Assassination suspect arrested after fatal attack on Minnesota lawmakers
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🗓️ 16 June 2025
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A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of Minnesota lawmakers over the weekend.
Iranian missiles struck Tel Aviv and Haifa before dawn on Monday.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Monday, June 16, 2025. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, man has been taken into custody after a fatal attack on Minnesota lawmakers, plus the latest on Iran's pre-dawn strikes on Israel. |
| 0:22.1 | An economist warned that fewer immigrants could prompt labor shortages and slow economic growth. |
| 0:29.2 | The man suspected of shooting two democratic lawmakers, killing one, was taken into custody, authorities |
| 0:34.5 | announced last night. The suspect identified as 57-year-old |
| 0:37.9 | Vance Luther Bolter was taken into custody about 50 miles away from Minneapolis, according to the |
| 0:43.2 | superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. It was arrested after state |
| 0:47.6 | representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed in state senator John |
| 0:52.3 | Hoffman and his wife Evette were shot multiple times and wounded in Brooklyn Park and Champlain, |
| 0:58.0 | two neighboring suburban cities 10 to 20 miles outside Minneapolis. The U.S. Attorney's Office is reviewing whether the suspect will face federal charges. |
| 1:05.8 | The suspect had posed as a law enforcement officer to gain access to the Minneapolis area victim's homes |
| 1:11.4 | and the pre-dawn hours on Saturday, officials said. Authority said he and police officers exchanged |
| 1:16.3 | gunfire before he fled on foot. |
| 1:22.6 | Iranian missiles struck Tel Aviv and Haifa in Israel before dawn, killing at least eight people while |
| 1:27.7 | destroying homes. Several residential buildings in a densely populated neighborhood in Tel Aviv were |
| 1:32.4 | destroyed in a strike just hundreds of meters from the U.S. Embassy branch in the city. The U.S. |
| 1:37.2 | ambassadors said the building sustained minor damage. The latest deaths in Israel, reported by |
| 1:41.8 | Israel's national emergency services, raised its death toll to 23 since Friday. |
| 1:47.0 | Israeli attacks in Iran have killed at least 224 people since then, according to Iran's health ministry. |
| 1:53.0 | That country's Revolutionary Guard said the latest attack used a new method that caused Israel's multi-layered defense systems to target each other and allowed Tehran to successfully |
| 2:02.1 | hit many targets. Israel's defense minister warned that Tehran residents would pay the price |
| 2:07.2 | and soon. Before leaving for the G7 summit yesterday, President Donald Trump was asked |
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