ST. LOUIS — The Detroit Tigers activated catcher Jake Rogers from the 10-day injured list and designated catcher Tomas Nido for assignment ahead of Tuesday night’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
The 30-year-old Rogers has missed the last 38 games since being placed on the injured list with a strained left oblique on April 8.
Rogers is in manager A.J. Hinch’s lineup Tuesday night batting ninth and catching left-hander Tarik Skubal.
“It feels good,” Rogers said. “I’ve been missing the boys and missing the game. It felt good to get back into it last week down in Toledo and it feels good to be here in St. Louis.”
Rogers has four hits in 18 at-bats this season and went 5 for 15 in a five-game rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Toledo. Last season, he played in 102 games, finishing with 10 home runs, 36 RBIs and 22 walks.
Nido went 11 for 35 in 11 games with Detroit and pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief in Monday night’s 11-4 loss to the Cardinals in St. Louis.
We’re down to four teams, the NBA’s conference finals, and the old guard is out. No LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant (his team didn’t even make the postseason), or even a Jayson Tatum in sight.
There is still plenty of star power — the next generation is rising. Here are the top 10 players still playing as the NBA conference finals begin.
1) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City)
If he wasn’t going to be on top of these power rankings before, he cemented his grip on the top spot Sunday with 35 points to lead the Thunder in a close-out Game 7 — the best performer stepped up on the biggest stage.
SGA POWERS OKC TO WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS!!!!
⛈️ 35 points ⛈️ 4 assists ⛈️ 3 steals ⛈️ 12-19 from the floor
” You know who this is? The MVP,” Chet Holmgren said, standing next to Gilgeous-Alexander in the team’s walk-off interview after the win.
SGA is averaging 29 points, 6.4 assists and 5.9 rebounds a game in the playoffs, all while playing high-level defense and pitching in 1.5 steals a night. This is the best player on the best team remaining, and he is the best player left in the postseason.
2) Jalen Brunson (New York)
Sometimes a player wins one of the NBA’s postseason awards, then goes out in the playoffs and shows exactly why — Jalen Brunson was voted the NBA’s Clutch Player of the Year and has more than lived up to that in these playoffs.
Brunson is averaging 28.8 points and 7.7 assists a game for the Knicks this postseason, he is the engine of their playoff offense. The Knicks’ offense falls off a cliff when Brunson is not on the court (New York has a 97.1 net rating when he is off the court this postseason, 18.7 points less than when he is on). Brunson has secured his Knicks legend status, which will only grow if he can lead New York to the NBA Finals.
3) Anthony Edwards (Minnesota)
We have been able to watch Edwards grow throughout these playoffs, to figure out the mental side of the game and take a step forward with each game. Golden State has a quality defense that threw different looks at him, and you could see him figuring out how to handle and attack them in real time. Edwards continues down the path to becoming one of the true faces of the league.
These playoffs, Edwards is averaging 26.5 points, 8 rebounds, and 5.9 assists a game, shooting 38.5% on 3-pointers (and taking 9.1 a game). Edwards is not done being tested by strong defenses — Lu Dort, Alex Caruso and the Oklahoma City Thunder are on another level, and Edwards being able to take care of the ball will be a key stat in that series.
4) Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana)
The focus coming into the last round was all the stars on the Cleveland Cavaliers, but while they stumbled through the series it was Haliburton who was the best player on the floor. Through the playoffs, he is averaging 17.5 points, 9.3 assists, and 5.5 rebounds a game, but the numbers (especially his 33.8% shooting from 3) don’t tell the story — he is the conductor of a high-paced symphony of an offense. Also, he’s been as clutch as Brunson this postseason.
And don’t forget this one:
5) Julius Randle (Minnesota)
Minnesota is in the Western Conference Finals because Julius Randle outplayed Draymond Green in the last round.
“I lost my matchup,” Green said after the Timberwolves eliminated the Warriors. “Julius was incredible. He played great basketball. Honestly, some of the shots he was taking were shots you want him to take, and he made them. He made the shots. At the end of the day, the game comes down to shotmaking and he made the shots. So I got to give Ju a lot of credit.”
