• Trump says trade talks with Canada are suspended over its tax on technology firms

    Trump says trade talks with Canada are suspended over its tax on technology firms

    Jun 27, 2025 07:28 PM EDT

    ... by him would expire. Canada and Mexico face separate tariffs of as much as 25% that Trump put into place under the auspices of stopping fentanyl smuggling, though some products are still protected under the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement signed during Trump’s first term. Associated Press writers ...

  • A judge's ruling will decide whether Purdue Pharma's $7 billion opioid settlement plan could be put to votes

    A judge's ruling will decide whether Purdue Pharma's $7 billion opioid settlement plan could be put to votes

    Jun 20, 2025 03:35 PM EDT

    ... to combat the crisis. In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers. In some years, the class of drugs was linked to more than 80,000 deaths, but that number dropped sharply ...

  • Homeland Security official on the Trump administration's immigration policy changes

    Homeland Security official on the Trump administration's immigration policy changes

    Jun 18, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... talk about a victim of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, of the 100,000 individuals in this country who die every single year of fentanyl. So I do think something that's going on with PBS, the public broadcasting stations in this country, including cable news as well, is ...

  • U.S. states agree to multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

    U.S. states agree to multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma over opioid crisis

    Jun 18, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... going to go to protecting people in the future, right, preventing addiction, healing people who are currently addicted, helping people still caught up in the fentanyl crisis that's raging across the United States. That's going to be -- most of the $7.4 billion will go to that kind ...

  • OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma asks court to clear way for $7 billion settlement if states back it

    OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma asks court to clear way for $7 billion settlement if states back it

    Jun 18, 2025 06:30 PM EDT

    ... to combat the crisis. In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were linked to prescription drugs, including OxyContin. Since then, heroin and then illicitly produced fentanyl became the biggest killers. In some years, the class of drugs was linked to more than 80,000 deaths, but that number dropped sharply ...

  • G7 summit to focus on trade, wars — and avoiding conflict with Trump

    G7 summit to focus on trade, wars — and avoiding conflict with Trump

    Jun 16, 2025 02:56 PM EDT

    ... its income tax cuts. Canada and Mexico face separate tariffs of as much as 25% that Trump put into place under the auspices of stopping fentanyl smuggling, through some products are still protected under the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement signed during Trump's first term. The Trump administration ...

  • China and U.S. will hold more tariff talks, Trump says after Xi call

    China and U.S. will hold more tariff talks, Trump says after Xi call

    Jun 05, 2025 03:07 PM EDT

    ... three days before Inauguration Day. The pair discussed trade then, as well as Trump’s demands that China do more to prevent the synthetic opioid fentanyl from entering the United States. Trump had long expressed optimism about the prospects for a major deal, before his post suggesting Xi was making ...

  • What's next for Trump's tariffs amid legal back and forth

    What's next for Trump's tariffs amid legal back and forth

    May 29, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... has the power to do so under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA. He justified this by saying the trade deficit and fentanyl crisis, which he blames on Mexico, Canada and China, pose a national emergency. But a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of ...

  • What's behind the significant drop in opioid overdose deaths

    What's behind the significant drop in opioid overdose deaths

    May 15, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... I think getting -- the big one is naloxone and Narcan. There's this medication that gets into the community where people can literally reverse a fentanyl overdose or an opioid overdose. Before that was there, people just died. And now even many of the people in severe addiction that I ...

  • U.S. overdose deaths fell by 27% last year — the largest one-year decline ever recorded

    U.S. overdose deaths fell by 27% last year — the largest one-year decline ever recorded

    May 14, 2025 04:18 PM EDT

    ... federal taxpayer funding, is going to a variety of programs, including supportive housing and harm reduction efforts, such as providing materials to test drugs for fentanyl, the biggest driver of overdoses now. But what each state will do with that money is currently at issue.“States can either say, ‘We ...