Air Force grants full military honors to Ashli Babbitt after military leadership under Biden denied request
The Air Force decided to extend military funeral honors to deceased Senior Airman Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a police officer during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The decision came after Air Force leadership during the Biden administration previously denied the request in February 2021, shortly after Babbitt was killed. The decision also comes on the heels of a wrongful death settlement reached in July, which resulted in the government paying the Babbitt family nearly $5 million. “On behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force, I write to extend the offer for Military Funeral Honors for SrA Ashli Babbitt,” stated an Aug. 15 letter from the undersecretary of the Air Force, sent to Babbitt’s husband, Aaron, according to the family’s legal representatives. “After reviewing the circumstances of Ashli’s death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect.” TRUMP SALUTES SGT. MICHAEL VERARDO, WOUNDED AFGHANISTAN VETERAN WHO INSPIRED INDEPENDENCE FUND’S TRACKCHAIRS “After reviewing the circumstances of SrA Babbitt’s death, the Air Force has offered Military Funeral Honors to SrA Babbitt’s family,” an Air Force spokesperson confirmed in a statement to Fox News Digital. Babbitt was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol police officer as she was attempting to forcibly gain access to the Capitol chambers during the events of Jan. 6. Roughly three months later the Department of Justice announced it would not be pursuing criminal charges against the officer who shot Babbitt. Both praise and criticism followed the news that the Air Force would be granting Babbitt her military honors, previously denied under Biden. VETERAN BURNS AMERICAN FLAG OUTSIDE WHITE HOUSE AFTER TRUMP SIGNED JAILTIME ORDER “There is no better example of how a leader is supposed to act, than right here in this letter,” said retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a longtime Trump confidant who spent a short stint as the president’s national security advisor after a long tenure in the military and time leading the Defense Intelligence Agency, in response to the undersecretary’s letter restoring Babbitt’s honors. “May Ashli Babbitt now Rest In Peace and her family gain some measure of solace for the wonderful person she was and the light of truth she brought to each of us,” Flynn concluded. Meanwhile, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who was part of the GOP-maligned Jan. 6 Congressional Committee that investigated the Capitol riot, slammed the move to restore Babbitt’s honors. “[Ashli] Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor,” Kinzinger said in response to the news. A former Capitol Police officer, Aquilino Gonell, who described Jan. 6 as one of the worst days of his life, suggested the move was a slap in the face to people who got hurt as a result of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “Not to officers, like Brian Sicknick, who served in the Air National Guard, but the member of the mob who stormed the Capitol and put herself and other’s lives in danger,” the former Capitol Police officer said of the restored honors. “Wtf.”
Blue states deflect blame in Trump probe after illegal immigrant trucker crash kills 3 in Florida
A Florida crash that killed three people sparked an ultimatum from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over states’ commercial driver licensing rules. But two out of the three states named by the secretary say they’re in compliance. Duffy’s push came after an illegal immigrant from India, Harjinder Singh, allegedly struck and killed three people in a tractor-trailer while making an illegal U-turn on a Florida turnpike on Aug. 12. Singh’s current commercial driver’s license was issued in California; he previously had one in Washington state, and Duffy said there was a traffic stop in New Mexico where his rig was not taken “out of service.” Duffy is giving the states 30 days to follow the law, or risk losing federal funding through the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program. “We are not going to tolerate states that don’t comply with the rules that come from this department,” Duffy said at a press conference on Tuesday. BLUE STATE INVESTIGATES HOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCKER GOT LICENSE BEFORE DEADLY FLORIDA CRASH Following the crash earlier this month, federal investigators said Singh failed English proficiency and road sign tests. California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office maintains that they were following federal law when Singh’s license was doled out and placed the blame on the