{"id":628492,"date":"2026-05-07T08:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628492\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:12:07","slug":"maine-sen-susan-collins-discloses-essential-tremor-to-explain-shaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628492\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Sen. Susan Collins discloses \u2018essential tremor\u2019 to explain shaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5AODMG3SQVEP5FPKEXNFVXHAJ4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) said Wednesday that she has a benign essential tremor, telling a local news outlet that she has had it for the length of her nearly 30-year Senate career.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LISIDPHTUVDV3LV32HOQFQLJAY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The revelation comes amid broader scrutiny of older candidates\u2019 age and health after President Joe Biden ended his 2024 campaign amid questions about his health. Collins, 73, is running for a sixth term in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) said Wednesday that she has a benign essential tremor, telling a local news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-628492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}