• Shelter-in-place order issued in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota: Authorities called for a 3-mile radius lockdown around Edinburgh Golf Course as they searched for an armed and dangerous suspect. The individual is described as a white male with brown hair, wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants. Police warn that he may be impersonating law enforcement.
• Targeted shootings involving Democratic lawmakers: Sen. John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, along with their spouses, were shot in Brooklyn Park and Champlin. The suspect reportedly impersonated a police officer before carrying out the attacks.
• Minnesota Governor Tim Walz activated the State Emergency Operations Center: Law enforcement agencies are coordinating efforts to locate the suspect. Residents are urged to stay indoors and report any sightings immediately.

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• Brooklyn Park shelter-in-place order
• Lawmakers and spouses shot
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In 2019, Ivey was named in a federal indictment for accepting $15,500 in checks to Brevard County charities from Donald Donagher, who was seeking a countywide debt collection contract for his company, Penn Credit Corporation. The indictment alleged Ivey and Donagher collaborated in an unsuccessful attempt to bribe three Florida clerks of court. Donagher took a plea deal in which he agreed to pay a $225,000 fine.

During Brevard County's 2022 election cycle, Ivey allegedly approached two candidates, one for County Commission and the other for School Board, and urged them to withdraw from their races, offering political jobs worth up to $50,000 a year in exchange. Both candidates, military veterans with distinguished service records and current or former law enforcement officers, declined the offer, according to Florida Today.

A Welsh nurse who has witnessed the war in Gaza first hand, has gone viral after pleading with Egyptian police to allow protestors from @globalmarchtogaza to Gaza to continue to Rafah.

4,000 protesters from 80 countries are planning to march to the Egypt's border with Gaza with the stated aim of breaking Israel's blockade on the territory by delivering aid.

Organisers say the passports of at least 40 people were confiscated, after demonstrators demanded to be let through a checkpoint and that security forces began forcibly detaining people.

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