Walmart proposed a $3.1 billion legal settlement on Tuesday over the toll of powerful prescription opioids sold at its pharmacies, becoming the latest major drug industry player to promise major support to state, local and tribal governments still grappling with a crisis in overdose deaths.
The nation’s first trial over a state’s ban on gender-confirming care for children is starting this week in Arkansas. It’s the latest fight over restrictions on transgender you championed by republican leaders and widely condemned by medical experts. Sam Larson has today’s Sports in :60.
Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine.
Relentless wind and rain keep pummeling the southeastern United States. The defense attorney representing former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has requested a new trial. St. Thomas’ Morrison Family College of Health and the School of Education have partnered to develop and advance the field of trauma-informed practices. Reporter Safiya Mohamed has today’s News in :90.
