The wedding of Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, and Alex Soros, the scion of a liberal philanthropic dynasty, drew a rare concentration of wealth and power.

Melissa Hortman lived the deep partisan divide that Americans talk about every day as a Minnesota House member.

The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim and alarming spike in political violence. One lawmaker and her husband were killed while a second one and ...