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Teddi Mellencamp is celebrating her daughter Dove's 6th birthday

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• Mellencamp referred to Dove as her "miracle baby" in an Instagram post shared on Wednesday, Feb. 25

• Dove underwent neurosurgery after she was diagnosed with lambdoid craniosynostosis in 2020 at only 9 months old

Teddi Mellencampis celebrating her daughter Dove's 6th birthday.

Mellencamp, 44, shared the sweetInstagrampost on Wednesday, Feb. 25. "Happy birthday to my miracle baby," theReal Housewives of Beverly Hillsalum wrote in the caption.

"The strength and resilience you have shown since you came into this world is something I have learned to use in my own fight," Mellencamp wrote, in reference to Doveundergoing neurosurgeryafter she was diagnosed with lambdoid craniosynostosis in 2020, and her own current journey with cancer treatment. "And now at 6, you're teaching us all how to enjoy life to the fullest while being your unabashed self. I am still so sorry I was in the hospital and missed your 5th party; but dang you don't know how grateful I am to be at this one. Love you so much, Dovey Doo. Hope this year is your best yet."

In the first photo, Mellencamp cradles a baby Dove post-surgery, and in the second photo, the mother and daughter duo spend time together at Dove's birthday party.

Real Housewives of Orange Countystar Tamra Judge chimed in, writing "Happy birthday Dove 🕊️."

The reality star was previously open about her daughter's health journey. "Hi guys, I am 9 months old and other than a zig zag scar underneath my hair across my head I wouldn't even know I had neurosurgery a few months back," Mellencamp shared alongside a photo of her daughterwearing a cranial helmeton Instagram in 2020 after Dove's life-saving surgery.

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A few weeks ago,Mellencamp reflected on the one-year anniversaryof her stage 4 cancer diagnosis. "A year ago today I went into the ER thinking I had migraines and within 24 hours was having surgery on the plum-sized stage 4 tumors on my brain," she wrote in the caption of a photo of herself in the hospital, with sensors on her forehead, that she posted toInstagramon Feb. 9.

"I have a lot of anxiety surrounding today but also a lot of gratitude. Gratitude for the doctors and nurses who took care of me, gratitude for my family and friends for supporting me, and gratitude for all the love that you have poured into me," Mellencamp wrote.

Her cancer journey first began in 2022 as skin cancer — specifically, stage 2melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. She underwent 17 surgeries for theinvasive skin cancer, but in April 2025, Mellencamp shared the news that it had advanced to stage 4, as it had metastasized to herbrain and lungs.

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Although doctors had originally given her a"50/50" chanceof survival, Mellencamp — who is being treated with ongoingimmunotherapy— says she has "no trace of cancer."

She previouslytold PEOPLE exclusivelythat she recalled "being at the Super Bowl working it withTamra [Judge]and just having these burning headaches and just thinking, 'What is wrong with me?' And coming home the day after the Super Bowl and going into the hospital."

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In an exciting announcement, boxing legendFloyd Mayweatherhas confirmed that he'sreturningto the ring. Mayweather's comeback is set against the backdrop of a highly anticipatedboutwith fellow boxing iconMike Tyson. While details are still emerging, the timing is certainly intriguing, sparking frenzy among fans.

Floyd Mayweather returns to boxing ahead of Mike Tyson fight

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is resuming his boxing career, with an eagerly awaited exhibition match against Mike Tyson on the horizon.

The boxing pro is trading in his retirement for a comeback, just days shy of his 49th birthday. He has inked a deal with CSI Sports/Fight Sports to promote his upcoming bouts. Mayweather is kicking things off with an exhibition match against Mike Tyson in spring 2026.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. had hung up his gloves in 2017, aged 40, with an unbeaten 50-0 record, 27 wins by stoppage, after conquering MMA star Conor McGregor. He has since stepped back into the ring for exhibitions with Logan Paul, Mikuru Asakura, and John Gotti III.

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"I still have what it takes to set more records in the sport of boxing," Mayweather's written statement to ESPN read. "From my upcoming Mike Tyson event to my next professional fight afterwards — no one will generate a bigger gate, have a larger global broadcast audience, and generate more money with each event — than my events. And I plan to keep doing it with my global media partner, CSI Sports/FIGHT SPORTS."

