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  • Senate approves bill that would increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers

    Senate approves bill that would increase penalties for fentanyl traffickers

    Mar 14, 2025 02:00 PM EDT

    ... law enforcement a critical tool to go after the criminals bringing this poison into our country and selling it on our streets.” Called the HALT Fentanyl Act, the bill would permanently place all copycat versions of fentanyl — alterations of the drug that are often sold by traffickers — on the U ...

  • Republican candidate in key Pennsylvania Senate race backs using military to fight fentanyl

    Republican candidate in key Pennsylvania Senate race backs using military to fight fentanyl

    Oct 02, 2024 11:00 PM EDT

    ... they sank a sweeping immigration reform bill this year that carried hundreds of millions of dollars to hire more customs agents and bolster investigations into fentanyl trafficking. Trump said the attached immigration measures weren't tough enough.If he wins in November, congressional authorization may not matter. Trump has said ...

  • How social media became a storefront for deadly fake pills laced with fentanyl

    How social media became a storefront for deadly fake pills laced with fentanyl

    Sep 12, 2024 07:04 PM EDT

    ... teens, it continues, “was the foreseeable result of the designs, structures, and policies Snap chose to implement to increase its revenues.” The vast majority of fentanyl deaths among young people, the lawsuit says, involve kids who don’t know they are ingesting fentanyl. Rather, they are buying what they believe ...

  • House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the U.S.

    House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the U.S.

    Apr 16, 2024 08:49 PM EDT

    ... questions about whether China is following through. The report’s findings were released Tuesday as part of a hearing examining China’s role in the fentanyl epidemic in the U.S. Most overdose deaths in the U.S. continue to be linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Inexpensive fentanyl ...

  • U.S. and China commit to tackling fentanyl trafficking in a sign of cooperation amid differences

    U.S. and China commit to tackling fentanyl trafficking in a sign of cooperation amid differences

    Jan 30, 2024 10:19 PM EDT

    ... fentanyl-related fatalities in the United States and the violence, corruption and instability fueled by drug cartels around the world. WATCH: Biden, López Obrador talk fentanyl, migration during San Francisco meeting China used to be a major supplier of fentanyl, and the U.S. has credited Beijing for a 2019 ...

  • Treasury announces strike force as U.S. and China pursue crackdown on illicit fentanyl trafficking

    Treasury announces strike force as U.S. and China pursue crackdown on illicit fentanyl trafficking

    Dec 04, 2023 06:53 PM EDT

    ... synthetic opioids. And the leaders of the Senate Banking and Armed Services Committees, along with others, want to compel the Biden administration to declare international fentanyl trafficking a national emergency and pass legislation that would hold Treasury to reporting requirements and enable the president to confiscate sanctioned property of fentanyl ...

  • WATCH: Biden and López Obrador talk fentanyl, migration during San Francisco meeting

    WATCH: Biden and López Obrador talk fentanyl, migration during San Francisco meeting

    Nov 18, 2023 01:27 AM EDT

    The issues of fentanyl and immigration are related. Human smuggling over the border is a part of cartel operations that also include drug trafficking into the U.S. “We’re working side-by-side to combat organized crime," Biden said. The powerful opioid is the deadliest drug in the U ...

  • WATCH: White House hopes Biden-Xi meeting brings progress on military communications, fentanyl fight

    WATCH: White House hopes Biden-Xi meeting brings progress on military communications, fentanyl fight

    Nov 13, 2023 05:47 PM EDT

    ... Control and Prevention states that drug overdose deaths have increased more than sevenfold from 2015 to 2021. Mexico and China are the primary sources for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked directly into the U.S., according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, which is tasked with combating illicit drug trafficking ...

  • Election offices in Georgia and Washington sent envelopes with fentanyl or other substances. Authorities are investigating

    Election offices in Georgia and Washington sent envelopes with fentanyl or other substances. Authorities are investigating

    Nov 09, 2023 05:41 PM EDT

    ... buildings and boost protections of workers amid an onslaught of harassment and threats following the 2020 election and the false claims that it was rigged. Fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times as powerful as the same amount of heroin, is driving an overdose crisis deadlier than any the ...

  • U.S. senators see a glimmer of hope for opening talks with China over the fentanyl crisis

    U.S. senators see a glimmer of hope for opening talks with China over the fentanyl crisis

    Oct 10, 2023 09:20 PM EDT

    ... hailed as progress reflects how low U.S.-China relations have fallen. China, following earlier talks with the U.S., stamped out the production of fentanyl within its borders, but the U.S. alleges that Chinese companies are now supplying the chemical ingredients for fentanyl to Mexican drug cartels. The ...

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