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Ilhan Omar’s office says she’s ‘not a millionaire’ after $30M filing revised down to under $100K: report

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said she is not a millionaire and blamed a major accounting error after a congressional financial disclosure listing her assets as high as $30 million drew scrutiny from Republicans and a congressional watchdog.

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An amended filing reviewed by The Wall Street Journal shows Omar and her husband’s assets were between $18,004 and $95,000, a sharp drop from an earlier disclosure that estimated their holdings between $6 million and $30 million.

«The amended disclosure confirms what we’ve said all along: The congresswoman is not a millionaire,» Omar spokesperson Jacklyn Rogers told the Journal, adding that the filing was corrected «as soon as the discrepancy was identified.»

The revised disclosure came after the Office of Congressional Conduct requested additional information earlier this year, according to the Journal.

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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., poses for a portrait in her office on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Omar’s attorney said in a letter to the watchdog that the inaccurate filing was unintentional and stemmed from reliance on accountants.

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«As the busiest of people, it is very common for members and their spouses to rely on learned professionals like accountants to make calculations and determinations that appear on public filings,» the attorney wrote, according to the Journal. «While the error is of course unfortunate, there is nothing untoward and nothing illegal has occurred.»

The amended filing shows Omar reported between $102,503 and $1,005,200 in income in 2024 from assets she and her husband own, according to the Journal. Documentation attached to the attorney’s letter showed $213,200 in distributions to her husband from his venture capital management firm and $3,000 from a winery.

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Representative Ilhan Omar and Tim Mynett arriving at the White House for a state dinner

Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, left, and Tim Mynett arrive to attend a state dinner in honor of Kenya’s president William Ruto hosted by US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

A 2025 email between Omar’s husband and his accountant valued the venture capital firm at $7.9 million and the winery at $1.5 million, though he owns roughly one-third of both businesses, according to tax documents cited by the Journal.

The updated disclosure also shows Omar has between $15,001 and $50,000 in student loan debt and a similar amount in credit card debt.

The discrepancy had already drawn scrutiny from House Republicans, who questioned how such a large swing in reported assets went unflagged.

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In a February letter to Omar’s husband, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., raised concerns about financial disclosures showing the value of two companies, eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital, surged from tens of thousands of dollars in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.

Comer said the sudden increase «raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence,» and requested financial records tied to the businesses.

Omar’s office pushed back, describing Comer’s request as «a political stunt» and part of a campaign «meant to fundraise, not real oversight,» according to The Associated Press.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar sitting with husband Tim Mynett at the United Center in Chicago

Rep. Ilhan Omar sits with husband Tim Mynett during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug.19, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

A 2025 financial disclosure filing had previously listed Omar’s husband’s business interests in the millions, including a winery valued between $1 million and $5 million and a venture capital firm valued between $5 million and $25 million.

Those valuations were later revised in the amended filing, with the businesses listed as having no net value once liabilities were factored in, according to the Journal.

Omar, a progressive Democrat originally from Somalia and member of the «Squad,» has frequently clashed with President Donald Trump since first being elected in 2018 and has long been a target of Republican criticism.

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Trump has suggested that Omar benefited from Minnesota’s sprawling welfare fraud scandal involving many people from the Somali community, a claim she has denied.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton weighed in on the amended filing, questioning how previously unreported liabilities wiped out millions in reported assets:

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«Ilhan Omar says her congressional financial reports have massive accounting error,» Fitton wrote on X. She and her husband only worth 18k-86k, NOT $6 million-$30 million! Previously unreported ‘liabilities’ erase wealth!»

Fox News Digital has reached out to Omar’s office for comment and will update this story with any response.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Blue state residents ‘fleeing in droves’ after ‘insane’ progressive takeover, says top state attorney

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A top state attorney in Democrat-controlled Maryland says he has had enough and is throwing in the towel after saying the Old Line State has suffered an «insane» «ultra-progressive» takeover.

