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The law limits teaching on race, gender and other topics. Part of the law related to colleges was struck down. It remains in effect in K-12 schools. (Patel, 7/7)

Faced with an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Mamdani administration said on Tuesday that it was adopting new tactics to try to stamp out clusters of the bacterial illness more quickly. ... The measures rolled out Tuesday would publicly identify buildings suspected of being sources of Legionnaires’ disease and require the structures’ owners to swiftly clean cooling towers. (Goldstein, 7/7)

State lawmakers are exploring prohibiting foreign nationals from using Texas surrogates, elevating a niche fertility issue into a larger battle over immigration and birthright citizenship, surrogacy experts say. (Ma, 7/7)

Since the 2024 election, a nonprofit has helped 1,500 trans people settle in Seattle — more than 20 times the 70 people it aided before the election. (Parks, 7/7)

The new state law requires teachers to disclose any information requested by parents about their child, with some exceptions, effectively overriding a New Hampshire Supreme Court decision. (DeWitt, 7/7)

Utah has revoked the license of a boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager, saying the school has “failed to provide applicable health and safety services for clients.” The state’s action, which took effect Monday, cites multiple noncompliance issues against the Provo Canyon School’s campus in Springville. The school has 15 days to request a hearing before the Department of Health & Human Services. (McCormack, 7/7)

Investigators on Tuesday released findings on the fatal police shooting of Alex LaMorie, who had called for help after facing an extortion scam. (Golden and Benn Jr., 7/7)

An Indiana woman signed a plea deal Tuesday admitting she bought the gun that ended up in a deadly Chicago Police shooting at Swedish Hospital, filings show. Olivia Burgos, 23, of La Porte, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Hammond to Making a False Statement in Connection with the Acquisition of a Firearm. She faces up to 10 years in prison. However, federal prosecutors are expected to ask for a far lower, or minimum sentence. (Colias-Pete, 7/7)

When Bobby and Sandy Marshall moved from Florida to southeast Missouri three years ago, they landed in what Bobby called a “medical desert” with fewer resources. Access to care was critical as Bobby lives with early onset and atypical dementia. (Nozicka, 7/8)

Since 2014, the Diaper Bank of North Carolina has given out more than 3 million period supplies to schools across the state. When the nonprofit first started giving out tampons, sanitary pads and other items, the term “period poverty” was not used much in the United States, said founder and CEO Michelle Schaefer. (Fernandez, 7/8)