The death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown sparked angry protests in 2020, and led to the rare conviction of two D.C. police officers.

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Jules Feiffer, the cartoonist and playwright whose syndicated comic strip ran for four decades, has died. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner was 95.

Jules Feiffer, the screenwriter behind Carnal Knowledge, Popeye and the author of countless books, dies at 95.