• 9 takeaways from the Vance-Walz VP debate

    9 takeaways from the Vance-Walz VP debate

    Oct 02, 2024 05:05 AM EDT

    ... vice president, single-handedly rolled back the immigration restrictions Trump had imposed as president. The result, in Vance’s telling, is an unchecked flow of fentanyl, strain on state and local resources and increased housing prices around the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twn4LFlHFoE Harris was never asked ...

  • Capehart and Pletka on Harris' immigration policy and Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump

    Capehart and Pletka on Harris' immigration policy and Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump

    Sep 27, 2024 10:30 PM EDT

    ... bars, and she will secure our border. Here's her plan, hire thousands more border agents, enforce the law and step up technology, and stop fentanyl smuggling and human trafficking. We need a leader with a real plan to fix the border. And that's Kamala Harris. Geoff Bennett: What ...

  • How split-ticket voters could decide control of Congress

    How split-ticket voters could decide control of Congress

    Sep 20, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    ... Man: I'm a Republican have been my whole life. I don't agree with Sherrod Brown on everything, but when it comes to fighting fentanyl, no one has done more than Sherrod Brown. Lisa Desjardins: Or in Montana, where this is an ad from Senator Jon Tester. Woman: I ...

  • JD Vance once said conspiracy theories were idiotic. As Trump's VP pick he is embracing them

    JD Vance once said conspiracy theories were idiotic. As Trump's VP pick he is embracing them

    Sep 20, 2024 04:56 PM EDT

    ... rising star in Republican politics. The Ohio senator and GOP's vice presidential nominee has in recent years declared that the federal government deliberately allowed fentanyl into the United States to kill conservative and rural voters. He has praised Alex Jones, a well-known conspiracy theorist who claimed the deaths ...

  • Investigation links Georgia's abortion ban to preventable deaths of 2 women

    Investigation links Georgia's abortion ban to preventable deaths of 2 women

    Sep 18, 2024 10:30 PM EDT

    ... ruled that women cannot be prosecuted for their own abortion, but there's been a lot of confusion around this. And candy was found with fentanyl and other medicines in her system. It's not clear why she took them or where she got them. John Yang: This law was ...

  • From panic buttons to bulletproof glass, U.S. election officials are preparing for threats

    From panic buttons to bulletproof glass, U.S. election officials are preparing for threats

    Sep 17, 2024 08:13 PM EDT

    ... office, several election offices in five states were sent letters filled with a white powder that in some cases tested positive for the powerful opioid fentanyl, and bogus 911 calls were made to the homes of top state election officials in Georgia, Maine, Michigan and Missouri in a potentially dangerous ...

  • Comparing Trump's and Harris' positions on immigration and border security

    Comparing Trump's and Harris' positions on immigration and border security

    Sep 12, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    ... Border Patrol agents, but also hundreds of asylum and other new officers. She also would like to invest in more detection technology specifically to cut fentanyl smuggled in. Now, that bill, of course, Amna, is the one that former President Trump personally killed, even though it was getting some bipartisan ...

  • WATCH: Harris blames Trump for killing bipartisan border bill

    WATCH: Harris blames Trump for killing bipartisan border bill

    Sep 11, 2024 04:40 AM EDT

    Vice President Kamala Harris blamed former President Donald Trump during their presidential debate on Tuesday for intervening to stop a bipartisan immigration and border bill. Harris said she supported the bill, which would have hired 1,500 more border agents and “stem the flow of fentanyl” entering the United States ...

  • Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization takes effect, making possession a crime again

    Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization takes effect, making possession a crime again

    Sep 01, 2024 07:32 PM EDT

    ... millions of dollars in cannabis tax revenue toward addiction services, but the money was slow to get out the door at a time when the fentanyl crisis was causing a spike in deadly overdoses and health officials — grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic — were struggling to stand up the new ...

  • Abortion measures on the ballot in 41 states, voters to have say on other tough questions

    Abortion measures on the ballot in 41 states, voters to have say on other tough questions

    Aug 29, 2024 03:31 PM EDT

    ... public benefits using false documents. The border crossing measure is similar to a challenged Texas law that the Justice Department says violates federal authority and would create chaos at the border. Arizona's measure also would make it a felony to sell fentanyl that causes a person's death. Marijuana