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At a news conference, Minneapolis’ Democratic mayor Jacob Frey said hatred toward the transgender community must not be tolerated in the wake of the massacre. 'Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity,' he said. FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the Bureau would be investigating the tragedy as an 'act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics.'

On Thursday night, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin took on the rising tide of "populist nationalism" with a history lesson. Populism, Levin explained, is really just progressivism. The populist movement in America was the forerunner of the progressive movement, and both populism and progressivism share the same disdain for constitutionalism that conservatives reject.

<p>Residents of two towns were ordered to stop using water from their taps after someone broke into the area's supply facility and left behind a 5-gallon container that had an odor.</p> <p>Officials stressed that there was no evidence the water supply had been contaminated, but they ordered the halt to water use as a precaution while the container and water were being tested.</p>