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President Joe Biden laughs with Vice President Kamala Harris as the leave after Biden spoke about border security in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Nation annihilator: Biden finds partisan comedy in deaths of innocent Americans

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘How dare you’: Michigan mom rips Biden for laughing off blame for sons’ fentanyl deaths

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Lawmakers grapple with response to fentanyl, split over punishment versus focus on treatment

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Anthony Delio, 36, falls asleep on a sidewalk after smoking fentanyl in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Use of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is cheap to produce and is often sold as is or laced in other drugs, has exploded. Because it's 50 times more potent than heroin, even a small dose can be fatal. It has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Two-thirds of the 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 were attributed to synthetic opioids like fentanyl, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Money, money, money: Big profits drive cartels’ fixation on fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP) ** FILE **

Survey finds partisan divide over biggest public-health threats

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP) ** FILE **

Polydrug use with fentanyl on the rise, study finds

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Jenn Bennett, who is high on fentanyl, sits on her skateboard with a visible black eye as her friend, Jesse Williams, smokes the drug in Los Angeles on Aug. 9, 2022. Use of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin, has exploded. Even a small dose can be fatal, and it has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Families hurt by fentanyl want COVID-level drive

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Sen. Menendez questions Mexican commitment to fentanyl fight: ‘I just don’t see it’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Marco Rubio speaks at a campaign rally in West Miami, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Sen. Rubio says deadly fentanyl dealing must be considered felony murder

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, is shown at the White House, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Washington. Gupta was one of the first witnesses whose video deposition was played at a bench trial Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in which several pharmaceutical manufacturers are accused in a lawsuit of contributing to the crisis. He testified that the opioid epidemic got so bad in drug-ravaged West Virginia that the state was having trouble finding foster parents to care of children. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Top White House drug-fighter sees progress on fentanyl overdoses, but warns of new threats

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This image shows rainbow-colored fentanyl pills. (DEA photo) ** FILE **

Republicans shout ‘border!’ when Biden talks tough on fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This June 13, 2016, file photo shows Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Florida. A current U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent and a former supervisor in the agency were indicted Friday, May 20, 2022 on federal charges accusing them of leaking confidential law enforcement information to defense lawyers in Florida in exchange for cash and gifts. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Sinaloa, Jalisco cartels in Mexico are the greatest drug threat in U.S. history, DEA official says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Los Angeles Field Division, shows some of the seized approximately 1 million fake pills containing fentanyl that were seized when agents served a search warrant, July 5, 2022, at a home in Inglewood, Calif. (Drug Enforcement Administration via AP) **FILE**

Honduran national arrested for attempting to distribute rainbow fentanyl in Portland

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden hugs first lady Jill Biden, his son Hunter Biden and daughter Ashley Biden after being sworn in during the 59th presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Haunted by Hunter: Addict’s mom invokes Biden’s son, begs for halt to supervised drug sites

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

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

Body count keeps growing in America’s fentanyl crisis as Washington grasps at solutions

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on fentanyl and the southern border by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s border debacle is killing young Americans

By Joseph Curl

In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

China involved in ‘asymmetrical warfare’ against U.S. through fentanyl trafficking, Rep. Fallon says

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

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Flight attendant pleads guilty to fentanyl trafficking charge

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

The Snapchat app is seen on a mobile device in New York, Aug. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Group urges feds to investigate Snapchat over fentanyl sales

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for Utah and introduced as evidence at a trial shows fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation. (U.S. Attorneys Office for Utah via AP, File)

DEA agents have seized more than 379 million doses of fentanyl in 2022

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times