The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another has been taken into custody, two law enforcement officials said, bringing an end to a nearly two-day search that put the state on edge. Vance Boelter was arrested Sunday evening. The arrest was confirmed to The Associated Press by law enforcement officials were who were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. Former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in their Brooklyn Park home early Saturday in the northern Minneapolis suburbs. Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, were injured at their Champlin home, about 9 miles away.

Vance Luther Boelter, the man suspected of executing a politically motivated double murder and attempted assassination of a sitting Minnesota state senator, was taken into custody Sunday night following a high-intensity manhunt across the state.
Boelter, 57, had previously been appointed to a government position by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Authorities had been searching for him since he allegedly shot State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and fatally gunned down former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.

President Trump pushed back against recent remarks by Tucker Carlson, who accused him of betraying the America First doctrine by siding with Israel during its military actions targeting Iran.
Carlson, typically a staunch Trump supporter, criticized Israel’s offensive, suggesting that the United States had a role in it. He wrote that the country was “complicit in the act of war” and added, “politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it.”
Trump responded by emphasizing that he was the originator of the America First platform and therefore determines what the phrase truly means.

A select group of seven senior officials from Israel’s National Security Cabinet met regularly over the past year to plan the military operation against Iran that was launched on Friday, according to a source who requested anonymity, the Jerusalem Post reports.
This inner circle included Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yisroel Katz, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Shas leader MK Arye Deri.

TRAGIC UPDATE: Three people were killed in Iranian ballistic missile impacts, Magen David Adom says.

Early Monday morning, ZAKA reported that two more bodies had been located and recovered from the debris left by an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam.
With this discovery, the total number of fatalities in Bat Yam resulting from the recent missile attacks has increased to nine, according to ZAKA’s latest update.
KAN reported that one individual is still unaccounted for in the city in connection with the strikes.
Nationwide, the death toll since the start of Operation Rising Lion has climbed to 16.

A barrage of around 100 missiles launched from Iran struck Israeli territory in the early hours of Monday morning, injuring at least 25 people and causing significant damage to residential areas in the Gush Dan region. The attack, which began shortly before 4:00 a.m., left a 10-year-old boy in serious condition, two others moderately injured, and the remaining victims with light injuries, according to Magen David Adom. Israel Fire and Rescue Services reported that two high-rise residential buildings sustained direct hits in the missile barrage. Eight rescue teams were deployed to the scenes, working tirelessly to extricate individuals trapped under the rubble.

A heavy missile assault launched by Iran early Monday morning left 25 individuals wounded. Two people suffered moderate injuries, while the remainder were lightly hurt in the attack that began just before 4:00 a.m. and involved dozens of projectiles fired at Israel.
The missiles hit at least four separate locations across northern and central parts of the country. One of the rockets directly struck a structure in central Israel, according to reports.
Medical teams from Magen David Adom responded to the scene in the central region, treating approximately 20 victims who sustained moderate or minor wounds. Several others were attended to for symptoms of emotional trauma.

MDA teams on scene at a number of sites of rocket strikes in central Israel. Areas being searched for casualties.

Additional footage showing extensive damage from a ballistic missile impact to a high-rise residential building in Petach Tikva, east of Tel-Aviv.

On Sunday, remnants from Iran’s latest wave of ballistic missile attacks landed in two different areas of the West Bank, with one piece of debris igniting a fire near the home of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and another injuring three young children near Sa’ir, according to The Jerusalem Post, citing local sources and eyewitnesses.

Israeli Army Radio reports that at least 10 Iranian missiles weren’t intercepted and struck Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Search-and-rescue operations are underway in Central Israel, at the site of a ballistic missile impact.

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