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What happened during the town hall event with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Tensions Tuesday night at a town hall event hosted by Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Omar was attacked by a man who used a syringe to spray an unknown liquid in her direction. At the time, she was responding to this month's fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment.
Omar continued speaking after security tackled and pinned the man to the floor. She insisted on continuing to speak after the attack and a statement from Omar's office says she is okay. The man is in police custody. He is expected to face an assault charge. Omar is a Somalia-born American citizen and Minnesota's large Somali community has been a target of President Trump.
During a speech in Iowa Tuesday, Trump said Omar does not love the United States. A preliminary government assessment contradicts the Trump administration's initial narrative of the shooting of 37-year-old Alex Praddy in Minneapolis.
The review describes how Alex Preddy resisted arrest before two officers shot him, but the review makes no mention of Alex Preddy attacking officers or threatening them with a weapon as the administration first described the incident. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has come under intense bipartisan scrutiny for her initial characterization.
She was quick to describe Preddy's actions as, quote, domestic terrorism, saying Preddy was attacking officers first and brandishing a weapon. The review does not mention an attack or that a weapon was brandished. Instead, it notes officers noticed a gun once there was already a struggle to arrest him. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
To stop cocaine from reaching the U.S., American military forces have carried out three dozen attacks on alleged drug smuggling boats. The strikes in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific over the past five months have killed 126 people. But as John Otis reports, they've done little to disrupt the illegal drug trade.
President Trump claims the boat bombings have stopped 97% of all illegal drugs coming into the U.S. by water. However, experts say that most drug boats drop off their cargo in Central America or Mexico, with the drugs then taken overland to the U.S., And during the last three months of 2025, when the U.S.
bombing campaign was in full force, drug seizures at the U.S.-Mexican border actually increased. According to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, cocaine seizures were up by 34 percent compared to the same period in 2024 when there were no boat bombings. For NPR News, I'm John Otis.
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