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Boy Scouts offer sex-abuse settlement, aiming for end to bankruptcy

The Boy Scouts of America are offering cash, artwork and other assets to sex-abuse victims under a bankruptcy plan filed Monday, an opening gambit by the youth group to move past the failures to protect children that have threatened its standing in American society.

A Theranos database is useless. What happened?

Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes is sparring with federal prosecutors over an inaccessible database recording millions of the company's blood tests, arguing the government can't prove the test results were unreliable without the database's information.