An explosion at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta on Saturday triggered a major fire, casualties among military personnel, and an emergency response that quickly expanded beyond the base. The fire crossed the perimeter fence and spread rapidly in high winds, turning a military incident into a wider crisis for the surrounding community. When a training exercise, a possible gas line or gas well, and wind gusts reaching up to 100 km/h all appear in the same report, nobody gets to call that a minor mishap. Global News reported, “at least seven people are dead and dozens more left injured.” Multiple Canadian Armed Forces sources told the outlet that a live-fire training exercise hit a gas line or gas well around 4 p.m. MT, causing the explosion. The resulting fire was then pushed by powerful winds across the base and into nearby areas. Prime Minister Mark Carney described the event as a “serious incident” that created a “major fire” at the Canadian Forces base near Wainwright. Circumstances remained unclear in the initial reports, and officials did not immediately provide a detailed explanation of what caused the blast. Defense Minister David McGuinty confirmed fatalities and injuries among military personnel, but he…

The reported federal search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C.-area residence is now tied to a startling development: investigators allegedly found family text messages on a phone seized from her sister, Sahra Noor. Those messages were reportedly used to convince a federal judge to authorize the search. That is more serious than the usual Washington routine of shouting at cameras and calling every uncomfortable question a conspiracy.According to reports, agents searched the home early Monday as part of an ongoing criminal fraud investigation involving Omar’s immigration paperwork. Fox News Digital reported that the documents were filled out by Omar’s late father when she was a child. Omar’s website says she arrived in the United States in March 1995, at age 12, after about four years in a refugee camp in Kenya. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, at age 17.Multiple agents wearing HSI jackets were seen outside the residence around 6 a.m. Agents spent hours inside and later left with several boxes of seized items. The New York Times reported that officials seized Noor’s phone earlier this year, and three people familiar with the matter said investigators found family messages on it. Officials then used that information to…