Trump administration. “This is rich. The Trump administration approved the federal work permit for the man who killed 3 people — and now they’re scrambling to shift blame after getting caught. Sean’s nonsense announcement is as big a joke as the Trump Administration itself. SAD!” a spokesperson for Newsom’s office told Fox News Digital in a statement. EXPERT REVEALS HOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCKER MAY HAVE GOTTEN COMMERCIAL LICENSE BEFORE FATAL FLORIDA CRASH Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin previously disputed Newsom’s timeline that says he was given a work permit under Trump. CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE “False. Harjinder Singh is in the United States illegally and his work authorization was rejected under the Trump Administration on September 14, 2020. It was later approved under the Biden Administration June 9, 2021,” McLaughlin said on Aug. 18 in response to Newsom’s press office’s X account. Michael Coleman, spokesman for Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, of New Mexico, said they are “confident” that a “full review of these incidents” will show that the state is following the law. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCKER ACCUSED OF KILLING THREE PEOPLE FAILED ENGLISH, ROAD SIGN TESTS: DOT “New Mexico’s top priority is the safety of its residents and visitors, and we are confident that our state laws for commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) are fully compliant with federal regulations,” he said, adding that the state requires an English test to make sure drivers know road signs. “We are aware of recent claims regarding the enforcement of these regulations and are actively seeking more information from the relevant federal and state partners. Initial reports suggest that these claims relate to a small number of roadside incidents over a three-month period. It’s important to note that these incidents may have involved out-of-state drivers due to the cross-country nature of our trucking industry,” he continued. The Washington Department of Licensing said last week that an investigation is underway into how Singh was able to obtain a commercial driver’s license in the state. Fox News Digital reached out to Gov. Bob Ferguson’s office for comment on Wednesday regarding Duffy’s announcement. “This is about keeping people safe on the road. Your families, your kids, your spouses, your loved ones, your friends,” Duffy said. “We all use the roadway, and we need to make sure that those who are driving big rigs — semis — can understand the road signs, that they’ve been well-trained.”
Noem hits back at FEMA critics, reveals vision for disaster relief agency
FIRST ON FOX: Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem slammed a group of former and current Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees who wrote a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s handling of the agency as she outlined her vision for FEMA’s role in the U.S. More than 190 former and current FEMA employees joined an open letter on Monday “in response to the Trump administration’s dismantling cuts and devastating attacks on FEMA programs and missions.” On Wednesday morning, the agency’s current employees who signed on to the letter were placed on administrative leave. “I am not surprised that some of the same bureaucrats who presided over decades of inefficiency are now objecting to reform; including many who worked under the Biden Administration to turn FEMA into the bureaucratic nightmare it is today,” Noem told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “I refuse to accept that FEMA red tape should stand between an American citizen suffering and the aid they desperately need.” DHS JUGGLES ‘MASS DEPORTATION’ PUSH WITH HELENE RELIEF, ADDS $124M AFTER BIDEN BACKLASH “That’s why I am working so hard to eliminate FEMA as it exists today, and streamline this bloated organization into a tool that actually benefits Americans in crisis,” Noem added. President Donald Trump, who has been critical of the disaster agency since his presidential campaign, told reporters in June that FEMA “has not worked out well.” “It’s extremely expensive and, again, when you have a tornado or a hurricane or you have a problem of any kind, in a state, that’s what you have governors for,” Trump added. “They’re supposed to fix those problems, and it’s much more local and they’ll develop a system, and it will be a great system.” KRISTI NOEM: DC RESIDENTS ARE REMEMBERING WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO ‘BE FREE’ AMID TRUMP’S CRIME CRACKDOWN The basis of the letter, which was published by nonprofit Stand Up for Science, focuses on Hurricane Katrina and relays concerns that