Omar ‘married her brother’ and could be deported: DHS secretary

 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday asserted that Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) “married her brother” as part of an alleged fraudulent immigration scheme — and could face deportation.

Mullin made the comment to conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, as he discussed the “ongoing” federal investigation into the “Squad” congresswoman, at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas.

“We know that she married her brother to try to bring him to the United States,” Mullin said confidently.

Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks during a news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.James Keivom

“We know he lives now in London,” the DHS chief added, referring to Omar’s ex-husband.

Mullin suggested that the investigation may turn up “illegal activity” on the congresswoman’s part that could result in her being deported from the US.

 “There may be more to this, the whole family migration and possibly some illegal activity for them to come to the United States to begin with,” he told Johnson.

Mullin cautioned that the case is still being investigated and was adamant it was not politically motivated.

“Here’s what I want to make sure we do: if we actually move a case forward, it’s not a political case, it’s an actual case, because they did things wrong,” he said.

Mullin added, “If you lied about certain things about your application. There’s no expiration to that. If we can prove it – that you shouldn’t have been here in the first place – we’ll deport you.”

Omar became a naturalized US citizen in 2000, when she was 17 years old.

The congresswoman has vehemently denied marrying her brother.

Omar has two ex-husbands, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the latter of whom was first accused at least a decade ago of wedding the future US congresswoman.

“Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive,” Omar told MPR News in 2016. 

“This is a ridiculous lie and desperate attempt to distract from the pedophile protection party’s unpopular war of choice, increasing gas prices, and rapidly dropping polling numbers,” Omar’s chief of staff Connor McNutt said of the marriage fraud allegations earlier this year. 

Omar legally married Hirsi in January 2018 – a month after she dissolved her marriage with Elmi, a UK citizen, whom she had legally wed in February 2009, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune and a Hennepin County marriage certificate previously obtained by The Post.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says authorities are investigating allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother.X/RealAmVoice

Omar has described her relationship with Elmi as brief, and claims they were separated for much of the time, except between 2009 and 2011. There’s no record of the two having children.

In 2019, the Star Tribune reported that an Instagram photo seemingly showed Elmi holding a newborn girl he referred to as his niece in June 2012 – the same month and year Omar’s youngest daughter was born. 

That photo was subsequently deleted.

Other allegations that Omar and Elmi were brother and sister first surfaced on a Somali politics discussion board called SomaliSpot — but were also deleted, according to City Journal.

Minneapolis-based Somali blogger and community leader Abdihakim Osman later told the Daily Mail in 2020 he knew Omar when the two were growing up in Minnesota — and she had introduced Elmi as her brother from London to Somali community members in the late 2000s.

Omar allegedly would tell people at the time that her sibling was looking for “papers,” referencing immigration documents such as a green card.

“No one knew there had been a wedding [to Elmi] until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later,” Osman told the Daily Mail.

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have also stated that they believe Omar may have married her brother. 

“We actually think that Ilhan Omar definitely committed immigration fraud against the United States of America,” Vance told Benny Johnson in March.

In May, Trump told a crowd that he also believes Omar “married her brother, which is totally illegal.” 

Marriage fraud is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/11/us-news/ilhan-omar-married-her-brother-and-could-be-deported-dhs-sec/

Positive Wells Fargo conference updates on AUVELITY momentum and pipeline spark AXSM

 

Positive Wells Fargo conference updates on AUVELITY momentum and pipeline spark AXSM 7% gain

• AXSM rose ~7% intraday Sep 11 (from $211.12 close to ~$225+), rebounding from recent pullback.
• Management at Sep 9 Wells Fargo (and Sep 10 Cantor) conferences highlighted robust AUVELITY sales growth (51% YoY in Q2), sales force expansion to ~630 reps, positive early feedback on new Alzheimer's agitation launch, strong Medicare coverage.
• Broad market access, improving gross-to-net trends, and multiple Phase 3 catalysts expected 2026-2027 were emphasized, per transcripts released shortly before the move.
• Hints of potential share buybacks as capital allocation option noted as bullish given cash position and ~9% short interest.

https://finviz.com/stock?t=AXSM&p=d

'Pakistan Seeks to Avoid Saudi-Houthi War Despite Defense Commitments to Riyadh'

 Pakistan is seeking to keep itself out of an escalating confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, as its expanding defense commitments to Riyadh collide with its effort to preserve relations with Tehran.

The fighting has become the first major test of a mutual defense alliance signed last month by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye, under which an armed attack against one member is treated as an attack against all three.

Islamabad is also bound to Riyadh through an earlier bilateral defense arrangement.

