“A Tennessee man pardoned by President Trump for taking part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison for hatching a separate plot to assassinate the law enforcement officers who investigated his role in the riot,” the New York Times reports.

Associated Press: “It was a surprising statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi as the Trump administration promises to release more files from its sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein: The FBI, she said, was reviewing ‘tens of thousands of videos’ of the wealthy financier ‘with children or child porn.’”

“Yet weeks after Bondi’s remarks, it remains unclear what she was referring to.”

South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R), who prosecutors say used the screen name “joebidennnn69,” has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children, The Guardian reports.

“Federal authorities are trying to determine who has been anonymously ordering pizzas that are sent to the homes of U.S. lawmakers across the country and to the homes of those who help protect those lawmakers,” ABC News reports.

“The mysterious deliveries have authorities worried that they could be intended to send a menacing message.”

The Justice Department “ordered federal prosecutors to prioritize criminal prosecution of protesters who destroy property or assault law enforcement, and to make sure every case they bring gets publicized,” Reuters reports.

A video has emerged of the Minnesota murder suspect Vance Boelter dancing at an evangelical church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo because he was “excited about Jesus.”

Wired reports the alleged shooter “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”

“Authorities arrested and charged 57-year-old Vance Boelter on Sunday night after he allegedly shot and killed House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband in their Brooklyn Park home and shot and seriously injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife in their home in Champlin,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

New York Times: “The suspect was captured near the home where he lived with his wife and children, outside of Green Isle, Minn. That’s roughly an hour’s drive southwest of Minneapolis and the suburbs where the shootings took place.”

Wall Street Journal: Who is Vance Boelter?

New York Times: “Slowly but surely, political violence has moved from the fringes to an inescapable reality. Violent threats and even assassinations, attempted or successful, have become part of the political landscape — a steady undercurrent of American life.”

“Republican and Democratic politicians are warning about rising violence targeting elected officials in the aftermath of a series of attacks, including the killing of a state official in Minnesota on Saturday,” Politico reports.

“Within the last year, there have been multiple assassination attempts against President Donald Trump, an arson attack on Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence, and the killing of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington — setting a new cycle of violence in the country.”

Wall Street Journal: “On Thursday, Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill were at each other‘s throats. By Saturday, they were joining to decry political violence and seek more security.”

“The middle-of-the-night killing in Minnesota of a top Democratic state lawmaker and the shooting of a colleague, allegedly by a suspect posing as a police officer who had a list of other elected officials, jolted Capitol Hill, eight years to the day after Republican lawmakers were targeted by a lone gunman at a congressional baseball practice.”

Axios: “Members of Congress went into this weekend with their nerves already severely frayed. The shooting of two lawmakers in Minnesota on Saturday has sent those tensions over the edge.”

Two law enforcement officials told CNN the suspect in the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband is 57-year-old Vance Boelter.

Officials found a “manifesto” identifying “many lawmakers and other officials” in his vehicle.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports the suspect is at large, and a massive manhunt is underway.

“Two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses were shot by someone impersonating a police officer,” KMSP reports.

“A source tells ABC News that two of those shot are state Sen. John Hoffman of Champlin and state Rep. Melissa Hortman of Brooklyn Park. Both were shot at their homes, and authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement, the source says.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi said at least nine people are facing federal charges for their involvement in protests against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Politico reports.

Said Bondi: “We are going to prosecute them federally. If California won’t protect their law enforcement, we will protect the LAPD and the sheriff’s office out there.”

“Five leaders of the Proud Boys, four of whom were found guilty of engaging in a seditious conspiracy to keep President Donald Trump in power on Jan. 6, 2021, want the government to pay them $100 million in restitution over claims their constitutional rights were violated,” the Washington Post reports.

“The lawsuit follows Trump’s decision to pardon virtually all Jan. 6. defendants in one of his opening acts as president, an extraordinary attempt to recast the official public narrative about an attack that halted a cornerstone of America democracy: the peaceful transfer of power.”

Immigration enforcement officers detained the wife and five children of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the alleged terrorist attacker in Boulder, Colorado, the Denver Post reports.

“A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue providing gender-affirming care to hundreds of transgender prison inmates, ruling that an abrupt decision to curtail their medical care was not based on any ‘reasoned’ analysis, as the law requires,” Politico reports.

Reason: “One of the most predictable clichés in journalism is ‘if it bleeds, it leads’—the idea that media have a bias for salacious, grisly stories. Like many stereotypes, it’s very much based in truth, which might explain why plummeting murder rates nationwide have not managed to capture national attention.”

“Despite a news cycle that prioritizes doom, the U.S. has seen that decline take hold over the last couple of years, with the murder rate in 2024 not just falling from the 2020 spike but returning to pre-COVID levels. That brings us to the present, and to a question: Could 2025 see the lowest murder rate ever recorded?”