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Ilhan Omar’s wealth scandal takes a turn just one day after raid of her DC home

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U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed Tuesday that her office is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures, opening a new chapter in the controversy surrounding the Minnesota Democrat’s previously reported multimillion-dollar assets.

Speaking on Fox News’ «America Reports,» Pirro said her office was examining Omar’s financial disclosures, which previously showed that the reported value of businesses tied to her husband, Tim Mynett, had surged from as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024.

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The latest development comes one day after federal agents searched Omar’s Washington, D.C., home as part of an ongoing criminal investigation involving her immigration paperwork, two sources familiar with the probe told Digital.

The Justice Department confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant Monday as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. It remains unclear whether the search is connected in any way to the financial disclosure investigation described by Pirro.

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The disclosures drew scrutiny from congressional Republicans, including House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., who requested financial records from two companies tied to Mynett in February.

The original filings, examined by Digital earlier this year, showed millions of dollars in newly reported assets associated with two of Mynett’s business ventures — a California-based winery and a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm.

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The winery, eStCru LLC, saw its reported valuation jump from between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2023 to between $1 million and $5 million in 2024. Rose Lake Capital LLC showed an even sharper increase, rising from a reported value of between $1 and $1,000 in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million the following year.

Combined, the businesses had reported values ranging from approximately $15,000 to $51,000 in 2023, compared with between $6 million and $30 million in 2024.

Financial disclosure forms report assets in broad ranges rather than exact dollar amounts, meaning the filings did not establish the couple’s precise net worth.

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In February, Comer requested documents and communications related to the finances of eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC, raising questions about the dramatic increase in their reported valuations.

Omar subsequently amended her financial disclosures in April, reducing the couple’s combined reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000. The revised filing listed her husband’s two businesses as having no net value after accounting for liabilities.

Omar’s office, at the time, said the original disclosures had failed to properly account for liabilities associated with her husband’s businesses, creating what it described as a misleading picture of the couple’s finances.

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The congresswoman has repeatedly maintained that she is not a millionaire.

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In September, the Office of Congressional Conduct voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss misconduct allegations stemming from the financial disclosures.

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The congressional watchdog found there was not substantial reason to believe Omar had reported false or incomplete information in violation of federal law or House rules.

Omar’s office characterized the findings as vindication, maintaining that the congresswoman had done nothing wrong.

The congressional watchdog’s review is separate from the federal investigation described by Pirro on Tuesday.

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Omar’s latest annual financial disclosure, filed in May, listed assets totaling between approximately $20,000 and $125,000, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune analysis. The filing also reported student loan and credit card debt associated with her husband.

The Somali-born congresswoman has denied allegations of wrongdoing and has accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons — especially after Monday’s raid of her Washington, D.C., residence.

The Minnesota Democrat has been a frequent target of criticism from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.

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James Talarico, el rostro joven de la histórica victoria demócrata que se suma a la carrera presidencial del 2028 en EE.UU.

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Es el rostro más visible de la victoria demócrata sobre Donald Trump. Tiene 37 años, rostro de niño y apellido italiano. James Talarico pateó el tablero político en Texas y fue electo senador por el Partido Demócrata en un tradicional bastión conservador.

Será el legislador más joven del nuevo Senado estadounidense, tras unas elecciones que delinearon un nuevo mapa político con un Congreso dominado por la oposición.

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Su triunfo sobre su rival republicano Ken Paxton fue histórico y lo catapultó a la primera línea de la carrera presidencial demócrata para las elecciones de 2028, junto a la exvicepresidenta Kamala Harris.

Talarico, maestro y seminarista presbiteriano, ganó en forma holgada a pesar de los fondos millonarios de la campaña republicana, la más cara para una elección no presidencial en la historia del estado. Según los resultados oficiales, ganó con el 54% de los votos.

Se estima que más de U$S 500 millones fueron donados a las arcas republicanas para evitar una derrota que no se daba desde hace casi 40 años. Solo Elon Musk giró unos U$S 200 millones, de acuerdo a la prensa local.

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“David no era tan grande ni tan fuerte como Goliat. No tenía tantas armas, pero tenía esperanza. Tenía fe y tenía una honda. Ustedes fueron mi honda. Gracias. El pueblo de Texas fue mi honda. Y esta noche, hemos derrotado a Goliat”, dijo Talarico en un acto en Austin, capital de Texas.

Quién es James Talarico

Talarico nació el 17 de mayo de 1989 en Round Rock, en la periferia de Austin.

Se dedicó a la docencia y trabajó en una escuela pública de San Antonio antes de lanzarse a la política.

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Su abuelo fue un pastor bautista. El flamante senador es abiertamente religioso y suele citar a Jesús en sus discursos, lo que lo diferencia de otros dirigentes del partido más inclinados a la izquierda, como la diputada Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez o el también electo senador Abdul El-Sayed, que será el primer miembro musulmán de la cámara alta.