Pressure on Pakistan

Pakistani officials see the Houthi threat as carrying a greater risk of drawing Islamabad directly into conflict than Iranian missile attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure earlier this year.

Pakistani troops are already stationed near Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen, two Pakistani officials said in July, increasing the possibility of direct exposure if fighting widens.

Pakistan has also previously deployed thousands of troops and a squadron of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia under its earlier defense arrangements.

But Islamabad has shown no sign that it wants those commitments converted into an active role against the Houthis.

"Pakistan is trying to keep a low profile in the Saudi-Houthi conflict because Pakistan’s own stakes are high," a Pakistani government official said. "It does not want to spoil relations with Iran."

Foreign ministry spokesman Sajjad Haider Khan said on Thursday that no military response to Houthi attacks was under discussion.

Tehran Remains Central

Pakistan’s calculations extend beyond its defense relationship with Saudi Arabia.

The country depends on oil and gas shipments passing through the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, maritime routes Iran and the Houthis have shown they can disrupt.

Relations with Tehran have also been volatile.

Iranian missile and drone strikes against alleged militant positions in Pakistan’s Balochistan province two years ago triggered retaliatory Pakistani attacks before the confrontation subsided.

Islamabad is now attempting to contain tensions before they reach that point again.

This week, Pakistan conveyed a Saudi warning calling on Iran to restrain the Houthis, according to Saudi, Pakistani and Iranian sources.

Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir also spoke with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Thursday about "ways to restore diplomatic efforts to de-escalate on all fronts," according to a Pakistani source.

"Iran’s leadership has consistently appreciated Pakistan’s mediation efforts," Khan said. "Pakistan has consistently opposed escalation and advocated restraint, dialogue and diplomacy."

Limits of Mediation

Iranian officials have publicly welcomed Pakistan’s diplomatic role and said they do not consider the defense pact a threat.

Privately, however, three Iranian sources said doubts remain over Islamabad’s ability to influence events, arguing that Pakistan lacks the negotiating experience and leverage associated with Qatar.

Farzana Shaikh, an associate fellow at Chatham House, similarly questioned how deep Iranian confidence in Pakistan had been.

She said Islamabad "does not have the kind of wherewithal or indeed experience that Qatar and Oman would have brought to the table."

Shaikh argued that Pakistan’s increased diplomatic relevance was linked less to its independent leverage than to the relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Munir.

Trump has repeatedly referred to Munir as his "favorite field marshal" following Pakistani efforts centered on crypto deals, U.S. access to rare minerals and counterterrorism.

Alignment As Leverage

Other analysts see Pakistan’s close ties with Saudi Arabia and Washington as part of its usefulness to Tehran, not an obstacle.

Kamran Bokhari, a Washington-based analyst on Pakistan-Iran relations, said Iran engages Islamabad partly because Pakistan can transmit messages from governments with which Tehran has more difficult relationships.

That arrangement, however, depends on Pakistan remaining a conduit rather than becoming a participant in the fighting.

"Relaying and shaping messages is one thing," Bokhari said, but "active air-defense or intelligence support is another, tipping Pakistan from stakeholder into combatant."

A deeper Saudi-Houthi confrontation could therefore force Islamabad to decide where mediation ends, and its defense obligations begin.

Wider Gulf Commitments Curbed

Pakistan is already showing caution about extending similar guarantees elsewhere in the Gulf.

After Islamabad and Riyadh signed their earlier defense agreement, Kuwait sought a broadly comparable arrangement, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

Pakistani officials instead reduced the scope of the talks, concerned about adding another military commitment involving a Gulf state exposed to possible Iranian attacks.

Pakistan and Kuwait ultimately signed a narrower protocol last month covering training, border security and capacity-building.

Khan said on Thursday that there were currently no plans to add further countries to the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia-Türkiye alliance.

The restraint also reflects military pressure at home.

Pakistan has forces deployed along its tense border with India while simultaneously confronting insurgencies in its western provinces.

"Pakistani forces are stretched," Bokhari said, making additional Gulf commitments "daunting."

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/pakistan-seeks-to-avoid-saudi-houthi-war-despite-defense-commitments-to-riyadh-xbt7piyfzld

'Politico: Russia Seeks to Influence German and French Elections, Sweden Warns'

 Russia is focusing its influence operations on upcoming elections in Germany and France, using social media platforms and automated accounts to deepen political divisions, according to Sweden’s top official responsible for countering foreign disinformation.

Magnus Hjort, director general of the Swedish Psychological Defense Agency, told Politico that Moscow sees elections in major European democracies as opportunities to amplify polarization and weaken trust in political institutions.

