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This undated photo provided by the U.S. District Attorney shows confiscated drug money. The Justice Department today announced a 10-count superseding indictment charging Los Angeles-based associates of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel with conspiring with money-laundering groups linked to Chinese underground banking to launder drug trafficking proceeds. (U.S. District Attorney via AP)

China quietly uses cartel drug trade to upend American harmony at home

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 18, 2023. Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law. A measure lawmakers sent to the governor, Friday, March 1, 2024, would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) ** FILE **

Mexican cartels have foothold in every U.S. state, DEA says

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

CDC: Drug overdose deaths fell last year for the first time since 2018

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Suzanne Harrison, who runs King's Crusade in honor of her brother who died of an overdose in 2016 poses for a photograph in Evesham, N.J., Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Harrison says the charity could use funding from national opioid settlements to help people if local governments made it available to groups like hers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

A delegate walks to his seat as they arrive at the closing ceremony for China's National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on Monday, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Chinese government linked to illicit fentanyl trade

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - Then Attorney General William Barr appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 1, 2019. A congressional committee is accusing China of fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. A report released Tuesday by a House select committee says China is directly subsidizing the manufacturing of materials used by drug traffickers to make fentanyl outside the country. Barr says the committee’s report “uncovered persuasive evidence” that China’s government is “knee deep” in sponsoring and facilitating the export of fentanyl precursors. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the United States

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Mexican cartels' drug profits and American lives illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Mexican cartels profit at the expense of American lives

By Jon Adler

Attendees practice administering Narcan during an overdose education and Narcan training class at the Onala Recovery Center on the South Shore of Pittsburgh on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP, File)

CDC says drug overdoses leveled off in 2022 as U.S. mortality rate fell

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Fat Joe arrives at a premiere, Feb. 13, 2024, in Los Angeles. Vice President Kamala Harris says it's “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States. Harris commented at the White House on Friday, March 15, as she and Grammy-nominated rapper Fat Joe led a roundtable discussion on easing marijuana penalties. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Vice President Harris, rapper Fat Joe team up for discussion on easing marijuana penalties

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Deadly Fentanyl Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s got the cure for opioid overdoses

By Robert Knight

A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 18, 2023. Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law. A measure lawmakers sent to the governor, Friday, March 1, 2024, would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) ** FILE **

GOP says Biden is passing the buck on fighting fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden arrives to board Air Force One, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Hagerstown, Md. The President is traveling to Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sleepy Joe Biden is in trouble

By Scott Walker

LaFonda D, Sutton-Burke, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations poses for a portrait at the agency's overseas mail inspection facility at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Feb. 23, 2024, in Chicago. The explosive growth of cross-border e-commerce involving major China-backed players such as Shein and Temu has caught the attention of the U.S. lawmakers amid a bitter U.S.-China trade war and cast a spotlight on a tax rule that critics say has allowed hundreds of millions of China-originated packages to enter the U.S. market each year without duty and without reliable information for lawfulness. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

How Chinese retailers can offer Americans steep bargains on clothes and why that could change

By Didi Tang - Associated Press

Battle against fentanyl and illegal drugs and law enforcement arrests illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

In the battle against fentanyl, closing U.S. trade loophole bolsters law enforcement efforts

By Bill Johnson

Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023. Senators are racing to release a highly-anticipated bill that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, as part of a long-shot effort to push the package through heavy skepticism from Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) **FILE**

Whistleblowers reveal stark lapses in Border Patrol’s medical handling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File)

More people die after smoking drugs than injecting them, U.S. study finds

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference, June 8, 2021, in Austin, Texas. On Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, an order blocking enforcement of a Texas law, which Abbott signed into law in 2023, requiring vendors to evaluate and rate the sexual content of books they sell, or have sold, to schools has been upheld by a federal appeals court. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas is defending U.S. against a southern border invasion

By Scott Walker

EBay to pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as U.S. undergoes overdose epidemic

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Several elected leaders in Oregon declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, for downtown Portland over the public health and public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File)

Oregon governor, Portland leaders declare emergency to combat fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

BART Police Officer Eric Hofstein displays the fentanyl he confiscated while patrolling the Civic Center Station BART platform in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (Jessica Christian /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

U.S. and Chinese officials meet to begin implementing fentanyl-chemical deal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times