A Calgary study found emergency department visits for suicide attempts among youth increased 22% globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Separately, Boston researchers discovered smartphone check-ins can help predict suicide risk days before an attempt in patients with serious mental illness.
A U.S. District Court judge in Boston dismissed the Trump administration's Title VI civil rights lawsuit against Harvard University, which had accused the school of failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism. The judge ruled that the alleged incidents did not constitute an ongoing violation of civil rights law.
A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping tens of thousands of asylum seekers and Temporary Protected Status immigrants of their work authorization, halting policies that would have pushed immigrant workers out of jobs.
A coalition of 25 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston challenging a Trump administration rule that implements new Medicaid work requirements and narrows exemptions for medically vulnerable people.
