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  • WATCH: Vance pitches Trump's tax and spending law to supporters in Pennsylvania

    WATCH: Vance pitches Trump's tax and spending law to supporters in Pennsylvania

    Jul 16, 2025 03:44 PM EST

    ... been received so well I don’t think I have to.” But later Wednesday during a signing ceremony at the White House for a separate fentanyl-related bill, Trump said Republicans will need to promote the law and acknowledged that Democrats may have found an effective message. “We’re going ...

  • Trump announces 30% tariffs against Mexico and European Union beginning Aug. 1

    Trump announces 30% tariffs against Mexico and European Union beginning Aug. 1

    Jul 12, 2025 03:53 PM EST

    ... his letter to Mexico's leader, President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump acknowledged that the country has been helpful in stemming the flow of undocumented migrants and fentanyl into the United States. But he said the country has not done enough to stop North America from turning into a “Narco-Trafficking Playground ...

  • News Wrap: State Department lays off more than 1,300 in latest cuts to federal workforce

    News Wrap: State Department lays off more than 1,300 in latest cuts to federal workforce

    Jul 11, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... Chapitos, or Little Chapos. Guzman Lopez admitted to helping oversee the smuggling of large quantities of drugs into the U.S., including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl. He pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering, and firearms charges. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Turning overseas, thousands of Bosnians ...

  • Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs if Trump follows through on 50% tariff threat

    Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs if Trump follows through on 50% tariff threat

    Jul 10, 2025 10:26 PM EST

    Trump has already tried to use tariffs to ostensibly combat fentanyl trafficking and as a negotiating tool to change how other nations tax digital services and regulate their economies. In Brazil’s case, Trump is trying to dictate the outcome of the criminal trial of Bolsonaro, an ally who like ...

  • Operation Not Forgotten dedicates FBI agents to cold cases as Native families seek answers

    Operation Not Forgotten dedicates FBI agents to cold cases as Native families seek answers

    Jun 30, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... Stephanie Sy: The incident report says EMTs tried CPR on Shawna, but she was beyond help. In the postmortem examination, tests showed she had methamphetamines, fentanyl and alcohol in her system, indicating an accidental overdose. Geraldine Toya: They told me that they found out that they didn't see that ...

  • Trump says trade talks with Canada are suspended over its tax on technology firms

    Trump says trade talks with Canada are suspended over its tax on technology firms

    Jun 27, 2025 07:28 PM EST

    ... by him would expire. Canada and Mexico face separate tariffs of as much as 25% that Trump put into place under the auspices of stopping fentanyl smuggling, though some products are still protected under the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement signed during Trump’s first term. Associated Press writers ...

  • A judge's ruling will decide whether Purdue Pharma's $7 billion opioid settlement plan could be put to votes

    A judge's ruling will decide whether Purdue Pharma's $7 billion opioid settlement plan could be put to votes

    Jun 20, 2025 03:35 PM EST

    ... to combat the crisis. In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers. In some years, the class of drugs was linked to more than 80,000 deaths, but that number dropped sharply ...

  • Homeland Security official on the Trump administration's immigration policy changes

    Homeland Security official on the Trump administration's immigration policy changes

    Jun 18, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... talk about a victim of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, of the 100,000 individuals in this country who die every single year of fentanyl. So I do think something that's going on with PBS, the public broadcasting stations in this country, including cable news as well, is ...

  • U.S. states agree to multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

    U.S. states agree to multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

    Jun 18, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    ... going to go to protecting people in the future, right, preventing addiction, healing people who are currently addicted, helping people still caught up in the fentanyl crisis that's raging across the United States. That's going to be -- most of the $7.4 billion will go to that kind ...

  • OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma asks court to clear way for $7 billion settlement if states back it

    OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma asks court to clear way for $7 billion settlement if states back it

    Jun 18, 2025 06:30 PM EST

    ... to combat the crisis. In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers. In some years, the class of drugs was linked to more than 80,000 deaths, but that number dropped sharply ...

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