Tag: Department of justice

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's new attorney general on Tuesday promised an increased focus on hate crimes, saying there is “a state of crisis" because of increases in attacks on Asian Americans since the coronavirus entered the U.S. after originating in China.

Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.