Randle is averaging 23.9 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 5.9 assists a game this postseason. It took most of the regular season for Randle and Rudy Gobert to figure out how to fit next to each other, but they do now and the Timberwolves are a threat because of it.
6) Karl-Anthony Towns (New York)
Towns has already had a strong playoffs, averaging 19.9 points and 11.3 rebounds a game. With Mitchel Robinson healthy, the Knicks have two dominant bigs on the floor, which has been a big part of what has fueled them to this point.
Towns’ biggest days may be ahead of him: He averaged 30.3 points and 12 rebounds a game against the Pacers this season, having some of his best nights of the regular season, including a 40-point, 12-rebound game after the All-Star break. He will need to do that again if the Knicks are going to advance.
7) Pascal Siakam (Indiana)
Siakam is arguably the most underrated player in the NBA, and he has experience on this stage that his team needs. Don’t forget that he has a ring from Toronto. Siakam knows what is required in order to win at this level, and how to do so next to a red-hot superstar.
Siakam is averaging 18.8 points and 6.2 rebounds a game these playoffs, numbers close to what he did during Toronto’s title run (19 points and 7.1 rebounds), plus he is a quality defender who gives Rick Carlisle options in slowing New York’s attack.
8) Jalen Williams (Oklahoma City)
Williams has been incredibly inconsistent this postseason, but when the Thunder have needed him most he has stepped up, like his 24 points and +35 performance in Game 7 against Denver. For the playoffs, Williams is averaging 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.1 assists a game. The Thunder need Williams to be more consistent in this series and especially in the NBA Finals (if they advance).
9) Myles Turner (Indiana)
Myles Turner was tough against the Cavaliers. Going up against a physical and impressive front court of Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley, Turner was the best big on the floor — and often the most physical — in helping spark the Indiana win. Turner is averaging 16.5 points and 6 rebounds a game, but most importantly, 2.5 blocked shots a game. He has been a force in the paint and needs to be again when facing Brunson and friends.
10) Chet Holmgren (Oklahoma City)
Much like Jalen Williams, Holmgren has not been consistent or efficient as the Thunder need this postseason (which is why this spot almost went to Andrew Nembhard of the Pacers), but he’s done just enough to earn it. Holmgren is averaging 15.7 points and 9.7 rebounds a game, plus 2.2 blocks a night in these playoffs. He’s a big presence in the paint who needs to have a big series against the size of Minnesota if OKC is to advance.
Tina Charles is back, and the Connecticut Sun didn’t hold back their feelings. The MVP took the court once again in a Sun jersey for the first time since 2013 on Sunday against the Washington Mystics.
After playing for UConn from 2006 to 2010, Charles was the overall No. 1 pick in the 2010 WNBA draft, selected by the Sun. She played for three seasons with the Sun before moving to the New York Liberty from 2014 to 2019. Then, she played for the Mystics in 2021.
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In February 2022, Charles signed with the Phoenix Mercury, in the hopes of winning a WNBA championship title, but the team struggled and wasn’t in title contention through the first 18 games of the 2022 season. In June of that year, she ended her contract with the Mercury and signed with the Seattle Storm.
Due to personal reasons, Charles took a break from the WNBA during the 2023 season, but came back in 2024 to play for the Atlanta Dream. Then in 2025, the center went back to the Sun.
New York Liberty guard Natasha Cloud drives past Connecticut Sun center Tina Charles for a layup in the first quarter at Barclays Center.Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images
Connecticut opened its 2025 WNBA season with a narrow 90–85 loss to the Mystics at Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday. Despite a strong performance from Charles, who posted a double-double with 23 points and 10 rebounds, the Sun couldn’t hold off a late surge from the Mystics.
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On Sunday afternoon, 55 minutes into the game, the Sun’s official X account posted two candid pictures of Charles with the caption, “she’s back like she never left.”
The team and its fans are clearly excited about Charles’ return and eager to see what the 2025 WNBA season holds for her and the Sun.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday (May 20) at 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 GMT on May 21), carrying 23 of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).
