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Minnesota politicians killed, injured in attack
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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 his wife, Yvette, were Hortman 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
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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.
Thousands in New Orleans gather on streets peacefully BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer
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Ellen Dionne Alverez learns about her family tree in New Orleans on Sunday. Alverez is a second cousin of Pope Leo XIV. STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER
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Several thousand protesters flooded the streets of downtown New Orleans on Saturday to demonstrate against what organizers called President Donald Trump’s “authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of democracy.” The ‘No Kings’ protest was part of a series of demonstrations in cities across the nation, including Covington, Baton Rouge and Lafayette, scheduled to coincide with an elaborate military parade organized by the Trump administration on the National Mall to commemorate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary. Saturday was also Flag Day and the president’s 79th birthday.
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Protestors walk on Frenchmen Street during the ‘No Kings’ protest in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans on Saturday. The protest was part of demonstrations in cities across the nation.
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 a 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 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
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Race splits two branches of Pope Leo’s family Cousins seek to reunite family as lineage is traced
skinned passed for White. The other side continued on as Black. Most of the family left Louisiana more than a centuBY DESIREE STENNETT | Staff writer ry ago, but accordTwo generations before his birth, ing to genealogist Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV’s New Orleans fam- Jari Honora, who ily splintered along racial lines. has been studying the pope’s local On one side, those who were fair- ancestry, two branches of the ex-
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tended family — one Black and one White — stayed in New Orleans. They never met. Ellen Dionne Alverez, 77, grew up in the 7th Ward and has lived her entire life in the city. When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was chosen as pope last month, word quickly spread through her Black New Orleans family that
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