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As a plastic surgeon at Northwestern Medicine, Dr. Sumanas Jordan knows transgender and nonbinary patients can have unique needs. About half of her patients come in for gender-affirming surgeries, and their tests and treatments often lead to deep conversations about gender identity. Now, conversations about gender at Northwestern Medicine are expanding to include patients’ medical records. As of Dec. 18, Northwestern Medicine patients can record their legal sex as “X” in electronic medical records. “X” is an alternate gender marker for those who do not identify as male or female. On legal reco......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Education is investigating if nearly 90 elementary, secondary and higher education campuses across the nation — including at UC Davis and other University of California campuses — violated a federal civil rights law after an “alarming” rise in reports of antisemitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination erupted at schools amid the Israel-Hamas war. In a news release, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights said each campus is under review for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination ......

NEW YORK — Columbia University is barring two pro-Palestinian student groups from holding campus activities for the remainder of the fall semester, college officials announced Friday. Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace will lose university funding and the eligibility to hold events on campus. The student groups will need to demonstrate a “commitment to compliance with university policies” and meet with college officials to lift the suspension at the end of the term, which finishes Dec. 22. “This decision was made after the two groups repeatedly violated University pol......

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis listed a string of conservative policy wins in Florida and stressed his leadership abilities as reasons why he should be president but never mentioned his rival Donald Trump at the Florida Republican Party’s annual summit on Saturday. Beneath a logo proclaiming “Florida Is DeSantis Country,” the governor said there would be “a lot that happens in this country over the next weeks and months. But I’ll tell you this, I will get the job done as your nominee. … As a leader, I will always conduct myself in a way that you’re proud of. And as your president, I promi......

SAN DIEGO — University of San Diego football coach Brandon Moore ended two months of media silence about alleged hazing incidents involving his team, issuing a statement Thursday saying he "had no prior knowledge at any level about these activities." The statement came in reaction to a lawsuit filed by former Toreros quarterback AJ Perez, who outlined two hazing incidents on campus in August that he alleges involved nudity, alcohol and acts of a sexual nature. Perez, who was in his first season after transferring from Utah Tech, left the team and is no longer enrolled in school. Perez's compla......

CHICAGO — Three months after he was fired amid a hazing scandal, ex-Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald has sued the university and its president, accusing the school of “callous and outrageous misconduct in destroying his career.” And Fitzgerald’s attorney said he doubts there was any significant hazing on the Wildcat squad, despite the multiple lawsuits and accusations that have surfaced since the scandal broke over the summer. “If you put young men in a locker room, do they sometimes engage in behavior that someone could say on a given day they were being difficult with each other? P......