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The Air Force recognized Ashli Babbitt's service and reversed prior decisions, granting military funeral honors after a $5 million settlement with her family, officials said.
- On Wednesday, authorities released the identities of victims from the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting in Minneapolis, which killed two children aged 8 and 10 and wounded three elderly parishioners and 15 children, while families urged change and police investigate motives.
- The Trump administration approved a $5 million settlement earlier this year, resolving a case unrelated to arms sales.
- Seven months into his second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported nearly 200,000 people, while U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard repatriated 150,000; over 75% of those booked in fiscal year 2025 had no serious convictions beyond immigration or traffic offenses.
- On Wednesday, the White House ousted CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez, leaving the agency leaderless; CDC staffers rallied outside the Atlanta headquarters to salute top officials who resigned in protest, and HHS is expected to name Jim O'Neill as acting director.
- The U.S. Air Force has offered full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, Air Force veteran fatally shot on January 6, 2021, after officials approved a nearly $5 million settlement with Babbitt's family.
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Retired general rains hell on 'obscene' Ashli Babbitt military honor plan
Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump Air Force veteran who was fatally shot by Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 Captal riot, is now set to receive full military funeral honors, a decision that has left one retired general livid, and condemning the move as “obscene.”“I am infuriated that the Air Force plans ...
The American Air Force will escort the funeral of the Capitol striker. Democratic MPs are appalled.
Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt To Receive Military Funeral Honors Granted By Trump Administration
Source: Bill Clark / Getty Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6 rioter who got herself shot and killed while committing an act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol, is receiving military funeral honors from the U.S. Air Force, a privilege that was denied to her under President Joe Biden. According to the Guardian, Matthew Lohmeier, the under secretary of the Air Force, confirmed the decision in an August letter to Babbitt’s family. So, why is this hap…
Caucasity Audacity: January 6 Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt Given Military Funeral By U.S. Air Force Under Trump Administration
Source: Stephanie Keith / Getty January 6th, 2021, will forever be an infamous day in American history. Thousands of obsequious Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in hopes of destroying democracy and supplanting it with an autocratic orangeman who had just lost an election fair and square. People were so blinded by their loyalty to this man that they were willing to inflict violence on police officers (who they spent…
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