Author: Daniel snow

A memorial is seen on the desk of DFL State Rep. Melissa Hortman in the House chambers at the Minnesota State Capitol on June 16, 2025 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Steven Garcia | Getty ImagesThe man accused of assassinating a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, and shooting another lawmaker and his wife, is expected to face first-degree murder charges, state officials said Monday.The details of the crime “are truly chilling, it is no exaggeration to say that his crimes are the stuff of nightmares,” Joe Thompson, the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota, said. “Political assassinations are rare,” Thompson said…

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In western Louisiana, a Black Hawk helicopter ride away from the Fort Johnson military base, sits a vast complex of wilderness that the U.S. Army uses to train soldiers for combat. The expanse, what the Joint Readiness Training Center’s calls the “Box,” stretches 242,000 acres. It was there that the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division recently completed a two-week rotation and that the service’s top military official, U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, paid servicemembers a visit.”We immerse our units in the training that’s here. We have a professional opposing force that also has the latest technology,…

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The Israel-Iran conflict escalated over the weekend — not that you could tell by looking at the financial markets on Monday. The major U.S. stock benchmarks opened higher. Oil prices fell. Gold, the ultimate safe-haven asset, also edged lower. Abroad, the pan-European Stoxx 600 was slightly higher and stock indexes in the Asia-Pacific region climbed, too. It is basically the mirror opposite to Friday’s action, as Israel’s first round of strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities coursed through global markets, sending equities lower, oil surging and gold gaining. Investors following the news over the weekend might’ve expected more of the same…

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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as Fed Chair Jerome Powell speaks at the White House in Washington on Nov. 2, 2017.Carlos Barria | ReutersPolitical pressure is mounting against the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, and yet the Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at the end of its two-day meeting this week.Despite a wave of recent attacks on Powell from President Donald Trump, futures market pricing is implying virtually no chance of an interest rate cut, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch gauge.The president has argued that maintaining a fed funds rate that is too high makes it harder for businesses and consumers to…

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