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The investigation into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., married her brother in an alleged immigration fraud scheme in 2009 began under former President Barack Obama in 2016, Fox News Digital has confirmed.A U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, appointed by then-President Joe Biden, eventually shut down the probe in 2021, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.Now, the issue has been thrust back into the spotlight as part of a new federal investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman, part of which centers on whether she or her father committed immigration fraud on her application to become a U.S. citizen.REP ILHAN OMAR’S IMMIGRATION HISTORY FACES NEW SCRUTINY AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS SUBPOENA RELATIVESSources previously told Fox News Digital that Omar’s “real name” is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. In a federal court document, she was called “Ilhan Omar Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Omar.”In 2009, Omar, then a U.S. citizen, legally married a man with that surname, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. The pair officially split in 2017.The New York Times first reported that Obama’s FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began the probe in the summer of 2016, and that officials “found some evidence that [the marriage] was fraudulent.” The Times reported that the investigation concluded when officials decided the potential felony crime was past the statute of limitations.OMAR’S DELETED TWEET COULD GIVE CLUE ON ALLEGED MARRIAGE TO HER BROTHERDespite his own administration’s investigation into Omar at the time she was running for the Minnesota House, Obama condemned the renewed probe, which included a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) raid on her Washington, D.C. home on Oct. 12. Federal authorities confiscated her passport, personal phone and computer in the raid.”It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say,” Obama wrote in an X post after the raid earlier this month. “But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.”OBAMA’S LENGTHY REACTION TO OMAR INVESTIGATION TRIGGERS INSTANT BACKLASH: ‘SPARE ME’Obama claimed the Trump administration was targeting Omar because she is a vocal critic of the current president.”Think about that,” Obama said in the post. “The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.”175 DEMOCRATS DEMAND TRUMP ADMIN STOP ILHAN OMAR INVESTIGATION, WARN IT COULD HURT HER RE-ELECTION BIDOmar has frequently called the allegations that she married her brother a conspiracy theory promulgated by the political right, including in a statement to Fox News Digital regarding the new investigation last week.”Rep. Omar has repeatedly and unequivocally denied this baseless, disgusting conspiracy theory,” an Omar spokesperson said. “This is a desperate political smear designed to distract from Trump’s failed presidency and two years of Republican failure in Congress. And it’s disgraceful that the media continues to give this lie oxygen.”The same spokesperson did not immediately respond to a Thursday morning request for comment.Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

FOX One unveiled a new interactive election experience on Thursday that will give users unprecedented access to results, polling, and analysis.FOX One, Fox Corporation’s wholly-owned direct to consumer streaming service, announced the new election experience developed in partnership with FOX News Media, designed to give viewers more context and more local relevance as results come in for the upcoming midterm elections.”Election night is expected to be among the most demanding live events we cover. The results don’t arrive in order, and no two viewers are following the same set of races,” Amit Dudakia, SVP & Head of Product at FOX Direct to Consumer, said in a statement. MAPPED: TRUMP’S NONSTOP CAMPAIGN BLITZ SWEEPS KEY STATES”With FOX One, we’re keeping coverage from Fox News and FOX Stations at the center and building the context around it, so viewers aren’t toggling between a stream and a second screen to understand what just happened,” Dudakia added. “The reporting stays front and center and the answers come to you.”The features will roll out on FOX One in the lead-up to Election Day, and the full experience will be available as election coverage begins.Hundreds of House, Senate, gubernatorial and local races will be called across every time zone on Nov. 3, and the story of the night is rarely told by any single one of them.FOX One’s tool is built for exactly this kind of live event, as results break in parallel, a race in one state could reframe the math in another and what matters most to viewers may be a ballot measure in their own county.FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS: SOUTH CAROLINA MOVES TO TOSS-UPFox News Channel and FOX Local Stations’ election coverage will anchor the experience.FOX One will add a layer of real-time context drawn from Fox News’ industry-leading election coverage and data capabilities, aggregating results, polling and race analysis into the viewing experience itself, so viewers can follow the night at the national level and the local level at the same time.Feature highlights debuting on the platform for the 2026 midterm elections include a command center, an election hub offering a curated destination for the full breadth of FOX’s election coverage, and an in-house built data platform.Ask FOX, the in-app companion for the questions a live event raises in the moment, will feature an Elections Mode that lets viewers ask