| What equals justice for opioid crisis: Help victims or punish Big Pharma? Posted: 09 May 2019 02:17 PM PDT ![What equals justice for opioid crisis: Help victims or punish Big Pharma?]( "What equals justice for opioid crisis: Help victims or punish Big Pharma?") As hundreds of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors, and retailers chug through the U.S. legal system, a trio of recent decisions gives a hint of what may be coming. On May 2, a Boston jury convicted the onetime billionaire CEO of Insys Therapeutics and four former executives on racketeering charges, in connection with bribing doctors to prescribe opioid medication to patients who didn't need it and deceiving insurers into paying for it. "Today's convictions mark the first successful prosecution of top pharmaceutical executives for crimes related to the illicit marketing and prescribing of opioids," said United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling in a statement.
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| Why top Democrats are rooting for Trump in trade spat with China Posted: 09 May 2019 02:14 PM PDT ![Why top Democrats are rooting for Trump in trade spat with China]( "Why top Democrats are rooting for Trump in trade spat with China") With trade talks between the United States and China at a make-or-break moment, the news media and investors are focused heavily on President Donald Trump's threat to jack up tariffs on China Friday if the negotiations don't go well. Often left on the sidelines of this discussion, though, is something essential: Those two nations, while economically intertwined, are also rivals in a technology race that will shape their respective futures. In fact, while the president's own checklist with China may revolve heavily around boosting U.S. exports, frustration over leakage of U.S. know-how to China has been rising from the White House to the Pentagon to corporate boardrooms.
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| On Memorial Day, an Israeli-Palestinian experiment in reconciliation Posted: 09 May 2019 01:26 PM PDT ![On Memorial Day, an Israeli-Palestinian experiment in reconciliation]( "On Memorial Day, an Israeli-Palestinian experiment in reconciliation") In their case, it was their two older brothers who were killed, more than half a century ago, on the same June day during the 1967 Middle East war. Mira Samet was 17 at the time, and her younger brother was celebrating his 11th birthday, when the news came that their brothers, Amram, 28, and Yochanan, 22, had both been killed. Israel typically observes Memorial Day with ceremonies extolling sacrifice and perseverance in the face of its enemies.
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| How Senate Intel Committee remains a bright spot of collegiality Posted: 09 May 2019 12:14 PM PDT ![How Senate Intel Committee remains a bright spot of collegiality]( "How Senate Intel Committee remains a bright spot of collegiality") Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice-chair of the committee, has a ready answer for how he and the chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., have pulled it off, while their House counterparts have not. "Hard work!" Senator Warner said Thursday at a Monitor Breakfast for reporters.
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