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Drug companies involved in TrumpRx boosted lobbying by 23% ahead of...

Those companies accounted for more than a quarter of the record $457.3 million spent on lobbying last year across the pharmaceutical and health product industry.

An Indian drugmaker, investigated by ProPublica last year, has recalled two...

FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs.

We found over 700 doctors who were paid more than a...

Back in 2013, ProPublica detailed what seemed a stunning development in the pharmaceutical industry’s drive to win the prescription pads of the...

The Big Pharma family that brought us the opioid crisis

Purdue Pharma, the drug pushers, have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, enough fatalities to decrease overall U.S. life expectancy at birth for the last two years running.

Tom Price intervened on rule that would hurt drug profits, the...

While in Congress, HHS Secretary Tom Price acted to help kill a rule that would hurt drug company profits shortly after his broker bought him up to $90,000 worth of pharmaceutical stock.

The Real Drug Racket

Big Pharma "cornered the market on life-saving heart drugs" and guess what happened next: they jacked up the prices. Are pharmaceutical companies' business models based on legalized price gouging?

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Illinois presses Tyson for a buyer after 2,500 workers lost their jobs overnight

The plant's chief executive was paid 781 times the median worker's wage the same quarter its beef unit posted a loss.
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Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More...

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division can take months or even years to issue formal safety warnings about marijuana products even when it receives reports that the products are harming people’s health, The Denver Gazette and ProPublica found.
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Interfaith leaders say they were ‘misled’ into attending event with far-right Hindu leader

Mohan Bhagwat’s appearance at Madison Square Garden was the latest in an influence operation conducted by the RSS and its allies in the U.S.
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Federal judge blocks EPA attempt to strip California’s clean air waivers

The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to freeze block on USPS mail ballot rule

North Carolina and Alabama are due to start mailing ballots this week, and the justices have set a deadline of their own.