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🗞️ Story file #576

Federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on citizenship status

Oct 16, 8 PM ET to Oct 16, 11 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 16, 8 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 16, 8 PM to Oct 16, 11 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 166 AM12 PM6 PMThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Oct 13, 10:02 PM ET: U.S. probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on birth date, citizenship papers, people familiar sayTimeTimeTime, Oct 15, 6:02 AM ET: Can Trump Strip Ilhan Omar of Her Citizenship? Here's How the Process WorksAxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 15, 2:00 PM ET: Could Ilhan Omar be stripped of her citizenship? Here's what it takesStar TribuneStar TribuneStar Tribune, Oct 15, 3:00 PM ET: What to know about the investigation into Rep. Ilhan OmarBBCBBCBBC, Oct 15, 5:00 PM ET: What we know about the criminal investigation into US congresswoman Ilhan OmarThe Daily SignalThe Daily SignalThe Daily Signal, Oct 16, 11:00 AM ET: WATCH: Inside the Federal Investigation That Could Cost Ilhan Omar Her CitizenshipYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 16, 3:00 PM ET: Federal probe of Ilhan Omar aimed at revoking citizenship, deporting her
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Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Timcast IRL 📺 Hasan Piker

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🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Ilhan Omar Federal Bureau of Investigation Congress of the United States Federal Investigation

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ilhan Omar immigration probe

  1. Trump criticizes Omar following raid

    Oct 13, 2 PM ET

  2. Federal raid on Rep. Omar's home criticized by Democrats

    Oct 13, 8 PM ET

  3. Federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar focuses on citizenship status (this story)

    Oct 16, 8 PM ET

  4. Border czar says investigators have strong case against Ilhan Omar

    Oct 19, 9 AM ET

  5. Obama criticizes Trump administration's investigation of Ilhan Omar

    Oct 19, 1 AM ET

  6. Feds have dna evidence in ilhan omar immigration fraud probe

    Oct 17, 4 PM ET

  7. Federal investigators question Ilhan Omar's sister

    Oct 12, 9 AM ET

  8. Federal agents raid Ilhan Omar's DC home

    Oct 21, 12 PM ET

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