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Oklahoma opioid suit: The state of Oklahoma, which last year won a court verdict against opioid manufacturer Johnson & Johnson, filed suit Monday against three mammoth drug distributors, accusing them of contributing to the drug crisis by indiscriminately sending billions of painkillers across the country. Oklahoma State Attorney General Mike Hunter said McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen delivered more than 34 billion doses of narcotics to Oklahoma and the rest of the U.S. between 2006 and 2012, failing to halt plainly suspicious drug orders because they were making so much money.

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Nader pleads guilty: George Nader, a key witness in the special counsel probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, admitted Monday to bringing a 14-year-old boy to the United States for sex and to possessing child pornography. A wealthy Lebanese-American businessman with long-standing political influence in both Washington and the Middle East, Nader faces at least a decade in federal prison following his guilty plea.

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Man who shot gunman

honored: Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday gave Texas’ highest civilian honor to a 71-year-old man who shot and killed an armed attacker at a church in December. Abbott gave Jack Wilson the Governor’s Medal of Courage during a ceremony in Austin

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France sending more soldiers to

West Africa: France announced Monday that it will send hundreds more soldiers to West Africa, and five presidents of countries in the region said they welcome the support in the fight against a surge of Islamist violence.