<p>The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Wikipedia over alleged pro-Kremlin, anti-Western, and anti-Israel bias, raising serious concerns given that AI chatbots heavily rely on the site’s information.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Profound, a company helping brands monitor and influence their presence in AI search engines, has analyzed 30 million citations across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity from August 2024 to June 2025,” CyberNews <a href="https://cybernews.com/news/chatgpt-wikipedia-google-reddit/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reported</a> in June. “OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows a clear preference for Wikipedia, which accounts for nearly half (47.9%) of its top citations within its top 10 most-cited sources.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences,” The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote in a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/082725-letter-to-Wikimedia.pdf">letter</a> to Maryana Iskander, the CEO of the Wikipedia Foundation.  “One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel. A second investigation detailed actions by hostile nation-state actors to expose Western audiences to pro-Kremlin and anti-Western messaging by manipulating Wikipedia articles and other news outlets relied on for training AI chatbots.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">A comprehensive October 2024 <a href="https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-s-pro-hamas-editors-hijacked-the-israel-palestine-narrative">report</a> delineated how pro-Hamas editors at Wikipedia were promoting pro-Palestinian propaganda, erasing vital information about Hamas, and biasing the narrative against Israel. An April 2025 <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/exposing-pravda-how-pro-kremlin-forces-are-poisoning-ai-models-and-rewriting-wikipedia/">report</a> titled, “Exposing Pravda: How pro-Kremlin forces are poisoning AI models and rewriting Wikipedia,” showed how pro-Kremlin, anti-Western propaganda was being pushed on the site.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, <a href="https://jewishwebsite.com/featured/house-panel-probing-organized-efforts-to-distort-wikipedia-including-entries-on-israel/107583/">expressed his gratitude</a> that the Committee was launching an investigation, saying, “I am glad that Congress is investigating the use of foreign and U.S. government funds to pay for biased editing on Wikipedia. &#8230; There is clearly massive support for this sort of investigation.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Sanger said Wikipedia “makes broad editorial decisions about what constitutes reliable sources, which must be respected by large numbers of participants. &#8230; The Wikipedia Foundation could address the situation but does not.”  He noted that the Wikipedia Foundation also “refuses to reveal the identity of its most powerful editors or to override decisions by editors.”</p>

