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Minnesota politicians killed, injured in attack
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S u n d ay, J u n e 15, 2025
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POMP AND PROTESTS
Military parade barrels through nation’s capital with tanks, troops and 21-gun salute as ‘No Kings Day’ rallies are held nationwide
Manhunt underway for suspect in ‘politically motivated assassination’ BY TIM SULLIVAN, STEVE KARNOWSKI and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press
BROOKLYN PARK,Minn.— Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic state lawmaker in her home in what Gov. Tim Walz called “a politically motivated assassination.” Authorities said the suspect also shot and wounded a second lawmaker and was believed to be tryHoffman ing to flee the area. Democratic former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in their Brooklyn Park home. State Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and Hortman his wife, Yvette, were injured at their Champlin address, about 9 miles away. Authorities identified the suspect as 57-year-old Vance Boelter, and the FBI issued a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to his arrest and
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON
President Donald Trump attends a military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, coinciding with his 79th birthday, in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Hundreds in Lafayette protest D.C. parade, Trump’s policies BY CLAIRE TAYLOR Staff writer
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Even in deep red Lafayette Parish, more than 350 people joined thousands across the country and elsewhere in Louisiana on Saturday for No Kings protests in opposition to President Donald Trump’s policies. The event took place on June 14, Flag Day, which commemorates the adoption of the U.S. flag, as well as the U.S. Army’s official birthday. Many in attendance were also protesting a military parade scheduled for Saturday evening in the nation’s capital marking Trump’s 79th birthday and the Army’s 250th birthday.
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A ‘No Kings Day’ rally was held in downtown Lafayette to counter President Donald Trump’s military parade for his birthday and to protest his policies on Saturday.
BY LOLITA C. BALDOR and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The grand military parade that President Donald Trump had been wanting for years barreled down Constitution Avenue on Saturday with tanks, troops and a 21-gun salute, playing out against the counterpoint of protests around the country by those who decried the U.S. leader as a dictator and would-be king. The Republican president, on his 79th birthday, sat on a special viewing stand south of the White House to watch the display of American military might, which began early and moved swiftly as light rain fell and dark clouds shrouded the Washington Monument. The procession with more than 6,000 soldiers and 128 Army tanks was one Trump tried to make happen in his first term after seeing such an event in Paris in 2017, but the plans never came together until this year, when the parade was added to an event
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