"Signing Floyd Mayweather to un-retire after he captures another worldwide audience with his Mike Tyson match-up, highlights our commitment to providing our global audience with the most high-profile fighters in the sport," read the co-founders of CSI Sports/Fight Sports, Richard and Craig Miele's statement.

Mayweather and Tyson's exhibition match is set for spring 2026, as announced last September. Rumors indicate that April 25 is being speculated as the date in the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, ESPN hasn't confirmed this, and broadcast plans are still unclear. While details are scarce, boxing enthusiasts are of the opinion that this could be one of the most epic matchups in recent history.

Originally reported by Sibanee Gogoi onMandatory.

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Ever since their romance first took the world by storm,Taylor SwiftandTravis Kelcehave lived their lives under a global magnifying glass. From high-profile Super Bowl appearances to record-breaking tour dates, every public outing makes international headlines. Recently, however, the couple has mastered the art of the "quiet luxury"date night.

Summerweddingrumors are everywhere. Perhaps because of this, the couple is avoiding big crowds. They are choosing quiet nights at private clubs instead. This keeps fans wondering what their next big step will be.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce visit Chez Margaux in NYC on date night as wedding rumors continue

For their latest appearance, the couple was spotted arriving at the ultra-exclusive, members-only club Chez Margaux in New York City. Braving the winter chill, Taylor Swift served a masterclass in sophisticated monochrome styling. The singer leaned heavily into her partnership with Louis Vuitton, wearing the brand's Shearling Collar Wrap Coat in black. The wool-blend piece featured oversized lapels and a signature monogrammed waist belt that added just the right amount of designer flair to the understated silhouette.

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Underneath the structured outerwear, Swift wore a sleek black boatneck top, creating a streamlined "column of color" that has become her recent style signature. She wore Louis Vuitton boots with a thick heel. The boots had small gold buckles near the ankles. Adding to the high-fashion feel, she carried the Louis Vuitton Express PM bag. Her beauty look remained classic: soft waves, her signature fringe, and a bold swipe of orange-toned red lipstick.

Not to be outdone,Travis Kelceperfectly complemented Taylor's look with a refined, wintry aesthetic. The NFL star opted for a long, structured grey wool coat layered over pinstriped trousers, striking a balance between athletic and dapper. With a neatly groomed fade and a relaxed demeanor, Travis leaned into the "date-night mode" that insiders say the couple is prioritizing while they navigate wedding planning and retirement decisions.

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on theextensive fraud and malfeasancethat corrupted the nation's historic foreign adoption program.

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the third in the country's history, began accepting new cases Thursday, months after the previous one's mandate ended in November with more than 2,100 complaints unresolved.

The new commission will inherit those cases, including 311 submissions by Korean adoptees from the West that were either deferred or incompletely reviewed before the second commissionhalted a landmark investigationinto adoptions in April last year, following internal disputes over which cases warranted recognition as problematic.

Advocates say interest among adoptees is far higher this time, with hundreds already seeking investigations, including many from the United States, who were underrepresented in the previous inquiry even though American parents were by far the biggest recipients of Korean children over the past seven decades.

But investigators who served on the previous commission said it could take months — possibly until May or June — for the new probes to actually get underway. The government has yet to appoint a chair to lead the commission, which has not formed investigative teams and will initially be run by civil servants assigned to receive and register cases.

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The new commission, established under a law passed in January expanding its investigative mandate, will also investigate other human rights abuses potentially attributable to the government, including civilian killings around the 1950-53 Korean War, repression during the military dictatorships of the 1960s to 1980s, anddecades-long abuses of inmatesat welfare facilities.

South Korea sent thousands of children annually to the West from the 1970s to the early 2000s, peaking at an average of more than 6,000 a year in the 1980s. The country was then ruled by a military government that saw population growth as a major threat to its economic goals and treated adoptions as a way to reduce the number of mouths to feed, contributing to what's now possibly the world's largest diaspora of adoptees.

