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Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers caught, AP sources says
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Man suspected of shooting 2 Minnesota lawmakers caught, AP sources says

  • By OBED LAMY, STEVE KARNOWSKI, MIKE BALSAMO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press
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The man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one of them, has been taken into custody, two law enforcement officials said. Vance Boelter was arrested Sunday evening. The arrest was confirmed to The Associated Press by law enforcement officials were who were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. Former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in their Brooklyn Park home early Saturday in the northern Minneapolis suburbs. Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, were injured at their Champlin home, about 9 miles (about 15 kilometers) away.

Missouri Supreme Court has opened the door to abortions being halted again
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Missouri Supreme Court has opened the door to abortions being halted again

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The Missouri Supreme Court opened the door to abortions being halted again. The decision on Tuesday is part of a tumultuous legal saga. Voters struck down the state’s abortion ban last November. The state’s top court ruled that a district judge applied the wrong standard in rulings in December and February. Those rulings allowed abortions to resume in the state for the first time since they were nearly completely halted. The ban had taken effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. In Tuesday’s two-page ruling, the court ordered the judge to vacate her earlier orders and reevaluate the case using the standards the court laid out.

Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny
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Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny

  • By FATIMA HUSSEIN and ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press
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The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out. That word comes from a Treasury Department official who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the news. An immediate annual savings of $56 million in reduced material costs is expected by stopping penny production, according to the official. In February, President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered his administration to cease production of the 1-cent coin. The Treasury says there are about 114 billion pennies currently in circulation in the United States � that’s $1.14 billion � but they're greatly underutilized.