Ilhan Omar
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- 2d ago
Virginia Senate president pro tempore L. Louise Lucas indicted on drug and money laundering charges
The Justice Department unsealed an indictment on Thursday, 22 October, accusing Lucas of running a marijuana conspiracy with relatives and associates. She turned herself in, and several family members were arrested the same morning.
- 2d ago
Ilhan Omar says federal raid on her home was meant to intimidate her
Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar says she will leave her Washington home after federal agents searched it on 12 October. The search seized 17 items and came amid a federal investigation into her family's immigration paperwork.
- Oct 17
Obama condemns federal search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as intimidation
Former president Barack Obama says the search of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington-area home and the citizenship probe aimed at her are an attempt to intimidate a Trump critic. A senior administration official has said denaturalization and deportation are possible, weeks before the November midterms.
- Oct 14
Katie Zacharia exits White House press secretary role after about five days in office
Katie Zacharia has left the White House press secretary post about five days after taking it up. Questions over her law license and a 14-minute first briefing preceded the exit, and on 16 October Trump had said the job might not be right for her.
- Oct 13
Federal agents search Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's home weeks before midterms
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the Washington-area home of Ilhan Omar on Monday, 12 October, in a federal criminal investigation tied to documents connected with her family's 2000 US citizenship.
- Oct 12
Federal agents search Ilhan Omar's home in criminal probe over citizenship
The Justice Department confirmed a court-approved search of the Minnesota Democrat's Washington home on 12 October, and more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas have followed, including to relatives.
- Jul 26
Trump returns to rescheduled correspondents' dinner, swaps jokes for insults aimed at CNN, Don Lemon and Ilhan Omar
Speaking at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, the US president blended self-pity with personal attacks, calling the assembled journalists 'the largest group of people with Trump derangement syndrome ever brought together.'
