Special Election for Slain Lawmaker’s Seat

“A special election in Minnesota on Tuesday will determine who will fill the seat of the late Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman, just over three months after she and her husband were fatally shot in what Gov. Tim Walz at the time called ‘a politically motivated assassination’ and less than a week after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk,” CNN reports.

Washington Post: It’s Election Day in a Minnesota suburb — because of political violence.