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County in Minnesota, United States
Ilhan Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, according to public records and reporting, and she filed for divorce in 2017 . Claims that Elmi is Omar’s biological brother have circulated sin...
Ilhan Omar’s public timeline of marriages in Minnesota, as explained by her and reported by multiple outlets, begins with an informal faith-based marriage to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, a legal civil marriag...
Multiple reputable fact‑checking outlets — including the Associated Press, Snopes, PolitiFact, Reuters and Africa Check — have investigated claims about Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marital history, repeatedly f...
Available authoritative reporting and court evidence show George Floyd’s death was ruled a homicide linked to restraint by police, not a straightforward fentanyl overdose; the Hennepin County autopsy ...
Federal and state prosecutions tied to what prosecutors call sprawling fraud schemes in Minnesota have resulted in at least 77–87 people charged and dozens of convictions: Reuters reports “at least 77...
No public autopsy report or hospital records for Renee Nicole Good have been released as of the available reporting; state prosecutors and investigators do not currently have access to an autopsy that...
Public records and multiple news reports show Ilhan Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi on Feb. 12, 2009 (a Hennepin County marriage certificate) and that a legal divorce from Elmi was finalized ...
Ilhan Omar represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, a compact, largely urban and inner‑ring suburban district anchored in Minneapolis and its immediate suburbs . Her constituents are a diver...
Available sources disagree widely on counts but consistently report that Minnesota hosts the largest Somali community in the United States; recent estimates cited range from "more than 32,000" (Census...
Minnesota is widely reported as home to the nation’s largest Somali population — U.S. Census/ACS–based aggregations place the state’s Somali population around 61,000–64,000 in recent 2025 compilations...
Public records searches and multiple fact-checks show there are no criminal arrest records for Renee Nicole Good herself and no public court files substantiating the viral claims that she or her partn...
Federal and local prosecutors have charged Vance Boelter in connection with the June 14, 2025 shootings that killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded St...
The best available 2025 city-level estimates point to Minneapolis as by far the largest concentration of Somalia-born residents in Minnesota, followed at a distance by St. Paul and St. Cloud; smaller ...
Public, county-level marriage and divorce filings form the backbone of the documented record about Ilhan Omar’s marital history: a Hennepin County marriage certificate showing a 2009 civil marriage to...
Available official and expert sources do not conclude George Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose; the Hennepin County medical examiner ruled his death a homicide due to cardiopulmonary arrest while be...
Mohamed Noor was convicted in 2019 of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk (also known as Justine Damond) and was initially sentenced to 1...
Allegations center on that Ilhan Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and that critics claim the marriage was a sham — with some asserting Elmi was actually her brother and the union intended to a...
Federal and state prosecutions tied to multiple Minnesota fraud schemes have produced at least 77–87 criminal charges and dozens of convictions, with prosecutors saying schemes stole hundreds of milli...
Minnesota hosts the nation’s largest Somali community, concentrated in Minneapolis–Saint Paul and surrounding suburbs; most Somalis in the state are U.S. citizens and among the foreign‑born, roughly 8...
Minnesota does not broadly “deport” undocumented immigrants because removal is a federal function, and state and local officials in Minnesota have chosen policies and practices that limit cooperation ...