election-specific questions and get clear, sourced answers in real time. When election coverage begins, the command center is the first thing living room viewers will see when opening FOX One. The live stream holds the center of the screen while a surrounding set of widgets carries the context, including voter polling, race-by-race results and Fox News insights on the night’s key contests, all updating in real time. SENATE CONTROL IS A COIN FLIP — AND DEMOCRATS’ PATH RUNS THROUGH TRUMP COUNTRYThe election hub will include video on battleground races, key ballot measures and the contests shaping control in Washington, editorially programmed by Fox News and Fox News Digital. The Hub also surfaces coverage from FOX’s local stations based on viewer’s markets, so viewers in Los Angeles see what is on the ballot only in Los Angeles.Elections Mode is being powered by “ElectionAI” – a new AI technology platform deployed for this Election cycle that was developed in-house by FOX News Media, allowing for real-time answers to Election-related questions.CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREThe results, polling and insights across all FOX One experiences are powered by a single, unified data layer that FOX built alongside FOX News Media, unifying multiple election data sources into a single real-time feed for the app experiences. It is the same underlying infrastructure that also powers live context across FOX One’s sports and news programming.Product features are subject to device compatibility, content and other restrictions.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris told a New Hampshire audience that expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices and taking a hard look at the Electoral College must be “first priorities” for Democrats if they regain power, and that the party needs to “be ruthless” to get it done.
Speaking during a live taping of the “My Body. My Pod.” podcast with Mini Timmaraju of Reproductive Freedom for All in Manchester on Saturday while campaigning for Senate nominee Chris Pappas, Harris acknowledged her proposals would be “controversial coming from me” before laying them out.
“We have to expand the Supreme Court. Let’s expand it to 13 because we have 13 circuit courts,” she said, according to reporting by NH Journal.
Harris continued, “We also need to take a critical look at the Electoral College, fight for statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. We need to overturn Citizens United. These have to be first priorities.”
To achieve them, she added, “We have to be ruthless.”
Harris explained that by ruthless she meant having “the backbone to actually act on accountability and consequence, because a harshly worded letter ain’t gonna get it.”
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The remarks clearly preview what Harris and the Democrats intend to do if they win back the House and Senate.
Court packing, installing additional justices to shift the current 6-3 conservative majority, has been a priority for Harris since the Court shifted under President Donald Trump’s appointments.
Congress sets the Court’s size by statute. It has been fixed at nine since 1869.
Expanding the size will require only a simple majority if Democrats control both chambers and the White House, or enough Senate votes to overcome a filibuster.
Critics, including some Democrats, have long warned that the move would turn the Court into a permanent political prize and erase more than 150 years of stability.
Pappas himself has said he does not support expansion, calling it a “never-ending tug-of-war,” though he voted against a constitutional amendment to lock the number at nine.
Harris’ call to “reexamine the Electoral College” is another longstanding Democrat priority that would effectively remove small and rural states from having any sway in presidential elections.
She has repeatedly said the popular vote “has to matter.”
Changing or abolishing the Electoral College would require a constitutional amendment, a higher bar than court packing, but statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico could be accomplished by statute and would add reliably Democratic Senate seats and electoral votes.
Overturning Citizens United, the 2010 decision that treated independent political spending as protected speech, would likewise require either a new Court majority or a constitutional amendment.
In a separate interview around the same time with MeidasTouch’s Aaron Parnas, Harris advised Democrats against pursuing a third impeachment of President Trump if they retake the House, saying the votes for conviction do not exist in the Senate and that limited resources should instead go to investigations and “accountability.”
Harris again used the word “ruthless,” and said Democrats should be “uncompromising” about restoring Medicaid cuts and other priorities rather than “being genteel about the relationships.”

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Hegseth Fires Pentagon’s Top Military Planner Over Alleged Iran, Ukraine War Leaks

Critics have called it a “purge” – but defenders have said the military’s general officer ranks have been bloated and redundant. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has abruptly fired one of the Pentagon’s top military strategists, curiously at a sensitive moment which has seen the Trump administration draw up options for a renewed, intensified Iran war – likely to come after the midterm elections.Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia has been dismissed from his post as director for strategy, plans, and policy (J5) on the Joint Staff, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed late Wednesday.