unpreparedness played a large role in the aftermath that shook the gulf and devastated New Orleans, Louisiana. Signees argue that Noem and the agency’s leaders “hinder the swift execution of [FEMA’s] mission, and dismiss experienced staff whose institutional knowledge and relationships are vital to ensure effective emergency management.” Noem told Fox News Digital that these criticisms are remnants of the Biden administration’s wasteful spending, and that the agency “has a history of failing Americans in real emergencies for decades.” SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY SAYS HE WAS ‘NAIVE’ IN HOW HE LOOKED AT BIDEN AS PRESIDENT, CALLS HIM INEFFECTIVE “The Biden administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars resettling illegal aliens in our country on American taxpayers’ dime, while FEMA still hasn’t even finished payouts from Hurricane Katrina,” Noem explained to Fox. “We don’t want to just fix a broken system, we want to build something better.” “As our successes in Texas make clear, the Trump administration has created a deployable disaster force that cuts through the bureaucratic noise, and delivers real results in record time,” Noem added. KENTUCKY GOVERNOR PRAISES FEMA UNDER TRUMP, SAYS ITS A ‘CREDIT TO HIS ADMINISTRATION’ Despite the partisan back-and-forth, some Democrats have recognized the positive direction the disaster agency is heading under Noem and Trump’s leadership. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear told “At Our Table” podcast host Jaime Harrison earlier this month that “Trump’s FEMA on the ground has done a good job in Kentucky” and that the federal government’s handling of the agency is “actually a credit to [Trump’s] administration.” While the immediate future of FEMA and how Congress may go about funding the agency remains unclear, Noem is optimistic that much of the wasteful spending that came from previous leadership will be put to rest. “These [FEMA] career bureaucrats had Support Service contracts for everything they do, from finance to management support to staffing reviews,” a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “They hardly did anything themselves.” “Instead, they hid their egregious misuse of taxpayer funds under the veneer of ’emergency management,’” the DOGE office explained to Fox. “No wonder they have the time to write letters to the Hill – they certainly weren’t spending their time working.”
Trump pick for UN aviation office has long history donating to Dems, Nikki Haley
The nominee President Donald Trump tapped to serve as ambassador to a United Nations office charged with overseeing global aviation standards has a checkered tax history and background donating to Democrats and political opponents of the president, a Fox News Digital review of the nominee’s public records found. The White House and Trump allies, however, have doubled down in support of the nominee, saying he will assist the administration in “ushering in the Golden Age of aviation.” Jeffrey Anderson was tapped to lead the International Civil Aviation Organization in July, when the White House published a list of nominations to fill various roles, from the International Civil Aviation Organization ambassadorship to director of the Mint to membership with the National Labor Relations Board. Anderson is a U.S. Navy veteran who worked as a commercial airline captain for more than 34 years, retiring from that role earlier in 2025, according to his LinkedIn. The International Civil Aviation Organization is a U.N. office based in Montreal that is charged with overseeing international aviation standards, including issues related to safety, navigation and environmental protection. The role has sat vacant for the past three years, when the former ambassador, pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, stepped down in 2022. Sullenberger gained widespread applause in 2009, when the US Airways pilot landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River after a bird strike disabled both engines — an event known as the “Miracle on the Hudson.” TRUMP TAPS SEAN DUFFY TO SERVE AS INTERIM NASA CHIEF Anderson is a former Delta Air Lines pilot whose nomination drew ire from the Air Line Pilots Association, a union that represents nearly 80,000 pilots across the U.S. and Canada, arguing his “only” qualification was supporting an effort to raise the mandatory pilot retirement age. The union opposes increasing the mandatory retirement from 65 years of age to age 67, arguing it “would leave the United States as an outlier in the global aviation space and create chaos on pilot labor, and international and domestic flight operations,” the group’s statement in July read. Fox News Digital took a look back at Anderson’s political campaign