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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - AUGUST 28: U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (C) speaks during a press conference at City Hall following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on August 28, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Minneapolis Police, a gunman fired through the windows of the Annunciation Church at worshippers sitting in pews during a Catholic school Mass, killing two children and injuring at least 17 others. The gunman reportedly died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Omar: Trump is obsessed with me

Garrett Owen
President Donald Trump holds a rally at Mount Airy Casino Resort on Dec. 9, 2025 in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump's return to MAGA rallies is a flop

Sophia Tesfaye
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN); President Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Somali Americans troll Trump and MAGA

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Desperate Trump puts his racism on show

Heather Digby Parton
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Donald Trump used social media again to dictate policy. This time to end migration from "Third-World Countries" and call out Minnesota's Somalian community. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump: "Patriotic" immigrants only

CK Smith
Somali-Americans and refugees in Minnesota are concerned about possible ramifications of Trump's latest social media proclamation. State officials like US Rep. Ilhan Omar (L) and State Sen. Omar Fateh are both of Somali heritage and pledged to support the large Somali population in their districts. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)

Trump: End Somalian refugee status in MN

CK Smith
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Omar on Trump attacks: US run by idiots

Alex Galbraith
UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) logo (Getty Images)

New U.N. report on child food poverty

Joy Saha
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A slice of the El Ali meteorite (Courtesy of University of Alberta Meteorite Collection)

A space rock harbors unknown minerals

Troy Farah
Muse Bihi Abdi, presidential candidate for the ruling Kulmiye Party, after casting his vote during the 2017 presidential election in the self-proclaimed state of Somaliland. (AFP via Getty Images)

The right's stealth assault on Somalia

Mohamoud Gaildon
This picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows damaged military vehicles in the aftermath of US military air strikes at a militarised zone in the Jurf al-Sakhr area in Iraq's Babylon province (south of the capital) controlled by Kataeb Hezbollah, a hardline faction of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) forces paramilitaries. (AFP via Getty Images)

Trump and Biden's secret bombing wars

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (Getty/AP)

Paul: I'll help buy Omar a ticket home

Elizabeth Preza - Alternet
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Abdullah Hassan in the hospital on Sunday, December 16, 2018. (Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sacramento Valley)

Yemeni mom awarded visa to see dying son

Shira Tarlo
US Army soldiers investigate the site of an explosion, January 18, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq (Getty/Mario Tama)

Why US persists in waging losing wars

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
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Military tourism is not a foreign policy

Lucian K. Truscott IV
(Getty/Oli Scarff)

Should we be afraid of killer robots?

Matthew Rozsa
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Construction work takes place at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia. (AP/Elias Asmare)

Is war coming in the Horn of Africa?

Steven A. Cook
People walk through burning refuse in Dadaab, Kenya the world's biggest refugee complex August 20, 2009 in Dadaab, Kenya (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Best of 2017: Danger in my belly

Boyah J. Farah
People carry posters during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, in New York's Times Square, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) (AP)

Supreme Court OKs travel ban 3.0

Nicole Karlis
The remains of Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright who was killed in an ambush by dozens of Islamic extremists on a joint patrol of American and Niger Force. (AP/Staff Sgt. Aaron J. Jenne)

Niger ambush could become a scandal

Sophia Tesfaye
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Somalis gather and search for survivors by destroyed buildings after a huge explosion from a truck bomb in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, Oct. 14, 2017. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

History-making terror in Somalia

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Trump's travel ban returns

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/koto_feja)

Drone warfare is broken

Charlie May
(Getty/Joe Raedle/Chris Hondros)

weighing Trump's war on terror

Charlie May
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