Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota learned that her friend was assassinated, and that she had been a potential target herself. Now, she has blunt thoughts on who bears blame for violent outbursts.

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The Republican senator from Utah suggested in social media posts that the killings were the work of “Marxists,” and mocked Minnesota’s Democratic governor. He later issued a more sober condemnation of the violence.

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Senate Republicans want to sell the land to build more housing in the West, but the idea is contentious even within their own party.

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The Army unveiled a list of seven installations that the Trump administration is reverting, sort of, to earlier names venerating Confederate heroes.

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The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.

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