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(Headline USA) CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids, officials said Tuesday. The settlement resolves a lawsuit brought in 2024 that accused the healthcare giant of providing massive...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department is reportedly seeking a criminal indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission’s “star witness” in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest. The Washington Post and several other outlets have reported over the last few days that the...

(Headline USA) Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the federal trial in which Payton Gendron faces a potential death penalty for his alleged attack at the Tops Friendly Market in 2022, which killed 10 people and is believed to be the deadliest shooting targeting black people by a...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the decision of the White House television press pool to halt coverage of President Donald Trump last month violated antitrust law, an agency spokesperson said Saturday. Emily Covington, a spokesperson for the department, said group boycotts among business competitors might violate...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A New York judge on Friday ordered Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James to respond to a legal challenge seeking to disqualify James as special prosecutor in the Cornell sex scandal probe. Acting Supreme Court Justice James R. Farrell issued the order in response to...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department moved Friday to allow more people to purchase firearm suppressors — known as silencers — short-barreled rifles and certain other guns without registering them with the federal government following a court ruling that struck down provisions of a key law. The Trump administration announced the enforcement...

(Headline USA) U.S. prosecutors unveiled sweeping new criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, accusing him and his wife of heading a state-sponsored system of repression responsible for the beating, asphyxiation and electric shock treatment of scores of victims, including several Americans. The torture charges add to...

(Headline USA) Christa Pike, who regained consciousness almost six days after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, is aware of what happened and “angry and confused,” one of her attorneys said Wednesday. Pike, 50, survived despite receiving two lethal doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30. She was sentenced to death...

(Headline USA) Federal authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested and charged a 30-year-old from Washington state with encouraging an 18-year-old to commit one of the worst school shootings in Canada's history by offering to livestream the February attack, providing money and sharing advice on how to delete online...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  Georgia’s State Election Board executive director has asked the Trump administration to examine the state’s voting system weeks before Election Day. The request puts QR code ballot tabulation, election software, voter data sharing, and access to records under renewed scrutiny, per a report by the...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  Newly released FBI records have renewed debate over the methods used in former special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents investigation of President Donald Trump. The documents describe monitoring of Susie Wiles’s communications, internal disagreement over the Mar-a-Lago search, and an unexplained lack of substantive notes...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A piece of embalmed femur bone that weights about two grams is all that remains of an unidentified leg found in the rubble of the Oklahoma City bombing some 31 years ago, according to Angela Berg, a forensic anthropologist with Oklahoma’s Office of the Chief...