'Focus On The Present': Rep. Ilhan Omar Talks With Esme Murphy About 'Shaking Things Up' In Washington
She's been at the center of a political whirlwind in Washington.
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She's been at the center of a political whirlwind in Washington.
Conservative activist Laura Loomer is suing Rep. Rashida Tlaib over an incident that happened at a campaign event last year in Minneapolis, seeking $2 million in damages for alleged assault and battery.
A Maryland state senator who recently announced he's running for Congress says he didn't send a tweet describing U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar as an "illegal."
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is the face of the controversial BDS movement: Boycott, Divest, and Sanction. It seeks to pressure Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian West Bank.
Showing a fresh willingness to play politics along religious and racial lines, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that American Jewish people who vote for Democrats show "either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty."
Tlaib and Omar are known as supporters of "boycott, divestment and sanctions," or BDS, a Palestinian-led global movement.
While Israel said Friday that Rep. Rashida Tlaib will be allowed to visit relatives on the West Bank, she has since backed off plans for a visit, calling the conditions of the Israeli government "oppressive." Meanwhile, Rep. Ilhan Omar remains barred from the country.
Israel's deputy foreign minister says the government has decided to bar two U.S. Democratic congresswomen who support the international boycott movement from entering the country.
Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, represented by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, was listed this week as the worst congressional district in the country for black Americans.
GOP Senator Rand Paul is offering to buy Minnesota's Rep. Ilhan Omar a ticket to Somalia, saying "she might come back and appreciate America more."
A Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is accused of shoplifting 279 items from a suburban Target earlier this year.
Chris Kelley said he was first motivated to run after comments Omar made which some thought diminished the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says he is not going to run against Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota's 5th District.
"The reasons for weaponizing division are not mysterious. Racial fear prevents Americans from building community with one another."
Rep. Ilhan Omar, along with other lawmakers, introduced the Zero Waste Act Thursday. It's a bill that seeks to end use of toxic landfills and transition to a zero waste economy – part of the "Green New Deal".
At a conference on Muslims in politics this week, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar was "disgusted" at a question about female genital mutilation, saying that she and other Muslim lawmakers are often asked to "waste their time" addressing issues other members of Congress aren't.
In his latest Twitter attack against Rep. Ilhan Omar, President Donald Trump predicted he'll win Minnesota in 2020, in part, because Omar and her fellow progressive congresswomen in "The Squad" are a "nightmare for America."
A leading critic of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she may be the "most crooked politician in Minnesota history" and has filed a complaint demanding an ethics investigation.
President Donald Trump's suggestion that four activist Democratic congresswomen of color "go back" to countries "from which they came" has excited some in his political base. Yet in many of America's workplaces and institutions, the same language would be unacceptable and possibly illegal.
President Donald Trump can tell Rep. Ilhan Omar to "go back" to Somalia all he wants. All indications suggest she's not going anywhere.
"I am where I belong, at the people's house, and you're just gonna have to deal!" she tweeted.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that if his supporters again chant "Send her back" in relation to Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, he'll try to stop them.
Twitter users are proclaiming their solidarity with Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar after President Donald Trump continued to bash the freshman congresswoman at a rally in North Carolina.
Going after four Democratic congresswomen one by one, a combative President Donald Trump turned his campaign rally Wednesday into an extended dissection.