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">At the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, the leaders of two of America’s greatest foes, China and Russia, made a public display of affection with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hinting that India, long aligned with Russia but seemingly moving toward the United States, may be reconsidering its position.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Numerous countries attended the summit, but the most enduring image pushed by the media was the embrace shared by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Modi. India and China’s relations with each other had soured after they battled at their border in 2020. In addition, in 2025, when India and Pakistan were fighting, “Pakistan&#8217;s armed forces heavily used China-made equipment, including fighter jets and radar systems. A senior army officer in Delhi said Beijing also provided ‘live inputs’ to Pakistan on Indian positions,” as the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp37e8kw3lwo">BBC</a> reported.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Modi had not traveled to China in seven years, but this visit followed President Trump’s decision to impose 50% tariffs on India, as he warned India against purchasing Russian oil.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Still, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/chinese-russian-indian-leaders-pledge-cooperation-in-a-message-to-trump-faae8d0c">opined</a>, “Chinese analysts also don’t expect New Delhi to pull away from Washington, given the many intractable problems between the two neighbors—including the border dispute.”</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">On August 6, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/08/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-addresses-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-the-russian-federation/">executive order</a> “imposing tariffs on India in response to its continued purchase of Russian Federation oil, and establishing a process for the potential imposition of similar tariffs on other countries that directly or indirectly import oil from the Russian Federation.” Trump imposed an additional 25% tariff on imports from India, effective August 27. “India’s importation of Russian Federation oil undermines U.S. efforts to counter Russia’s harmful activities,” the order stated. &#8220;India’s subsequent reselling of this oil on the open market, often at significant profit, further enables the Russian Federation’s economy to fund its aggression.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">On Monday, Trump responded to the news of the supposed rapprochement between India and China by writing on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115129261076571259">Truth Social</a> that India had offered to cut their tariffs on American products to zero:</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>What few people understand is that we do very little business with India, but they do a tremendous amount of business with us. In other words, they sell us massive amounts of goods, their biggest “client,” but we sell them very little &#8211; Until now a totally one sided relationship, and it has been for many decades. The reason is that India has charged us, until now, such high Tariffs, the most of any country, that our businesses are unable to sell into India. It has been a totally one sided disaster! Also, India buys most of its oil and military products from Russia, very little from the U.S. They have now offered to cut their Tariffs to nothing, but it’s getting late. They should have done so years ago. Just some simple facts for people to ponder!!!</em></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">A sophomore football player at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point joined his father in heroically rescuing a man from a burning car just before it became engulfed in flames.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The courageous actions of Army football safety Larry Pickett Jr. and his father Larry Pickett Sr. were caught on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/larry.pickett/videos/629538596878829/?rdid=o63wxWrD2P38qCi2">video</a> as they seized the driver of the car — which was near downed power lines — and carried him away.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“At one point, a woman could be heard screaming: ‘Larry! Come on! Come on! Get him out!’” <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46127559/army-football-player-larry-pickett-jr-rescues-man-burning-vehicle">ESPN</a> reported.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The car smashed into a utility pole in Fort Montgomery, New York, roughly four miles from West Point on Sunday. Pickett Jr. was driving back to the West Point campus with his dad and his sister, Lauren, after having dinner in Manhattan. Lauren took the video of her brother and father pulling the man to safety.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Just after Midnight, I watched in awe as my son, Larry Pickett Jr., ran toward a burning vehicle, ignoring the downed power lines crackling around it,&#8221; Pickett Sr. wrote on Facebook. &#8220;With immense courage, he pulled a man to safety, saving him from a fiery fate.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;There was no discussion. My son just jumped right into action,&#8221; Larry Pickett Sr. told <a href="https://abc11.com/post/former-enloe-current-army-football-player-saves-man-burning-car/17705965/">WTVD-TV</a>. &#8220;He mentioned his military training kicked in, and we pulled him out. He took care of him on the side of the road until the police officers got there. And then the fire department got there shortly after.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“It&#8217;s just amazing to see him in action. And it&#8217;s just not surprising because we&#8217;ve watched him his whole life do amazing things,” he added.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We&#8217;re proud of the heroic actions taken Saturday night by Cadet Larry Pickett Jr, a second-year cadet &amp;  @ArmyWP_Football  player, &amp; his father who are seen pulling a driver to safety in a video online taken by the family. Their actions are the embodiment of the @USArmy  Values,” the U.S. Military Academy wrote on X.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">We&#8217;re proud of the heroic actions taken Saturday night by Cadet Larry Pickett Jr, a second-year cadet &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmyWP_Football?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArmyWP_Football</a> player, &amp; his father who are seen pulling a driver to safety in a video online taken by the family. Their actions are the embodiment of the <a href="https://twitter.com/USArmy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USArmy</a> Values. <a href="https://t.co/dlccTMwonT">pic.twitter.com/dlccTMwonT</a></p>
<p>— U.S. Military Academy at West Point (@WestPoint_USMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WestPoint_USMA/status/1962338537719706087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Army Athletic Director Tom Theodorakis echoed, “This is exactly what we strive to develop at  @WestPoint_USMA &amp; @GoArmyWestPoint — leadership, courage, and selfless service. Cadet Larry Pickett Jr. and his father exemplify the values we hold dear, stepping up in a moment of crisis to save a life. Proud to see these traits in action, on and off the fields of friendly strife. Count the brave.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">This is exactly what we strive to develop at <a href="https://twitter.com/WestPoint_USMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WestPoint_USMA</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/GoArmyWestPoint?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GoArmyWestPoint</a> &#8211; leadership, courage, and selfless service.</p>
<p>Cadet Larry Pickett Jr. and his father exemplify the values we hold dear, stepping up in a moment of crisis to save a life. Proud to see these traits in… <a href="https://t.co/6IyMefpkkp">https://t.co/6IyMefpkkp</a></p>
<p>— Tom Theodorakis (@TT_Army_AD) <a href="https://twitter.com/TT_Army_AD/status/1962485812013961623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2025</a></p></blockquote>

