Threats and violent acts have become part of the political landscape, still shocking but somehow not so surprising.

By Nathan Layne BLAINE, Minnesota (Reuters) -From the pulpit on Sunday, Father Joe Whalen exhorted his parishioners to avoid the kind of extreme partisanship and hate that appeared to be behind the killing of one of the church's own,

The targeted shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses over the weekend depict another recent instance of politically-motivated violence in the U.S. Dan Byman, the director of the Warfare,