Omar Fateh, 35, a Minnesota state Senator, won the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party for Minneapolis mayor ...

Somali Americans have also been elected to city councils, school boards and, in Minnesota, legislative seats and Congress. The growing political clout corresponds with growing numbers.

Some experts in the U.S. say Somali-American young people are at greater risk of religious radicalization. Host Michel Martin speaks with homeland security advisor Mohamed Elibiary, and Mark ...

The same is true for a half dozen Somali-Americans whose names will appear on an election ballot in Minnesota this year, including two other candidates vying for the same District 62A state House ...

In Cedar-Riverside, where 20,000 refugees from Somalia began to settle in the 1990s, Warsame grew up in two worlds: a first-generation American caught between his Somali heritage and daily life in ...

Somali Americans Recruited by Extremists. ... a 27-year-old college student from Minneapolis who blew himself up in Somalia on Oct. 29 in one of five simultaneous bombings attributed to al ...

An estimated 60,000 Somali Americans call Columbus home. Many fled war, violence, and a humanitarian crisis only to find danger in America, experts said.

Somali Americans in Minnesota last month took part in a town hall involving Democratic and Republican party representatives encouraging them to participate in the 2024 election, ...

The FBI is investigating whether the American took part in a Sept. 17 twin truck bombing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which killed 21 people at an African Union peacekeeping base, law ...

It’s a party at this large banquet hall in Columbus, Ohio, with at least a thousand people packed in. Women wear dresses and headscarves in light blue and white, the colors of the Somali flag, and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s a busy Friday afternoon at a Somali restaurant on the northeast side of Columbus, home to second-largest Somali population in the United States. The smell of … ...