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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:18:27 GMT
Subject: Did Ilhan Omar change her birth year in official records?
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## Did Ilhan Omar change her birth year in official records?
The rumor circulated after federal agents searched the Minnesota congresswoman's home in a criminal investigation reportedly related to her immigration paperwork.
Snopes reporter Taija PerryCook dug through old news reports and obtained a Minneapolis high school yearbook with Omar to determine the truth.
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## An image supposedly showing violence at a Trump rally is circulating. Is it real?
Videos show men pushing, hitting and tackling a protester wearing a shirt calling for the release of the Epstein files.
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## 30 rumors about the Russia-Ukraine war, fact-checked
As the two countries traded strikes, we revisited dozens of war-related claims from our archives.
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## Did Nobel Committee member 'Peter Girnus' write letter about why Trump didn't win Peace Prize?
The alleged letter said Trump wanted the Nobel Peace Prize "the way a child wants a thing in a shop window."
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## Is proposal to build underwater data center near Maine real?
The site for the alleged project is home to endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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## What to know about ballot burnings: votes being lost in fires
In 2024, hundreds of paper ballots burned overnight in ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington. According to the FBI, someone placed improvised incendiary devices in the boxes.
Fast forward to this summer, and Los Angeles officials reported some mail-in ballots were fire-damaged inside a ballot drop box days before the state's primary elections.
While those incidents actually happened, false rumors about ballot burning often circulate around elections to stoke fears of vote tampering.
Reporter Laerke Christensen lays out what voters should know about the issue.
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