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Reporting shows hexachloroethane (HC) is a chlorinated compound long used in white smoke compositions for military and some law‑enforcement smoke grenades and pots, and federal and public‑health sourc...
Federal prosecutors have charged scores of people in multiple Minnesota fraud cases that involve programs such as Feeding Our Future, Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), and autism services...
Federal prosecutors and reporters describe a sprawling set of frauds tied to Minnesota social‑services programs that prosecutors say involved dozens of defendants and more than $1 billion in alleged l...
A short viral clip captured a masked Minnesota demonstrator telling Fox host Laura Ingraham “I’m getting paid right now,” and conservative and local outlets amplified that line as proof of “paid prote...
Available reporting does not show a reliable national percentage of Somali Americans on welfare; advocates say “most Somalis are not on welfare” , while some critics point to concentrated poverty and ...
A "March Against Minnesota Fraud" organized by conservative influencer Jake Lang was scheduled to begin at Minneapolis City Hall on Jan. 17, with organizers describing it as a peaceful rally calling f...
ICE and DHS reporting and independent trackers show deportations in 2025 have surged: DHS has announced figures ranging from “more than 400,000” to 527,000 removals in under a year, while the Departme...
A large, multi-year investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social-services programs has resulted in scores of charges concentrated in the Somali diaspora and prompted an aggressive federal enforcemen...
ICE and other DHS agents say their policy forbids arresting or deporting U.S. citizens, but multiple investigations, reporting and congressional actions document hundreds of incidents in which citizen...
Ilhan Omar is married to political consultant Tim Mynett; public records and multiple news profiles report their marriage in 2020 and list Mynett as her current husband . Persistent allegations that O...
Federal agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ICE detained two people at the Target in Richfield, Minnesota on January 8, an event captured on video and reported by multiple outlets . Multipl...
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...
A Hmong man identified as Saly was detained by federal immigration officers in the Twin Cities area during a January enforcement operation; photos and videos circulated showing him brought out of an a...
Federal and state reporting shows dozens of Minnesota fraud cases tied to social‑service programs with defendants predominantly of Somali ancestry; prosecutors have charged roughly 86–87 people and se...
Federal and state reporting shows dozens of criminal cases tied to multiple Minnesota fraud schemes: prosecutors have charged roughly 70–86 people across related probes, with reporting commonly citing...
Minnesota is consistently reported as the U.S. state with the largest Somali population (World Population Review and multiple analyses show Minnesota at about 61,000–64,000 Somali residents in recent ...
Available reporting does not give a single, definitive number for how many Somali Minnesotans in the Twin Cities are on “some form of welfare.” Census and local reporting place roughly 80,000–84,000 p...
Available reporting does not provide a single, authoritative total for how many Somali nationals were deported from the United States since 2020; different sources report related figures — for example...
Federal and state reporting shows roughly 78 people have been charged in the recent Minnesota fraud investigations, with more than 50 convictions or guilty pleas reported so far; multiple outlets say ...
Most reporting and census-based summaries say the vast majority of Somalis in Minnesota are U.S. citizens or legal residents: estimates put Minnesota’s Somali-descended population between about 76,000...