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  • Senate approves Ukraine aid, but bill faces GOP opposition in House

    Senate approves Ukraine aid, but bill faces GOP opposition in House

    Feb 13, 2024 11:55 PM EDT

    ... for Israel, $14 billion, just under $10 billion for humanitarian aid. That does include for civilians in Gaza. And there are sanctions and penalties for fentanyl for international operations and perhaps some countries if they're found to be complicit with fentanyl. Now, here's what happened. In the end ...

  • Senate advances Ukraine aid bill without border security and immigration reform

    Senate advances Ukraine aid bill without border security and immigration reform

    Feb 08, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    It also does include fentanyl sanctions and penalties for some foreign powers and entities. But what is important here is that this is now a bill that has the votes to make it through the Senate. We don't know when it will, because, of course, the Senate takes its ...

  • Senate votes to begin last-ditch effort to approve funding for Ukraine and Israel

    Senate votes to begin last-ditch effort to approve funding for Ukraine and Israel

    Feb 08, 2024 06:45 PM EDT

    ... in Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and other places. The revamped package includes legislation to authorize sanctions and anti-money laundering tools against criminal enterprises that traffic fentanyl into the U.S. A separate section of the compromise border legislation that would have provided a long-awaited pathway to residency for tens ...

  • Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scrapping deal they had demanded from Democrats

    Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scrapping deal they had demanded from Democrats

    Feb 07, 2024 08:22 PM EDT

    ... Gaza and other places. Schumer said the revamped package would include legislation to authorize sanctions and anti-money laundering tools against criminal enterprises that traffic fentanyl into the U.S. A separate section of the compromise border legislation that would have provided a long-awaited pathway to residency for tens ...

  • WATCH: Schumer brings border bill and Ukraine and Israel aid bill to floor, challenges GOP to vote

    WATCH: Schumer brings border bill and Ukraine and Israel aid bill to floor, challenges GOP to vote

    Feb 07, 2024 05:45 PM EDT

    Schumer added that the revamped package would include legislation to authorize sanctions and anti-money laundering tools against criminal enterprises that traffic fentanyl into the U.S. However, it was not clear whether the new plan, even if it passed the Senate, would gain support from House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

  • WATCH: House fails to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

    WATCH: House fails to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

    Feb 06, 2024 10:23 PM EDT

    ... Homeland Security under Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., had been investigating the secretary for much of the past year, including probing the flow of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. But a resolution from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a Trump ally, pushed it to the fore. The panel ...

  • Senators release $118 billion package pairing border policy with aid for Ukraine and Israel

    Senators release $118 billion package pairing border policy with aid for Ukraine and Israel

    Feb 05, 2024 12:11 AM EDT

    White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Sunday that Johnson has “continued to tie himself in knots to delay border security, delay crucial investments in the fight against fentanyl, and delay Border Patrol hiring — as a host of his House Republican colleagues openly state that they only oppose the bipartisan border ...

  • Mexican president suggests U.S. talks on migration and trafficking may suffer after drug money allegations

    Mexican president suggests U.S. talks on migration and trafficking may suffer after drug money allegations

    Feb 02, 2024 01:21 AM EDT

    ... agencies is leaking information and damaging me? How are we going to talk about migration, how are we going to talk about fighting drugs or fentanyl?” The Biden administration has relied for some time on Mexico's willingness to accept the return of migrants from third countries as a way ...

  • Advertising agency for OxyContin agrees to pay $350 million rather than face lawsuits

    Advertising agency for OxyContin agrees to pay $350 million rather than face lawsuits

    Feb 01, 2024 08:03 PM EDT

    ... many of them generics. By about 2010, as there were crackdowns on overprescribing and black-market pills, heroin deaths increased dramatically. Most recently, opioids have been linked to more than 80,000 deaths a year, more than ever before. Most involve illicitly produced fentanyl and other potent lab-produced drugs.

  • EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as U.S. undergoes overdose epidemic

    EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as U.S. undergoes overdose epidemic

    Feb 01, 2024 01:55 AM EDT

    ... the platform. The machines can be used to manufacture counterfeit pills that look just like prescription pills but instead can be laced with substances like fentanyl, a synthetic opioid drug that is largely fueling the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history. The company failed to verify buyers’ identities and ...

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