Politics

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Americans talk constantly about how their country is split down the middle politically. Melissa Hortman lived that every day as a Minnesota House member.

The assassination of one Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes, is just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov.

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.; retired Gen. Joseph Votel, former commander of U.S. Central Command. ___ NBC's “Meet the Press” — Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels , after President Donald Trump expressed alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement, an official said Saturday.

MONTREAL — Four major Quebec universities are proposing initiatives to make the province a landing spot for high-level researchers and urged the federal and provincial government to step up at a unique moment to attract talent from around the globe.

Officials say a wildfire near Squamish, B.C., which forced the evacuation of the nearby Alice Lake Provincial Park and triggered a local state of emergency earlier this week appears to have stabilized after help from cool, cloudy weather conditions.

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive Sunday in Alberta for the G7 summit — his first visit to Canada since leaving in a huff seven years ago.

OTTAWA — The federal government is urging Canadians to "avoid all travel" to Israel as the country exchanges missile and air strikes with Iran.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration's emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump's efforts to remake the federal government