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This marks the second turnover in that key position within about a year, after Sylvia’s predecessor, Lt. Gen. Joseph McGee, was initially removed.Since Trump took the White House, Hegseth has pushed some two dozen senior military and civilian officials out of top command positions.But what makes Gen. Sylvia’s firing more notable and alarming is that Hegseth’s office is citing “severe misconduct”. He’s stands accused of leaking classified info related to the Iran and Ukraine conflicts. However, the Pentagon has yet to state this publicly, or to offer an official explanation.CBS reports, “The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters, said Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was accused of misconduct for leaking classified information related to the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war.””Sylvia failed three polygraph tests about sharing classified information with the press, the official said, adding that the case has been referred to the Department of Justice,” the report continues.According to a fuller statement on the allegations from an unnamed US defense official:“Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who was part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired by Secretary Hegseth for severe misconduct. Although Sylvia’s title was director of the Directorate for Strategy, Plans, and Policy at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, known inside the military as the J5, he was NOT a central planner for the Iran War. That is the responsibility of CENTCOM and its commander Admiral Cooper. Sylvia is the subject of an investigation for leaking classified information about the Iran War, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and more. Due to the Pentagon’s media policy requiring journalists to have escorts in the building, Sylvia began meeting with journalists outside of the Pentagon in order to leak classified information. Sylvia failed three polygraphs which questioned him about leaking classified information. The investigation into him remains ongoing and has been referred to the Department of Justice for further action. The extent of his leaking became so critical that Secretary Hegseth took immediate action and fired Sylvia in order to protect national security. Urgent action was needed and could not wait another second.”While it’s unclear what precisely may have allegedly leaked out, the Trump administration has been angry over a multiple months-long avalanche of negative reporting when it comes to the Iran war especially. For example, there’s been a lot of documentation on Iran’s retaliation effectively making uninhabitable at least a dozen US bases and outposts across the Gulf and Mideast regions.Meanwhile, an official statement from the Joint Staff was more cordial and professional: “The Chairman, the Joint Staff, and the Joint Force extend our deepest gratitude to Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia and his family for their 32 years of distinguished service to our nation,” it said, while wishing “him and his family the best.” US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fires Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, the Pentagon’s director of strategy, plans, and policy.The Pentagon has not publicly explained the decision.Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/8fbjro0SQK— AF Post (@AFpost) October 29, 2026
As yet, no replacement has been announced for the key defense planning post, and the development is sure to remain another immensely controversial shake-up.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 10/29/2026 – 10:55

A former Tennessee police chief who investigated the murder that sent Christa Pike to death row recalled the convicted killer being “ruthless” and “almost giddy” while describing the crime to investigators, as Gov. Bill Lee signaled her death sentence is unlikely to change after she survived a failed execution.Pike, 50, survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection on Sept. 30 and has since returned to prison, raising questions about whether the state could attempt to put her to death again.Lee addressed Pike’s fate Wednesday, saying she remains incarcerated under Tennessee law.CHRISTA PIKE IS BACK BEHIND BARS AFTER BOTCHED EXECUTION, BUT HER ULTIMATE SENTENCE FACES A NEW TEST”I suspect her sentence will be the same as it was before unless determined otherwise by the courts,” Lee said.The governor’s comments come as Pike’s