President Trump on Friday blasted Barack Hussein Obama for dropping charges against Somali Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, aka Ilhan Omar, back in 2016 after they discovered evidence that she married her own brother to commit immigration fraud. 

It was revealed by sources familiar with the current investigation that “Ilhan Omar” is a fake alias used by Ilhan Nur Said Elmi to obtain citizenship in the year 2000, live in the country illegally, and run for office. Nur Said Elmi her real name, is also the same name as her brother/husband, sister, and late father.

According to The New York Times, “Several current and former law enforcement officials said an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother.“

Trump likely knew this long ago during his first term when he frequently attacked Omar for marrying her brother.

“Well, they confirmed it, and then they didn’t want to do anything with it,” Trump said when asked about the New York Times’ reporting and her recent interview, where she said, “Not to my knowledge,” in response to a question about whether or not she married her own brother.

“So, they sort of dropped it, which is not surprising, knowing him, Barack Hussein Obama. It’s a serious problem.”

He then likened the investigation to the case in Alaska with a phony decoy candidate in the Senate race against Senator Dan Sullivan, claiming they go “hand in hand” and teasing viewers with a potential surprise.

“And when you look at Alaska, what’s going on out there, that’s pretty serious,” he said.

“I think they go hand in hand. You watch.”

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This comes as the Ilhan Omar criminal fraud investigation remains ongoing and, according to the New York Times, involves “false statements and fraud in immigration paperwork, as well as a general conspiracy charge.”

It was also recently revealed that on Ilhan Omar’s sham marriage documents, she was confused over which of her names to use, potentially providing prosecutors with more evidence on the fraud charges.

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Ilhan Omar Wasn’t Sure What Name to Put on 2009 Marriage Application with Brother-Husband

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Burma’s new defense minister, Lieutenant General Yar Pyae, claimed at an October event that the air force’s bombing campaign serves peace. At the same event, the junta renewed its invitation to ethnic armed groups to join peace talks and called on the People’s Defense Force (PDF), the armed wing of the opposition National Unity Government, to lay down its weapons.

Yar Pyae, who also chairs the junta’s National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee, spoke three weeks after a military airstrike on a market in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, killed 50 people, according to aid workers and the Arakan Army (AA). During the weekend of the event, junta airstrikes killed at least 27 civilians across five states and regions.

The invitation followed an earlier peace initiative accompanied by continued bloodshed. After Min Aung Hlaing took the title of president in April 2026, the junta announced a “100-Day Peace Initiative,” running from April 21 to July 31, and invited ethnic armed groups to Naypyitaw for talks. The UN Special Rapporteur’s latest report found that about 753 civilians were killed nationwide during that period, with the military and allied militias responsible for 89 percent of those deaths.

Airstrikes allow the military to attack territory its ground troops cannot hold. In Rakhine, where the junta has lost 14 of 17 townships, the UN Human Rights Office found that the military relied primarily on air power to prevent the AA from advancing on Sittwe and Kyaukphyu. The AA has also overrun a major regional military headquarters since launching its offensive in November 2023, according to Agenzia Nova. ACLED senior analyst Su Mon said the junta’s September offensive to retake territory in Rakhine had produced no battlefield gains.

The UN Human Rights Office’s annual report to the Human Rights Council, covering June 2025 through May 2026, identified airstrikes as the leading cause of civilian deaths in Burma. Open sources recorded at least 2,592 air attacks during that period, a 17 percent increase over the previous year. Aerial attacks accounted for 845 of the 1,241 civilian deaths the office recorded.

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a Burmese rights monitor cited by the UN office, counted at least 8,075 civilians killed by the military between the February 2021 coup and May 31, 2026, including 1,074 children. The office said military restrictions prevented verification of thousands more deaths.

More recent monitoring showed the air campaign continuing to intensify. The Myanmar Internet Project, a digital-rights monitor, recorded 581 airstrikes from July through September, an increase of nearly 12 percent over the previous quarter. The strikes killed at least 353 civilians, including 34 children, and damaged civilian facilities, including three markets. Rakhine suffered more strikes than any other state or region.

The monitor found that nearly 97 percent of the strikes hit areas where internet service had been cut, hampering warnings and casualty reporting. The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED) linked the escalation to the military’s command reorganization in March. Since then, the air force has deployed groups of two to five fighter jets to strike individual targets repeatedly.

Markets in AA-held towns have been attacked repeatedly. On January 11, 2025, a junta aircraft made three passes over the market and town center of Kyauktaw, killing eight civilians and wounding 27, according to Burma News International. On February 24, 2026, a fighter jet bombed the Yoe Ngu market in Ponnagyun Township, killing 18 people. Most of the dead were women, and four were children between six and 15 years old. Residents told Myanmar Now that the AA had no forces in the area.