“Our assessment is that Russia is prioritizing other elections, other countries, larger countries in Europe,” Hjort said.

Germany and France in Focus

Hjort pointed to upcoming regional and local elections in Germany and France’s next presidential contest as key targets.

“We have elections in Germany coming up on the regional and local level,” he said. “We have presidential elections in France next year.”

Germany has faced growing concern over Russian-linked hybrid activity, including fabricated social media posts and videos falsely accusing election candidates of corruption and sexual offenses.

Votes are due in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sept. 20, with the far-right Alternative for Germany expected to perform strongly.

In France, Marine Le Pen is leading opinion polls ahead of the presidential election. Her National Rally party has previously faced criticism over perceived sympathies toward Moscow.

Ukraine Support a Key Target

Hjort said one of Russia’s main objectives is to reduce European support for continued financial and military assistance to Ukraine.

The campaign seeks to influence voters by circulating false claims about Ukrainian corruption and alleged abuses, encouraging doubts over whether governments should continue sending money and weapons to Kyiv.

Sweden, by contrast, is not currently assessed to be a major target ahead of Sunday’s general election.

Hjort said broad domestic backing for support to Ukraine made Sweden less attractive than larger European countries with more contested political environments.

Pressure on Social Media Platforms

Sweden is urging major technology companies to move more aggressively against coordinated bot networks.

Asked whether Meta, TikTok and X were doing enough, Hjort said: “With the platforms? No, I think the platforms should do more in order to keep their platforms clean of these bot networks. So there's room for improvement.”

He said European governments need closer cooperation and stronger channels for dealing with social media companies.

Swedish authorities have also identified a network of 1,200 accounts on X that targeted Sweden and other countries.

The network, known as the “holiday network,” initially posted about ordinary topics such as vacations and sports before shifting toward divisive political content.

It produced 50,000 posts and comments in 2025 and 2026, taking sharply opposing positions on major political issues.

Russia’s Disinformation Tactics

The Swedish agency also recently detected a Russian-aligned campaign using the so-called Matryoshka method.

The tactic attempts to draw journalists and fact-checkers into engaging with deceptive material, increasing its visibility even when it is being debunked.

Hjort said the most effective response is often to avoid engagement.

“They want to get you engaged, they want to get angry, they want to get you excited,” he said.

Swedish authorities continue to monitor the final days before their own election, but Hjort said they had not detected any coordinated Russian campaign targeting Sweden.

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/russia-seeks-to-influence-german-and-french-elections-sweden-warns-ht5sxc94ew9

Saudi Civil Defense lifts danger alert in Taif

 Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense lifted an alert over a potential danger in the Taif Governorate minutes after issuing the warning.

"The danger has passed in Taif Governorate. For your safety, continue following #CivilDefense instructions and avoid gathering and filming," the post on X said.

The country's civil defense previously urged residents to head to the nearest safe place and remain there until the danger has passed.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Saudi-Civil-Defense-lifts-danger-alert-in-Taif/67092972

Oprah Audience Calls For 'Same Passion' For Black Child-Killers As For Lindsay Clancy

  by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

Oprah Winfrey flew into Massachusetts to host a "watershed" conversation about Lindsay Clancy.

What the cameras captured was not a sombre conversation regarding her three dead children. It was a room brainwashed into treating a child-killer as a ideological cause - and then demand the same energy for black women who have murdered their kids.

Yes really. The takeaway from this particular creepy corner of culture is no longer "killing your children is unthinkable." Rather, it is "lets make sure we support child killers of color just as much as white child killers."

As we now know, Clancy strangled her three children - 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan - with exercise bands in the family basement on January 24, 2023, then cut herself and jumped from a second-story window. She has never denied the killings. Her defense argued postpartum psychosis and a lack of criminal responsibility. Prosecutors said the acts were planned. After 21 days of testimony and more than 80 witnesses, the jury hung. A mistrial was declared in early September.

Days later Oprah's podcast put the case on a soundstage with medical experts, legal voices, a former colleague who testified at trial, and women describing their own postpartum breakdowns. Official branding called it "Understanding Postpartum Psychosis." The clip that detonated online was something else entirely.

A doctor in the room told the audience she wanted the same passion for women "who don't look like Lindsay."

Okaaaaaay. "Passion"?

"I want us to have the same passion for people who don't look like Lindsay, who don't have her same access... who don't have her same access and education, her melanin, her privilege," she said.

Right, you can see where this is going.

"There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for this same thing that we've never heard of. And I just want to remind us to have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well."

The room cheered.

