February 2024

TL/DR - The article provides scores for several boys' basketball games in the Upper Peninsula region. Brimley won against Carney-Nadeau with a score of 70-48, Cedarville narrowly beat Stephenson 55-53, and Gwinn defeated Escanaba 60-59 in overtime. Other winning teams included Lake Linden-Hubbell, Norway, Rudyard, Sault Ste. Marie, and Westwood.…

TL/DR - President Joe Biden plans to use the Bayh-Dole Act to lower drug prices by potentially granting licenses to third parties if a federally funded invention is not commercially available to the public or in a national health emergency. This will mark the first time a presidential administration will use price to determine whether a drug is…

TL/DR - The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has announced it will upgrade discharges of servicemen and women who were discriminated under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The policy, which was in effect from 1993 to 2011, barred openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service. The upgrade of the discharges is meant to correct…

TL/DR - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a series of criminal and civil actions aimed at sanctioned Russian oligarchs and other individuals accused of supporting the Kremlin and its military. The announcement comes ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture has now…