The September 28 attack struck near Kyauktaw’s India Market and Kissapanadi Bridge. The UN reported that the market’s more than 200 shops were crowded with traders, shoppers and porters when the bombs hit at midday. Rescue official Wai Hun Aung described it as Rakhine’s largest wholesale market, serving buyers from across the state.

Rakhine politicians and analysts told Radio Free Asia that the junta increasingly uses attacks on civilians to pressure the AA into negotiations. Security analyst Sai Kyi Zin Soe said the military combines force with political and economic pressure, coordinated with neighboring countries, to seek a settlement on its terms. He added that mass-casualty strikes such as Kyauktaw may also aim to frighten residents into rejecting AA administration.

Thar Tun Hla, chairman of the Arakan National Party, said “the peace process requires trust” and that attacks on civilians make building that trust impossible.

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an AA ally, has held talks with the junta. On July 19, junta representatives met the group in Naypyitaw while the air force carried out strikes on five Rakhine townships over two days. The AA, the Kachin Independence Army and the Karen National Union have refused to join the talks.

The AA said the Kyauktaw attack strengthened its determination to keep fighting. Spokesperson Khaing Thu Kha told RFA that the group would track down those responsible and take action against them.

Addressing the General Assembly on October 27, UN Special Rapporteur Kelley Anne Eckels-Currie said Min Aung Hlaing, despite his new title of president, was “still the same ruthless dictator using the same ruthless tactics.”

UN human rights chief Volker Türk has urged the Security Council to refer Burma to the International Criminal Court and called on governments to halt shipments of arms, jet fuel and dual-use goods to the junta.

The UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), which collects evidence for future prosecutions, reported in its annual report, published in August, a pattern of deliberate aerial attacks on homes, schools, medical facilities, religious buildings and displacement camps. It said it had identified some of the military units responsible.

The mechanism has also issued a call for evidence about the Kyauktaw strike, asking witnesses for information identifying the aircraft, airbase, weapons and military personnel involved, including the pilots and officers who gave orders. IIMM head Nicholas Koumjian said the junta had ignored all of the investigators’ requests for information.

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Washington has warned allies across the Middle East to prepare for renewed U.S. strikes on Iran after the November 3 midterm elections and brace for Iranian retaliation, two diplomats briefed on the warnings told the Associated Press. President Donald Trump has not made a final decision, they said. The Wall Street Journal separately reported that Gulf Arab states were told to expect a “short, intense” campaign, with Trump leaning toward strikes on Iranian infrastructure and nuclear sites.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who leads Tehran’s negotiating team, responded by reiterating Iran’s terms. On Thursday, he wrote on X that talks could advance only after Washington accepts Tehran’s seven conditions, which had repeatedly been conveyed to mediators. “The carrot-and-stick approach has no effect on Iran,” he added.

Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has confirmed that Tehran delivered seven conditions to Washington but has not disclosed all of them publicly. Access to Iran’s frozen assets remains a sticking point. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz has said Washington could not allow Tehran access to billions in funds.

Iranian media reported this week that Vice President JD Vance sent Rezaei a message. The White House declined to discuss “sensitive military plans that may or may not exist” and said Trump was ruling nothing out to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

On Saturday, Iranian negotiators met Qatari mediators in Doha, Reuters reported. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera that Tehran had reviewed Vance’s letter and considered the outreach a “positive step,” though no meetings with U.S. officials were planned. Talks with Qatar, he said, had shortened Iran’s proposed timeline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz from seven days to two.

Araghchi listed Iran’s demands: lifting sanctions imposed after the Islamabad memorandum, reducing U.S. forces in the region, restoring oil waivers, releasing all frozen Iranian funds, and recognizing shipping routes Tehran had discussed with Oman.

The talks follow an unsuccessful Iranian initiative in September. During the UN General Assembly, Tehran sent Washington a plan through Qatari mediators to reopen the strait within seven days and pause regional fighting. Trump rejected the plan on September 26, calling it unacceptable.

On October 25, Qatari mediators presented a draft agreement in Tehran outlining seven days of confidence-building steps by both sides, with several countries serving as guarantors. A senior Iranian official involved in the talks told Reuters the package offered unacceptable ideas rather than a concrete proposal and said Iran would not compromise on its nuclear position.

Ebrahim Azizi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told Iran’s Al-Alam network that Tehran was reviewing the proposals but that any agreement required Washington to honor its earlier commitments first, IRNA reported. He reiterated that Iran’s missile and nuclear programs were not negotiable.

