Connolly staffers hospitalized after baseball bat attack in district office

Two staffers for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) were hospitalized on Monday after a man entered the congressman’s district office in Fairfax, Va., and assaulted them with a metal bat, underscoring the threats faced by lawmakers amid extreme political polarization in the U.S.Connolly, who represents Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, said the assailant asked for him before attacking his staffers, who were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The suspect str