• Supreme Court rejects nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

    Supreme Court rejects nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma

    Jun 27, 2024 02:18 PM EST

    ... prescribed and used were generic drugs. Opioid-related overdose deaths have continued to climb, hitting 80,000 in recent years. Most of those are from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs. The Purdue Pharma settlement would have ranked among the largest reached by drug companies, wholesalers and pharmacies to resolve epidemic ...

  • As immigration emerges as key election issue, experts provide insights on border situation

    As immigration emerges as key election issue, experts provide insights on border situation

    Jun 26, 2024 10:35 PM EST

    ... coming from all over the United States. A lot of them have criminal histories. They come down here and sell them cars. They bring their fentanyl with them. They bring their crimes with them. And that's what we're addressing as they come into my county to disturb our ...

  • News Wrap: Putin sign deals with Vietnam during trip to bolster Russian support in Asia

    News Wrap: Putin sign deals with Vietnam during trip to bolster Russian support in Asia

    Jun 20, 2024 10:55 PM EST

    ... drug cartel as part of the Biden administration's broader push to address the ongoing opioid crisis. The group is notorious for manufacturing and distributing fentanyl, as well as other illegal drugs. Speaking in Georgia today, Yellen said the Treasury Department is treating the cartel like it would a business ...

  • 'The pain is so much.' How stigma and shame over fatal overdose make grief more unbearable

    'The pain is so much.' How stigma and shame over fatal overdose make grief more unbearable

    Jun 05, 2024 12:00 PM EST

    Since 2000, more than 25,000 people have fatally overdosed in Massachusetts, according to the state Department of Public Health in December. Fentanyl has fueled many of those deaths, and state officials have ramped up an overdose prevention helpline, increased access to housing along with greater distribution of naloxone and ...

  • Sen. Mark Kelly explains why he supports Biden's plan to limit who can seek asylum

    Sen. Mark Kelly explains why he supports Biden's plan to limit who can seek asylum

    Jun 04, 2024 10:50 PM EST

    ... were going to have more Border Patrol agents on the border, funding for that, more CBP agents, judges to adjudicate, asylum claims, machines to detect fentanyl, changes in asylum policy. These were all very positive steps. I spent a lot of time on the border in Arizona, and it's ...

  • 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 ...