The suspension of the prior adoption probe in 2025 followed a nearly three-year review of cases across Europe, the U.S. and Australia, during which the second commission confirmed human rights violations in just 56 of 367 complaints filed by adoptees.

Still, the commission issued a significant interim report concluding that thegovernment bears responsibilityfor a foreign adoption program riddled with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and carried out by private agencies that often manipulated children's backgrounds and origins.

The report, which challenged a longstanding narrative shared in South Korea and receiving nations in the West that adoptions were driven mainly by humanitarian concerns, broadly aligned with previous reporting by The Associated Press.

The AP investigations, in collaboration withFrontline (PBS),drew from thousands of documents and dozens of interviews to show how South Korea's government, Western nations and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence that many were being procured through corrupt or outright illegal means.

By Jessie Pang and Anna-Lisa Fuglesang

HONG KONG, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A Hong Kong court on Thursday sentenced the father of a wanted pro-democracy activist to eight months in prison ‌under the city's national security law after he attempted to terminate her insurance policy and ‌withdraw the funds.

Kwok Yin-sang, 69, was found guilty on February 11 for "attempting to deal with, directly or indirectly, any funds or other ​financial assets or economic resources" belonging to an "absconder" under the city's homegrown national security law, also known as Article 23.

He is the first person in the city to be charged and convicted with the offence. He had pleaded not guilty and did not testify at the trial. In court on Thursday, he appeared calm ‌and waved goodbye before being taken ⁠back into custody.

His daughter, Anna Kwok, helps lead the Washington-based advocacy group Hong Kong Democracy Council, and is one of 34 overseas activists wanted by Hong Kong ⁠national security police.

She is accused of colluding with foreign forces and police have offered a bounty of HK$1 million ($128,000) for her arrest.

In Washington, before her father's sentence was handed down, Anna Kwok told Reuters she found it "utterly despicable" ​that ​the Hong Kong government was going after her dad.

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"This ​is the first case, but it is not ‌going to be the last case," she said.

Her father was accused of trying to withdraw funds totalling HK$88,609 ($11,342) from an insurance policy that he bought for her when she was two years old.

Magistrate Andy Cheng said Kwok's case was a serious one under the national security law and had nothing to do with family ties.

"There is no such thing as ... collective punishment, and it has absolutely nothing to do ‌with whether the defendant and the fugitive are family," Cheng ​said.

When asked what she would like to tell her dad, ​Anna Kwok said she wanted to hug him ​and apologise for putting him in such a difficult situation.

"Asian dads are not ‌very known for showing affection with hugs and ​I realized this year, ​I actually ... don't think I've ever hugged my dad since I became an adult," she said.

China imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong in 2020 and the city's legislature passed ​a second set of national security ‌laws - Article 23 - in 2024, to plug what authorities called "loopholes" in the national security regime.

(Reporting ​by Jessie Pang in Hong Kong and Anna-Lisa Fuglesang in Washington; Editing by Anne ​Marie Roantree, Jacqueline Wong, Stephen Coates and Thomas Derpinghaus)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The FBI served search warrants Wednesday at the Los Angeles Unified School District's headquarters and the home ofits leader,a former Superintendent of the Year who was knighted by Spain for his work.

Federal officials would not give details of the nature of the investigation involving the nation's second-largest school district and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho's home. The district said in a statement that it "is cooperating with the investigation and we do not have further information at this time." The FBI also searched a third location near Miami, where Carvalho previously led the public schools.

TV news footage showed agents in FBI shirts and jackets outside Carvalho's home in the San Pedro neighborhood about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of downtown LA.

Rukelt Dalberis, a spokesperson for the FBI's Los Angeles field office, confirmed that agents were at the properties to serve warrants but declined to comment further because affidavits laying out details for the basis for the searches were under seal.

Over the past five years in Los Angeles, Carvalho has been lauded for the district's improvements to academic performance. He won similar praise while overseeing Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Florida's largest school district, where the national superintendents association named him Superintendent of the Year in 2014.

But both districts also drew scrutiny under his watch.

