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(The Center Square) - Ohio-based Kroger agreed in principle to settle lawsuits that by paying $1.37 billion to state and local governments for its role in fueling the opioid epidemic.

Kroger owns Fred Meyer and QFC stores, which have dispensed opioids nationwide.

"Opioid manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, and consultants all had a hand in creating the opioid crisis, and they have a responsibility to pay for the devastating results of their reckless behavior, " Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who led the negotiations, said in a press release.

Some states are pushing bills to subsidize the electric vehicl industry. 

Numerous states took action to implement gun control legislation this year.

After a Monday morning shooting at a Christian school in Nashville that left three 9-year-old students and three staff dead, the nation is once again talking about the best way to protect children in schools from gun violence.

Current Supreme Court decisions suggest that laws like the one just passed in Tennessee probably violate the First Amendment's protection of free speech.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and dozens of other attorneys general from around the country sent a brief Monday asking a Tennessee court to order TikTok's compliance in a consumer protection investigation.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is leading 33 states attorneys general in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a pair of lower court rulings that could have broad implications for whistleblowers, and the government's ability to go after public fraud.

The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states are going after Google.

Twelve attorneys general filed an opening brief Friday in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for changes made this year to energy and water efficiency standards for dishwashers and washing machines.

The legal status of abortion in various states is changing day-to-day with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but Maine is among those taking action to protect people who may now have to travel to access an abortion.