That was a day later than originally planned; SpaceX attempted to launch the mission on Monday night (May 19), but that try was aborted just before liftoff, for reasons that the company did not immediately explain.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on May 20, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)
Tuesday’s launch was the first ever for this Falcon 9’s first stage, according to a SpaceX mission description. That’s a rarity for the company, which is known for its pioneering rocket reuse.
About eight minutes after liftoff, the booster made its first-ever landing, touching down on the SpaceX drone ship “Just Read the Instructions,” which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
Meanwhile, the Falcon 9’s upper stage continued carrying the 23 Starlink satellites toward LEO, where they were deployed on schedule about 65 minutes after launch.
A long-exposure view of the Starlink launch on May 20, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)
Tuesday night’s launch was the 60th Falcon 9 flight of 2025 and the 43rd Starlink mission of the year already.
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Starlink is the largest satellite megaconstellation ever constructed, consisting of about 7,500 operational satellites at the moment. And that number is growing all the time, as Tuesday’s action shows.
Neal McDonough’s new film ‘The Last Rodeo’ is set to hit theaters this Friday, May 23, and the final trailer has now been dropped ahead of its release.
McDonough, who also co-wrote and produced the film, plays the film’s protagonist in Joe Wainright, a retired rodeo legend who risks everything by entering a high-stakes bull riding competition as the oldest competitor ever to save his grandson. who needs life-saving surgery.
The film is an extension of real life for McDonough, who is is a familiar face at PBR events and is well-known for doing the “Sacramento Sip” to rile up fans in attendance.
And just last month, McDonough and his wife, Ruvé, became minority owners in the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) team The Austin Gamblers. McDonough is entrenched in the PBR community, and speaking about it he said:
“There’s a brotherhood here in PBR that I’ve never seen in any other sport—and I’ve played a lot of them. Ruvé and I feel completely blessed to be part of this world, to tell these stories, and to now be part of the Gamblers family as we help bring this incredible sport to even more people.”
He added:
“Americans love Americana. That’s what we’re tapping into with our films and that’s what PBR has certainly tapped into. What I love so much about PBR more than anything else is that it’s for the whole family, and everyone is rooting for every guy to make it to 8 seconds.”
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The Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for allegedly lying to Congress about the nursing home deaths in the Empire State during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The probe into the New York City mayoral frontrunner was launched about a month ago by the Washington, DC, US Attorney’s Office, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter.
The office was led at the time by Ed Martin, who was replaced earlier this month by Jeanine Pirro.
Andrew Cuomo is under investigation by the Department of Justice over his testimony on COVID-19 nursing home deaths, according to a report. James Keivom
The Republican-led panel House Oversight and Government Reform Committee asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue criminal charges against Cuomo, a Democrat, for making “criminally false statements” during a June 11, 2024, interview with the House COVID subcommittee.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) charged that there was “overwhelming evidence” that Cuomo, 67, presided over a July 6, 2020, audit that undercounted the total number of deaths in New York senior care facilities during the pandemic by 46%.
In his testimony, the ex-governor was adamant that he had not drafted, reviewed, discussed or consulted people for “peer-review” on the nursing home report, which was published by the New York State Department of Health.
Comer previously referred Cuomo for prosecution last year, but his request was denied by former President Joe Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The former governor’s spokesperson Rich Azzopardi told The Post that he was unaware of any investigation — slamming the prospect of one as “lawfare and election interference.”
“We have never been informed of any such matter, so why would someone leak it now?” he said in a statement. “The answer is obvious: This is lawfare and election interference plain and simple — something President Trump and his top Department of Justice officials say they are against.
“Governor Cuomo testified truthfully to the best of his recollection about events from four years earlier, and he offered to address any follow-up questions from the Subcommittee — but from the beginning this was all transparently political,” he added.
The New York Times reported that the probe was launched last month. Getty Images
“The wheels of justice are finally beginning to turn,” Voices for Seniors said in a statement on X. “For over five years, our movement has been fueled by heartbreak and a single-minded demand for the truth.