contributions and found he donated to a handful of Democratic candidates often hostile to Trump and his policies. He also made a handful of small-dollar donations to Republican Nikki Haley during the 2024 campaign cycle, when the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. ran against Trump, whom she slammed as “unhinged” while on the campaign trail before dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump as the GOP nominee for president. TRUMP NOMINATES SEASONED MILITARY LEADERS TO HEAD VITAL GLOBAL COMMANDS Anderson contributed at least $200 to Haley during the month of February 2024, when Haley and Trump were the only GOP candidates left in the primary race, according to four small-dollar donations recorded by the Federal Election Commission. The former pilot also donated to Shawn Harris, the former Democratic opponent who tried to unseat Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the 2024 cycle. The $100 donation was made in September 2024 through ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s massive fundraising arm, and earmarked for the Democratic candidate who ultimately failed to oust Greene. Harris’ campaign included slamming Trump and characterizing him as a politician who acts as a “king” and threatens democracy. Anderson’s political donations to Democrats stretch back years, including in 2017 when he donated to Democrats, such as former House candidate Dan Ward in Virginia and former Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon — both of whom received $250 contributions from Anderson that year, according to election records. Both Democrats had slammed Trump and his policies across his first administration, including DeFazio declaring after the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol that: “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy, national security and the safety of all Americans. He must be removed from office immediately.” The former Delta pilot also has landed in hot water over unpaid taxes, Fox News Digital found. IRS records show Anderson and his wife had more than $426,000 in unpaid federal taxes across seven years from 2013 to 2019, raising concerns that his financial responsibility. The taxes were related to a “small business,” according to the forms. “Jeffrey Anderson isn’t a Trump Republican at all; he’s a liberal sleeper who slipped through the cracks of PPO (Presidential Personnel Office),” a former Trump official told Fox Digital of Anderson’s political donations and tax history. When approached for comment on the previous donations and tax issues, Anderson told Fox News Digital that at “the very least, some of your information is factually incorrect or tendered well out of context.” Anderson did not respond when asked for additional details on what was “factually incorrect.” “I am fully supportive of President Trump and his America First agenda. I have been fully vetted by the White House and appreciate the approval of the President, House Aviation Chair Troy Nehls and House T&I Chair Sam Graves, among others. I look forward to advancing American interests as the next Permanent Representative to ICAO,” he wrote in a direct message on LinkedIn to Fox Digital in August, while adding that Trump is seeking to “move effectively forward in a space negligently left vacant by Biden.” When asked about Anderson’s tax history and donations to Democrats and Trump opponents, a White House official told Fox Digital: “Jeffrey (Anderson) is highly qualified to serve as America’s ambassador to the ICAO, and he is a great choice to represent the President’s America First foreign policy agenda in the international aviation community.” Fox News Digital additionally reached out to the State Department, which helps manage the vetting of potential ambassador nominees, for comment and was directed to the White House’s statement. TRUMP ADMIN PULLS JARED ISAACMAN’S NOMINATION FOR NASA ADMINISTRATOR, REPLACEMENT TO BE ANNOUNCED ‘SOON’ The former pilot himself also floated a run for political office more than a decade ago in Georgia as a Democrat, according to a local Georgia news report that called him “prospective Democratic Congressional candidate Jeff Anderson.”
Elderly Palestinians starving to death under Israeli-made famine in Gaza
[unable to retrieve full-text content] An increasing number of elderly Palestinians in Gaza are dying due to the Israeli-made famine there.
UN chief slams Israel for ‘deliberate’ Gaza ‘catastrophe’
NewsFeed UN Chief Antonio Guterres accused Israel of making ‘deliberate decisions that defy basic humanity,’ saying these had produced catastrophic results in Gaza. He warned that famine was no longer a looming possibility but a present-day catastrophe. Published On 28 Aug 202528 Aug 2025 Adblock test (Why?)