What the actual fuck is this? It's demented.

The moral argument slid, in one breath, from mental-health treatment to racial bookkeeping for filicide. Not "stop this." Not "the children come first." The demand was representation - pink shirts and energy for other mothers who killed their kids.

Once the killer is recast as the victim, the next move is to complain that some victims of this new compassion have the wrong skin tone.

There was a break in the madness. A young woman stood up and said the sentence the rest of the room had spent an hour avoiding.

"I do believe she's a murderer..."

Oprah answered: "After all you've heard today?"

Belief that a mother who strangled three small children is a murderer was treated as a failure to absorb the program. The safe answer in that room was not the names Cora, Dawson and Callan. It was the sermon: hormones, sleep, the medical system, "access," "melanin," "privilege."

Mothers are supposed to be the safest place for children. That used to be the one thing that did not require a panel debate.

The rest of the taping ran on the same track: identification with Clancy, regardless of the murdered children.

One woman described hearing a man's voice whispering in her ear to drown her baby. The camera found tears on cue.

Another told Oprah she sat in her son's bedroom and saw his toys as weapons. She played out strangling him in her mind. When Clancy's case hit the news, she said she recognized the same intrusive thoughts. "The reason my story ended differently is because who my husband is," she stated.

Oprah told her she had "a lot of courage."

A third guest said she began hearing voices telling her that her daughter was the second coming of Christ and that she wanted to rewrite the Bible. She said she improved after 17 days in a hospital. The point of the story, in that room, was kinship with Clancy.

An 'expert' then offered "Society expects women to be perfect. So what are we supposed to do? This bliss-myth of what it is to be a mother is so society engrained, it's very hard to ask for help."

Most mothers have been exhausted. Most mothers have not treated their children as a problem to be solved with an exercise band.

The pink-shirt movement formed outside Plymouth Superior Court. In mid-August, hundreds of women in pink treated Clancy's van like a homecoming. Organizer Renee Kimball said, "I think that every one of us women believe that it could be any one of us." She added that women who have dealt with anxiety, depression and postpartum "just know that any one of us could be sitting in her chair."

Days earlier the same scene was already apparent online: TikTok mothers filming themselves relating to a confessed child-killer while holding their own babies, a GoFundMe for Clancy's parents swelling toward seven figures, and comment threads that talked more about her treatment than about the murdered kids.

Bill Maher, no MAGA activist, asked the question the pink crowd still will not. "What I don't get is why does she have fans?" He compared the courthouse scene to the folk-hero treatment of Luigi Mangione. He could grant that postpartum illness is real. He could not explain the merch, the cheers, or the need for a fandom.

Joe Rogan was less delicate. "If those ladies could see the crime scene and see those dead kids with their vacant eyes staring up because their mother took their life, the last thing that they saw was their mother standing over them, choking them to death, I don't think they would feel so bad." He added that if she walks, "her supporters should have to let her babysit."

Prosecutors in Frankfort, Illinois, say Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son, Barrett, from a basement rafter, then tried to kill herself. She told police the boy was the "devil" and the "anti-Christ." Witnesses said she had become "very invested" in the Clancy trial and was still texting friends about it hours before the child was found.

Meanwhile the living victim of the original crime - Patrick Clancy, the father who came home to three dead children - has been hunted online by the same ecosystem. His attorney, Howard Cooper, said Patrick and his family have been "subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" from "minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists." Cooper's demand was simple: "Enough is enough - this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop."

Lindsay confessed. Nobody in the courtroom argued Patrick did it. The pink movement needed a villain who was not the woman with the bands in her hands, so they invented one.

Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz has said "This case has always been about those three children. We are here today because they are not."

Latarsha Sanders was convicted in 2022 in the same county, before the same judge, of stabbing her sons Edson, 8, and La'son, 5, in their Brockton apartment in 2018. Prosecutors said the boys were found in bed after being stabbed roughly 100 times between them. Sanders received two mandatory life terms.

Erin Merdy of Brooklyn pleaded guilty this year to drowning her three children - Zachary, 7, Liliana, 4, and 3-month-old Oliver - in the ocean near Coney Island in 2022. Relatives had said she may have been struggling with postpartum depression. A judge sentenced her to 20 years to life. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said, "No sentence can fully measure the loss of a seven-year-old, a four-year-old and a three-month-old baby, or the grief their loved ones will carry forever."

None of this requires a studio audience to cheer a racial audit of child murder.

A movement that cannot say "do not kill your children" without attaching a demographic rider has abandoned all morality.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/oprah-audience-calls-same-passion-black-child-killers-lindsay-clancy