Addressing the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow on October 27, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed U.S. military action in the Gulf for disrupting energy markets and shipping, saying the economic damage extended far beyond the region. He also met Russian President Vladimir Putin and Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on the sidelines.

The next day, Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev said the Russian state nuclear company would send 508 more specialists to Iran’s Bushehr power plant, bringing its workforce there to 700. Rosatom had withdrawn most of its Russian staff after the war began in February. By mid-October, 135 employees had returned, with plans at that point to increase the contingent to 200.

Meanwhile, U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper flew over the Strait of Hormuz on October 25 as CENTCOM announced that Gulf crude exports moved with U.S. assistance since summer had exceeded 1.5 billion barrels.

On October 28, CENTCOM posted on X that Iranian reports of ships hitting sea mines were false and that U.S. forces had cleared “all internationally recognized primary transit routes.” The next day, the IRGC Navy claimed three tankers using what it called an unauthorized southern route had exploded and burned after striking mines. No independent source has confirmed the claim. IRGC spokesman Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohebbi challenged CENTCOM to provide independent evidence of its demining operations.

Reuters and UK Maritime Trade Operations confirmed one attack involving limpet mines. Explosives placed on a tanker’s hull by a small boat ignited a fire in its engine room. Oman reported evacuating 25 crew members from a tanker attacked off Musandam.

On Thursday, the IRGC Navy claimed its electronic warfare unit seized control of a U.S. MQM-170 drone west of the strait and landed it intact. CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins denied the claim, saying the IRGC “has repeatedly lied out of desperation.” IRNA noted in the same report that the Griffon Aerospace MQM-170 Outlaw is a target drone designed for air defense training.

The claim echoed a September incident in which the IRGC said it had captured an advanced U.S. underwater drone. The U.S. military said the vehicle had malfunctioned.

With Americans voting on Tuesday and U.S. forces preparing strike options, Trump faces a decision on how to respond to Tehran’s terms and whether to resume the war.

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A former New Jersey elementary school teacher has pleaded guilty to charges related to having sex with a child years after giving birth to a child fathered by the 13-year-old victim. 

Her indictment was covered in June 2025

Via ABC6 Philadelphia:

Prosecutors announced 36-year-old Laura Caron entered a plea deal on Thursday that includes only five years in prison. She will also forfeit her teaching license, be prohibited from holding a public job in the future, and be required to register as a sex offender.

According to the Daily Mail, the boy was 13, and Caron was 28 at the time she had his child in 2019. Their relationship started when he was just 11 years old.

In an interview with the Daily Mail last year, the then-19-year-old victim defended Caron, a former college basketball player, arguing he “wasn’t groomed or raped or manipulated by her.”

“I started everything. If it was up to me, she wouldn’t have been in jail. It’s been six or seven years. I’m 19, about to be 20,” the lovestruck teen said, rejecting the allegation that their relationship started when he was 11 as “crazy.”

The woman became close with the victim’s family, and the parents allowed the boy to stay with her overnight on occasion, according to the Daily Mail. Eventually, she became pregnant, but there was no issue until the boy’s father noticed a striking resemblance between Caron’s daughter and his young son.

She continued teaching at the Middle Township Elementary School Number Two in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, but was arrested in January 2025.

“I love her with all my heart. She was there for me and my family,” the teen said in his interview with the outlet.

The Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffery H. Sutherland’s Office said in a Friday Facebook post,

Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland announces a guilty plea in Cape May County Superior Court by Laura Caron, a 36-year old resident of Cape May Court House, New Jersey and former Middle Township teacher.

Caron was initially charged on January 15, 2025, and then indicted on June 17, 2025, as a result of an investigation conducted by detectives from the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims

Unit after it was reported Caron had a sexual relationship with a male juvenile victim.

On October 28, 2026, Laura Caron plead guilty to the charge of 2nd degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child with Sexual Conduct. The guilty plea by Caron includes a 5-year sentence in New Jersey State Prison along with forfeiting her teaching license and all future public employment. Before Caron serves her State Prison sentence, she will be evaluated at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center at Avenel for classification to determine whether she is deemed repetitive and/or compulsive which could inpact her sentence.

After Caron’s classification, and after serving her State Prison term, she will also be required to register on the Megan’s Law Offender Registry and subject to Parole Supervision for the rest of her life.

Providing the Avenel evaulation is completed, Caron is scheduled to be sentenced on January 8, 2027 by the Honorable Jeffrey Waldman, J.S.C.

