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Search for suspect Vance Boelter continues after attacks on Minnesota lawmakers

KSTPA massive search continued Sunday for a man suspected in the fatal shooting of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and a separate shooting attack on another state lawmaker and his spouse, authorities said.The manhunt for 57-year-old Vance Boelter stretched into its second day following Saturday's twin attacks in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and the discovery in the suspect's vehicle of an alleged target list of dozens of Minnesota Democrats, including Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. Rep. Ilhan […]

todayJune 15, 2025

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What to know about Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman, lawmakers shot in Minnesota

Melissa and Mark Hortman attend at Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer Labor Party’s annual Humphrey-Mondale Dinner at the Minneapolis Hilton on Friday, June 13, 2025.(Minnesota House DFL Caucus)(BROOKLYN PARK, MN) -- State Rep. Melissa Hortman and State Sen. John Hoffman, who were targeted by a shooter on Saturday, were longtime members of Minnesota's state legislature who spent years working to improve their communities, according to leaders who knew them.Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed at their home in Brooklyn […]

todayJune 14, 2025

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Minnesota shooting suspect identified as Vance Boelter, manhunt ongoing; dozens of Democrats on list, sources say

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension(BROOKLYN PARK, MN) -- Authorities said they've identified 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter as a suspect as they search for the gunman who allegedly shot and killed a state representative and shot and wounded a state senator in a targeted act of violence early Saturday.Authorities said they're still investigating if Boelter knew the victims in Saturday's shooting: State Rep. Melissa Hortman and State Sen. John Hoffman."There's certainly some overlap with some, you know, public meetings, I will […]

todayJune 14, 2025

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Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed, State Sen. John Hoffman in grave condition in ‘targeted political violence’

(BROOKLYN PARK, MN) -- A Minnesota state representative and her husband were shot and killed, and a state senator and his wife were shot and wounded in an "act of targeted political violence" at their homes early Saturday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said.A manhunt is now underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer, authorities said.State Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and her husband were shot and killed in what appears to be a "politically-motivated assassination," Walz said […]

todayJune 14, 2025

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Government says it won’t release Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress(WASHINGTON) -- In a court filing Friday, the Trump administration said it won't release Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz barred the Trump administration from seeking to deport or continue to detain Khalil based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio's determination that his continued presence in the country would pose a risk to foreign policy.The judge stayed his injunction until 9:30 a.m. ET Friday, giving the Trump administration about 40 hours to appeal […]

todayJune 13, 2025

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty Friday to human smuggling charges, one week after he was brought back to the Unites States from detention in El Salvador.The 29-year-old has been the subject of a prolonged legal battle since he was deported in March to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution -- after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang […]

todayJune 13, 2025

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Karen Read retrial: Key takeaways as jury about to get the case

Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(DEDHAM, Mass.) -- With closing arguments now underway, the second sensational trial of Karen Read -- accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend in 2022 -- is nearing a close.Prosecutors allege Read hit her boyfriend, John O'Keefe, with her car outside the home of fellow police officer Brian Albert in January 2022 and then left him to die there during a major blizzard.The defense has argued Read's vehicle did not hit O'Keefe and instead said […]

todayJune 13, 2025

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Consumer sentiment improves more than expected as Trump rolls back tariffs

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Consumer sentiment improved more than expected in June, indicating a swell of optimism as President Donald Trump rolled back some tariffs in recent weeks.The resurgence of shopper attitudes ended six consecutive months of worsening sentiment, University of Michigan survey data on Friday showed. Before the uptick, consumer sentiment had fallen near its lowest level since a bout of inflation three years ago.Year-ahead inflation expectations, meanwhile, dropped sharply from 6.6% last month to 5.1% in June, the data showed. The anticipated inflation […]

todayJune 13, 2025

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Appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to challenge $5 million E. Jean Carroll judgment

ftwitty/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal appeals court on Friday declined to rehear President Trump's challenge to a $5 million civil judgment after a jury found him liable in 2023 for the battery and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s.A jury in Manhattan federal court found in 2023 that Trump attacked Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the 1990s and later defamed her when he denied her claim.Trump had sought a hearing before the […]

todayJune 13, 2025

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