Four companies that agreed to pay a combined $26 billion to settle claims about their roles in the opioid crisis plan to deduct some of those costs from their taxes and recoup around $1 billion apiece.
An overhead subway platform collapsed in Mexico City late Monday, sending metro cars plunging into the busy street below and killing at least 23 people, including children, according to Mexican officials.
People gather in Elizabeth City, N.C. to protest the the death of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by Pasquotank County Sheriff Deputies in North Carolina. Brown’s family released an independent autopsy showing he was shot five times, including in the back of the head. The state’s autopsy has not been released yet.
President Biden’s first address to Congress was an invite-only affair and no guests were allowed. The restrictions for the event were due to covid-19 safety protocols, but had the added security benefit of a limited number of people inside the Capitol for the president’s first major indoor event since he took office just weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Walter F. Mondale, the former Democratic senator and vice president whose unusually candid and forward-looking bid for the pinnacle of American politics was blocked by President Ronald Reagan’s landslide reelection victory in 1984, died April, 19, 2021 at his home in Minneapolis. He was 93.