Lawmakers confronting a rise in political violence are grappling over whether to use more tax dollars for their own ...

President Donald Trump expressed zero interest in calling Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker and her husband were gunned down by an assassin.

Tina Smith of Minnesota confronted GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah at the Capitol on Monday over a social media post about the ...

Three days before she was killed by an assassin targeting Minnesota Democrats, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman told me she thought work in the Legislature was becoming harder because Republicans were ...

Press Democrat readers comment on Minnesota shootings, Sonoma County airport: PD Letters Rhetoric and violence EDITOR: Over ...

Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Monday that lawmakers are “clearly at the point where we have to adjust the ...

An Illinois lawmaker said she hopes the horrific tragedy will lead to increased safety measures for public officials and first responders.

Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota has decided to sleep with a loaded pistol near his nightstand after the deadly ...

The assassinations this past weekend of a former Minnesota House speaker and her husband, along with the shooting of a state ...

Q&A with Jillian Peterson, professor of criminology and criminal justice at Hamline University and co-founder of The Violence Project ...

Federal officials say the suspect in the killings of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband had a much larger list of targets, including Democratic officeholders and abortion rights supporters. NPR's ...

There has been discussion about safety around the state capitol for years, but the tragedy adds a new level of urgency. Several lawmakers told WCCO how the shootings shattered their sense of safety.