“This investigation is not just justified, it’s overdue. The evidence paints a damning picture of a leader more concerned with image than integrity. Grieving families have waited long enough.”
“Thank God our fight has not been in vain,” cofounder Vivian Zayas, whose mom, Ana Martinez, died of COVID after a stint in a West Islip nursing home in 2020, told The Post.
She said nursing home families sent three letters to Bondi urging a criminal probe of Cuomo.
“We’re just elated this investigation of Cuomo is going forward. It’s a long overdue victory for the nursing home families and their loved ones,” Zayas added.
Attorney General Pam Bondi could pursue criminal charges against the former governor for allegedly making “criminally false statements.” AP
Daniel Arbeeny, a co-founder of We Care Memorial Wall for COVID nursing home victims, also applauded the probe.
“Cuomo should be held accountable. It’s that simple,” said Arbeeny, whose father, Norman, died from COVID.
“We need to know if Cuomo was lying about following federal guidelines. He forced nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients and thousands of nursing home residents needlessly died.”
The report Cuomo is accused of lying to Congress about downplayed the consequences of his infamous March 25, 2020, directive forcing recovering COVID patients into senior care facilities without mandated testing to see if they could still infect others.
By May 10, when Cuomo revoked the order, thousands of sick New Yorkers had been either admitted or readmitted into nursing homes.
Rich Azzopardi, Cuomo’s spokesperson, told The Post he was unaware of any investigation. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had acknowledged the risk of asymptomatic spread six days earlier — but media outlets had been reporting on the possibility of such infections since early April.
Cuomo told lawmakers last year that he did not “recall” even seeing the July 2020 nursing home report before its publication.
Emails obtained by subcommittee staff, however, show that Cuomo aides discussed his participation in the drafting of the audit — and the former governor’s own handwritten edits were also submitted as evidence to the DOJ.
Those edits included a note stating that by the date the nursing home mandate was rescinded, “the disease was already in the nursing homes” — and crossing out the word “death” to replace it with the approximate timeline it took for infections to become fatalities, among others.
“New York is 6,600?” Cuomo scrawled in the margins of one draft page — despite more than 9,000 perishing when counting those who were in hospitals. The final report cited just 6,432 fatalities.
The DOJ did not respond to The Post’s request for comment. Robert Miller
Pirro, who is handling the probe, is a former political rival of Cuomo’s who has been publicly critical of the ex-governor’s pandemic nursing home policy.
“You cannot escape the consequences of your intentional and reckless acts,” Pirro, a former Fox News host, raged in a 2021 segment on the network about Cuomo, according to the New York Times.
“You cannot escape your intentional coverup,” she added, arguing that Cuomo doomed seniors to “a death sentence.”
Pirro further argued that New York prosecutors should consider manslaughter and negligent homicide charges against Cuomo over his nursing home policy.
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Pirro ran a failed campaign against Cuomo in the 2006 race for New York attorney general.
“It was the greatest health crisis in our history — and when New Yorkers were desperate for leadership — Andrew Cuomo delivered,” the narrator says in the 30-second spot, titled, “Crisis.”
“He didn’t just provide information in those daily COVID briefings — he acted, building emergency hospitals and deploying first responders,” the ad continues.
Cuomo defended his nursing home policy earlier Tuesday during an interview on the “Honestly with Bari Weiss” podcast.
“When you now go back and look at the facts, everything New York state did followed federal guidance,” he asserted.
Cuomo dismissed claims that he undercounted nursing home deaths as “so untrue” and the result of “politics.”
“I get the politics. I understand why they were doing it and why they had their outlets echo it over and over and over — and then it was amplified by the nursing home families who just bought into all this conservative rhetoric,” he said.
“Only 12 states did better” than New York in terms of preventing deaths during the pandemic, the mayoral hopeful insisted.
Democratic socialist Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — who is running second to Cuomo in the race — blasted the former governor and President Trump in a statement.
“Andrew Cuomo’s career has been defined by corruption and deceit and his lying to Congress about his COVID response is no exception. But Donald Trump cannot be trusted to pursue justice. While I believe New Yorkers should reject the disgraced ex-Governor at the ballot box, the Trump administration’s actions are dangerous.”