attorneys have called on Lee to commute her death sentence to life without parole following the failed execution.CHRISTA PIKE’S BOTCHED LETHAL INJECTION TAKES FOCUS OFF VICTIM, JEOPARDIZES EXECUTION: FORMER POLICE CHIEFPike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow participant in a federal Job Corps program in Knoxville.Former Knoxville Police Chief Phil Keith, who was involved in the investigation, recently recalled Pike’s demeanor while she was being questioned about the killing in the New York Post documentary “No Mercy: Christa Pike Unraveled.”FORMER KNOXVILLE POLICE CHIEF SAYS INVESTIGATORS ARE STILL HAUNTED BY COLLEEN SLEMMER’S MURDER 31 YEARS LATER”I heard somebody that was ruthless, without any remorse, almost giddy,” Keith said. “You know, she was describing what took place, like, almost the sense that she was bragging about it.”Keith confirmed the comments to Fox News Digital, calling them “spot on.” He described Pike in two words: “Pure evil.”Keith also recalled Pike openly talking about the killing after returning to the Job Corps.LETHAL INJECTION SURVIVOR CHRISTA PIKE’S FORMER SATANIST BOYFRIEND COULD BE RELEASED IN 5 YEARS”Pike, when she got back, you know, immediately had to express her joy with killing Colleen,” Keith said in the documentary. “And then the very next day in class, she bragged again, talking about how she killed Colleen. She showed her shoes that had blood on them.”Pike was 18 when she, her 17-year-old boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp, and 19-year-old Shadolla Peterson were charged in Slemmer’s killing. All four were participating in the Job Corps at the time, court records show.CHRISTA PIKE’S ATTORNEYS SAY SHE’S IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BOTCHED LETHAL INJECTIONSThe three took Slemmer to a secluded area on the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus, where her throat was cut multiple times, she was struck in the head with a large piece of asphalt and a pentagram was carved into her chest.Pike later confessed to her role in the killing, according to court records.CHRISTA PIKE DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL, RETURNED TO PRISON AFTER BOTCHED EXECUTION, ATTORNEYS SAYKeith said the brutality of the crime scene shocked even veteran homicide investigators.”I was accustomed to seeing that kind of gore, if you will. But the brutality was different,” Keith said in the Post documentary.CHRISTA PIKE NOW CONSCIOUS AND TALKING AFTER SURVIVING 2 DOSES OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUG”You know, the visual scene of it, it was so shocking,” he added.Pike was convicted and sentenced to death in 1996, and the Tennessee Supreme Court later affirmed her convictions and sentence.CHRISTA PIKE’S ATTORNEY SAYS SHE’S ‘UP AND WALKING’ MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER BOTCHED EXECUTIONFOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XMore than three decades later, Tennessee attempted to carry out that sentence on Sept. 30 after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a last-minute stay issued by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.The execution attempt failed after Pike received two doses of pentobarbital, and she was taken to a hospital.She remained unconscious for days, and her attorneys at one point believed she was brain-dead and expected her to be taken off life support. Pike later regained consciousness and was discharged from the hospital before being returned to prison.SIGN UP TO GET THE LATEST TRUE CRIME NEWSHer attorneys have since said she is able to walk and speak in full sentences.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE FOX TRUE CRIME HUBFollowing the execution attempt, Lee halted Tennessee’s remaining executions for the year and ordered an independent review of what went wrong.SEND US A TIPPike’s attorneys have argued she should not be subjected to another execution attempt.LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCASTThe push for commutation predates the failed execution.GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAILIn a 2021 filing with the Tennessee Supreme Court, Pike’s attorneys sought a certificate of commutation, pointing to her age at the time of Slemmer’s murder as well as her history of childhood trauma, mental illness and brain damage.Fox News Digital reached out to Pike’s attorneys and Lee’s office for additional comment, and to Keith to confirm the context of his remarks.Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.

