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WATCH: WTOP's most viral videos of 2025 12/27/2025 05:00am • This year has been full of viral moments — from the funny, to the emotional, to the just plain weird. As we wrap up 2025, let's look back at the moments WTOP staff caught on camera that drew the eyes of millions. #5: Federal workers at Virginia town hall say they are angry, scared and fed up A massive crash on a highway in Japan kills 2 people and injures 26 as the holiday season starts 12/27/2025 04:33am • TOKYO (AP) — A massive crash involving 67 vehicles in snowy weather killed two people and injured 26 on an expressway in Japan late on Friday as the country kicked off its end-of-year holiday season. The Gunma prefectural highway police said Saturday that the pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway star Man accused of 1996 Tupac Shakur killing seeks to suppress evidence 12/26/2025 09:26pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — The attorneys for the man accused of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 are pushing to suppress evidence obtained in what they claim was an “unlawful nighttime search.” Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys Robert Draskovich and William Brown filed a motion this week on beha Prince William Co. Supervisors chair breaks down 2025 successes 12/26/2025 07:26pm • In an end-of-the-year interview with WTOP, Chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors Deshundra Jefferson covered everything from data centers to federal job cuts to tax breaks. Jefferson said she's been proud of how they've been able to put aside differences for progress. "Th California's intense winter storms turned some roads into rivers of mud 12/26/2025 06:54pm • WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Powerful winter storms brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California in years, sending mud and debris sliding and half-filling homes with mud. There was still a risk of more flash flooding and mudslides Friday despite slackening rain around Los Angeles, the Federal judge to hold hearing on whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being vindictively prosecuted 12/26/2025 05:55pm • A federal judge this week canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in pursuing a human smuggling case against him. Abrego Garcia has become a centerpiece of the debate over im 2 killed, 6 injured in Fairfax Co. car crash on Christmas 12/26/2025 04:52pm • Two people have died, and six others were injured after a car crash on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Christmas. Virginia State Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that happened on Interstate 495 around 10:40 p.m. on Thursday. In an email, a VSP spokesperson said A Palestinian man kills 2 in car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel and injures 2 others 12/26/2025 04:20pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel on Friday afternoon, killing both, police said. The Israeli military swiftly launched an operation in the assailant's hometown in the occupied West Bank. The attack started in the no Trump-Zelenskyy talks will address security guarantees and reconstruction, Ukraine leader says 12/26/2025 01:56pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida over the weekend. Zelenskyy told journalists that the two leaders will discuss security guarantees for Ukraine during Sunday's talks, and that the 20-point plan un Pakistan summons UK diplomat over a threat to army chief during a rally 12/26/2025 12:07pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan summoned Britain’s deputy high commissioner on Friday after a viral video showed a woman at a rally in a northern English city saying the Pakistani army chief would die in a possible attack. The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Matt Cannell to demand an inve Federal funding shifts cloud Virginia’s transportation plans for 2026 12/26/2025 07:07am • Virginia’s transportation system is massive, with about 129,000 lane miles of roads and roughly 5,900 miles of rail criss-crossing the commonwealth, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation and a 2022 Virginia Statewide Rail Plan. There’s always some kind of improvement or expan Amid a battery boom, graphite mining gets a fresh look in the US 12/26/2025 12:02am • GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (AP) — Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear reactors to pencils seemed to make little sense when it could be imported inexpensively from other nations, especially China. That view Hawaii's Big Island bans feeding feral cats in an effort to help endangered native species 12/26/2025 12:00am • KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Throngs of feral cats emerge from the shade of parked trucks and bushes as soon as the familiar Subaru Forester pulls into a dump on Hawaii's Big Island. They run after the vehicle to a certain meal — a gravy train that might not be around much longer. A Hawaii County New storm hitting waterlogged Southern California could bring mudslides and high surf 12/25/2025 09:46pm • WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) — California, soaked from days of relentless rain and recovering from mudslides in mountain towns, was hit with another powerful storm Christmas Day that led to evacuation warnings and high surf advisories. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in Southern Califo Powerful holiday storm lashes Southern California and brings flash floods, mudslides 12/24/2025 08:48pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful winter storm swept across California on Wednesday, with heavy rains and gusty winds bringing mudslides and debris flows that has led to some water rescues and evacuation orders. Forecasters said Southern California could see its wettest Christmas in years and warne