Somali Congresswoman Ilhan Omar facing probe over how her family wealth rocketed from near-nothing to $30million in just one year

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is facing scrutiny after her assets appeared to skyrocket from only $1,000 to almost $30 million in just one year.

Two companies, both owned by her husband and listed on Omar’s most recent financial disclosure form, seemed to explode in value between 2023 and last year.

Rose Lake Capital LLC was valued between $5 million and $25 million in 2024, according to the document, filed in May.

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Chris Selley: Here’s why Canadian criminals seem to get off lightly. Prosecutors don’t go ‘knives out’

If Canadians have ever felt like they had a handle on who goes to jail, when and why, and for how long, it’s tough to believe they do nowadays. Or if they think they do, chances are good they’re not too happy about it. Once you notice how many news stories there are about people who have been accused or convicted of violent crimes, and then gotten out on bail or parole, and then been latterly accused or convicted of further violent offences, it is quite difficult to un-notice it.

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The ‘thorny’ issues that threaten to derail a Russia-Ukraine peace deal

Russia, the US and Ukraine agree that a deal on ending almost four years of full-scale war is edging closer but, in the words of President Donald Trump, “one or two very thorny, very tough issues” remain.

Two of the trickiest issues in Washington’s 20-point plan involve territory and the fate of Europe’s biggest nuclear plant, which is currently occupied by Russia.

The Kremlin agrees with Trump that negotiations are “at a final stage”, and Zelensky’s next step is to meet European leaders in France on 6 January, but any one of the sticking points could jeopardise a deal.

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As long as Trump is in office, Canada is at risk. This is why protecting ourselves is the most important thing we can do

The week that Donald Trump was elected I offered Justin Trudeau some free advice in this newspaper.

At that time, Trudeau was trailing Pierre Poilievre in the polls by 25 points and had been for two years, hanging onto power despite being so personally unpopular that he could not win support for anything.

I thought Canada needed a leader to calm the political waters by tacking hard to the centre, so that the country could respond to the Trump challenge in a unified way. I wrote that Trudeau had to do four things he wouldn’t want to do: get rid of the carbon tax, remove the emissions cap on Alberta oil, tighten immigration and increase military spending.

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BURTON: Free trade or food security? Canada’s supply management debate demands both

Canada’s supply management system for dairy, eggs, and poultry has become a political irritant, an economic lightning rod, and a recurring obstacle in our trade relationship with the United States.

For free-market conservatives, it is an obvious target: production quotas, price controls, and import restrictions offend basic principles of competition and consumer choice. For others, it is a necessary safeguard — one of the last policy tools ensuring Canada can feed itself in an increasingly unstable world.

(Incognito)

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British taxpayers fund Kenyan sex chatbot

A “pleasure-oriented” sex chatbot for Kenyan teenagers was developed using aid money from British taxpayers, The Telegraph can disclose.

The app was built as part of a £41m UK aid programme which aims to invest in “radical technology solutions” to issues in the developing world.

h/t Patti Jo

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What’s coming up next in Canadian politics? Here are five key stories to watch in 2026

After a wild year in Canadian politics that began with Justin Trudeau’s resignation and ended with Conservative MPs crossing the floor to join Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government, 2026 is shaping up to be just as action-packed.

It’ll be a year where U.S. trade talks will loom large. Meanwhile, federal opposition parties will make key decisions on their futures as the Liberal government — just one seat shy of a majority government — strategizes what to do next.

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Authorities Spent 2 Years Suppressing That Transgender Covenant School Shooter Hated Christians

The good news is that it’s not only Muslim terrorists who get the cover-up treatment. Transgender terrorists do too.

Audrey Elizabeth Hale, a woman who falsely identified as a man, shot up a Christian school in Nashville, murdering three children and three adults. The media first tried to bury her ‘transgender’ identity and the authorities spent two years trying to suppress her motive.

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The rise of homonationalism

What choice do they have?

Across Europe, gay voters are moving rightwards. Britain has not quite caught up yet, but it will. The only question is whether the Conservatives or Reform UK will be the ones to benefit.

I was reminded of this recently, while hosting a fundraiser for LGBT+ Conservatives at the Savile Club in London. Conservative MP Katie Lam was speaking, and she made a remark that would once have been uncontroversial, but now feels borderline taboo. LGBT rights, including same-sex marriage, she argued, are the product of particular cultures. Britain and the West built the legal and cultural framework that made LGBT equality possible. It did not happen by accident.

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Terry Newman: Greta’s journey from child climate activist to terrorist mascot

Greta Thunberg was arrested by U.K. police last week, completing her journey from child climate activist to proud supporter of a proscribed terrorist group.

In both instances, she arrived on the scene seemingly with no assembly required — climate and antizionist software already pre-installed — ready to plug a book authored by her mother three days after she was “discovered,” or a long list of antizionist organizations she recommended shortly after the horrific attacks of October 7 while claiming she wasn’t antisemitic. Her seven-year story appears to be one of exploitation and opportunism leading to her current role — terrorist mascot.

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Afghan man, 20, is arrested after ‘attacking five people’ in hospital waiting room ‘when he was refused an appointment’

A woman was seen running along the street covered in blood amid a crowbar rampage in a hospital waiting room in which five people were injured.

A 20-year-old Afghan man allegedly launched the attack after he was refused an appointment, and was arrested at the scene at Newton Community Hospital in Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside.

The ‘shaking’ woman reportedly ran from the hospital into a local shop just after midday and begged staff to summon police.

h/t Patti Jo

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Inside Iran protests that threaten regime: ‘This is the final battle’

It fell to Masoud Pezeshkian, a former heart surgeon who is now the reformist president of Iran, to pass on the message that had been resounding on the streets of Tehran for two days.

The regime would do well to pay heed, Pezeshkian said, to protests that erupted in the capital over the country’s deepening economic woes.

They should also pay attention to where the demonstrations began, Iranian exiles add, and the images of defiance that seem to have put a regime, at least for a moment, on the back foot.

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