Prosecutor Sutherland would like to thank all the detectives involved in bringing this investigation to a close.

She is due in court again on January 8, 2027, for sentencing.

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Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

On Thursday, I released an Election Message to the Body of Christ. As we conclude one of the most consequential elections of our time, the choice could hardly be clearer and easier for Christians.

In fact, this could be called the “no-brainer” election. No need for careful, nuanced calculation. No need for “let me think about that” discernment or a torrent of mental energy to figure it out.

This election is a contrast for America that hits you between the eyes and is self-evident.

President Trump told us long ago that under his leadership and that of a Republican Congress, we would be “winning, winning, winning.” In fact, he joked that “we would get tired of winning.”

Well, we have been winning like crazy. And the only people tired of the leadership we have right now and its accomplishments are those not paying any attention to it.

We are living through an extraordinary political battle between a party that loves the Christian Faith and wants it to flourish and a party that hates it and wants it to disappear. The White House has published President Trump’s Top 250 Victories for People of Faith.

Believers need to read this before casting their votes. Pastors need to preach it. The Church needs to reflect on it.

The reason there have been victories is that there have been attacks. The Democrats have persecuted Christians through every branch of government, weaponized federal agencies to intimidate and imprison pro-life activists, decimated the rights of parents to educate their children in faith and morals, dismantled offices of faith and replaced them with DEI, closed houses of worship, and more.

The Republicans, on the other hand, have provided the largest funding of school choice in history, established offices of Faith in the White House and every federal agency, set pro-life prisoners free, ended government discrimination against individuals and organizations of faith, given public schools new guidance supporting the rights of students to pray, and much more.

President Trump established a Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, and the initial report that they issued shows us, as well as anything else, what is at stake in this election.

Again, it’s a no-brainer.

Some wonder whether our leaders are behaving like Christians. Well, they’re certainly creating an environment in which we can live the great commandment to love the Lord with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength, and not be punished in the process.

Then consider also the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”

The Republican party has worked to advance protections for children in the womb, while the Democrats push the right to unlimited, unregulated abortion. Just consider the abortion ballot measures in Idaho, Nevada and Virginia, and the recently enacted law in Massachusetts allowing abortion until birth.

How can Christians disregard such a fundamental distinction?

Moreover, America has been made safe again. We currently have the lowest crime and murder rates, a drastically reduced rate of drug-related deaths, an America freed from the Iranian nuclear threat, and strategically protected from the presence of our global enemies thanks to new deals with Greenland and Venezuela.

Then consider the commandment, “Thou shalt not steal.” Our current administration has made uncovering government waste, fraud and abuse a priority. Our Department of Agriculture has discovered that billions of dollars that supposedly went to people on food stamps was going to people who died before they applied for the program!

It is an Ephesians 5:11 moment, where government is, as St. Paul said, not participating in the fruitless works of darkness, but rather, exposing them!

Some Christians tell me they are tired of politics and intend to sit this election out. My response is simple: Are you tired of defending your children? Do you ever take a break from that when the going gets tough?

Of course not.

Then we shouldn’t take a break from voting, because voting is part of protecting our children and their future.

Our current leadership has brought us to the lowest poverty rate in our history, lower inflation, the highest median family income in history, a record high stock market, the highest investments in America in all of history, the Trump accounts for children, a manufacturing renaissance, the protection of the US dollar in the world market, and much more.

It is for this that we are voting.

Some feel their vote doesn’t count in the big picture. But do we think that way of our latest donation to charity? What is one donation in the big picture? The answer is, it is our donation. That is the one donation for which we get to answer to God that we have done our part, no matter how small. And we are proud of that. Our vote deserves that same commitment.

And to pastors who hesitate to address elections because they prefer simply to preach the Gospel, I offer this reminder: You may not want to be involved in politics, but politics is involved in you. Government decisions affect whether we can freely preach, worship, educate our children and live our Christian convictions.

The Apostle Paul urges believers to pray for those in authority so that we may live peaceful and godly lives (1 Tim 2:1-2). There we have the two issues of security and religious freedom. And we’re doing pretty darn well with the leadership we have.

Christians, there is no reason whatsoever for a spirit of doom and gloom. Nobody has to agree with everything our leaders do, and it is perfectly legitimate to have some disappointments about certain things not done.

But the contrast between the great things achieved and the dangers of having them destroyed has never been clearer. This handout and its supporting documentation, and this video, all at ProLifeVote.com, tell the story.

Let’s study the issues, understand the differences between the parties, defend our families, born and unborn, and get out the vote.

Rise up, O Church of God! Our faith demands nothing less.

Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life and the national pastoral director of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

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