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Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaks during the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey hopes his record as a ‘proven fighter’ carries him to victory

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Dr. Aneesh Naran stands outside the Banner University Medical Center emergency room after his shift, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Hot days and methamphetamine are now a deadlier mix

By Anita Snow and Mary Katherine Wildeman - Associated Press

FILE - A container of Narcan, or naloxone, sits on tree roots at a longstanding homeless encampment, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Bellingham, Wash. On Tuesday, March 20, 2024, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a multimillion-dollar measure to send state money to tribes and Indigenous people in the state who die from opioid overdoses at disproportionately high rates in Washington. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

How many young people need to die before we take fentanyl and an open Southern border seriously?

By Aldo Buttazzoni – Special to Higher Ground

FILE - Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, speaks during a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Democrats in close races try to show they hear voter concerns about immigration

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

HALT Fentanyl Act illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Congress must advance HALT Fentanyl Act to save lives

By Rep. Bob Latta and Rep. Morgan Griffith

A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Worker’s death at California federal prison being investigated for possible fentanyl exposure

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This photo released by Mexico's National Security Commission shows bags of illegal drugs, including 100 pounds (45.5 kilograms) of fentanyl, according to authorities, inside a sports utility vehicle after police stopped the car for a missing front license plate near Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, Jan. 25, 2018. As Mexican-made fentanyl continues to flood into the U.S., Mexico’s efforts to seize the drug have declined dramatically, according to figures made public on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Mexico's National Security Commission via AP, File)

China’s government clamps down on fentanyl chemicals, White House says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting on combating fentanyl, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Nov. 21, 2023, in Washington. Biden is calling on Congress to do more to reduce the flow of fentanyl into the United States. The new push comes just as former President Donald Trump steps up attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden prods Congress to act to curb fentanyl from Mexico as Trump paints Harris as weak on border

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

This combo of images provided by the U.S. Department of State show Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, left, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another infamous cartel leader, after they were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday, July 25, 2024. (U.S. Department of State via AP)

Powerful cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ Zambada was lured onto airplane before arrest in U.S.

By Alanna Durkin Richer, María Verza and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. File photo credit: Darwin Brandis via Shutterstock.

Chinese national imported over 4,000 pounds of fentanyl chemicals into U.S., prosecutors allege

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during the Republican National Convention Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

WATCH: Families at GOP convention blame Biden’s border for relatives’ deaths

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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