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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday filed murder and stalking charges against Vance Boelter, the 57-year-old Minnesota man who has confessed to carrying out a deadly attack targeting state lawmakers and their spouses — an act of political violence that has shocked the nation and left Minnesota reeling. Boelter is accused of …

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) deleted controversial social media posts after facing an outcry from Democratic lawmakers who said his comments about the murder of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband were cruel, inflammatory, and inappropriate. Lee’s now-deleted posts on his personal X (formerly Twitter) account referenced the fatal Saturday …

In one of the most alarming cases of political violence in recent U.S. history, authorities say a Minnesota man disguised as a police officer murdered a Democratic state lawmaker and wounded another in a targeted rampage fueled by a hit list of 45 elected officials, all Democrats. The suspect, Vance …