When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest. That’s because to the Ojibwe, the drum is the heartbeat of their people, and singing with it is a crucial center point of social powwows and spiritual ceremonies.

Belarus’ foreign minister has arrived in North Korea as experts predict that he and North Korean officials would discuss forming a trilateral anti-Western front also involving Russia. Video shot by Associated Press Television News shows Maxim Ryzhenkov being greeted by North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jong Gyu.

Going to work is an escape for Tatyiana Ustymenko. She rides an elevator down more than 1,500 feet into a coal mine and leaves behind her cellphone - meaning no distractions from the latest developments at the eastern front line just 60 miles away. That far below ground, she also can’t hear the air raid sirens warning of a Russian missile strike.

An ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader is asking a Nevada judge to change her mind and release him from jail to house arrest ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of music legend Tupac Shakur. Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ attorney asked for a hearing Tuesday to try to show that the money for Davis’ $750,000 bail was legally obtained.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinian territory of Gaza have had their lives upended since Hamas-led militants invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people.

Investigators have arrested a teenager in connection with a shooting at an Iowa mall that left the teen and another person wounded and sent people running for safety. Police said Tuesday that they had arrested a 16-year-old on several weapons charges.

Anti-government protesters in Kenya’s capital have clashed with an emerging pro-government group as weeks of turmoil continue. Hundreds swarmed and burned a motorcycle belonging to people who expressed support for the country’s president, who faces widespread calls to resign.

A bipartisan House task force will investigate the assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced in a joint statement Tuesday.

Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in a remote part of Ethiopia have killed at least 229 people. Local authorities say many victims were killed while trying to rescue survivors of an earlier mudslide in southern Ethiopia.

The British government says it will end the controversial use of a barge to house asylum-seekers off the south coast of England. The Labour government said Tuesday it will save $26 million next year by not using the Bibby Stockholm as it overhauls its immigration system.