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Dec 16 2019
News
Purdue Pharma’s Payments to Sacklers Soared Amid Opioid Crisis
As scrutiny of Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid epidemic intensified during the past dozen years, its owners, members of the Sackler family, withdrew more than $10 billion from the company, distributing it among trusts and overseas holding companies, according to a new audit commissioned by Purdue.
The amount is more than eight times what the family took out of the company in the 13
New York Times (News)
Feb 18 2018
News
Former Trump aide Rick Gates to plead guilty; agrees to testify against Manafort, sources say
The LA Times reports Gates is finalizing a guilty plea and will testify against Paul Manafort.
Los Angeles Times
Sep 09 2021
Perspectives Blog
Story of the Week: Students Return to Schools Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
After spending much of the past year learning remotely, many U.S. students are returning to in-person classes. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact students and school systems nationwide. COVID-19 cases among children rose as schools reopened, and more than 1,400 schools across 35 states have closed again temporarily for COVID-19 related reasons. Children younger than 12 aren't
AllSides Staff
Feb 13 2020
News
Barr: Trump tweets on cases make it ‘impossible’ to do job
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr took a public swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.”
Barr made the comment during an interview with ABC News just days after his Justice Department overruled its own prosecutors — who had recommended in a court
Associated Press
Dec 11 2020
News
FDA says it ‘will rapidly work toward’ approval of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration said early Friday that it “will rapidly work toward” authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on an emergency basis, an action that would kick off an unprecedented effort to inoculate enough Americans to stop a rampaging pandemic.
The FDA statement, which came hours after federal advisers endorsed the vaccine, added that the agency has
Washington Post
Jun 09 2020
News
Terry McAuliffe recorded saying Dems prefer Biden stay 'in the basement'
EXCLUSIVE: Top Joe Biden surrogate Terry McAuliffe told a videoconference meeting of Virginia Democrats over the weekend that the former vice president should remain in his basement -- where he has famously campaigned remotely during the coronavirus pandemic -- and that Democratic officials are broadly "preferring" that Biden stay out of the limelight.
Fox News has obtained a video of
Fox News Digital
Nov 20 2020
News
Americans Worry About Transfer Of Power: 'We Need Our Country To Come Together'
As President Trump still refuses to accept his election defeat, Travis Goodman finds himself gaming out what kind of "power grab" the outgoing president could stage, from continuing to contest the results to trying to disrupt the Electoral College process.
"I'm full of anxiety all the time," said Goodman, an accounting clerk at a manufacturing firm in Goshen, Ind. "These institutional
NPR (Online News)
Jul 16 2021
Fact Check
Kamala Harris exaggerates food and water laws for voters
Vice President Kamala Harris said that state lawmakers have proposed hundreds of laws that will suppress or make it difficult for people to vote, and that one way state lawmakers have sought to curtail access to the ballot is to cut off food or water to voters in line.
"They are punishing people for standing in line to vote," Harris told Soledad O’Brien during an interview on BET. "They
PolitiFact
Jul 23 2020
News
Google Has Not Explained What Led To A Glitch That Blocked Some Conservative Websites
Google has not yet explained why a glitch in the online giant’s search function prevented users Tuesday from accessing the content of several news websites.
A bug in Google’s site command function caused Breitbart, the Daily Caller, The Drudge Report, Newsbusters, and other news websites to vanish Tuesday morning, media reports show. The company resolved the issue later that day,
The Daily Caller
Jul 23 2020
News
Senate Republicans back more stimulus checks, money to schools in new pandemic aid proposal
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans were scrambling Thursday to finalize a $1 trillion coronavirus relief package that will include another round of $1,200 stimulus checks and additional funding to help schools recover from the pandemic.
GOP leaders and the White House said late Wednesday that they had agreed on key parts of the legislation, which will serve as a starting point for
USA TODAY