• Arizona voters will decide whether local police can make border-crossing arrests

    Arizona voters will decide whether local police can make border-crossing arrests

    Jun 04, 2024 10:06 PM EDT

    The ballot proposal contains other provisions that aren’t included in the Texas measure and aren't directly related to immigration. Those include making it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for selling fentanyl that leads to a person’s death, and a requirement that some ...

  • Mexico's 2024 elections: Who's leading the polls and what's the next president's biggest challenge?

    Mexico's 2024 elections: Who's leading the polls and what's the next president's biggest challenge?

    Jun 01, 2024 11:07 PM EDT

    ... North American supply chains and commerce in ways that increase the competitiveness of domestic industries and their resilience to geopolitical forces. Security. With Mexican-made fentanyl and other illicit drugs killing upward of one hundred thousand Americans each year, security cooperation needs a push. A new Mexican administration could revive ...

  • 2023 set a record for U.S. heat deaths. Why 2024 could be even deadlier

    2023 set a record for U.S. heat deaths. Why 2024 could be even deadlier

    May 31, 2024 05:04 PM EDT

    ... evicted from her home, 64-year-old Diana Smith was found dead in the back of her car. Her cause of death was methamphetamine and fentanyl, worsened by heat exposure, Phoenix's medical examiner ruled. "In the last five years, we are seeing this consistent and record kind of unprecedented ...

  • Top Sinaloa cartel assassin has been extradited to U.S. to face charges, DOJ says

    Top Sinaloa cartel assassin has been extradited to U.S. to face charges, DOJ says

    May 25, 2024 10:44 PM EDT

    ... lead a faction known as the little Chapos, or “Chapitos,” that has been identified as one of the main exporters of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl to the U.S. WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking Fentanyl is blamed for about 70 ...

  • U.S. intelligence agencies' embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

    U.S. intelligence agencies' embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

    May 24, 2024 08:39 PM EDT

    ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — Long before generative AI's boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies. The operation's results far exceeded human-only analysis, finding twice as ...

  • Overdose fatalities fell last year, but the full picture is more complicated

    Overdose fatalities fell last year, but the full picture is more complicated

    May 15, 2024 02:00 PM EDT

    ... alone, according to the latest data. Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett, chief science officer for the Washington State Department of Health, said more widespread use of fentanyl likely drove up overdose deaths. More than 3,000 people died from overdose in the state last year. Fentanyl is cheap, easy to manufacture ...

  • How Oklahoma's undocumented community is preparing for expanded immigration enforcement

    How Oklahoma's undocumented community is preparing for expanded immigration enforcement

    May 07, 2024 08:42 PM EDT

    ... from U.S. Homeland Security officials. During a border security and drug enforcement subcommittee meeting in July, agency officials outlined that nearly 90 percent of fentanyl seizures happened at entry points, often at border checkpoints for vehicles. U.S. citizens also accounted for more than 73 percent of fentanyl seizures ...

  • U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, AP says

    U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, AP says

    Apr 30, 2024 05:43 PM EDT

    ... drugs. “But in terms of us getting clear to use our resources to combat other major drugs, that’s a positive,” Riley said, noting that fentanyl alone accounts for more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. a year. On the other end of the spectrum, others argue marijuana ...

  • California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a generic opioid overdose reversal drug

    California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a generic opioid overdose reversal drug

    Apr 29, 2024 08:07 PM EDT

    ... the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a process the Newsom administration said could take several months. Opioid overdose deaths, which are caused by heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone, have increased dramatically in California and across the country. Annual opioid overdose deaths in California more than doubled since 2019, reaching 7 ...

  • Blinken begins China visit as tensions rise over new U.S. bill forcing TikTok sale

    Blinken begins China visit as tensions rise over new U.S. bill forcing TikTok sale

    Apr 24, 2024 03:14 PM EDT

    ... several American citizens that the State Department says have been "wrongfully detained" by Chinese authorities, and the supply of precursors to make the synthetic opioid fentanyl that is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. China has repeatedly rejected the American criticism of its rights record as improper interference ...