James Talarico ganó en Texas (Foto: REUTERS/Mike Segar)

De hecho, Talarico estudia actualmente en el Seminario Teológico Presbiteriano después de obtener un máster en política educativa en Harvard.

“Su perfil lo hace candidateable (en las elecciones presidenciales de 2028), sobre todo porque es joven. Además, es moderado, dentro de todo lo que representa el ala más radical y extremista del Partido Demócrata”, dijo a TN el analista Mauro Enbe.

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Iran takes a victory lap over stunning US election results, claims ‘collapse has accelerated’

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Democrats weren’t the only ones celebrating amid shattering defeats for Republicans in the midterm elections — Iranian leaders also took a victory lap Wednesday.

Iran cast the results — where Democrats made gains even in traditional Republican strongholds — as a rejection of President Donald Trump’s war and a decisive referendum on the economic toll it took on American voters in the months before the election.

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«The process of the US’s collapse has accelerated,» Iran’s current Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, posted on an official English language account on X.

«Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message,» Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has also served as Tehran’s chief negotiator in talks with Washington, posted on X.

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«If the US govt betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare,» Ghalibaf added.

Khamenei, meanwhile, appeared to signal Iran would dig in its heels rather than negotiate with the U.S.

«The Great Satan [the US] wants the surrender of the Iranian nation. The slightest inclination toward submission would cause the immense capital acquired through the blessings brought by the blood of our martyrs and the sacrifices of the entire Iranian nation to be lost,» he wrote in another post on X.

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«It would embolden the enemy to launch more wars, and carry out its next acts of aggression.»

The declarations came after Democrats seized control of Congress Tuesday night in a political bloodbath for Republicans, delivering a major rebuke to Trump after a campaign dominated by concerns over affordability and the months-long war with Iran that the president repeatedly promised was nearing its end.

When the attacks began earlier this year, Trump said it would last a weeks — maybe a bit over a month. It has now been raging for more than eight months.

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Iran was hardly the only issue driving voters to the polls — but the conflict became increasingly intertwined with Americans’ economic concerns as the war sent energy prices higher and impacted the costs of gas and most goods.

Polling ahead of Election Day showed deep public dissatisfaction with the Iran conflict.

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Trump himself acknowledged after the results came in that Iran «partly» played a role in Republicans’ losses, even as he continued to defend his decision to go to war.

Vice President JD Vance was much more blunt, writing in a lengthy X post: «The reason we lost is the war.»

«If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so,» he continued. «Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.»

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Other voices in Tehran also claimed vindication in the wake of the results.

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Iranian Deputy Parliament Speaker Ali Nikzad called the Republican losses the «aftershocks» of what he described as Trump’s defeat at the hands of Iran, while a senior official in Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s office claimed the war and U.S. support for Israel had brought Republicans an historic electoral defeat.

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Trump entered the conflict predicting a short war.

In the opening days of Operation Epic Fury, the president repeatedly said the campaign would take roughly four to six weeks and soon declared U.S. forces were running «substantially ahead» of schedule. American and Israeli strikes quickly eliminated senior Iranian military leaders and battered Tehran’s military infrastructure.

But the war proved far easier to start than to end.

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Iran retaliated by choking commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that before the war carried roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply, while launching attacks on energy infrastructure across the Persian Gulf. Shipping through the strait nearly ground to a halt in the early weeks of the conflict, removing millions of barrels of oil from global markets and sending energy prices sharply higher.

Iranian attacks damaged oil and energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and elsewhere in the Gulf, further squeezing supplies. By the end of May, more than 1.1 billion barrels of crude that would ordinarily have reached global markets had been disrupted, according to the International Monetary Fund.

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What Trump initially described as a matter of weeks instead stretched across much of 2026, as the administration struggled to secure lasting freedom of navigation through Hormuz and Iran retained the ability to threaten commercial shipping and its Gulf neighbors.

The economic consequences followed Americans home.

Oil prices surged after the war began, feeding through to gasoline and other consumer costs just as Republicans headed into a midterm election already dominated by concerns over affordability.

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Even after U.S.-led operations restored much of the traffic through Hormuz by the fall, oil flows remained below prewar levels and Iran continued attacking commercial vessels.

The prolonged conflict also complicated Trump’s effort to argue that the war had already accomplished its central objectives. By October, the president was disputing that he had ever promised the entire conflict would end within four to six weeks, saying that timeline referred only to eliminating Iran’s nuclear threat.

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4,633 viviendas con daños totales: las huellas del terremoto que azotó Panamá

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Un total de 4,633 viviendas presentan daños totales en Panamá como consecuencia del terremoto de magnitud 7.5 registrado el pasado 9 de octubre. El Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil (Sinaproc) informó que 19,865 residencias han sido evaluadas, mientras las inspecciones abarcan a 63,767 personas en diez provincias y la comarca Ngäbe-Buglé.

