KATIE BENNER

November 25, 2020 at 12:20 pm

Stock Trades by Sen. Perdue Said to Have Prompted Justice Department Inquiry

WASHINGTON — Early this year, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., sold more than $1 million worth of stock in the financial company Cardlytics, where he once...

November 24, 2020 at 2:51 pm

Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Role in Opioid Crisis as Part of Deal With Justice Department

WASHINGTON — Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty Tuesday to criminal charges that it misled the federal government about sales of its blockbuster painkiller OxyContin, the prescription...

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FILE – This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. Overdoses don’t happen just to heroin addicts _ patients who legally use strong painkillers called opioids are at risk in the nationâ€™s epidemic, too. A new study says when patients were prescribed an overdose antidote along with those medications, they made fewer painkiller-related visits to the emergency room. The study released on June 27, 2016, went a step further _ to see if the take-home antidote idea also could work for patients with chronic pain who may not realize they could accidentally get into trouble with prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and others. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

October 21, 2020 at 1:32 pm

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead guilty and pay $8 billion

The Purdue Pharma settlement could pave the way for a resolution of thousands of lawsuits brought against the OxyContin maker for its role in the...

Nation & World

FILE – In this March 23, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump moves from the podium to allow Attorney General William Barr to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room in Washington. The relationship between President Donald Trump and top ally Attorney General William Barr is fraying over the lack of splashy indictments so far in the Justice Departmentâ€™s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, according to people familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) WX111

October 9, 2020 at 6:15 pm

Trump leans on Barr and Pompeo for a lift as election nears

President Donald Trump succeeded in compelling the secretary of state to announce that he would make public Clinton's emails even as the attorney general resisted...

Nation & World

October 6, 2020 at 5:23 pm

‘We need to take away children,’ no matter how young, Justice Dept. officials said

The Justice Department’s top officials were “a driving force” behind the policy that spurred the separation of thousands of families, many of them fleeing violence...

FILE — The Google campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 12, 2017. Attorney General William Barr plans to bring an antitrust case against Google as soon as this month, overruling career Justice Department lawyers who said they need more time to build a strong case. (Christie Hemm Klok/The New York Times) XNYT79 XNYT79

September 22, 2020 at 2:50 pm

Justice Department case against Google is said to focus on search dominance

The Department of Justice’s impending lawsuit against Google has narrowed to focus on the company’s power over internet search, a decision that could set off...