Settlement articles
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John Oliver on opioid settlements: ‘We can change the arc of this story’
Last Week Tonight host looks into spending by state and local authorities of $50bn from settlements in the opioid crisisJohn Oliver devoted his latest Last Week Tonight episode to checking in on the opioid epidemic, which experts consider to be in its fourth wave in the US. The first was the increase of opioid prescriptions in the 1990s, the second began in 2010 with heroin, the third began in 2013 with synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and the fourth is characterized by fentanyl mixed with a...
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Could new US sanctions threaten the future of West Bank settlements?
Joe Biden’s latest executive order gives scope to target the finances of Israeli politicians and businesses linked to extremistsEscalating US sanctions on violent settlers, initially taken as a mostly political rebuke to extremists, are now seen by some inside Israel as a potential threat to the financial viability of all Israeli settlements and companies in the occupied West Bank.The Biden administration’s new controls on a handful of men and organisations linked to attacks on Palestinian...
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Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements
Local governments across the country are receiving money from opioid settlements, but not all of them know how to use it