Statement from Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat who was shot several times in June in an attempted assassination: "The assassination of Charlie Kirk today is only the latest act that our country cannot continue to accept." #mnleg

BREAKING: Political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at a Utah campus event, the president says. He was 31. https://cnn.it/46gFG4u

Covering the Minnesota Legislature has been such a privilege these last five sessions. A relationship between a journalist and an elected official is a professional one, not a friendship. We have to ask tough questions. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t human. And Melissa Hortman was a good one.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing. “I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.