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<p style="font-weight: 400;">The sister to the ruling emir of Qatar — a country which has funded the terrorist group Hamas and hosted its leaders at the time of the October 7, 2023, massacre — has been a prime funder and career-maker for socialist Zohran Mamdani’s filmmaker mother, Mira Nair, who hates Israel.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani has backed Mamdani’s mother since at least 2009, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/31/us-news/qatar-bankrolled-years-worth-of-films-by-zohran-mamdanis-mom/">reported</a>.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In addition,  Sheikha Al-Thani has “taken to <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/jewishinsider.com/2025/06/prominent-qatari-royal-boosts-zohran-mamdani-sheikha-al-thani/__;!!F0Stn7g!CWZBs6aisnBm2A4D8X4d3T-Q40ZfiTORaypA3e6tQRMjO6yVX2BPmG1gpfLmqdx_bDO--dx43X57ifOye9h_$">promoting</a> Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy on social media, boosting news of <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/x.com/Olivia_Reingold/status/1933546647323037948__;!!F0Stn7g!BBM6xQRbiLEFEdM4OG6Gtn64VNuZlHjVI3vLMfnWGhmzOTcX2P2a17790wn0LGIIZmhXbrBk41x3tDiKa-22$">favorable polling</a> on Instagram and posting fire emojis under a <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.tiktok.com/@zohran_k_mamdani/video/7518459081326071071__;!!F0Stn7g!BBM6xQRbiLEFEdM4OG6Gtn64VNuZlHjVI3vLMfnWGhmzOTcX2P2a17790wn0LGIIZmhXbrBk41x3tEmmMa0E$">TikTok video</a> of him embracing Nair,” the Post noted.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">As far back as July 2013, Nair refused to serve as guest of honor at the Haifa International Film Festival, <a href="https://usacbi.org/2013/07/usacbi-commends-mira-nair-for-her-support-of-bds-and-cultural-boycott/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">referring</a> to Israel’s &#8220;occupation” of the land and its “apartheid,&#8221; adding, “I stand w/ Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) &amp; the larger BDS Mov’t.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In September 2024, roughly one year after the Hamas massacre of over 1200 Israelis, Sheikha Al-Thani <a href="https://dohanews.co/sheikha-al-mayassa-discusses-culture-family-and-politics-in-exclusive-interview/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">stated</a>, “Qatar has a special commitment to the Palestinian cause. While some Arab countries have shifted their stance, Qatar remains steadfast in its support. We recognize our vital role and maintain a clear, dedicated policy toward this issue.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Post delineated some of the ways the sheikha has helped Nair: the Doha Film Institute, which she founded, funded a “bootcamp” between 2010 and 2014 to train students at Nair’s Maisha Film Labs in East Africa and in Doha; the same institute paid the entire $15 million budget of Nair’s 2012 film “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” which revolves around a Pakistani immigrant who supposedly was mistreated by U.S. authorities after 9/11, and the Qatar National Museum, which Sheikha Al-Thani chairs, made the first film it commissioned Nair’s film “Nafa.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The country’s most high-profile support for the auteur came in 2022, when state-owned <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5759373814150198&amp;id=553133748107590&amp;set=a.753474428073520__;!!F0Stn7g!CWZBs6aisnBm2A4D8X4d3T-Q40ZfiTORaypA3e6tQRMjO6yVX2BPmG1gpfLmqdx_bDO--dx43X57iXjll1Di$">Qatar Airways</a> and Qatar Creates — another of the sheikha’s pet projects boosting the country as a cultural destination — produced an extravagant Nair-directed stage adaptation of her Golden Globe-nominated film “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.instagram.com/p/Ck3Y4jlKO0o/__;!!F0Stn7g!CWZBs6aisnBm2A4D8X4d3T-Q40ZfiTORaypA3e6tQRMjO6yVX2BPmG1gpfLmqdx_bDO--dx43X57ibahn1fE$">Monsoon Wedding</a>” as part of the World Cup festivities,” the Post pointed out.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Sheikha Al-Thani’s mother, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, <a href="https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1945247695507218533">wrote on social media</a> that the Jews would disappear from Israel as she praised Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas terrorist who masterminded the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, “The name Yahya means the one who lives. They thought him dead, but he lives… He will live on. And they will be gone.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Sheikha Moza also chairs the Qatar Foundation, which has poured billions of dollars into Western institutions. In 2009, the Qatar Foundation’s Faculty of Islamic Studies<strong> </strong>opened an academic center named after Sheikh Yusuf al‑Qaradawi, who stated, “O Allah, take your enemies, the Jews… do not spare a single one of them… kill them, down to the very last one.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“In January 2008, he<a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/sheik-yousuf-al-qaradhawi-allah-imposed-hitler-upon-jews-punish-them-allah-willing-next-time-will"> said</a> on Al-Jazeera TV that Allah had imposed Hitler upon the Jews to punish them, and called for a second Holocaust, saying, ‘Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers’ – i.e. the Muslims,” MEMRI <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/reports-leading-muslim-brotherhood-anti-semitic-jihad-inciting-religious-leader-yusuf-al?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reported</a>.</p>