In 2024, Carvalho heavily touted an education technology company that developed an AI chatbot named "Ed" for the Los Angeles district to help students, calling it "a game changer." But less than three months after unveiling the technology and paying the company $3 million, the district dropped its dealings with AllHere, which collapsed into bankruptcy. Months later, founder, Joanna Smith-Griffin, was charged with securities and wire fraud, along with identity theft.

Carvalho denied personal involvement in the selection of AllHere, according to the Los Angeles Times. After Smith-Griffin was indicted, Carvalho said he would appoint a task force to examine what went wrong with the LAUSD project. There have been no announcements of any task force being appointed.

During his tenure in Florida, Carvalho also drew scrutiny in 2020 after a nonprofit he founded solicited a $1.57 million donation from an online education company the district was planning to use but later dropped. The district's inspector general determined the donation didn't violate state or district ethics policies but did create the "appearance of impropriety" and should be returned. The nonprofit instead distributed the donation to Miami-Dade teachers in$100 gift cards.

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Spain knighted the Portugal-born administrator in 2021 for his work in expanding Spanish-language programs for Miami-Dade County schools.

Months later, Carvalho took the job in California and became a harsh critic of the Trump administration's aggressive immigration crackdown, especially followingraids in Los Angeles last year. When its 500,000 students returned to classes in the fall, Carvalho urged immigration authorities not to conduct enforcement activity within a two-block radius of schools.

"I would be the biggest hypocrite in the world, regardless of my position today, if today I did not fight for those who find themselves in the same predicament I faced over 40 years ago when I arrived in this country at the age of 17 as an undocumented immigrant," Carvalho said at a news conference last year.

Carvalho arrived in Los Angeles at a critical moment, as the district found itself flush with funding from state and federal COVID-19 relief money but still struggling with the impacts of the pandemic, including learning losses and declining enrollment. He previously sparred with Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over his order that schools not require masks during the pandemic.

The Miami-Dade school system said in a statement that it was aware of the investigation involving Carvalho but did not have any comment at this time.

James Marshall, an FBI spokesman in Miami, told the AP that agents searched a residence in Southwest Ranches, which is in Broward County west of Fort Lauderdale, on Wednesday morning and "have since cleared the scene." He said no further information was available.

Wednesday's search was the second time in a week the Justice Department has taken action against the LA school district. On Feb. 19, the Trump administration joineda lawsuitalleging that the district discriminates against white students under its decades-old desegregation policy.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass's office said it had no information about the search, noting the public school system operates independently of city government.

Tucker reported from Washington and Watson from San Diego. Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, also contributed to this report.

Martin Short is taking some time away from the stage, following the death of his daughter, Katherine, whodied Mondayat 42.

Short had been scheduled to appear alongside hisOnly Murders in the Buildingstar costar Steve Martin.

"Due to unforeseen circumstances, Steve Martin & Martin Short's shows on February 27th in Milwaukee and February 28th in Minneapolis have been postponed," a rep for Short toldEntertainment Weekly. "Tickets will be honored for a future rescheduled date."

Martin's public tour schedule indicates that he will next appear with Short in Washington, D.C., on March 13, and that the tour continues through October.

At the time of Katherine's death, her father said in a statement to EW: "The Short family is devastated by this loss, and asks for privacy at this time," the statement read. "Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world."

Katherinedied by suicide, the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner's office announced Wednesday.

She was one of three children that Short shared with wife Nancy Dolman, who died of ovarian cancer in 2010. The others were Oliver, who was born 1986, and Henry, born three years later.

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Katherine Short was a licensed clinical social worker at a private practice, but she also worked with clinic Amae Health to provide mental health resources and community outreach.

She had studied psychology and gender sexuality studies at New York University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in 2006. Her master's degree in social work is from the University of Southern California.

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Short, who has long partnered with Martin, explained to PEOPLE in 2022 that he strives to keep his life balanced.

"Working 15 hours a day? That would be terrible. We should eliminate things that give us stress or make us unhappy. And I think it's unbecoming at 72 to be 100 percent obsessed with your career," said Short, who's now 75. "My life, my children, my friends — I have great joy in that."

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to988lifeline.org.

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