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NPR's Camilla Dominovsky reporting, Purdue Pharma is expected to be ordered to pay $225 million in a criminal case related to how it sold its opioid painkiller OxyContin.
If a judge accepts the deal, it opens the door for a separate settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids.
the company would dissolve and members of the Sackler family who own the company would have to pay up to $7 billion.
Some advocates want that deal to be blocked and are calling on members of the family to be criminally charged instead.
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Federal agents have served search warrants in Minnesota in an ongoing fraud investigation of publicly funded social programs for children.
Agents could be seen outside child care centers in the Minneapolis area today.
Democratic Governor Tim Walz welcomed the action.
The Trump administration has charged dozens of people, many of them Somali-Americans, with fleecing a kids' food program.
Florida lawmakers are refusing to take up Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' call to repeal vaccine mandates in schools.
From member station WUSF, Kerry Sheridan reports.
Kid Rock and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew in an Apache attack helicopter at a base in Virginia yesterday.
It comes weeks after military pilots drew scrutiny for hovering near Kid Rock's house in Tennessee.
A Pentagon spokesperson says the flights were part of a community relations event for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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A grand jury in North Carolina has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly making a threat against President Trump.
In response, Comey says he's innocent and that, quote, this is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be.
NPR's Kerry Johnson reports Trump has been pushing the DOJ to go after Comey for years.
The Trump administration says it has struck more deals to divert investment away from the offshore wind industry and toward fossil fuel projects.