Crime, Law and Justice

Walz presses for tougher sentences, more funding following State Fair gunfire
"There's too many guns on the streets,” Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday as he announced the victim from Monday’s night shooting just outside the fairgrounds had been discharged. Gunfire inside the fair Saturday night sent fairgoers running for cover.
Canadian manhunt continues for deadly stabbing suspects
Canadian police are searching across the expansive province of Saskatchewan for two men suspected of stabbing to death 10 people in an Indigenous community and a nearby town. It's one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s history.
St. Paul leaders seek help finding more on triple fatal shooting
St. Paul community leaders and police asked for help Monday in the investigation of the shooting that left three people dead and two others injured in St. Paul's Payne-Phalen neighborhood Sunday night.
The St. Louis County Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges against two Iron Range law enforcement officers who shot and killed a 38-year-old man in Chisholm, Minn., in April.
Why the DOJ's photo of top secret documents held by Trump matters
One legal expert tells NPR that the "unusual response" by the Justice Department can only be expected in a case that pits the government against its former leader.