Other candidates soon joined the fray, with City Comptroller Brad Lander, writing on X that “New Yorkers can’t afford four more years of a compromised Mayor kissing Trump’s ass,” while Brooklyn Sen. Zellnor Myrie wrote, “We cannot trade one compromised mayor for another.”
Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in fuboTV Inc (Symbol: FUBO), where a total of 128,984 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 12.9 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 63% of FUBO’s average daily trading volume over the past month of 20.5 million shares. Particularly high volume was seen for the $3.50 strike call option expiring May 23, 2025, with 71,292 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 7.1 million underlying shares of FUBO. Below is a chart showing FUBO’s trailing twelve month trading history, with the $3.50 strike highlighted in orange:
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Symbol: AMD) saw options trading volume of 269,520 contracts, representing approximately 27.0 million underlying shares or approximately 62.6% of AMD’s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 43.0 million shares.
Particularly high volume was seen for the $115 strike call option expiring May 23, 2025, with 11,367 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 1.1 million underlying shares of AMD. Below is a chart showing AMD’s trailing twelve month trading history, with the $115 strike highlighted in orange:
And Zscaler Inc (Symbol: ZS) options are showing a volume of 14,917 contracts thus far today. That number of contracts represents approximately 1.5 million underlying shares, working out to a sizeable 62% of ZS’s average daily trading volume over the past month, of 2.4 million shares.
Particularly high volume was seen for the $200 strike put option expiring June 20, 2025, with 3,493 contracts trading so far today, representing approximately 349,300 underlying shares of ZS. Below is a chart showing ZS’s trailing twelve month trading history, with the $200 strike highlighted in orange:
At least four Canadians will tee it up at the U.S. Open.
Nick Taylor and Mackenzie Hughes locked up their spots at the third major of the season by virtue of sitting within the top 60 of the Official World Golf Rankings on Monday.
Taylor and Hughes will join fellow Canadians Corey Conners and Taylor Pendrith in the field in June at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa.
Both Taylor, ranked 42nd, and Hughes, ranked 48th, missed the cut at the PGA Championship but are otherwise enjoying solid seasons.
Taylor won the Sony Open in January in Hawaii and added another top-10 finish at the Genesis Invitational, a signature event, the next month.
Hughes enjoyed a stretch of three top-10s in four starts prior to the PGA Championship, including a playoff loss at the Myrtle Beach Classic a week prior.
Pendrith and Conners qualified for the U.S. Open after advancing to the Tour Championship last season.
Both placed within the top 20 at the PGA, with Pendrith’s fifth-place finish marking the best result for a Canadian at a men’s major championship since Mike Weir also placed fifth at the 2005 Masters.
Taylor and Hughes were among the 36 players now exempt from qualifying, also including Davis Riley and Joe Highsmith who both did well enough in the final round of the PGA Championship to move into the top 60 in the world ranking.
The U.S. Open is June 12-15 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, where Dustin Johnson won his first major. Johnson played a practice round that week with Scheffler, who was 19 and making his U.S. Open debut. Scheffler opened with 69, then shot 78 and missed the cut.
LIV Golf added four more of its players to the field when Jinichiro Kozuma was among three players who made it through the Japan qualifier. Joaquin Niemann was added as the leading player on LIV points, while the top 60 in the world added Tyrrell Hatton and Patrick Reed.
Sergio Garcia and Abraham Ancer were among players playing in the 36-hole qualifier in Dallas. Most of the final qualifying is scheduled for June 2 across the U.S. and in Canada.
The field of exempt players — not including the qualifying sites — was 85 players, a little higher than normal for a U.S. Open that strives to have about half the field (78 players) qualify.
Riley, Highsmith, Jhonattan Vegas and Si Woo Kim each moved into the top 60 in the world in the final week. Riley was in contention when he took a triple bogey on the seventh hole. He was 4 over for his round at that point, but played bogey-free the rest of the way to tie for second.
That was enough to move him from No. 100 into the top 60 at 53rd in the world. Ditto for Highsmith, who played bogey-free with three birdies over the final 12 holes to move up nine spots to No. 60.
