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A Pennsylvania mother is in custody after her baby died from drinking drug-laced breast milk, authorities announced Saturday.

Video of a homeless man using drugs on a BART train in San Francisco last month has gone viral, raising concerns about the continued homeless crisis in the city.

The Chinese communist regime launched a campaign against illicit drug trafficking Thursday, led by Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s demand Tuesday that authorities create “a path with Chinese characteristics to contain drug-related problems and win the war on drugs in the new era.”

Syrian rebels, backed by the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), at the end of last month captured a $1.4 million cache of narcotics owned by the terrorist group, including more than 300,000 highly-addictive amphetamine-based Captagon pills known as the “jihadists’ drug,” the alliance announced this week.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge by a Planned Parenthood affiliate to an Arkansas law restricting how drugs that cause abortion are administered.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian customs officials say they have seized 191 kilograms (420 pounds) of heroin found in a truck entering Bulgaria from Turkey.

Missouri resident Anika Witt was sentenced to two years in prison after a correctional officer discovered a “Kimber .380-cal handgun” hidden in her “vaginal cavity.”

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albanian police say an Albanian businessman accused of involvement in the trafficking of 613 kilograms (1,350 pounds) of cocaine earlier seized in the country has been arrested in Germany. A statement Friday said that Arber Cekaj,

The office of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte published a list of over 200 elected officials in the country accused of ties to drug trafficking organizations on Monday, urging the public not to vote for them in upcoming elections.

JERUSALEM – Israel spreads drugs in order to destroy Palestinian society, a Palestinian Authority police chief claimed this week.

Venezuelan politician and alleged drug trafficker, Diosdado Cabello, has lost his lawsuit against newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

Swedish police have discovered a cache of “war weapons” during a raid in the south of Stockholm that has included automatic rifles, hunting rifles, ammunition, and drugs.

Two deaths among 56 cases of severe bleeding in Chicago, Illinois and surrounding areas have been directly attributed to “Spice,” also known as “K2” or “fake weed.”

Almost 1 million prime-age Americans were dragged out of the 2015 labor force by Chinese-supplied fentanyl, Mexican heroin and U.S-made prescription opioid drugs, says a new report by the American Action Forum, a business-first advocacy group. 

First Lady Melania Trump strutted in style on Monday alongside President Donald Trump as she departed the White House for New Hampshire to speak about America’s opioid crisis.

“Ninty percent of the heroin in America comes from our southern border, where eventually the Democrats will agree with us, and we’ll build the wall to keep the damn drugs out,” he said, prompting chants of “build that wall” in the room.

President Donald Trump says his administration will be rolling out a “very, very strong” policy on illegal drugs, including harsh penalties for drug distributors.

President Trump favors a policy that executes major drug dealers to deter the trafficking of drugs across the United States, according to an exclusive report.

Labour MP Keith Vaz has remained active internationally, despite the investigation into footage of him using male prostitutes and discussing Class A drugs being suspended due to alleged ill health.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claimed that Israel is flooding Palestinian society with a “frightening” amount of drugs that are destroying its youth, footage from a broadcast last week on PA official TV shows.

TEL AVIV — The Islamic State in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula published photos of Wilyat Sinai, the jihadist organization’s Egyptian branch, burning large amounts of drug plants grown by the Sawarkeh tribe, many of whose members fill key roles in the terrorist organization.

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams warned President Donald Trump on Friday not to stop states from legalizing marijuana, warning: “I’m gonna turn on this president faster than anyone has ever turned on him.”

A Pennsylvania inmate who tried to convince the court that the drugs in his rear end did not belong to him lost his appeal last week.

The average American’s life expectancy dropped between 2015 and 2016 as the epidemic of U.S. citizens overdosing on opioids hit a record high of more than 63,000 deaths in 2016.

California’s hospitality industry is cranking up to incorporate the launch of recreational marijuana with premium offerings of cannabis edibles, aphrodisiacs, and a revived drug culture party sound.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte delivered an outrageous, hour-long speech to Philippine citizens in Vietnam Thursday in which he insulted President Obama, the EU, and “white people,” claimed to have threatened to “slap” a United Nations expert, and asserted that he had killed someone as a teenager.

Authorities in several counties near Tallahassee, Florida, have arrested and charged a couple with paying for drugs for the last 13 years by prostituting a child.

A total of 17 alleged drug traffickers were arrested for running a major cross-country drug trafficking operation from Arizona to New York.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to San Diego, California, Wednesday to tout the record-breaking amount of drugs seized in Fiscal Year 2017.

United States-Backed Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), which includes military and police units, reportedly seized about 1,260 kilograms of hashish that unnamed smugglers loaded on five camels to transport to an unknown location.

London has experienced again the annual Notting Hill Carnival, which went ahead on Sunday and Monday after hundreds of arrests.

Law enforcement in the Philippines confirmed the deaths of 21 suspected drug criminals Tuesday, a day after president Rodrigo Duterte lamented of the nation’s drug epidemic, “we can’t control it.”

President Donald Trump criticized Merck Pharma’s Kenneth Frazier after the pharmaceutical executive resigned from Trump’s American Manufacturing Council in protest of his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.

A new study estimates that 38 percent of Americans use prescription opioids in a given year. It doesn’t say whether the 62 percent not getting pills from pharmacists licensed and unlicensed get their drugs from a neighbor’s grow room or a biker’s shed-cum-laboratory.

An investigation by Spain’s most-circulated newspaper has revealed “a tale of illegal immigration, money laundering, and arms and drug trafficking, as well as tobacco smuggling” which is overwhelming the Mediterranean country.

Former New York Jets player Marvin Washington has joined a lawsuit against the Attorney General of the United States over federal laws outlawing the possession and use of marijuana.