After a political assassination shocks Minnesota, local newsrooms must rise to the moment

On a day when anti-Trump “No Kings” protests were scheduled across the country, shocking  news out of Minnesota is dominating media coverage. The Democratic former speaker of the Minnesota House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed early Saturday in their suburban Brooklyn Park home in what Gov. Tim Walz called a “politically motivated assassination.”

Another Democratic legislator, state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also shot multiple times in their home in nearby Champlin. Hoffman and his wife were critically injured, according to Walz, but are expected to survive. The gunman, identified by authorities as Vance Boelter, is still at large as of this writing.