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Attorney General Bonta Helps Secure $7.4 Billion from Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family for Fueling the Opioid Crisis
California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced that the bipartisan States Negotiating Committee and other parties have reached a $7.4 billion settlement in ...
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‘Freaked out’: Fear, uncertainty grip California’s immigrant community as Trump rolls out crackdown plan
A dramatic change in enforcement wouldn’t just affect undocumented people, said the director of the Equity Research Institute at USC, but their family members who are “citizens or documented immigrant ...
States Reach New $7.4B Opioid Deal With Purdue After SCOTUS Ruling
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.
California lawmakers approve $2.5 billion in wildfire aid
California lawmakers unanimously passed more than $2.5 billion in state funding on Thursday “as step one” toward recovery from the fires that have devastated Los Angeles for weeks. “We’re all on the ...
Texas one of 15 states to reach $7.4 billion opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma
Texas and 14 other states have secured a $7.4 billion settlement from the Sackler family and their company Purdue Pharma for their roles in creating the opioid crisis. Purdue Pharma was the ...
California wildfires live updates: Hughes Fire burns 10,000 acres in Los Angeles, Ventura counties
The fire — which erupted near Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County, north of Santa Clarita, late Wednesday morning — has grown ...
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LA's wildfires: Your recovery guide
On Jan. 22, more than two weeks after the first of the big fires started burning, the Hughes Fire sparked near Castaic, quickly burning through thousands of acres and forcing evacuations. LAist has ...