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While Minnesotans were being fleeced out of an estimated $9 billion in a sprawling Somali social services fraud scandal, Rep. Ilhan Omar and her husband were quietly amassing a fortune, House Republicans say. The House Oversight Committee is now digging into Omar’s sudden surge in family wealth, with Chairman Rep.…

Actress Pam Grier used a daytime talk show appearance on MLK Day to unveil a harrowing childhood story she says she has carried for decades, telling the hosts of “The View” that she once saw a lynched body hanging from a tree in Columbus, Ohio. The revelation came years after…

Billy Bob Thornton thinks politics may be why Taylor Sheridan keeps getting snubbed on the awards circuit. “I think a lot of it’s political. I really do,” the Landman star, 70, said in a new interview with Variety. “I think some people assume Taylor is some sort of right-wing guy…

Terri Lynn Williams Womack, the wife of longtime Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack, has died. She was 68. Womack said his wife passed away Sunday at Circle of Life Hospice in Bentonville, Arkansas, after a brief illness. “Sunday afternoon, Heaven welcomed an angel. My wife of 41 years, Terri Womack, went…

One of the anti-ICE agitators who barged into a Twin Cities church during Sunday services has also been accused of harassing worshippers at Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s church in Washington, D.C., according to congregants and church leaders. The disruption unfolded at Cities Church in St. Paul, where protesters interrupted…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to attend Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday as the justices consider whether President Donald Trump can fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, according to a person familiar with the plans. The high court allowed Cook to remain in her post in October while it…

Gunfire erupted in strife-torn Portland, Oregon, late Monday as police launched a manhunt for a suspect after two officers were wounded in a shooting. The incident unfolded around 9:36 p.m., according to a city statement. “Two @PortlandPolice officers were shot in NE Portland as leftist and Antifa rioters occupied the…

Following public outrage over alleged daycare fraud tied to Minnesota’s Somali community, Vice President J.D. Vance announced the Justice Department would create a new assistant attorney general post focused on rooting out fraud in Minnesota, Ohio and California. That effort may soon collide with a little-known nonprofit in central Ohio…

A judge and his wife were wounded in a brazen shooting at their Indiana home Sunday afternoon, triggering a sweeping investigation that now involves local, state and federal authorities. The Lafayette Police Department said Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer was shot in the arm and his wife, Kimberly Meyer,…

Federal authorities have launched an investigation into former CNN host Don Lemon after he actively participated in a protest that interrupted a church service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, raising serious questions about civil rights violations and journalistic involvement in activism.The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that…