:13","slug":"federal-probe-of-letters-containing-suspicious-substances-widens-as-gop-senators-report-receiving-mailings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/federal-probe-of-letters-containing-suspicious-substances-widens-as-gop-senators-report-receiving-mailings\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Probe Of Letters Containing Suspicious Substances Widens As GOP Senators Report Receiving Mailings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> NBC News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-b771d1\" class=\"body-graf\">A federal investigation of letters containing unknown substances that were mailed to elected officials\u2019 offices has expanded as some Republicans have been identified as targets of the mailings, a person with direct knowledge of the investigation told NBC News on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-graf\">Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Rounds of South Dakota confirmed that they were among the GOP lawmakers targeted by the mailings.\u00a0Two letters were sent to Collins, including one to her Portland office and another to her office in Washington, D.C., Collins\u2019 chief of staff, Katie Brown, said in a statement Friday. Brown said that the letters were intercepted before they arrived and that no one was injured by them.\u00a0Ricketts wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenatorRicketts\/status\/2111234838237786520?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on X<\/a> that his Omaha office \u201creceived a letter with a powdery substance\u201d that matched the description of those sent to other offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NBC News: A federal investigation of letters containing unknown substances that were mailed to elected officials\u2019 offices has expanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87487,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486\/revisions\/87487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}