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Israel-Hating Qatar Funded Films Made By Mamdani’s Anti-Israel Mother

<p>In a move unsurprising given Turkey’s harshly anti-Israel Islamist government, the country’s foreign minister announced Friday that Turkey has cut commercial ties with Israel—barring Israeli vessels from its ports, blocking Turkish ships from Israeli ports, and restricting Israeli planes from entering Turkish airspace.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We have totally cut our trade with Israel, we have closed off our ports to Israeli ships and we are not allowing Turkish vessels to go to Israel’s ports,” Hakan Fidan <a href="applewebdata://E83BCD95-A919-40A1-B24F-AA45CF3D369A/v">stated</a>. “We are not allowing container ships carrying weapons and ammunition to Israel to enter our ports, and airplanes to go into our airspace.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Before Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power in 2014, Turkey and Israel had strong strategic ties. That soured quickly, although a brief reconciliation occurred in 2016. Erdogan threatened to break relations again in 2017 after the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Diplomatic ties were restored in August 2022, but only 16 days after the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of more than 1200 Israelis, Erdogan stated, “Hamas is not a terrorist organization … [but rather] a liberation group, ‘mujahideen’ waging a battle to protect its lands and people.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Turkey’s antipathy toward Israel and its affinity for Hamas is now so well established that diplomats accept it as fact. The open romance between the NATO member and the terror group began in 2006,” FDD reported. Erdogan has <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/03/28/hamas-and-turkey-partners-in-terror/">stated,</a> “I don’t see Hamas as a terror organization. Hamas is a political party.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Erdogan has accused Israel of “genocide” and supported South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. In March of this year, Erdogan delivered a speech in which he <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/03/30/turkish-president-calls-for-israels-destruction-and-ruin/">ranted,</a> “May Allah bring destruction and ruin upon Zionist Israel.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In September 2024, at the United Nations, Erdogan likened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler, <a href="https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article253687116/Erdogan-vergleicht-Netanjahu-erneut-mit-Hitler-So-wie-vor-70-Jahren.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com">saying,</a> “Just as Hitler was stopped 70 years ago … so must Netanyahu and his murder gang be stopped.” In June 2025, he escalated his rhetoric, <a href="https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2025/06/18/erdogan-acusa-a-netanyahu-de-haber-superado-a-hitler-por-la-masacre-de-palestinos-en-gaza-cadena-ser/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">saying</a>, “Netanyahu has surpassed Hitler in terms of genocide,” an insane declaration. Netanyahu <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67861266">fired back</a>, “Erdogan, who commits genocide against the Kurds, who holds a world record for imprisoning journalists who oppose his rule, is the last person who can preach morality to us.”</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">In August 2024, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bashed Erdogan after he said the U.S. and Western countries were “taken hostage by the Zionists in Israel.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Erdogan, the ones taken hostage are the citizens of Turkey, trapped in your dictatorship,” Katz wrote on X. “You blocked Instagram for 57 million users in your country but left access to your own Instagram account. No matter how many attacks are made against me, I will continue to expose the truth to the people of Turkey and the world. A leader who embraces Hamas, oppresses his people, and acts like a dictator is a dictator.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">The anti-Semitic dictator <a href="https://twitter.com/RTErdogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RTErdogan</a> attacked the US and Western countries yesterday, saying they were &#8220;taken hostage by the Zionists in Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Erdoğan, the ones taken hostage are the citizens of Turkey, trapped in your dictatorship. You blocked Instagram for 57 million users… <a href="https://t.co/EOgELcp2G4">pic.twitter.com/EOgELcp2G4</a></p>
<p>— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Israel_katz/status/1820745033516998797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2024</a></p></blockquote>

