Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising.

Daylight was still two hours off when Brooklyn Park police approached the home of former Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman to find someone had beat them there.

The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States.

A suspect has been arrested and charged in the wake of the Minnesota lawmaker shootings involving the deaths of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and the injury of Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette.

The United States has a long and grim history of political violence, from presidential assassinations to lynchings and violence aimed at Black people in

The Minnesota assassination is causing some state legislators to rethink home security and how much personal information they make public.

The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim and alarming spike in political violence

U.S. Capitol Police increased security for Klobuchar and Smith following the attacks, which occurred early Saturday morning. Minnesota's entire congressional delegation, both Republicans and Democrats, released a joint statement condemning the killings.