The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday it was investigating Denver Public Schools for alleged discrimination.

Hip-hop star’s friend and key witness, A$AP Relli, testified regarding fraying relationship and seeming standoff

A$AP Rocky’s accuser, former friend and the key witness at his trial testified Tuesday that their relationship had been fraying for years, but he was “furious” and flabbergasted when Rocky pulled a gun on him on the streets of Hollywood.

“I told him to use it. Because mentally I couldn’t believe it,” said the man who goes by A$AP Relli, with his old friend staring at him intently from the defense table. “I physically could not believe there was a gun in my face. That was the breaking point for me.”

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RENSSELAER, Ind. — An Indiana man was fatally shot by a deputy during a traffic stop just days after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump for a misdemeanor related to the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Read More

State water officials say military ‘did not enter California’ and ‘federal government restarted federal water pumps’

California water officials said this week there’s no truth to Donald Trump’s assertion that the US military has entered California and “turned on the water”.

Trump’s comments, made on Monday on his social media platform Truth Social, are the latest in a series of remarks he’s made and actions he’s taken related to the state’s water policy following devastating wildfires that ripped through the Los Angeles area this month. He’s often offering an incomplete or incorrect assessment of the state’s water policies or tying together unrelated issues.

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Whale watchers capture rare footage of miles-long cluster of dolphins ‘just having a great time’

A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of more than 1,500 of the marine creatures.

“They were on the horizon I feel like as far as I could see,” said Capt Evan Brodsky, with Monterey Bay Whale Watch, who captured drone footage of Friday’s huge gathering of Risso’s dolphins.

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Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous "Doomsday Clock" to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been. Read More

Crowds of displaced Palestinians made the arduous journey back to heavily destroyed northern Gaza for a second day, under a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

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Parents enrolling children in Oklahoma public schools will be required to provide proof of their child’s US citizenship or legal immigration status under a proposed rule approved by the State Board of Education.

WASHINGTON — Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary, made her debut in the briefing room on Tuesday, saying that podcasters and social media influencers could apply to participate in future briefings. Read More

Brothers Jake Paul and Logan Paul have made social media announcements that suggested their next fight will be against each other and aired on HBO Max

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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday that the Mona Lisa will get its own dedicated room inside the Louvre museum under a major renovation and expansion of the Paris landmark that will take up to 10 years. Read More

As Hong Kong prepares to welcome the Year of the Snake on Wednesday, Chau Ka-ling displays a moving serpent with practiced ease, holding it like a pet in her decades-old restaurant in the city.

MLB The Show 25 has announced Paul Skenes, Gunnar Henderson and Elly De La Cruz as the cover athletes of its upcoming video game

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President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder

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Fountains up to 120ft high have been reported, feeding multiple lava streams in Hawaii Volcanoes national park

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.

The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes national park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.

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With its powerful camera, the French Navy surveillance plane scouring the Baltic Sea zoomed in on a cargo ship plowing the waters below — closer, closer and closer still until the camera operator could make out details on the vessel's front deck and smoke pouring from its chimney. Read More

NEW YORK — A New York judge set a March 2026 trial date on Monday and moved an initial conference from mid-February to next week as the public feud between Blake Lively and her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni continued to grow and accelerate. Read More

The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending

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Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps. Read More

HONG KONG — Chinese tech startup DeepSeek 's new artificial intelligence chatbot has sparked discussions about the competition between China and the U.S. in AI development, with many users flocking to test the rival of OpenAI's ChatGPT. Read More

The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting on Tuesday as President Donald Trump's administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending.

The news comes after Lively's lawyers claimed Baldoni's attorney was trying to taint potential jurors over lawsuits the actors have filed against each other.

One of Neil Gaiman’s publishers has dropped him as the British author faces multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

A delegation of Russian officials is in Damascus, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported

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