A Mexican reporter who frequently covered gang violence in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas was found beaten to death Tuesday, becoming the sixth journalist killed in the country in 2018. The body of Hector Gonzalez Antonio, a correspondent for the Excelsior daily newspaper, was found on a dirt road in Ciudad Victoria, the state capital […]

Purdue Pharma, the drug manufacturer accused of launching the opioid epidemic for the aggressive marketing of its painkiller OxyContin, knew the painkiller was prone to “significant” abuse, despite aggressively promoting the drug as a safer alternative to other painkillers. A confidential Justice Department report reveals that company officials had received reports within a year of OxyContin’s release […]