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In an interview with Fox News Digital, Haven Shoemaker, state attorney for Maryland’s Carroll County, said that after decades in public service, he is «sick to death» of the policies that «emanate» from the state capital in Annapolis. He said he is especially disgusted with Maryland’s «sanctuary» policies and the high taxes he said are being levied in part to pay for more services for illegal immigrants.

«Maryland has become California on the Chesapeake,» said Shoemaker. «It only gets worse. It’s not getting better. And at some point, I just had to make a personal decision that it’s time to throw in the towel and head for what I believe are greener pastures.»

Shoemaker is not the only one. He said that he sees Marylanders giving up on the state «all the time.»

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«The State of Maryland has one of the worst outward migration numbers of any state in the country right now,» he said. «So, I don’t know who’s going to be the last to foot the bill for the profligate spending that Annapolis likes to engage in, but it’s not going to be me, I can tell you that.»

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Marylanders are «fleeing in droves» under Democratic Gov. Wes Moore and the Democra-controlled State Assembly, according to Carroll County State Attorney Haven Shoemaker. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images; Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

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Moore’s office did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions. Fox News Digital also reached out to Maryland House Speaker Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk and Senate President Bill Ferguson for comment.

Born in Baltimore in the 1960s, Shoemaker spent three decades in local and state politics before taking the job as Carroll County’s top prosecutor in 2023. His career in public service includes seven years as mayor of Hampstead, Maryland, four years as a Carroll County commissioner and nine years in the Maryland House of Delegates. He rose to the role of House Minority Whip for the Maryland Republican Party.

Despite years deeply involved in state politics, Shoemaker said his decision to abandon Maryland has been a long time coming.

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«I’ve been contemplating this move for a while, but the linchpin for me was this most recent legislative session where they essentially made Maryland a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants,» he told Fox News Digital.

Earlier this year, the Maryland General Assembly passed an emergency measure to ban local and state law enforcement agencies from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through what is known as the 287(g) program. Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, whose name has been floated as a possible 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, signed the bill into law.

While emphasizing that law enforcement would continue cooperating with ICE on deporting individuals who «pose a risk to public safety,» Moore lauded the bill, saying, «We will not allow untrained, unqualified and unaccountable agents to deputize our brave local law enforcement officers,» according to WYPR.

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While signing the measure, Moore stressed his view that «Maryland is a community of immigrants,» saying, «It is not our weakness, it’s our strength.»

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Maryland State Capitol building in Annapolis

The Maryland State Capitol building in Annapolis, Md. (Getty Images)

Shoemaker, meanwhile, said that Maryland’s sanctuary-style policies are «just part of the problem.»

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«In addition to that, their tax policy here is horrendous,» he said. He pointed to how state leaders raised taxes in Maryland last year by $1.6 billion.

The tax raise was passed by the State Assembly and approved by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore as part of a $67 billion state budget in 2025. The raise was part of a plan to address roughly a $3.3 billion budget deficit. Maryland’s budget is relatively large compared to other states, despite the state ranking 18th in population and 42nd in land size.

Shoemaker said that state leaders are «already looking at a structural deficit going into next year’s budget of another billion and a half or so.» He asserted the «handwriting is on the wall» that «Maryland politicians are beholden to their ultra-progressive base.»

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speak to members of the media outside the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2024. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg)

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In the end, Shoemaker said that he has finally decided to escape to the South and head for North Carolina.

«A lot of taxpayers from across the State of Maryland are fleeing in droves,» he said. He added a warning to Moore and other Maryland leaders: «If you want to staunch the bleeding that’s occurring, maybe you should rethink your policies.»

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Donald Trump anuncia una prórroga de la tregua entre Israel y el Líbano, pero no hay avances sobre Irán

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El presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, anunció el jueves una prórroga de tres semanas del alto el fuego entre Israel y Líbano, mientras los esfuerzos para llegar a un acuerdo con Irán siguen estancados.

«El alto el fuego entre Israel y Líbano se extenderá por TRES SEMANAS», escribió el magnate republicano en su red Truth Social tras una nueva reunión entre representantes de ambos países en Washington.