High-profile races that will determine which party controls the Senate for the next two years are extremely tight, according to a new CNN poll, as Maine and Kansas remain close and Democrats extended their leads in Texas and Michigan.Democrats, who are widely projected to win a majority in the House of Representatives, need to flip four Senate seats from red to blue in order to gain a 51-seat majority, protecting their majority from the vice presidential tiebreaker.In Maine, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is the only Republican incumbent running in a state that went for Kamala Harris in 2024.FOX NEWS POLL: NAIL-BITER IN MAINE SENATE RACECollins’ Democratic challenger is Troy Jackson, the former president of the state Senate who jumped into the race as a replacement for the previous nominee, scandal-plagued Graham Platner.The race has no clear frontrunner, according to the CNN poll, though Jackson holds a marginal lead.COLLINS INSISTS SOCIALIST RIVAL WON’T BEAT HER AS MAINE’S MONEY MACHINE: ‘YOU’LL LOSE BIG TIME’Forty-nine percent of respondents told the outlet’s pollsters they favored Jackson, compared to 45% for Collins. While Jackson is slightly ahead, at least 12.5% of voters say they could still change their minds.Respondents tied Collins to her party less than any other Republican running for Senate in the nation, with 46% of respondents saying they believe she would choose her constituents over the Republican Party.DAVID MARCUS: THE FUTURE OF THE GOP IN NEW ENGLAND RIDES ON MAINE’S SENATE VOTECollins was one of seven Republicans to vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s second impeachment in 2021, and she joined Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, as the only Republicans to vote against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation in 2025.With Collins managing to distance herself from Trump, her race has largely become a referendum on her own career. Three-quarters of respondents from either party told CNN pollsters that their choice was motivated more by Collins than Jackson.DAVID MARCUS: IN BLUE MAINE, NOBODY BELIEVES SUSAN COLLINS WILL LOSE UNTIL THEY SEE ITIn Michigan, despite warnings from some mainstream Democrats and the state’s Jewish community, Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is building a lead over former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.Respondents favored El-Sayed at 49% compared to the 42% who favored Rogers, according to the poll. CNN’s previous poll, released in early September, showed El-Sayed with a 47% share compared to Rogers’ 44%, showing the former public health director El-Sayed building on his lead.FOX NEWS POLL: MICHIGAN VOTERS SPLIT BETWEEN EL-SAYED AND ROGERSThe Democrat has consolidated his party’s support after a contentious primary with Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich. Ninty-five percent of likely Democrat voters say they’ll punch the ticket for El-Sayed, up from 90% in the September poll.Rogers voters, meanwhile, are motivated more by dislike for the Democratic candidate than faith in the Republican. 57% told CNN pollsters they were voting against El-Sayed, up from 41% in a previous poll.DAVID MARCUS: THE 5 FACTORS THAT COULD DECIDE MICHIGAN’S TIGHT AND UGLY SENATE RACERogers’ favorability has also taken a hit, moving from 58% in September to 50% in October.Texas State Rep. James Talarico also built upon a narrow lead over Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, despite Talarico’s extended absence from the campaign trail in early October.FOX NEWS POLL: TEXAS SENATE RACE GALLOPING TOWARD A PHOTO FINISHForty-nine percent of likely voters told pollsters they’d vote for Talarico, while 43% said they would vote for Paxton, according to the poll.Texas, a state that has voted for exactly one new Democratic Senate candidate into office since Lyndon B. Johnson vacated his seat to become vice president, also voted more strongly for Trump in 2024 than in either of his previous elections.TRUMP WON THIS RELIABLY RED STATE BY DOUBLE DIGITS. NOW A DEADLOCKED RACE IS BRINGING HIM BACKDespite the typically steadfast support for the GOP in the Lone Star State, Talarico is riding a wave of favorability and minority support to remain in pole position five days before polls close.CNN’s poll says 64% of likely voters of color support Talarico, including 22% of the cohort that voted for Trump in 2024.Talarico is also leading Paxton in favorability within their own parties. 24% of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Paxton, according to the poll. Just 2% of Democrats, meanwhile, view Talarico unfavorably.In Kansas, a state which Trump won by 16 percentage points in 2024, incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., is falling behind Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton.Forty-nine percent of likely voters say they support Hamilton, 45% say they support Marshall.Hamilton, a relatively unknown candidate, is far outperforming his own party in a state where Democrats are broadly unfavorable. 57% of voters view the Democratic Party as unfavorable while only 38% of them feel the same about Hamilton.Like Republicans in Michigan, likely voters in Kansas appear to be more highly motivated by a dislike for one candidate than strong positive feelings for another. 59% of Hamilton backers say they’re motivated by opposition to Marshall.Hamilton, a Christian pastor, is even drawing support from across the aisle. Roughly 12% of Republicans and Republican-leaning likely voters say they support Hamilton, according to the poll.CNN conducted its polling via telephone between Oct. 20 and Oct. 27. Registered voters were randomly sampled, according to the outlet. 838 likely voters were considered in Kansas, 783 in Maine, 768 in Michigan and 923 in Texas. CNN tabulated its margins of sampling error at plus or minus 4.5% for Kansas and Maine, 4.7% in Michigan and 4.2% in Texas.Fox News Digital contacted all eight campaigns for further comment.

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