Two major leasing deals with tech companies Databricks and Crowdstrike have filled up two downtown Sunnyvale office buildings.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed new rules on Thursday to stop gender-related care for minors across the nation. One of the rules threatened to pull federal funding from any hospital that provided gender treatments for minors. This would effectively shut down hospitals that failed to comply.

Americans are disconnected from each other at historic levels, buffeted by what a former surgeon general calls an “epidemic of loneliness.”

Brown University announced layoffs and budget cuts at the start of the fall semester. At the start of finals week, a masked gunman killed two students and wounded nine.