• WATCH: President Biden's Address to the Nation | PBS NewsHour's full evening coverage

    WATCH: President Biden's Address to the Nation | PBS NewsHour's full evening coverage

    Oct 19, 2023 03:23 PM EDT

    ... earlier. There’s also $14 billion for Israel, $10 billion for unspecified humanitarian efforts, $14 billion for managing the U.S.-Mexico border and fighting fentanyl trafficking and $7 billion for the Indo-Pacific region, which includes Taiwan. The proposal was described by three people familiar with the details who ...

  • Oregon decriminalization reveals possible solutions and challenges to addressing addiction

    Oregon decriminalization reveals possible solutions and challenges to addressing addiction

    Oct 10, 2023 10:35 PM EDT

    ... Commissioner Mingus Mapps has heard from his constituents. He's thrown his hat into the race for mayor next year. Mingus Mapps: Turning around our fentanyl problem has to be, frankly, job number one. Measure 110 is something that we imposed on ourselves, and we can fix it too. Stephanie ...

  • Former Texas congressman Will Hurd suspends long-shot 2024 presidential bid

    Former Texas congressman Will Hurd suspends long-shot 2024 presidential bid

    Oct 09, 2023 11:19 PM EDT

    ... He announced his candidacy criticizing both President Joe Biden and Trump, saying the president wasn’t up to securing the U.S.-Mexico border, combating fentanyl smuggling that has led to epidemic of American overdoses and violent crime and homelessness in the country’s cities. “President Biden can’t solve ...

  • U.S. Senate Majority Leader Schumer meets Chinese President Xi, welcomes condemnation of Hamas attacks

    U.S. Senate Majority Leader Schumer meets Chinese President Xi, welcomes condemnation of Hamas attacks

    Oct 09, 2023 09:59 PM EDT

    ... level playing field" for American businesses in China, and urged China to take measures to prevent the export of chemicals used to make the drug fentanyl, which has fueled a deadly wave of addictions. “Both sides, the Chinese and us, said unless we have sincere conversations about our differences and ...

  • October 8, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    October 8, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Oct 08, 2023 10:29 PM EDT

    Sunday on PBS News Weekend, Israel formally declares war on Hamas as it pummels Gaza in retaliation and the death toll mounts on both sides. We get two perspectives on this weekend’s violence and what it means for the Middle East. Plus, a look at the global fentanyl trade ...

  • News Wrap: Desperate search for survivors continues after Afghan earthquakes

    News Wrap: Desperate search for survivors continues after Afghan earthquakes

    Oct 08, 2023 09:45 PM EDT

    ... record 37 medals and World Championship and Olympic competition. Two days ago, she won a record six all-around title. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, two perspectives on the war in Israel and the U.S. crackdown on the global fentanyl trade and China's role in it.

  • News Wrap: Deadly earthquakes strike villages in western Afghanistan

    News Wrap: Deadly earthquakes strike villages in western Afghanistan

    Oct 07, 2023 09:45 PM EDT

    ... the first American lawmakers to visit China in four years. They met with Chinese Communist Party officials and discussed how to stop the flow of fentanyl into Mexico and how American businesses could better compete in China. Still to come on PBS News Weekend, treating alcoholism with medication and what ...

  • Biden administration will soon resume deporting migrants to Venezuela, officials say

    Biden administration will soon resume deporting migrants to Venezuela, officials say

    Oct 05, 2023 10:12 PM EDT

    ... an international response.” Blinken and other top American officials are visiting Mexico to discuss shared security issues, foremost among them trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, but also arms trafficking and increasing migration. In August, the U.S. Border Patrol made 181,509 arrests at the Mexican border, up 37 ...

  • National Zoo’s giant pandas to return to China in December, leaving only a handful in America

    National Zoo’s giant pandas to return to China in December, leaving only a handful in America

    Oct 03, 2023 06:40 PM EDT

    Wilder said the Chinese possibly could be "trying to send a signal." He cited a litany of Chinese-American flashpoints: sanctions imposed by the U.S. government on prominent Chinese citizens and officials; restrictions on the import of Chinese semiconductors; accusations that Chinese-made fentanyl is flooding American cities; suspicion ...

  • Mexico's president slams U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

    Mexico's president slams U.S. sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba

    Sep 29, 2023 09:30 PM EDT

    ... concentrated on expanded trade and economic ties, hailing new cooperation on those fronts, and stressed their commitment to fight the surge of synthetic opioids like fentanyl into the U.S. from Mexico. “By creating the right incentives and business environments and harnessing our two nations’ respective strengths, we have a ...