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Drugmaker Mallinckrodt aims to avoid paying an opioid settlement to victims

12:21pm July 28, 2023

by Brian Mann

The drugmaker Mallinckrodt is working to avoid payments to people who have struggled with addiction to opioids, as originally reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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Gender rights activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Many of the bans states passed this year against gender-affirming health care for youth are in federal court and may be on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Can states' bans on transgender care hold up in court? We break down the arguments

9:15am July 28, 2023

by Morgan Watkins

The 20 gender-affirming care bans states have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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At Northwestern University, allegations of hazing in its football program led to the firing of longtime coach Pat Fitzgerald (right) and has the school facing multiple lawsuits, with more likely. Here, Fitzgerald leads the football team onto the field on Sept. 24, 2022, in Evanston, Illinois.

As hazing lawsuits mount against Northwestern, experts hope for a shift in attitudes

5:01am July 28, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

With allegations of hazing within several sports programs at Northwestern University, experts say that other U.S. universities should use this time to change their own cultures.

Attorneys debate whether teen who killed 4 should be sentenced to life without parole

4:49am July 28, 2023

by Quinn Klinefelter

Attorneys in Michigan argue over whether a life sentence should be an option for a teenager who killed four high school classmates and wounded seven other people during a mass shooting in 2021.

Former President Donald Trump has been charged with a new count of willful retention of National Defense Information in the case related to his handling of classified documents.

Politics & Government

Trump charged with additional counts in Mar-a-Lago documents case

7:19pm July 27, 2023

by Carrie Johnson

A new defendant was also added the indictment against Trump and his aide Walt Nauta. Carlos de Oliveira was added to the obstruction conspiracy charged in the original indictment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comments on contentious new law

5:43pm July 27, 2023

by Daniel Estrin

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks about what he plans to do with the contentious judicial overhaul law passed this week, which passed despite pleas from President Biden and protestors.

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A patch of the Memphis Police Department pictured on May 18, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn.

DOJ launches an investigation into Memphis and the city's police department

3:37pm July 27, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

The Justice Department said its investigation will focus on the Memphis Police Department's use of force, its stops and arrests and whether the department engages in discriminatory policing.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court OKs completion of Mountain Valley gas pipeline

11:17am July 27, 2023

The case involved an emergency challenge to the final stages of development of the 303-mile pipeline, which is to span from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia.

A voter holds a ballot during Election Day in Ridgeland, Miss, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

A Mississippi law limits who can help mail-in voters. A federal court struck it down

5:17pm July 26, 2023

by Ashley Lopez

Mississippi passed a law restricting who could help voters seeking assistance casting their ballots by mail. A federal judge ruled it limited access to the polls and was therefore not permitted.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton vacated Bowe Bergdahl's court-martial conviction that was overseen by former military judge Jeffrey Nance. Bergdahl is seen here in 2017, when his case played out in the Fort Bragg military courthouse in North Carolina.

Bowe Bergdahl's desertion conviction is voided by the appearance of bias under Trump

5:14pm July 26, 2023

by Bill Chappell

A U.S. judge says the reversal shows "why individuals aspiring for public office and those achieving that objective" shouldn't call for a specific verdict in criminal cases.