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Sin embargo, este viernes Israel volvió a atacar supuestas posiciones del grupo extremista Hezbollah en el sur del Líbano. Según las autoridades sanitarias libanesas dos personas murieron en la ofensiva.

Según un comunicado del Centro de Operaciones de Emergencia del Líbano, el nuevo «el ataque enemigo israelí» tuvo lugar en la madrugada del viernes contra la ciudad de Touline, en Marjeyún, y causó «el martirio de dos personas».

El anuncio se produce después de que el Ejército israelí subrayara en Telegram, haber atacado un lanzacohetes del grupo libanés shiíta Hezbollah, aliado de Irán, que había disparado varias veces desde el Líbano contra territorio de Israel.

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En vigor desde el 17 de abril, la tregua inicialmente debía terminar el domingo. La pausa ha brindado cierto respiro a la población libanesa, inmersa en un conflicto que ya ha causado más de 2.400 muertos y un millón de desplazados en el país desde principios de marzo.

Trump aseguró que Estados Unidos «colaborará con Líbano para ayudarlo a protegerse contra Hezbollah».

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Ese movimiento shiita libanés, que arrastró a su país a la guerra el 2 de marzo al atacar a Israel en apoyo a su aliado Irán, rechazó estas conversaciones y continúa sus operaciones en el sur de Líbano.

En esa región, Israel pretende crear una zona de amortiguación a costa de la destrucción de aldeas y bombardeos, que el miércoles mataron a una periodista libanesa.

Hezbollah, por su parte, anunció que había lanzado cohetes contra el norte de Israel en respuesta a las «violaciones» del alto el fuego por parte del ejército israelí.

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Trump dice que con Irán tiene «todo el tiempo del mundo»

A pesar de todo, Trump dijo que esperaba que los líderes de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, y del Líbano, Joseph Aoun, se reunieran «en las próximas semanas».

Está previsto que el presidente libanés, quien hasta ahora ha descartado la posibilidad de tal encuentro, asista el viernes a la cumbre europea de Ayia Napa, en Chipre, junto a sus homólogos egipcio, Abdel Fatah al Sisi, y sirio, Ahmed al Chareh, y al príncipe heredero de Jordania, Hussein ben Abdalah.

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Donald Trump, en el Salón Oval de la Casa Blanca, con el vicepresidente JD Vance (izq) y el secreario de Estado, Marco Rubio, este jueves. Foto: BLOOMBERG


Los miembros de la Unión Europea han asegurado que tienen la intención de abordar «la situación en Líbano y las conversaciones entre Israel y Líbano», además de mantener un «diálogo intensivo» con los Estados de la región.

Casi dos meses después de su inicio el 28 de febrero por parte de Israel y Estados Unidos, la guerra contra Irán sigue pesando sobre los mercados energéticos y la economía mundial, a pesar de la entrada en vigor de un frágil alto el fuego el 8 de abril.

El tráfico está paralizado en el estrecho de Ormuz, por donde antes del conflicto transitaba el 20% del petróleo y del gas mundiales. Ahora está sometido a un doble bloqueo iraní y estadounidense.

El viernes por la mañana, los precios del petróleo volvieron a subir en Asia, con el estadounidense WTI a más de 97 dólares y el Brent del mar del Norte, referencia mundial, a cerca de 107 dólares.

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Trump advirtió el jueves también que el tiempo juega en contra de Teherán a medida que se reducen sus exportaciones de petróleo. «Tengo todo el tiempo del mundo, pero Irán no», escribió en Truth Social.

Respondió así a algunos medios estadounidenses que habían publicado que Trump estaba ansioso por terminar la guerra. Calificó esas informaciones -de las que responsabilizó a The New York Times y CNN- de «fake news» y dijo que «el reloj está corriendo» pero no para Estados Unidos sino para Irán.

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Washington mantiene la presión militar, con la llegada a la región de un tercer portaviones, el George HW Bush. El ministro de Defensa israelí, Israel Katz, dijo que solo espera la luz verde de Estados Unidos para reanudar los ataques.

