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Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson on Friday agreed to a $26 billion settlement to thousands of claims by local and state governments of the alleged role that it and several others played in the U.S. opioid crisis.

A tweet by Candy Sero, the woman who was trampled, announced her decision on Twitter on Thursday.

FDA, NIH have studying neurological problems in people who've received COVID-19 vaccines.

Four Republican senators sat out the vote for an amendment that would have defunded the remaining vaccine mandates put in place by Joe Biden.

Wisconsin Assembly unanimously votes to withdraw state's 10 electors from Biden.

Single-payer health care system in California receives approval, setting the bill up for debate on the Assembly floor next week.

California and New York were the first areas in the country to take steps toward vaccine passports last year. New York City implemented it, but Orange County didn’t, thanks to the efforts of human rights Attorney Leigh Dundas and holocaust survivor Vera Sharav.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday announced two bills that would ban almost all abortions in the state, with one seeking to ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, and the other seeking to ban telemedicine abortions.

The FBI has identified the man who took hostages at a Texas synagogue on Jan. 15 and was shot dead after an hours-long standoff as British national Malik Faisal Akram.

A man took four hostages at a Jewish synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday morning. After a ten-hour standoff, an FBI Hostage Rescue Team made entry and rescued the three remaining hostages. The FBI confirmed the suspect is dead.