• $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan up for Senate vote after months of delay

    $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan up for Senate vote after months of delay

    Apr 23, 2024 02:57 PM EST

    ... allow the U.S. to seize frozen Russian central bank assets to rebuild Ukraine; impose sanctions on Iran, Russia, China and criminal organizations that traffic fentanyl; and could eventually ban TikTok in the U.S. if the owner, ByteDance Ltd., doesn’t sell. That bill has wide bipartisan support in ...

  • House passes billions in aid for Ukraine and Israel, breaking long congressional stalemate

    House passes billions in aid for Ukraine and Israel, breaking long congressional stalemate

    Apr 20, 2024 06:04 PM EST

    ... allow the U.S. to seize frozen Russian central bank assets to rebuild Ukraine; impose sanctions on Iran, Russia, China and criminal organizations that traffic fentanyl; and legislation to require the China-based owner of the popular video app TikTok to sell its stake within a year or face a ...

  • Recovery community helping Kentucky town rebound from economic decline and addiction

    Recovery community helping Kentucky town rebound from economic decline and addiction

    Apr 19, 2024 10:30 PM EST

    Sam Quinones: I knew of Hazard, Kentucky only, as a place of terrible devastation due to the opioid epidemic. Jeffrey Brown : More than 100,000 Americans are still dying every year from drug overdose, fueled largely by the synthetic opioid fentanyl. It's a problem that continues to plague towns ...

  • WATCH: Ukraine and Israel aid clears procedural hurdle, House pushes toward weekend votes

    WATCH: Ukraine and Israel aid clears procedural hurdle, House pushes toward weekend votes

    Apr 19, 2024 03:37 PM EST

    ... allow the U.S. to seize frozen Russian central bank assets to rebuild Ukraine; impose sanctions on Iran, Russia, China and criminal organizations that traffic fentanyl, and potentially ban the video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year. Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ...

  • News Wrap: First 7 jurors chosen to serve in Trump's criminal hush money trial

    News Wrap: First 7 jurors chosen to serve in Trump's criminal hush money trial

    Apr 16, 2024 10:51 PM EST

    Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI): Through its actions, as our report has revealed, the Chinese Communist Party is telling us that it wants more fentanyl entering our country. It wants the chaos and devastation that has resulted from this epidemic. And, yes, that means more dead Americans. Geoff Bennett: Fentanyl ...

  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrives in China to talk trade, green technology tensions

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrives in China to talk trade, green technology tensions

    Apr 04, 2024 03:40 PM EST

    ... first conversation since their November summit in California, which renewed ties between the two nations’ militaries and enhanced cooperation on stemming the flow of deadly fentanyl and its precursors from China. Still, it appears to be difficult for the two countries to strike a balance between competition and antagonism. For ...

  • News Wrap: Biden and Xi speak for first time since November summit

    News Wrap: Biden and Xi speak for first time since November summit

    Apr 02, 2024 10:45 PM EST

    ... Jinping spoke by phone in their first conversation since a summit in California last November. White House officials said the topics ranged from Taiwan to fentanyl to artificial intelligence. They described the conversation as -- quote -- "candid and constructive," as the leaders try to tamp down tensions. John Kirby, NSC Coordinator ...

  • Biden and Xi hold first conversation in months in effort to establish regular talks

    Biden and Xi hold first conversation in months in effort to establish regular talks

    Apr 02, 2024 04:23 PM EST

    ... their November summit in California produced renewed ties between the two nations’ militaries and a promise of enhanced cooperation on stemming the flow of deadly fentanyl and its precursors from China. Xi told Biden that the two countries should adhere to the bottom line of “no clash, no confrontation” as ...

  • Oregon governor signs a bill recriminalizing drug possession

    Oregon governor signs a bill recriminalizing drug possession

    Apr 01, 2024 10:52 PM EST

    ... health authorities, already grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, struggled to stand up the new treatment system, state auditors found. At the same time, the fentanyl crisis began to spark an increase in deadly overdoses. Those pressures prompted Oregon Democrats to shift their stance on decriminalization policy in recent months ...

  • Mexico’s president says he won’t confront cartels on U.S. orders

    Mexico’s president says he won’t confront cartels on U.S. orders

    Mar 22, 2024 09:47 PM EST

    ... remarks. But it did note the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Friday on a Sinaloa Cartel money-laundering network in which the proceeds of fentanyl sales were used to buy shipments of cell phones in the United States, which were then sold in Mexico. John Kirby, spokesman for the ...