a day agoST. LOUIS — As Republican-led states have rushed to ban gender-affirming for minors, some families with transgender children found a bit of solace: At least they lived in states that would allow those already receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy to continue.
RICHMOND, Va. — The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the state and the county and sheriff whose deputies were involved in restraining him. A judge approved the out-of-court wrongful death settlement Tuesday, according to public records.
A woman with two sets of DNA in her body says she could frame her brother by leaving blood he donated to her at a crime scene.Ananya Bashyam, 24, is a 'chimera' as her body is an organism that contains at least two different sets of DNA.She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia - a type of blood cancer - in October 2021.Her brother, Chaitanya, 21, a college student, saved her life by donating bone marrow in July 2023 – transfusing his new cells into her and replacing hers.