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No Surprise: Anti-Israel Turkish Regime Cuts Commercial Ties With Jewish State

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, the only protester killed during the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach when she was shot by a Capitol police officer, will receive full military funeral honors from the Air Force.</p>
<p>“On behalf of the Secretary of the Air Force, I write to extend the offer for Military Funeral Honors for SrA Ashli Babbitt,” Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/28/us-news/jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-gets-air-force-military-funeral-honors/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter">wrote</a> to Babbitt’s family. “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.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Babbitt “served on active duty as a security forces senior airman from 2004 to 2008, then served in both the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, deploying to Afghanistan in 2005, Iraq in 2006, and the United Arab Emirates in 2012 and 2014,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/28/ashli-babbitt-military-honors-funeral/">The Washington Post reported,</a> adding, “Any service member who was on active duty at the time of their death is eligible, as is any former service member who was honorably discharged.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Babbitt was 35 when she entered the Capitol building and gained access to a hallway outside “Speaker’s Lobby,” which leads to the Chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/department-justice-closes-investigation-death-ashli-babbitt?utm_source=chatgpt.com">noted,</a> adding, “At the time, the USCP (United States Capitol Police) was evacuating Members from the Chamber, which the mob was trying to enter from multiple doorways.” Babbitt was unarmed at the time.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">The USCP officers used furniture to barricade a set of glass doors separating the hallway and Speaker’s Lobby; three officers positioned themselves between the doors. Protesters broke the glass doors, allowing Babbitt to attempt to climb through one of the doors. An officer inside the Speaker’s Lobby fired one round from his service pistol, which hit Babbitt in the left shoulder. She was taken to Washington Hospital Center, where she later died.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The DOJ decided there was insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution of the police officer, stating, “Prosecutors would have to prove not only that the officer used force that was constitutionally unreasonable, but that the officer did so ‘willfully, which the Supreme Court has interpreted to mean that the officer acted with a bad purpose to disregard the law. &#8230; the investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In January 2024, Babbitt’s family members <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-reaches-agreement-principle-settle-lawsuit-brought-family/story?id=121409667">sued</a> the federal government, seeking $30 million, claiming she had been wrongfully killed.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The lawsuit filed by Babbitt’s family alleged that Babbitt did not go to Washington’ for any unlawful or nefarious purpose,’ had her hands in the air when she was shot and ‘posed no threat to the safety of anyone,’” the Post noted.</p>
<p>In May 2025, the Department of Justice reached a settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/us-news/family-of-jan-6-rioter-ashli-babbitt-gets-5m-settlement-from-trump-admin-reports/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">agreeing</a> later that month to pay them just under $5 million.</p>

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A TikTok Atheist gives his answer to the millennia old question of if God exists. Michael Knowles responds.


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A TikTok Atheist gives his answer to the millennia old question of if God exists. Michael Knowles responds.

God Is Not Real? Michael Knowles DEBUNKS Atheist

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