India, Dec. 10 -- Conservative commentator and Fox News host Laura Ingraham posted a long-debunked claim from a five-year-old report that U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar supposedly married her "own brother."

Fact-checkers and evidence point to a straight no about the allegations; however, prominent conservative media voices keep amplifying the narrative.

According to the fact-check site Snopes, the story began circulating in 2016 during Omar's campaign for the Minnesota House of Representatives. The claim appears to have originated from a now-deleted anonymous post on a Somali-American internet forum (SomaliSpot).

The 2016 post alleged that Omar's 2009 civil marriage to Elmi was a sham. The post claimed that Elmi was her biological broth...