OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma could be dissolved and replaced by a company focused on the public good by the end of the week, as a massive legal settlement resolving thousands of lawsuits is set to take effect. A federal judge on Tuesday is expected to deliver a criminal sentence to the company to resolve a …
VIENNA, April 28 (Reuters) – The trial of a 21-year-old accused of plotting an Islamist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in 2024 that was foiled at the 11th hour opens on Tuesday, with his lawyer saying he would plead guilty to the main charges. The defendant, an Austrian identified as Beran A, was arrested …
WASHINGTON (AP) — King Charles III will embrace some of Washington’s most formal ceremonial trappings on Tuesday as he tries to emphasize a bond between the United Kingdom and the United States that is so strong it can withstand the political turmoil of the moment. He will become the first British monarch to address the …
TOKYO (AP) — Shares retreated in Asia and oil prices gained on Tuesday as diplomatic efforts to end the Iran war once again appeared to stall. Despite a tenuous ceasefire, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed. Much of Asia, including resource-poor Japan, relies on that route for its oil shipments. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 …
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Companies seeking to register as medical marijuana dispensaries after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the rescheduling of cannabis can do so starting on Wednesday, according to a notice on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s website. The DEA’s medical marijuana registration portal will go live Wednesday at 9 a.m. EST, less …
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Ron DeSantis was once the future of the Republican Party, a battle-tested conservative twice elected as governor of Florida. Then Donald Trump steamrolled him on his way back to the White House. Now, more than two years after DeSantis ended his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, the governor is returning to …
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – Two Republican members of Congress are calling on the Trump administration to empower the National Guard to address potential drone-related threats and ensure a “unified federal security posture” at the upcoming World Cup games. The letter by U.S. Representatives Michael McCaul and Elijah Crane, who both sit on the House …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge’s decision to block its enforcement of a press access policy challenged by The New York Times, an appeals court ruled Monday. The ruling by a divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of …
NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan judge has tossed the murder conviction of a man who spent 25 years in prison after a review of his case revealed new evidence that may have been withheld by prosecutors, including thousands of dollars in payments made to the mother of their key eyewitness. The man, Harry Ruiz, …
TAIPEI, April 28 (Reuters) – Taiwan has spotted two Chinese warships operating in waters near the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait and has sent its own naval and air forces to keep watch, the defence ministry in Taipei said. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, sends its warships and warplanes …