El balance del Centro de Operaciones de Emergencias (COE), actualizado al 2 de noviembre, revela que 11,107 viviendas registran afectaciones moderadas y parciales, mientras otras 4,125 presentan daños leves o menores.

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Las cifras reflejan la magnitud de las pérdidas materiales ocasionadas por el movimiento telúrico, cuando han transcurrido 24 días desde la emergencia.

Las evaluaciones se desarrollan mediante el sistema de Evaluación de Daños y Análisis de Necesidades (EDAN), que permite identificar las condiciones de las estructuras y las necesidades de sus ocupantes. El informe también registra 198 mujeres embarazadas y 2,758 personas con discapacidad, grupos que requieren seguimiento prioritario durante la recuperación.

El terremoto de magnitud 7.5 registrado el 9 de octubre provocó daños en miles de viviendas de las provincias centrales de Panamá. Tomada de Instagram

La emergencia mantiene 113 albergues activos en diferentes regiones del país, donde permanecen 3,356 personas pertenecientes a 886 familias. Veraguas concentra la mayor cantidad de damnificados, con 1,635, seguida de Los Santos, que contabiliza 1,153 personas bajo atención de los organismos de respuesta.

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En Herrera permanecen 359 personas alojadas en instalaciones temporales, mientras la comarca Ngäbe-Buglé registra 129. Coclé mantiene 66 damnificados y Chiriquí otros 14.

Estas cifras muestran la persistencia de necesidades de alojamiento, especialmente entre las familias cuyas residencias sufrieron afectaciones estructurales importantes.

El Sinaproc mantiene desplegados equipos de evaluación y trabajadores sociales para identificar las necesidades de las comunidades afectadas, orientar a las familias y facilitar la atención institucional.

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Veraguas y Los Santos concentran la mayor cantidad de damnificados que todavía requieren alojamiento y atención institucional. EFE

Las labores incluyen acompañamiento a personas vulnerables y distribución de asistencia humanitaria, mientras continúa la verificación de los daños reportados.

En materia alimentaria, el Instituto de Mercadeo Agropecuario (IMA) informó sobre la distribución de 81,229 bolsas de alimentos en 1,548 comunidades. Esta operación forma parte de las acciones de abastecimiento dirigidas a los hogares impactados, particularmente en sectores donde las afectaciones dificultan el acceso a productos básicos.

La respuesta logística también ha requerido movilizar más de 208,317 libras de carga por vía aérea, mediante 343 horas de vuelo y 39 evacuaciones. Paralelamente, las instituciones han transportado 385.50 toneladas de suministros por vía terrestre, utilizando diferentes mecanismos para llegar a las poblaciones necesitadas.

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En infraestructura pública, las autoridades reportan más de 853 centros educativos inspeccionados y 120 instalaciones de salud evaluadas. Un balance anterior identificó afectaciones en 619 escuelas, mientras las revisiones estructurales buscan determinar las condiciones de seguridad y facilitar el restablecimiento de los servicios esenciales.

Más de 3,300 personas permanecen alojadas en instalaciones temporales mientras las autoridades coordinan la asistencia humanitaria. Tomada de Instagram.

}El terremoto ocurrió el viernes 9 de octubre, a las 12:56 p. m., con epicentro localizado a 39 kilómetros al noroeste de Tonosí, provincia de Los Santos, y una profundidad de cuatro kilómetros. El movimiento provocó daños en viviendas, carreteras, puentes y edificios públicos, principalmente en las provincias centrales.

La evolución de la emergencia refleja un incremento considerable en las evaluaciones realizadas. El 26 de octubre se contabilizaban 13,681 viviendas inspeccionadas y 44,885 personas registradas, frente a las cifras actuales. Aquel balance también reportaba dos personas fallecidas y 27 lesionadas, como parte de las consecuencias del desastre.

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El seguimiento internacional ha incluido la participación de organismos de Naciones Unidas, que colaboran en áreas de salud, alojamiento, agua, saneamiento y protección. La Organización Panamericana de la Salud también documentó más de 600 réplicas posteriores al terremoto, un factor que ha complicado la recuperación de algunas comunidades.

Durante las festividades patrias, los equipos de emergencia continúan trabajando en territorio, sin suspender las inspecciones ni la entrega de suministros. Las autoridades también mantienen vigilancia ante las lluvias propias de la temporada, que podrían agravar las condiciones de terrenos inestables y zonas afectadas por deslizamientos.

Las autoridades han inspeccionado más de 853 centros educativos y 120 instalaciones de salud como parte de las labores de recuperación. EFE/ Bienvenido Velasco

El Sinaproc reiteró la necesidad de evitar cruzar ríos y quebradas crecidos, atender los avisos meteorológicos y extremar las precauciones con niños y adultos mayores. Mientras avanzan las evaluaciones, la atención a las familias desplazadas y la recuperación de infraestructura siguen entre las principales prioridades de las instituciones.

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