Browsing: Minnesota

Rep. Ilhan Omar called President Trump a “creep” after he demanded her resignation over newly surfaced allegations about her birth name and a past marriage, amid an ongoing federal probe into possible immigration fraud.

Modern Times Café in Minneapolis, which went price-free in January to protest ICE operations, will close for good by the end of the year, owner Dylan Alverson announced.

Former President Barack Obama called a federal raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home political targeting after HSI agents seized her phone as part of an immigration fraud probe tied to her 1995 arrival in the U.S.

Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services received at least $62 million in government funds to resettle Somali refugees in Minnesota, as researchers raise questions about fraud, refugee status verification, and concentrated resettlement, while the Utah-based LDS Church has donated millions to national resettlement groups.

A new state audit found Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s office overpaid employees without seeking repayment, split purchases to dodge a $5,000 card limit, and lacked proper documentation for nearly all vendor payments tested, with most issues from a 2022 audit still unresolved.

EPA officials say cyberattacks on U.S. water systems have surged and shifted from ransomware to attacks aimed at disrupting service itself, following breaches in Minnesota and Colorado.

A Colorado Christian University softball player told Capitol Hill press following a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that she lost a Minnesota state semifinal to a team fielding a transgender pitcher, and that speaking out cost her a scholarship stint at Western Michigan University.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Make ICE Pay Act would redirect roughly $140 billion from ICE and Border Patrol funding to communities affected by immigration enforcement, drawing sharp criticism from Republicans including Sen. Jim Banks and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Hennepin County has shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses hurt by a federal immigration operation after more than 200 of roughly 300 applications were flagged for suspected fraud.

Sen. Rand Paul says Democrat-led states like Minnesota, California and New York have little incentive to stop welfare fraud because the federal government foots the bill, and he’s proposing states fund and police their own programs instead.