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Payouts will be spread over the next 18 years, with much of the funding going to help communities struggling with high rates of opioid addiction and overdose deaths.

Two divisions of the DOJ argue the deal improperly shelters members of the Sackler family and their associates from liability. States are finalizing a separate deal with other opioid companies.

America's oldest trees store vast amounts of carbon. Counting them is the first step to preserving them, says the Biden administration.

Sarah Mendelson, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses reports that Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev has been killed. He is believed to be the mastermind behind some of Russia's deadliest attacks, including a 2004 attack on a Beslan school.

Roughly 8 percent of the 741,000 Mexicans caught entering the United States each year give up trying to enter, according to a new study. Wayne Cornelius, the director of the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, discusses the study by the Pew Hispanic Center on unauthorized migrants in the United States.

The idea of a Cabinet-level official for the arts has gotten some buzz lately. After all, many other countries have ministers of culture. High-profile artists such as Quincy Jones think it's necessary in the U.S., but not everyone agrees.

In a victory for Spain's news outlets, aggregators are now required to pay the sites for linking to their content. But Google's choice could hurt the sites, limiting their global reach and influence.

Advocates are calling it historic and a good first step in the absence of Congressional action.

Nathan Hultman, director of the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland, co-authored a roadmap to reducing emissions by at least 50%.

Ballots are due Wednesday and the votes are set to be counted Thursday afternoon.