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Family of Henrietta Lacks settles with Thermo Fisher over claims they profited by cloning her cervical cells in a racist medical system

By Lea Skene and The Associated Press

FILE – A Roman Catholic church in Lisbon is pictured on Feb. 10, 2023. On Wednesday, April 5, 2023, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office publicly released a redacted version of an investigative report detailing sex abuse allegations against more than 150 Catholic priests and examining the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s response. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, File)

600 children were sexually abused by 156 Baltimore priests and archdiocese personnel, according to a new state report

By Lea Skene, Brian Witte, and others

FILE – Adnan Syed gets emotional as he speaks to reporters outside the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal building after a hearing, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, in Annapolis, Md. A Maryland court did not give the family of the murder victim in the case chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial” enough time to attend a court hearing in person that led to Syed’s release, a Maryland appellate court ruled Tuesday, March 28, and it ordered a new hearing to be held. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/The Baltimore Sun via AP, File)

A court just reinstated the murder conviction of Adnan Syed from ‘Serial’ case but he will not return to prison immediately

By Brian Witte, Lea Skene, and others