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Melissa Hortman killed and John Hoffman wounded in two separate attacks carried out, police say, by same suspectEarly Saturday morning, Minnesota woke to the news of two targeted attacks on its lawmakers. A gunman killed the top Democratic state legislator, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, and injured another state legislator, John Hoffman, and his wife Yvette in the Minneapolis area.The suspect, Vance Boelter, remains at large. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/minnesota-lawmakers-shooting-explainer Author : Guardian staff Publish date : 2025-06-15 01:15:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Albanese says he will meet with US president Donald Trump to discuss tariffs. Follow today’s news liveHere’s some cheer! Jo Khan caught up with Henry Young, the 101-year-old who is still playing tennis. He’s preparing for the ITF Masters Championships in Croatia. He’s had two new knees, a new hip, a pacemaker and more (so I guess I should quit whinging about my creaky bones):Our man Tom McIlroy is travelling with prime minister Anthony Albanese (Seattle now, Canada shortly). He writes that in talks with US president Donald Trump, Albanese will push for a tariff exemption for Australia, and flagged

Among the dead in the internationally significant wetland are estuarine snails, shore crabs, baby flounder and ‘a thick stew of polychaete worms’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen South Australia’s algal bloom arrived in the Coorong, it stained the water like strong tea before turning it into a slurry of dead worms.Many had hoped the storm in late May would break up the bloom of Karenia mikimotoi algae, which has killed more than 200 different marine species. Instead, high tides swept the algae into the Coorong, an internationally significant Ramsar wetland at the mouth of the

Defence minister Israel Katz says Iranian capital ‘will burn’ if more missiles are fired at his countryIsrael has claimed to have gained control of the skies over the Iranian capital and warned that “Tehran will burn” if more missiles are fired at its territory, but the Iranian leadership remained defiant, vowing a “more severe and powerful response” and threatened to widen the war by striking ships and bases of Israeli allies.The mutual threats reflected the risks of a dramatic escalation in the conflict, as US-Iranian negotiations planned before the war in Oman were abandoned after Tehran said they would be