• Live updates: The Obamas and Doug Emhoff are set to speak on Day 2 of the DNC

    Live updates: The Obamas and Doug Emhoff are set to speak on Day 2 of the DNC

    Aug 20, 2024 03:00 PM EDT

    ... Office on law enforcement and crime. Multiple Michigan sheriffs criticized the Biden and Harris administration over border policy, speaking about the effects drug trade and fentanyl in their communities. Van Buren County Sheriff Daniel Abbott listed a series of recent crimes in remarks he said were committed by people in ...

  • The evolution of Harris' stances on key issues, from the death penalty to marijuana

    The evolution of Harris' stances on key issues, from the death penalty to marijuana

    Aug 16, 2024 05:43 PM EDT

    ... criticism that he had used the drug. Earlier this year, she said it’s “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, and she criticized the federal classification of cannabis as “patently unfair.” Harris has undergone an “evolution in thought on the issue that is representative ...

  • 5 people, including 2 doctors, charged in 'Friends' star Matthew Perry's death

    5 people, including 2 doctors, charged in 'Friends' star Matthew Perry's death

    Aug 15, 2024 08:07 PM EDT

    ... cases led authorities to prosecute the people who supplied them. After rapper Mac Millerdied from an overdose of cocaine, alcohol and counterfeit oxycodone that contained fentanyl, two of the men who provided him the fentanyl were convicted of distributing the drug. One was sentenced to more than 17 years in ...

  • Why Baltimore is seeing more drug overdose deaths than any other American city

    Why Baltimore is seeing more drug overdose deaths than any other American city

    Aug 14, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    ... 9 percent of their population to fatal overdose. Christopher Booker: They're reporting found that overdoses began spiking in Baltimore about a decade ago, as fentanyl ravaged the city grappling with multiple challenges, including gun violence and later the pandemic. They also found that one demographic has been hit especially ...

  • Kamala Harris chose a long-term approach when tasked to tackle rise in border crossings

    Kamala Harris chose a long-term approach when tasked to tackle rise in border crossings

    Aug 14, 2024 05:40 PM EDT

    ... work, and her campaign began running a television ad Friday that said Harris as president would “hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking." Democrats have also blasted Trump for helping tank a bipartisan immigration bill earlier this year that would have increased funding for ...

  • North Dakota voters will revisit marijuana legalization after rejecting idea in 2018 and 2022

    North Dakota voters will revisit marijuana legalization after rejecting idea in 2018 and 2022

    Aug 12, 2024 06:49 PM EDT

    ... early July. Measure leader Steve Bakken, a Burleigh County commissioner and former Bismarck mayor, said law enforcement resources would be better directed at opioids and fentanyl than marijuana. The initiative also is an effort to head off any out-of-state measure that might have unmanageable results, he said. The ...

  • NRCC chair says 'the environment is in our favor' for GOP to expand House majority

    NRCC chair says 'the environment is in our favor' for GOP to expand House majority

    Aug 08, 2024 10:45 PM EDT

    But the issues that we're running on are the issues that the voters care most about, as I mentioned, inflation, open border, crime in their neighborhoods, fentanyl. And all these issues, Republicans have solutions. And the policies of the Biden/Harris administration have been wrong and they put the ...

  • News Wrap: 1 dead in Colorado's Stone Canyon wildfire

    News Wrap: 1 dead in Colorado's Stone Canyon wildfire

    Jul 31, 2024 10:40 PM EDT

    ... Venezuela's democracy. The Biden administration announced a series of proposals today aimed at pushing Congress to do more to stop the flow of illicit fentanyl from Mexico. They include legislation to create a national pill press registry. That's to track machines that could make the pills. Classifying fentanyl ...

  • Who is 'El Mayo' Zambada, the Sinaloa drug cartel leader now in U.S. custody?

    Who is 'El Mayo' Zambada, the Sinaloa drug cartel leader now in U.S. custody?

    Jul 27, 2024 03:56 PM EDT

    In its 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment, the Drug Enforcement Agency calls fentanyl the most urgent drug threat in the U.S. and says it and other synthetic opioids were responsible for about 70% of the 107,941 fatal overdoses in the country in 2022. “The Justice Department will not ...

  • Sinaloa cartel head 'El Mayo' arrested after flying to the U.S.

    Sinaloa cartel head 'El Mayo' arrested after flying to the U.S.

    Jul 26, 2024 10:45 PM EDT

    ... he is in prison. These two men are in custody. How could all of these arrests -- and what would they actually mean for how much fentanyl in particular and how many drugs are making their way into the U.S.? Keegan Hamilton: I mean, the U.S. government has identified ...