• Concerns grow as fentanyl fuels rise in opioid overdose deaths

    Concerns grow as fentanyl fuels rise in opioid overdose deaths

    Aug 06, 2016 08:59 PM EST

    ... fentanyl is that it is being mislabeled or counterfeited, in essence, as other opioids.  So, people think they're taking heroin.  They're actually taking fentanyl.  And, also, we're now seeing a big increase in fentanyl being labeled as painkillers, you know, regular prescription pain pills that people buy ...

  • Prince’s fentanyl overdose gives new urgency to opioid epidemic

    Prince’s fentanyl overdose gives new urgency to opioid epidemic

    Jun 02, 2016 11:17 PM EST

    ... a prescription for that, but that's extremely likely. We also are hearing a lot about fentanyl in the news because there is illicitly manufactured fentanyl found in many parts of the country either mixed into heroin or sold as heroin. So, we're hearing about a lot of fentanyl ...

  • WATCH: House rebukes Trump's tariffs on Canada, passes SAVE Act

    WATCH: House rebukes Trump's tariffs on Canada, passes SAVE Act

    Feb 11, 2026 05:48 PM EST

    ... You can talk about those, but that’s not really what it is,” Mast said. “This is Democrats trying to ignore that there is a fentanyl crisis.” Experts say fentanyl produced by cartels in Mexico is largely smuggled into the U.S. from land crossings in California and Arizona. Fentanyl ...

  • FAA lifts airspace shutdown over El Paso after announcing 10-day closure hours earlier

    FAA lifts airspace shutdown over El Paso after announcing 10-day closure hours earlier

    Feb 11, 2026 02:28 PM EST

    ... the last six months of 2024, he testified, most flying late at night. Homeland Security has said agents have seized thousands of pounds of methamphetamine, fentanyl and other drugs in recent years that cartels were trying to fly across the border using drones. Mexican officials head to Washington following shutdown ...

  • Reports that ICE unit will assist with U.S. security at Winter Olympics spark confusion and concern in Italy

    Reports that ICE unit will assist with U.S. security at Winter Olympics spark confusion and concern in Italy

    Jan 27, 2026 03:10 PM EST

    ... Another arm of ICE is Homeland Security Investigations. Agents from HSI conduct investigations into anything that has a cross-border nexus from human smuggling to fentanyl trafficking to smuggling of cultural artifacts. Agents from HSI are stationed in embassies around the world to facilitate their investigations and build relations with ...

  • Fact-checking Trump’s marathon press briefing at one-year mark of his second term

    Fact-checking Trump’s marathon press briefing at one-year mark of his second term

    Jan 20, 2026 11:59 PM EST

    ... added more than 2 million jobs overall, compared with 473,000 in 2025 under Trump. Trump said 300,000 people died last year because of fentanyl overdoses, but that’s far above the most recent federal data. In the 12 months before August 2025, about 69,000 people in the ...

  • Sheinbaum reassures Mexico after U.S. military movements near country spark concern

    Sheinbaum reassures Mexico after U.S. military movements near country spark concern

    Jan 20, 2026 12:23 AM EST

    ... officials from both countries are scheduled to meet again Friday in an effort to “continue delivering tangible actions to strengthen security cooperation and meaningful outcomes to counter cartels, and stop the illicit flow of fentanyl and weapons from crossing our shared border,” according to a joint statement released last Thursday.

  • WATCH: Trump attends ceremony in Florida renaming Southern Boulevard in his honor

    WATCH: Trump attends ceremony in Florida renaming Southern Boulevard in his honor

    Jan 16, 2026 11:14 PM EST

    ... John Foster Dulles. The congressman said he wanted to honor Trump because he feels the president has been a champion for combating the scourge of fentanyl, a personal issue for McDowell after his brother’s overdose death. But he also cited Trump’s efforts to strike peace deals all over ...

  • White House slashes, then restores, funding to treat mental health and addiction

    White House slashes, then restores, funding to treat mental health and addiction

    Jan 15, 2026 11:30 PM EST

    Brian Mann: I think it's dangerously fragile. The people I talk to, they're already exhausted. They're already working with people who are severely ill, people who are using fentanyl or methamphetamines, who have severe mental illnesses. This is tough work. And when suddenly you hear overnight that ...

  • A timeline of U.S. military escalation against Venezuela leading to Maduro's capture

    A timeline of U.S. military escalation against Venezuela leading to Maduro's capture

    Jan 03, 2026 06:54 PM EST

    The U.S. military carried out its second strike against an alleged drug boat, killing three people. Asked what proof the U.S. had that the vessel was carrying drugs, Trump told reporters that big bags of cocaine and fentanyl were spattered all over the ocean. Images of what Trump ...