Letters with white powder mailed to election offices in 3 states and to 3 Democratic senators; FBI investigating, early tests found nothing harmful

The FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (the Postal Service's own police force) and the Capitol Police are investigating letters holding an unknown powder. They were mailed to state election offices and to offices in Congress. The election offices. Election offices in Louisiana and Oklahoma were evacuated after workers opened them. Tests found the powder non-hazardous in Oklahoma and harmless in Louisiana. Postal inspectors stopped a letter addressed to Ohio's secretary of state (the state official who runs elections) before it arrived. The Congress letters. The targets included Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Sen-D New York), Chris Murphy (Sen-D Connecticut) and Alex Padilla (Sen-D California). Murphy's letter was stopped in the mail, and no one was in immediate danger. A House notice said no House members had been identified as recipients. "Any threat or attack on an election official is unacceptable," said Brendan Donahue, a deputy chief inspector at the Postal Inspection Service. Still open. The FBI says it is still working to identify who sent the letters.