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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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New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an observer and escort for people with immigration hearings in recent weeks. In this case, while accompanying a man named Edgardo, a group of ICE agents approached the two men, who were walking arm in arm. Lander asked repeatedly to see a judicial warrant before being handcuffed and detained. Lander was later released after New York Governor Kathy Hochul condemned the arrest and visited New York City to lobby for his release. Five other mayoral candidates also condemned Lander's arrest, although current Mayor Eric Adams has stayed silent. Adams "has sold this city out to Donald Trump to try to get his own pardon," says Lander. "Let's be clear: It's only himself he cares about, and he is putting New York's immigrants in harm's way."
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Senate Democrats on Tuesday called on Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, to testify at a hearing on Capitol Hill about the forcible removal of Senator Alex Padilla of California from a news conference she was holding last week.
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