Ilhan Omar to leave Washington home after federal search

Rep. Ilhan Omar said Wednesday she will move out of her Washington, D.C., home after the address became public following a federal search, which she said has left her family concerned about threats to their safety. Omar described the October 12 search in an interview, saying agents arrived around 6 a.m. and searched the home for four to five hours. She said they took 17 items, including phones, notebooks, a camera and a Somali-language phrase book. These details of the search are Omar’s account. The U.S. Department of Justice said agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. The department has disclosed few details, and Omar had not been charged in the reporting. A person briefed on the investigation told the Associated Press that authorities were examining possible fraud in relatives’ immigration paperwork and had issued grand jury subpoenas to some relatives. Omar said her family could no longer comfortably use the home because the address was public and she faced death threats. She said the situation made it infeasible for her children to visit. She also described the agents as intrusive but said they behaved...