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FILE – In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Companies and U.S. government entities have agreed to settlements of lawsuits over the toll of opioids totaling more than $50 billion. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

OxyContin marketer and opioid maker announce $500m in settlements to avoid trials on their responsibility for crisis

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

People from across the United States, who lost loved ones due to the opioid epidemic, rallied at the Department of Justice in Washington DC, calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy AG Lisa Monaco to bring criminal charges against members of the Sackler family

OxyContin maker’s settlement faces Supreme Court scrutiny

By Geoff Mulvihill, Mark Sherman, and others

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The end of ‘Roe v. Wade’ actually caused abortions to increase over the last 12 months—just in different places

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

Aaron Galaz and his son pose for an image on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 in Phoenix. Aaron Galaz said his son is enrolled in a program that uses taxpayer funds to pay for private-school tuition in part so his son could be challenged more in class. At least four states that have made most children eligible for taxpayer-funded scholarships to private schools are seeing more families using the programs than planned. That could cost taxpayers, but it’s early to know the exact budget implications. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Arizona man was so concerned by his son getting lessons on gender identity, subpar academics that he embraced private school vouchers and sent him to a Catholic school

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

Tom Cotton

Fortune 100 companies are getting swarmed by Republican AGs using the Supreme Court affirmative action as a lever into the workplace

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Geoff Mulvihill, and others

FILE – Lilo Blank, 23, of Philadelphia, left, who supports abortion rights, and Lisa Verdonik, of Arlington, Va., who is anti-abortion, talk about their opposing views on abortion rights, Friday, May 13, 2022, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, ahead of expected abortion rights rallies across the country on Saturday. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Abortions are harder to get for 25 million women of childbearing age a year after Roe’s fall

By Geoff Mulvihill, Kimberlee Kruesi, and others

Fox Dominion lawsuit

Fox News pays Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle defamation suit over election lies with trial imminent

By David Bauder, Randall Chase, and others

This artist sketch depicts Dominion Voting Systems attorney Justin Nelson, standing left, and Fox News attorney Daniel Webb, standing at right, speaking to Judge Eric Davis before finishing jury selection in Delaware Superior Court Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Wilmington, Del. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

The $1.6 billion defamation trial over Fox News’ election lies has begun

By David Bauder, Randall Chase, and others

Sketch of Judge Eric Davis

Fox News prepares (again) for trial over election lies while taking out New York Times ad: ‘Trusted Now. More Than Ever.’

By David Bauder, Randall Chase, and others

fentanyl opiate in plastic bag in hand close-up

Tranq, a deadly mix of fentanyl and a drug for animals, was just named an ’emerging threat’ by U.S. officials

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MARCH 04: Abortion rights activists confront anti-abortion supporters who protest at the Planned Parenthood clinic on March 04, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images)

The battle over abortion is boiling over with lawsuits, bans, and protections that come 9 months after the Supreme Court’s key ruling

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

Personal Finance

Public pension funds have taken a hit from the banking sector’s turmoil, but are better prepared than during the 2008 crisis

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

South Carolina House lawmakers celebrate the passage of a bill establishing criminal penalties for trafficking in fentanyl on Feb. 1, 2023 in Columbia, S.C. State lawmakers across the nation are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl. (AP Photo/James Pollard)

Fentanyl overdoses are connected to 70,000 deaths a year and the crisis is pushing states to implement harsher drug laws

By Gabe Stern, James Pollard, and others

Signage outside a Signature Bank branch in New York, US, on Monday, March 13, 2023. The sudden closure of New York’s Signature Bank by state regulators Sunday underscored the urgency of extraordinary US efforts to backstop the nations banking system and quell mounting concerns among customers about the safety of their deposits. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Barney Frank coauthored the Dodd-Frank ‘too big to fail’ law. Now he says his bank’s failure was a message about ‘dealing with crypto.’

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks to the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in Baltimore. Biden’s administration is starting a push to get Congress to fund measures to help prosecute fraud in governmental pandemic relief programs. The plans also include measures to prevent future identity theft and help victims. The request is for $1.6 billion.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden is asking Congress for $1.6 billion to help claw back COVID relief money that was fraudulently stolen

By Geoff Mulvihill and The Associated Press