Ilhan Omar Wins DFL Primary In Crowded District 5 Field
Rep. Keith Ellison currently holds the seat, but earlier this summer submitted his name for the DFL bid for attorney general.
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Rep. Keith Ellison currently holds the seat, but earlier this summer submitted his name for the DFL bid for attorney general.
The Congressional primary race in the Fifth District is particularly interesting because the district is overwhelmingly Democratic.
The stakes could not be higher in Tuesday's 5th Congressional District primary.
A conservative activist disrupted a campaign event for Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar and Michigan congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib.
Keith Ellison's Minneapolis-area congressional seat has been a Democratic lock for more than half a century.
The DFL candidates who want to replace 5th District congressional candidate Keith Ellison faced off Thursday.
Democratic state Rep. Ilhan Omar said she will pay back $2,500 in speaking fees she accepted from public colleges.
Minnesota Democrats held a special endorsing convention on Sunday. It's for candidates running for Representative Keith Ellison's seat in Congress.
Minnesota Democrats hold a special endorsing convention Sunday for candidates running for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's seat in Congress.
Only seven-percent of Minnesotans voted in the primary two years ago, but analysts believe that number could spike in August with so much at stake.
The dominoes continue to fall after U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison withdrew from his re-election campaign to run for Minnesota Attorney General.
Rep. Ilhan Omar made headlines when she became the first Somali-American Muslim legislator voted into office in the U.S.
It passed largely on party lines and over Democratic objections that it would chill free speech.
A new documentary focusing on a Minnesota lawmaker is set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
At the Capitol Thursday morning, a proposal for new legislation is finding support through the #MeToo movement.
Politicians in Minnesota are speaking out after President Donald Trump reportedly made controversial comments about immigration in a meeting in the Oval Office.
Minnesota legislator Ilhan Omar is featured on the cover of Time Magazine for their series, "Firsts: Women who are Changing the World."
The killing of an unarmed Australian woman by a Somail Minneapolis police officer has turned an unwelcome spotlight on the city's beleaguered Somali community.
A member of the Minnesota legislature is about to step onto a popular national platform.
An administrative law judge has temporarily suspended the license of a Washington, D.C. cab driver accused of harassing a Muslim legislator from Minnesota.
The Minnesota House Monday approved a sweeping public safety bill that includes tough new measures to limit mass protests.
President Donald Trump could sign his new travel and refugee ban as early as Monday. Leaders in Minnesota's Somali community fear the new ban will once again limit travel and immigration from Somalia.
One of President Donald Trump's executive orders is implementing major changes to the United States' immigration policy.
Ilhan Omar took the oath as the nation's first Somali-American lawmaker this week, just days after an 8,500-mile journey that retraced her path from her war-torn homeland to Kenya to the Minnesota Capitol.
The president-elect's comments about local Somali refugees left many angry, hurt and fearful about what's to come in a Trump administration.
