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When Tupac Shakur was fatally shot at age 25 on Sept. 7, 1996, the presidential race between incumbent Bill Clinton and Bob Dole was in its stretch run. The Atlanta Olympics had just ended. The internet was in its infancy. In a booming music business, CDs were king, like Shakur’s monumental “All Eyez on Me,” which topped the Billboard album chart a few months earlier. It was the pinnacle of a brief hip-hop career whose legend would only grow in the following decades. His shooting was one of several momentous mid-1990s musical deaths, including those of Kurt Cobain and Shakur’s…

The first full year of President Trump’s crime crackdown in the District saw federal law enforcement agencies make thousands of arrests, with the extra manpower contributing to lower crime statistics and helping the Metropolitan Police Department apprehend the most suspects since before the pandemic. But a clear breakdown of the 16,000 arrests during the federal surge, which began in August 2025, is unavailable. For all of 2025, Metropolitan Police recorded more than 24,000 arrests — the highest total since 2019, when nearly 28,000 suspects were apprehended. Arrest records show that Metropolitan Police nabbed more people for weapons offenses (1,552) and…

The U.S. Army temporarily halted all Apache helicopter training missions Friday after a fatal crash in Texas earlier this week killed two soldiers. No cause of the Wednesday crash has been released because the investigation has just begun. A safety investigation team from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama, is trying to determine what happened, the Army said. “The stand-down will remain in effect until we have a better understanding of the root cause of the accident,” the Army said in its statement Friday. The military has taken similar action after past crashes. Three years ago, the…

A shooting at Virginia State University on Saturday sent five to the hospital, with four suffering non-life-threatening injuries and the fifth in critical condition. Officials at the school, a historically Black university in Ettrick, said on social media that the shootings took place at around 1:30 a.m. outside some of the school’s residence halls. School police officers found the five victims, sent them for treatment and initiated a lockdown at the school, which was lifted at around 8:22 a.m. None of the five victims were publicly identified by school officials. School officials also said on social media that the incident…

A former Playboy Playmate alleges the FBI ignored her tips about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years, even after Playboy founder Hugh Hefner called the bureau on her behalf, according to court documents. The ex-Playmate, Audra Christiansen, told Hefner that she was sexually abused and trafficked by the disgraced financier in 2005, according to court records. She requested that the Playboy publisher alert federal authorities due to his higher status, and he reportedly called the FBI several times. She said the agency responded that it would follow up on her allegations but that it didn’t reach out to her…

A teenage boy and four adults were killed Friday in shootings that prompted a wide search for the fleeing gunman, whose body was ultimately found in a wooded area alongside one of his victims, authorities said. A teenage girl survived and was in stable condition, police said. Chad Hickman, 39, was found dead after a wide search in Missaukee County, police said. Police released the ages and genders of the victims on Saturday but did not specify whether they were related to each other or the suspect. Officers responded Friday morning to reports of a shooting at a home about…

NEW YORK — Hate crime charges have been filed against a man who disrupted Shabbat services in Manhattan’s Central Synagogue and struck two people while being hustled outside Friday night. “As synagogue security was escorting him out, he struck a member of the congregation, damaged synagogue property, and then spit at and head-butted a member of the security team,” a statement from Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. A police sergeant working as a paid security detail at the synagogue immediately took the man into custody and no one was seriously injured, Tisch said. Larry Montes, 46, of the Bronx, faces…

Indiana authorities say at least five people have died in flooding across the state this week, as first responders worked to rescue more people Saturday from rising waters in neighborhoods along the White River in Indianapolis. The state has been hammered over the past week by heavy rains, resulting in rivers and creeks surging. Gov. Mike Braun confirmed Saturday that President Donald Trump intends to approve his request for federal resources to help in response to the flooding and the recovery. Braun said his heart is with the families who have lost loved ones due to the flooding over the…

A print by Pablo Picasso, initially stolen from a Milwaukee gallery in 2018, was found by a landlord and turned in to the local police. The print is a work titled “Torero,” completed in 1949, and was stolen on Feb. 16, 2018, before being turned in to a police station on Aug. 5, the Milwaukee Police Department said in a release. Landlord Tim Dertz told WISN-TV that while going through an apartment following an eviction, he found the painting “in a back bedroom behind a door … it looked like it had been there a long, long time because it…

AUSTIN, Texas — The Democratic National Committee on Saturday voted to approve dueling resolutions affecting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One resolution would call to abolish ICE, and one would call to reform it. Both were passed out of committee on Thursday, and the resolutions, which were part of a larger package of resolutions, were sent to the full membership and passed unanimously by voice vote. For Democrats, the battle over whether “abolish” ICE or “reform” ICE language highlights the intraparty friction between establishment Democrats and far-left insurgents who have energized many party activists in the base that have become…