Tag: Justice Department
Supreme Court rejects nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the...
DOJ: Illegal monopoly by Ticketmaster, Live Nation drives up prices for...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Thursday, accusing them of...
Government funding bill advances as Senate works to beat midnight shutdown...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate is laboring to approve a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a...
JetBlue, Spirit terminate $3.8B merger agreement
JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion combination after a court ruling blocked their merger.
JetBlue said Monday that even though both...
Yellen says bank situation stabilizing, different from 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen projected calm on Tuesday after recent regional bank collapses but told a gathering of bankers that additional...
Clements to head federal COPS program
PROVIDENCE – The city’s outgoing police chief, Col. Hugh T. Clements Jr., already has a new job.
Clements has been appointed by U.S. Attorney General...
Spirit Airlines shareholders approve $3.8B sale to JetBlue
Spirit Airlines shareholders voted Wednesday to accept a $3.8 billion buyout from JetBlue Airways, but the deal could still face a challenge from federal...
Cheers and fears as U.S. ends mask mandates for travel
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – A federal judge's decision to strike down a national mask mandate was met with cheers on some airplanes but...
Florida judge voids U.S. mask mandate for planes, other travel
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – A federal judge in Florida has voided the national mask mandate covering airplanes and other public transportation as exceeding...
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to plead to 3 criminal charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will...
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