Brian Mann

A civil opioid trial in West Virginia will hold closing arguments on Tuesday. It comes amid the debate over whether corporations will be held accountable for their role in the addiction crisis.

A $26-billion settlement has been reached for companies involved in the prescription opioid epidemic. But what happens next?

As overdose deaths climb, four of the nation's largest health corporations have agreed to a landmark $26 billion payout that state officials say will help ease America's deadly opioid epidemic.

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.

Four big drug companies would pay out $26 billion to dozens of states over the next 17 years.

Negotiators appear close to a final opioid settlement meant to resolve a tsunami of lawsuits against some of the nation's biggest drugmakers and distributors.

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.

In 2020, the engineering firm Morabito Consultants found "severely deteriorated" concrete in the Champlain Towers South condo building. Town officials say they weren't alerted.

Officials have officially ended the search for survivors following last month's condo building collapse. It was a heart-wrenching decision for dozens of families whose loved ones remain missing.

Massachusetts and New York are among the states agreeing to end the fight to halt a controversial Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan. The deal shelters members of the Sackler family from opioid lawsuits.

Teams resumed searching for victims of the condo collapse from 12 days ago. Four bodies were found after the rest of the Champlain Tower South complex was demolished, bringing the death count to 28.

Officials in Miami-Dade County leveled the remaining section of the Champlain Towers South condo ahead of Tropical Storm Elsa. They said the unstable building was a danger to search efforts.

While rescue crews continue the search for people in the condominium collapse in Florida, NPR is learning new details about concerns over the building before it partially collapsed last week.

As recently as last month, Surfside, Fla., officials were ordering changes at Champlain Towers South. But the demands never focused on the building's fundamental soundness.

There are 152 people still missing from a Florida residential building that collapsed last week. Residents are demanding answers to why the section fell, and are coping with the loss of loved ones.

An engineering report in Oct. 2018 warned of "major structural damage" in the Florida building that collapsed last week. The next month, a town inspector said the building was in "very good shape."

Dozens of people are feared dead following Thursday's collapse of a 12-story condo building in Surfside, Fla. Rescue crews are still searching for survivors who might be trapped in the rubble.

Rescue crews in Surfside, Fla., have to work slowly as they pick through the ruins of the 12-story condominium that collapsed Thursday. Dozens of people remain missing as families hope for the best.

The 2018 report found major damage to the concrete structural slab below the pool deck and warned that extensive repairs would be needed soon. The mayor is considering evacuating a sister building.

Crews continue to work on the building collapse in the town of Surfside, Fla.