Israel steps up bombardment of Gaza City, killing at least 24 people
Published On 28 Aug 202528 Aug 2025 At least 24 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Thursday, including 12 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera, as residents report intensified military bombardment of the eastern and southern neighbourhoods of Gaza City. The Israeli military has been preparing to take Gaza City, the enclave’s largest urban centre, despite international calls to reconsider the move over fears that the operation would cause significant casualties and displace the roughly one million Palestinians sheltering there. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was among those criticising the campaign, saying on Thursday that it “signals a new and dangerous phase” in the war. “Expanded military operations in Gaza City will have devastating consequences. Hundreds of thousands of civilians, already exhausted and traumatised, would be forced to flee yet again, pushing families into even deeper peril,” he said. “This must stop,” he said. In Gaza City, residents said families were fleeing their homes and most were heading towards the coast as Israeli forces bombarded the Shujayea, Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods. No buildings remain standing in the southern part of Zeitoun as the Israeli ground operation has demolished more than 1,500 homes, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence agency. Israeli officials have described Gaza City as the last stronghold of Hamas. ‘Enforced disappearances’ The Israeli military said in a statement that it was continuing to operate throughout Gaza to target fighters and their infrastructure. Advertisement The military said on Thursday that it had killed three fighters in the past day without saying how it had identified the individuals. The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that those killed across Gaza on Thursday included a woman and her child sheltering in a tent camp for displaced people in Khan Younis. Meanwhile, UN rights experts voiced alarm at reports of “enforced disappearances” of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the US- and Israeli-backed GHF, urging Israel to end the “heinous crime”. The seven independent experts said in a joint statement they had received reports that a number of individuals, including one child, had been “forcibly disappeared” after going to aid distribution sites in Rafah in southern Gaza. “Reports of enforced disappearances targeting starving civilians seeking their basic right to food is not only shocking, but amounts to torture,” said the experts, who are mandated by the UN Human Rights Council but who do not speak on behalf of the UN itself. “Using food as a tool to conduct targeted and mass disappearances needs to end now.” In response, the GHF said it had found no evidence of “enforced disappearances” at its aid sites. According to the AFP news agency, the GHF said in response to the experts’ statement: “We operate in a war zone where serious allegations exist against all parties operating outside our sites. But inside GHF facilities, there is no evidence of enforced disappearances.” New famine deaths With the enclave in the grips of a humanitarian crisis, the Gaza Ministry of Health also said on Thursday that four more people, including two children, had died of malnutrition and starvation in the enclave, raising hunger-related deaths to 317 people, including 121 children, since the war started. “The scene on the ground is quite heartbreaking,” Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. “Families are still lining up in front of soup kitchens for hours under the scorching heat, often to return to their temporary shelters empty-handed,” he said. “Others are risking their lives to travel to distribution points to seek food aid.” Israel’s military campaign has devastated the territory and displaced most of the roughly two million Palestinians there. It started after Hamas’s October 2023 attacks on Israel, which killed 1,139 people with another 251 taken captive. Most of the captives have since been released through diplomatic negotiations although 50 remain in Gaza, of whom 20 are said to be alive. Advertisement Israel, meanwhile, has not responded publicly to Hamas’s acceptance of a proposal for a ceasefire that would allow the return of some of the captives. Israeli officials have, however, insisted that they would only accept a deal that sees all of the captives released and Hamas’s surrender. More than 62,900 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, according to local health officials. Adblock test (Why?)
Does Lord Krishna’s magic still lives on? Here are 5 sacred places in India where you can feel his presence
Vrindavan, Dwarka, Mathura, Govardhan, and Barsana are five sacred places where Krishna’s presence is still felt. Each site carries timeless lessons of love, devotion, courage, and protection, keeping Lord Krishna’s magic alive for millions of devotees.
Travel To Lucknow From Delhi-NCR In Just 4 Hours: UP govt’s HUGE project cuts down journey time – Find out the completion date HERE
Traveling from Noida to Lucknow via the Yamuna and Agra Expressways currently takes more than seven hours. However, it will take nearly less time to go from Noida to Kanpur and then to Lucknow thanks to the new expressways.
Deendayal Lado Laxmi Yojana launched in Haryana: Women to get Rs…; check eligibility, other key details HERE
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has announced the launch of the Deendayal Lado Laxmi Yojana, a scheme designed to provide social security and respect to women in the state. The scheme will be launched on September 25. What is the eligibility criteria?