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American politician (born 1963)
The available reporting shows credible allegations were made by Keith Ellison’s ex‑girlfriend, Karen Monahan, that he physically and emotionally abused her, and Ellison has firmly denied those claims;...
is operating at an enlarged scale in as part of a December-launched enforcement campaign——whose stated purpose is to apprehend and deport people in the country illegally, often framed by the administr...
There are active investigative actions touching Governor Tim Walz’s administration — including a House Oversight inquiry seeking documents about fraud in Minnesota social services and multiple federal...
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...
Multiple news outlets report that large groups of Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) employees publicly accused Governor Tim Walz of ignoring fraud warnings and retaliating against whistlebl...
Multiple media outlets and federal officials report that prosecutors have charged dozens in schemes tied to Minnesota pandemic-era aid — including the Feeding Our Future case that federal prosecutors ...
The public record shows a specific allegation from former partner — amplified by her son’s social-media post claiming a video — that physically dragged Monahan off a bed in 2016, an incident Ellison d...
Available sources show far fewer than 45 Muslims serving in the U.S. federal government; as of the 119th Congress there are four Muslim members of Congress (House) and five people have ever been elect...
sheriffs and the have not, in the reporting provided, issued a single uniform new legal advisory specifically telling Minnesotans whether they may or may not carry firearms to protests; instead the gu...
Tim Walz is facing bipartisan scrutiny after federal prosecutors and media reports tied more than $250 million in one child‑nutrition scheme and wider alleged abuses to nonprofits in Minnesota, with s...
As of the start of the 119th Congress (January 2025), four members of the U.S. House of Representatives identify as Muslim: André Carson (Indiana’s 7th), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota’s 5th), Rashida Tlaib (M...
opened a civil‑rights probe and arrested several activists after anti‑ICE protesters disrupted a worship service at , alleging violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act; howev...
A Hennepin County judge recently vacated the $7.2 million Medicaid-fraud jury verdict against Abdifatah (Abdifatah) Yusuf, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office has moved to appeal tha...
and the cities of and have framed their lawsuit as a constitutional check on what they call an unlawful, politically motivated “,” arguing it violates the First and s, federal statutory requirements s...
Democratic elected officials and allied civic groups in Minnesota responded to the 2017 killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond with public expressions of outrage, calls for accountability and broader poli...
Thomas Jefferson bought an English translation of the Qur’an in 1765 and kept it in his library; that ownership became a lasting symbol of his willingness to include Muslims within the circle of civil...
has not uniformly refused to turn over inmates to , but the reality is nuanced: says it notifies ICE and transfers people after they serve required custodial portions of sentences, while hundreds of c...
As of the 119th Congress (sworn in January 2025), available reporting identifies four Muslims serving in the U.S. House: André Carson (D‑IN), Ilhan Omar (D‑MN), Rashida Tlaib (D‑MI) and Lateefah Simon...
Reporting in 2024–2025 shows that four Muslim Americans served in the 119th Congress (André Carson, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Lateefah Simon) and that five individuals have been elected to Congre...
Minnesota’s state and local officials have pursued both litigation and public-document disclosures to challenge a large DHS/ICE operation known as “,” filing a federal lawsuit led by with and seeking ...