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The tumultuous personal life of left-leaning congresswoman Ilhan Omar has taken another turn — her ex-husband remarried just 37 days after she divorced him, DailyMail.com has learned. Ahmed Hirsi, the father of the Minnesota representative's three children, tied the knot with pediatric nurse Ladan Ahmed, who had worked on Omar's election campaign. 'She's as Somali as they come,' one leader of the large Somali community in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area said about Hirsi's new wife. DailyMail.com understands the couple are now on honeymoon in Saudi Arabia and made a pilgrimage to Mecca. Hirsi did not return DailyMail.com's requests for comment....

US Rep. Ilhan Omar suggested Monday that the press and her political foes are partly to blame for the demise of her marriage. “Ilhan and Ahmed have been the object of speculation and innuendo from political opponents and the media,” according to a statement from her lawyer, referring to the Minnesota congresswoman and her husband, Ahmed Hirsi, and which the rep said he was issuing “on behalf” of Omar. “This has taken a significant toll on Ilhan, Ahmed, and their three children. “As with all marriages, this is intensely personal and a difficult time for their family,” the statement added.

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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s tax filings came under scrutiny Friday after Minnesota campaign finance investigators revealed she had filed jointly with a man to whom she wasn’t legally married for two consecutive years before she took elected office. The revelation was seized on by some conservative media outlets and social media pundits, who said the situation was tantamount to tax fraud — a charge Omar denied. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) A campaign spokesman for the Minneapolis Democrat issued the following statement Friday: “All of Rep. Omar’s tax filings are fully compliant with all applicable tax law.”...