‘Despicable’: Cheney slams McCarthy after he pulls Republicans from Capitol attack committee – as it happened

• McCarthy removed all GOP members he had appointed to the panel
• Pelosi denies two GOP members a place on select committee
• Kevin McCarthy: Republicans will not be party to this sham process'
• Committee chair Thompson vows to investigate Donald Trump

1.05am BST

- Maanvi Singh and Vivian Ho

12.37am BST

Four companies - AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, McKesson and Johnson & Johnson - have agreed to pay a total of $26b to settle a lawsuit brought by state attorney generals, releasing themselves from legal liability in the opioid epidemic.

The settlement amounts to about to 4% of the companies' annual revenue. The companies have admitted to no wrongdoing for the opioid crisis that has killed more than half a million Americans since 1999.