US politics live: Anti-Trump ‘No Kings' protests as FBI hunt suspect after two politicians gunned down
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There is a wave of anti-Trump 'No Kings' protests happening across the country.
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied nationwide on Saturday against US President Donald Trump ahead of a huge military parade on his 79th birthday.
It comes as authorities hunt the gunman they suspect of killing a Minnesota state politician and her husband, and seriously injuring a senator and his wife in a 'politically motivated attack'.
Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman — the former House Speaker — and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their Brooklyn Park home in the northern US state, shortly after 2am on Saturday local time (4pm AET), police said.
The pair were killed after the gunman targeted Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in their Champlin home roughly 8kms away.
The suspected gunmen — Vance Luther Boelter, 57 — is still at large.
on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada on Tuesday.
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