Walmart settled a lawsuit with the Justice Department on Friday after the retail giant faced sweeping accusations that it fueled a nationwide opioid epidemic for years by unlawfully dispensing prescriptions from its ‌pharmacies. A joint stipulation dismissing the case was filed on Thursday in federal ‌court ⁠in Wilmington, Delaware. The development comes after the DOJ […]

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s request to rehear his contempt of Congress case, leaving the Supreme Court as his next avenue for challenging the conviction. The appeals court’s Friday order said no judge requested a vote on Navarro’s petition for rehearing […]

The Trump administration appealed a temporary two-week block on the U.S. Postal Service’s new rule on mail-in voting on Friday. The Justice Department notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts that the administration is appealing Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s second block on the rule to the U.S. Court of Appeals […]

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Kentucky woman on vandalism charges after she appeared to livestream herself defacing Washington, D.C.’s World War II Memorial. Melissa Farris seemed to be a homeless woman in a questionable state of mind earlier this month when she appeared to film herself spraying pink and green graffiti on […]