The deal, announced Thursday, removes non-consensual releases to the Sackler family, Purdue's founders, which the U.S. Supreme Court had invalidated last year.
Connecticut was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state ...
Attorneys general from 18 states, including Wisconsin, sued to block President Trump’s move to end an immigration policy known as birthright citizenship.
Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.
"14th Amendment says what it means, and it means what it says—if you are born on American soil, you are an American," says Connecticut AG William Tong.
The Delaware Department of Justice is joining 17 states in suing the Trump administration for its order ending birthright citizenship.
Eighteen states, plus the District of Columbia and San Francisco sued in federal court to block Trump's order.
A Catholic deacon asked Wyoming conservatives to treat undocumented immigrants with the same dignity as 'the pre-born' when considering a bill to keep such immigrants off state roads.
Attorney General Dan Rayfield has joined other states in Texas gun rights cases in support of Biden administration gun safety rules.
New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said his state and others with Democratic attorneys general, plan to intervene in cases already in the court system.
The overall average breast cancer incidence rate in the U.S. was 131.8 per 100,000 and the overall average breast cancer mortality rate was 19.3 per 100,000. Among women in the U.S., breast cancer accounts for 32% of all cancer cases and 14% of all cancer deaths, the report found.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is set to receive as much as $212 million of a $7.4 billion settlement from Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family in connection with a case involving OxyContin and its impact on the opioid crisis.