Sin embargo, Trump se ha mostrado algo más prudente y aseguró que no tiene intención de utilizar un arma nuclear contra Irán, a cuya civilización había amenazado con destruir a principios de abril.

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«¿Por qué iba a usar armas nucleares si los hemos aniquilado por completo, de forma muy convencional?», respondió a la prensa en la Casa Blanca.


Una primera ronda de conversaciones entre Irán y Estados Unidos en Pakistán el 11 de abril terminó en fracaso. El presidente estadounidense atribuyó el aplazamiento indefinido de una segunda sesión que estaba prevista esta semana a las «fracturas» dentro del poder en Teherán.


Por otra parte, mientras que el nuevo líder supremo iraní, Mojtaba Jamenei, no ha aparecido en público desde que sucedió a su padre Alí Jamenei, quien murió en los ataques del primer día de la guerra, el New York Times afirmó el jueves, citando a funcionarios anónimos, que resultó «gravemente herido».

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En particular con quemaduras en el rostro, aunque sigue «lúcido y activo», de acuerdo con el reporte.

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Senate hopeful says US should be ‘far more cooperative’ with China to fight climate change

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Maine Democrat Graham Platner is vowing to pursue closer ties with China if elected to the Senate, arguing that the U.S. should be «far more cooperative» with the communist state on issues like climate change.

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«I think our position towards China should be one of cooperation instead of one of opposition,» Platner said during a livestream in February, arguing it would be «absurd» to have an aggressive approach toward Beijing, citing its trade relationship with the United States.

«I am not a China hawk, not by any stretch of the imagination,» he continued. «I think we need to be figuring out how to integrate, or at least be far more cooperative, especially to fight challenges like climate change.»

Platner, a staunch progressive, is running to unseat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in November’s midterm elections. His views on China appear to be well outside the political mainstream and place him to the left of many Democratic lawmakers, who see the country as the United States’ most formidable strategic competitor or a geopolitical threat.

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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has advocated for increased cooperation with China, citing its trade value to the United States and the need to partner on global challenges such as climate change. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

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The Senate hopeful has also argued that fascism followed by climate change is the top two challenges facing the United States on the world stage.

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«Before the rise of fascism, I would have said that the biggest challenge we have … globally is climate change,» Platner, an oyster farmer and combat veteran, said during the livestream. 

Platner referred to federal immigration officers as «armed thugs,» accusing them of murdering American citizens, an apparent reference to two fatal shootings during an immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis earlier this year.

He has previously advocated for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and dragging agents in front of Congress to testify about their work.

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Platner’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) sharply criticized Platner’s remarks in a statement to Fox News Digital.

«Graham Platner’s soft-on-communism radical ideology would lift up dictators, threaten America’s national security, and cost American lives,» RNC spokeswoman Kristen Cianci said in a statement. «He has no business in the Senate or any position of power.»

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Senate candidate Graham Platner, D-Maine, acknowledges a large crowd during a town hall at Bunker Brewing in Portland, Maine, on Sept. 25, 2025. (Daryn Slover/Portland Press Herald via AP)

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Platner is facing Maine Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, in an increasingly nasty primary that has split factions of the Democratic Party. Leading progressives, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have endorsed him while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who leads the party’s establishment wing, is supporting Mills. 

Sanders and Warren have doubled down on their embrace of Platner despite the political newcomer’s bevy of controversial online posts and scrutiny over a Nazi-linked tattoo that he has had removed.

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Platner called for deposing Schumer as Democratic leader, weakening the filibuster to ease the passage of left-wing legislation and adding seats to the Supreme Court to dilute the power of the conservative majority, in an interview with NBC News this week.

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Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine and two-term Gov. Janet Mills are competing in the state’s Democratic Senate primary. (Sophie Park/Getty Images; Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

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The Sanders-backed oyster farmer has carved out a dominant lead in recent polling ahead of the June primary, despite Mills serving as the most senior-ranking Democrat in the state. 

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Collins is running for a sixth Senate term in the blue-leaning state. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the contest as a «toss-up.»

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