Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., announced the death of her 67-year-old father on Monday due to complications from COVID-19.“It is with tremendous sadness and pain to say goodbye to my father, Nur Omar Mohamed. No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew and loved him,” she posted on Twitter. The Washington…
Rep. Ilhan Omar and her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during Omar's swearing-in ceremony. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo Rep. Ilhan Omar's father died due to the coronavirus, the Minnesota congresswoman announced Monday night. "It is with tremendous sadness and pain that I share that my father, Nur Omar Mohamed, passed away…
June 8, 2020 | 12:28pm Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar went beyond calls to defund the police following the death of George Floyd, instead calling for dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department because it is “rotten to the root.” Omar, whose congressional district includes Minneapolis and its suburbs, recalled past efforts to reform police departments, to increase…
Rep. Ilhan Omar called for murder charges to be filed against one of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed and pinned down with a knee on his neck and later died.Bystanders recorded video that circulated widely online and prompted condemnation from lawmakers in both parties and…
Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday said it’s not her place to litigate the sexual assault allegations Tara Reade has leveled at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden, after Ms. Omar had said earlier this month that she believed Ms. Reade. “There’s obviously parts of what she has said that has been corroborated, parts of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…