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In the news today: Another leading Trump administration military leader is leaving; decades after Tupac Shakur’s killing, a murder conviction; and the principal in Nepal who saved hundreds of students before flooding swept away the school. Also, at 91, a hiker reclaims a record as the oldest to complete the Appalachian Trail.
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U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll speaks at the America 250 celebration at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)
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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, White House says
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Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the Trump administration. Read more.
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- No reason was given for Driscoll’s departure, but tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have been widely reported. It marks the latest in a series of shakeups of the military leadership, with the Army especially seeing major upheaval.
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Why ‘Keffe D’ was convicted of murder in Tupac Shakur’s killing
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For nearly three decades, the killing of Tupac Shakur was one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries, a case marked by reluctant witnesses, dead suspects and questions about whether anyone would ever be held accountable. In the end, some of the most damaging evidence against the only man ever charged came from the man himself. Read more.
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Duane “Keffe D” Davis spent years talking about the 1996 shooting with many people, including investigators, filmmakers and interviewers, and wrote about it in his memoir, “Compton Street Legend.” Prosecutors used those accounts to build a murder case against him, while his attorney argued Davis had been telling stories for money and notoriety. A Las Vegas jury settled that argument Monday, convicting Davis of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon, and he could be sentenced to life in prison.
The verdict marked the first conviction in Shakur’s killing, nearly 30 years after the 25-year-old rap superstar was gunned down while riding in a car near the Las Vegas Strip.
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A principal in Nepal evacuated 900 students before flooding swept away their school
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Rajendra Dawadi’s decision to evacuate the school saved at least 900 students from last week’s devastating flash floods in Nepal, unleashed after a glacial collapse in the Himalayas. Read more.
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The school disappeared beneath a torrent of water, mud, boulders and debris. Two staff members could not make it and remain missing. Across northern Nepal, the floods have left thousands of children without classrooms, disrupted their education and raised fears that the disaster could cost them months of schooling.
The disaster killed more than 1,000 people in Nepal and Tibet, with thousands more missing. The scale of last week’s disaster was hampering rescue efforts in both regions, with landslides, destroyed roads and widespread damage cutting off remote areas. Crews faced challenging conditions as they searched unstable terrain and piles of debris, raising fears the death toll could rise as rescuers reach isolated communities.
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Dale Sanders wades across Big Wilson Stream on the 100-Mile Wilderness north of Monson, Maine, July 29. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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At 91, Dale ‘Grey Beard’ Sanders reclaims record as oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail
Sanders first set the record in 2017 at age 82. But four years later, his 83-year-old friend M.J. Eberhart, aka Nimblewill Nomad, took the title. Within months, Sanders announced his comeback plan. By his count, Sanders fell 71 times while reclaiming his record as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail. But no fall was enough to permanently divert him from the 2,193-mile trail that runs between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine.
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