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Chicago police reported only one shooting death over the weekend, making it one of the least deadly Memorial Day weekends there since 2010. Authorities said the lone death involved 2-year-old Jamonte Shaw, who got hold of a gun and fatally shot himself on Sunday. Officers took a 31-year-old man in connection to the boy’s death but did not divulge possible charges for the suspect. Police said 26 people were shot throughout the city over the weekend — slightly up from the 25 people wounded in shootings last Memorial Day — but four people were killed during 2025’s holiday. City data…

At least 26 people were shot across Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, police said Tuesday, but the city recorded no confirmed homicides during the holiday period — the first time that has happened in at least a decade. The Chicago Police Department reported 23 shooting incidents from Friday at 6 p.m. through Monday at 11:59 p.m., according to ABC7 Chicago, which tracked the weekend’s violence through the official CPD reporting window. Among the most serious incidents, five Chicago police officers were injured after an 18-year-old driver allegedly plowed into a crowd near Loomis and Roosevelt before crashing. The suspect was…

The risk of a catastrophic explosion at a damaged chemical tank in Southern California has been eliminated following a close overnight inspection that confirmed a crack in the tank relieved pressure and cooled the chemical, authorities said Monday. The results of the evaluation was “incredibly positive news,” and allowed officials to turn the corner after days of concern about a possible explosion, said Orange County Fire Authority division chief Craig Covey. However, evacuation orders remained in place for about 50,000 people in Garden Grove, California, located south of Los Angeles. There has been no chemical leak as of early Monday,…

Voters in Texas head to the polls Tuesday to bring an end to one of the costliest and nastiest Senate Republican primaries in the Lone Star State’s history. The runoff concludes days after President Trump tipped the race with his endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a MAGA warrior with a solid conservative track record. A poll taken in the days immediately after Mr. Trump’s May 19 nod to Mr. Paxton suggests voters are ready to send four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn packing. Mr. Paxton hit Mr. Cornyn with campaign attack ads replaying the Senate Republican’s own words from…

PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic — Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco was declared criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor, but he will not serve a sentence for it, a Dominican judge ruled Monday. Judge José Antonio Núñez, in his decision, considered that Franco had been the victim of extortion and blackmail by the minor’s mother, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually trafficking her daughter. Franco was arrested in January 2024 after being accused of having a four-month relationship with a girl who was 14 at the time and transferring thousands of…

A federal appellate court judge delivered an epic burn to the Department of Justice during oral arguments this month in a case where the government was attempting to defend ICE’s aggressive posture in making arrests at churches. “It’s very hard to win a case without evidence or legal argument,” Judge Steven Agee, a George W. Bush appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, told the Justice Department lawyer. That came just after a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered a department lawyer to face an ethics review for withholding key information from her during a migrant detention case. U.S.…

The Supreme Court is preparing to close out its term with mammoth rulings that could shape the contours of elections and presidential power and plow new ground on transgender rights. Rulings are expected through the end of June, when the justices will close out their scheduled work for the 2025-2026 court term. President Trump’s immigration plans will dominate the court’s remaining caseload, with a decision expected on whether he can roll back a humanitarian protection program meant to help people from countries recovering from natural disasters, war or instability. Known as Temporary Protected Status, it has become a loophole to…

Red-light runners and speeders who routinely trigger automated traffic cameras in the District at specific locations and times of day are not the focus of enforcement operations by the city authorities tasked with keeping the roads safe. A recent Washington Post story found that traffic cameras have recorded a number of motorists who repeatedly speed or run red lights at the same place and time of day — and owe the city tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid citations. Assigning officers to those locations and times would allow the city to apprehend the violators and collect the outstanding fines.…

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will allow two immigration reform bills to go into law without putting his pen to paper.  The Community Trust Act bars correctional facility employees from asking about or investigating an individual’s citizenship or immigration status or place of birth. Mr. Moore, a Democrat, said in a statement that the bill keeps local law enforcement “focused on the work that has helped drive Maryland’s historic reductions in violent crime, while protecting the constitutional rights of Marylanders.” However, he said that it “creates ambiguities around joint investigations that we are working with the attorney general’s office to clarify.…

The trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made clear the two billionaires agreed on one thing: building artificial intelligence would require significant resources – and enormous amounts of money. It may seem obvious now, as an AI-obsessed stock market helps finance a global construction boom of chipmaking factories and energy-hogging data centers to keep chatbots running, but testimony and evidence showed how people with outsized control of the AI industry were privately debating its costs nearly a decade ago. “Even raising several hundred million won’t be enough,” Musk said in a 2018 email to Altman and other…