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Republicans forced their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill through the Senate  after a dramatic, marathon vote-a-rama ...

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Vance Boelter, the suspect in the shooting of Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, wrote a letter addressed to the FBI claiming that Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., had told him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy ...

The next day, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., did the same. By midday Tuesday, Lee had deleted his tweets. “I would say he seemed surprised to be confronted,” Smith later told reporters.

Accused Minnesota political assassin Vance Boetler wrote a deranged letter addressed to the FBI in which he wildly claimed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar ...