Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

The man accused of attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., with a substance at a town hall in Minneapolis last week was ordered Tuesday to be detained on probable cause. Anthony Kazmierczak, 56, faces a ...

The man who rushed at Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and sprayed her with liquid Tuesday night during a town hall in Minneapolis faces state and federal charges. The 55-year-old, identified by police as ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., suggested Wednesday that President Donald Trump's rhetoric toward her and the Somali community contributed to the attack on her at a town hall Tuesday. “What the facts have ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), during a news conference Wednesday evening, connected President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and an attack this week , in which a man used a syringe to spray an unknown ...

Republicans are speaking out against an attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday night, in which she was sprayed with an unknown substance during a town hall event. “What happened at Rep. Ilhan ...

Minnesota lawmaker Ilhan Omar was attacked by a man, identified as Anthony Kazmierczak, on January 27 when the Democrat was addressing a Town Hall meeting. The Somalia-born state representative was ...

A man is facing criminal charges after video showed a Minnesota lawmaker being sprayed with an unknown liquid at a town hall event, amid weeks of unrest and violence in the midwestern state's Twin ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. Ilhan Omar after learning she was attacked with a syringe during a town hall, accusing the Minnesota congresswoman without evidence of staging ...

Omar’s office later said she was safe, and a man is in police custody. A man sprayed a substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar during her town hall in Minneapolis’ North Side on Tuesday night, Jan. 27. In ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was rushed by a man during a town hall event Tuesday night and sprayed with a liquid via a syringe. Footage from the event shows a man approaching Omar at her lectern as she ...

Ms. Omar, a Democratic member of Congress, has come under fire for years, most notably from President Trump. By Aaron Boxerman Ilhan Omar, the Democratic member of Congress who was attacked at a ...