That bumped Laurie Canter, though he became exempt for being the highest-ranked player on the European tour points list not already eligible.
The only other exempt spot available is the NCAA men’s individual champion, which will be decided May 26 at La Costa Resort in California.
The U.S. Open is immediately preceded by the RBC Canadian Open, which will be contested for the first time at TPC Toronto from June 5-8.
World number one Scottie Scheffler outlasts a final round challenge from Jon Rahm to record a five-stroke victory in golf’s second major of the year.
Scottie Scheffler held off a spirited effort by Spain’s Jon Rahm to secure a five-shot PGA Championship victory at Quail Hollow Club for his third career major title.
The top-ranked Scheffler, who was three shots clear of Swede Alex Noren at the start of the day, struggled off the tee early on Sunday but righted the ship in time for the back nine to card an even-par 71 that left him at 11 under for the week.
“I knew it was going to be a challenging day, finishing off a major championship is always challenging,” Scheffler said on the 18th green after being presented with the Wanamaker Trophy.
“I didn’t have my best stuff … but stepped it up on the back nine.”
Ryder Cup hopeful Harris English, who began his day 11 shots adrift, shot a 65 that was the low round of the day and finished in a distant share of second place alongside fellow Americans Bryson DeChambeau (70) and Davis Riley (72).
Twice major champion Rahm (73) gave Scheffler a scare early on the back nine but came apart in stunning fashion with five dropped shots over his final three holes to slide back into a share of eighth place.
Rahm, who began the day five shots back of the lead and playing two groups ahead of Scheffler, took a while to get going in the final round but found his groove right in time to set up some back-nine drama at Quail Hollow Club.
The Spaniard joined Scheffler atop the leaderboard when, at the par-four 11th, he made his third birdie over a four-hole stretch, but Scheffler reclaimed the outright lead with a 9-foot birdie at the 10th moments later.
Rahm nearly answered right back, but his perfectly paced 19-foot birdie attempt at the par-three 13th curled around and out of the cup before going on to misread birdie putts at the next two holes, followed by his brutal closing stretch.
Jon Rahm, of Spain, reacts after missing a putt on the 16th hole during the final round of the PGA Championship [George Walker IV/AP]
Scheffler added birdies at 14 and 15 and then saw his lead suddenly grow to five over JT Poston after Rahm made double-bogey at the par-three 17th, where he blasted his tee shot into the water.
“It’s a tough pill to swallow right now,” said Rahm.
“Pretty fresh wound right now. But there’s been a lot of good happening this week and a lot of positive feelings to take for the rest of the year.”
US Open champion DeChambeau, who finished runner-up at last year’s PGA Championship, was driving the ball and giving himself chances, but struggled on the greens.
“I felt like I had the game to win this week, and the golf course suited me pretty well, missed a few putts coming down the stretch and got a little unlucky in this great game of golf,” said DeChambeau.
“It was a good fight, good battle, take a lot from it. It’s just burning a bigger fire in my belly.”
Noren, playing alongside Scheffler and alone in second place to start the day, stayed in the mix until his round unravelled with a trio of bogeys early on the back nine.
Scheffler took home a $3.42m top prize from a record $19m purse.
Scheffler plays a shot from the bunker on the 14th hole during the final round of the PGA Championship [Andrew Redington/Getty Images via AFP]
The settlement reverses a 2021 DOJ finding that Babbitt’s civil rights were not violated and it was reasonable for the officer who shot her to believe he was acting in self-defense or in defense of members of Congress.
U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd was also cleared by a Capitol Police investigation, which found that his actions “potentially saved members and staff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of rioters who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol and to the House Chamber where members and staff were steps away.”
One-third of the settlement will go toward the Babbitt family’s lawyers, which include the right-wing legal group Judicial Watch and Richard Driscoll, an attorney in Alexandria, Virginia. Conservatives, led by Trump, have tried to rewrite the narrative of January 6, 2021, minimizing the violence of the rioters, who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and paint them as victims who were unfairly punished by the justice system for supporting Trump.
