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TL/DR - The US Department of Education has launched an investigation into whether Oklahoma's Owasso High School failed to respond adequately to sex-based harassment of transgender student Nex Benedict, who died aged 16. The school has been accused of violating Title IX, a civil rights law protecting against gender-based discrimination in…

Unveiling the Top-Ranked Hospitals in 2019 The groundbreaking hospital ranking series started in 2019, presenting an in-depth evaluation of over 2,400 hospitals in 30 countries. The study included esteemed medical institutions from the United States, Western Europe, Australia, and 10 Asian nations, as well as Chile and Malaysia. Pittsburgh's…

TL/DR - Commercial fishermen in Alaska have found a suspicious object that officials believe might be another spy balloon. The FBI will transport the object to their lab in Quantico, Virginia, for further analysis, as it appears similar to a foreign-government owned surveillance balloon. This discovery follows a series of incidents involving…

TL/DR - GlaxoSmithKline and its legal team from Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP are to receive over $450,000 in legal costs after successfully defending a multidistrict lawsuit. The suit alleged that GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea drug, Zofran, was responsible for causing birth defects. A federal judge ruled in favor of the pharmaceutical company.…