• September 15, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    September 15, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Sep 15, 2021 11:55 PM EDT

    ... United Kingdom to curb Beijing's ambitions. Then, U.S. gymnasts testify before Congress about the FBI's botched investigation of sexually abusive doctor, Larry Nassar. And, the U.S. struggles to contain the flow of the high-powered opioid fentanyl across the southern border amid a raging addiction crisis.

  • News Wrap: Afghanistan's women's soccer team escape to Pakistan

    News Wrap: Afghanistan's women's soccer team escape to Pakistan

    Sep 15, 2021 10:50 PM EDT

    ... added 37. Still to come on the "NewsHour": what President Trump's continuing grip on the Republican Party means for elections; why the U.S. struggles to contain the flow of illegal fentanyl across the Southern border; a new parenting book draws criticism for its counterintuitive advice; plus much more.

  • September 14, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    September 14, 2021 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Sep 15, 2021 12:23 AM EDT

    ... leader took to keep Former President Trump from sparking a war. Then, the U.S. secretary of state faces senators to defend the Afghanistan withdrawal. California voters decide gov. Gavin Newsom's fate. And, an exclusive look inside Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and its widespread production and sale of fentanyl.

  • Deal with OxyContin maker leaves families angry, conflicted

    Deal with OxyContin maker leaves families angry, conflicted

    Sep 02, 2021 06:17 PM EDT

    ... the past two decades, a toll that includes victims of prescription painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin and illicit drugs such as heroin and street-grade fentanyl. In one of the hardest-fought provisions in the settlement, the family will be protected from any future opioid lawsuits. While the Sacklers weren ...

  • Judge conditionally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

    Judge conditionally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

    Sep 01, 2021 09:09 PM EDT

    ... deaths in the U.S. Some of the deaths have been attributed to OxyContin and other prescription opioids, but most are from illicit forms of opioids such as heroin and illegally produced fentanyl. Opioid-linked deaths in the U.S. continued at a record pace last year, hitting 70,000.

  • 50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans

    50-year war on drugs imprisoned millions of Black Americans

    Jul 26, 2021 04:55 PM EDT

    ... the global COVID-19 pandemic. And according to the latest Drug Enforcement Administration narcotics threat assessment released in March, the availability of drugs such as fentanyl, heroin and cocaine remained high or plateaued last year. Domestic and transnational drug trade organizations generate tens of billions of dollars in illicit proceeds ...

  • U.S. opioid lawsuits on verge of settlements with 4 companies

    U.S. opioid lawsuits on verge of settlements with 4 companies

    Jul 20, 2021 06:49 PM EDT

    ... person in the U.S. to have a 20-day supply. And opioids — including both prescription drugs and illegal ones like heroin and illicitly produced fentanyl — have been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. since 2000. The number of cases reached a record high in ...

  • News Wrap: Tokyo sees highest COVID cases since May, days before Olympic Games

    News Wrap: Tokyo sees highest COVID cases since May, days before Olympic Games

    Jul 14, 2021 10:50 PM EDT

    ... Bush criticized the U.S. pullout, telling a German TV -- quote -- "The consequences are going to be unbelievably bad." There is word that the opioid fentanyl helped to drive U.S. drug overdose deaths to a record high last year. Federal figures show 93,000 deaths, up nearly 30 percent ...

  • U.S. overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year

    U.S. overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year

    Jul 14, 2021 02:31 PM EDT

    While prescription painkillers once drove the nation's overdose epidemic, they were supplanted first by heroin and then by fentanyl, a dangerously powerful opioid, in recent years. Fentanyl was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasingly been sold illicitly and mixed with other drugs. "What ...

  • Deaths from drug overdoses surge in some Black communities amid COVID-19

    Deaths from drug overdoses surge in some Black communities amid COVID-19

    Jun 30, 2021 10:15 PM EDT

    And people are inadvertently are being exposed to fentanyl, not knowing this. We need to start educating about testing for drugs. And that's something that's unheard of when you -- in the streets. But that's one huge thing that we need to start talking about, because you just ...