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Sen. Marsha Blackburn spoke about the trafficking and drug crises thanks to the open border under the Biden-Harris administration.

The Biden White House responded on Friday to a plea from House Democrats by proposing new rules for foreign shipping to close the notorious “de minimis” loophole, but took no immediate action.

Social media platforms including Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram, China’s TikTok, and Snapchat have become dangerous marketplaces for the sale of deadly fake pills laced with fentanyl, contributing to a growing epidemic of overdose deaths among young Americans.

Kamala Harris indicated in 2019 that she wanted to decriminalize fentanyl, heroin, and “all drug possession for personal use.”

More than 60 percent of Arizona voters support a ballot measure that would crack down on illegal immigration in the state, per a poll.

More than two pounds of fentanyl were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents after it washed ashore in Daytona Beach, Florida, officials said Thursday.

Fentanyl has caused approximately 80 percent of drug overdose deaths in one of Kansas’s most populous areas, police said.

Enough fentanyl to kill 2.5 million Americans was seized in a South Carolina drug investigation, the FBI announced Monday.

A South Carolina mother was arrested in connection with the May fentanyl death of her ten-month-old baby Aminah Gathers, Live 5 News reported on Monday.

Police say a first-grade teacher in Maryland has been arrested in connection to an overdose death involving fentanyl in Washington, DC.

Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at Trump Tower in Chicago along with Ambassador Carlos Trujillo about the Biden-Harris border crisis and the crime it has led to across America.

The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office in Florida recently seized a massive amount of fentanyl that could have killed three million people.

Police reported that a traffic stop in Roswell, Georgia, yielded 120 grams of fentanyl, which is enough to kill 60,000 people.

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick released an ad on Wednesday blasting Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) for “trying to cover up his weakness on border policy” through a hypocritical attack ad on McCormick.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) has attacked Dave McCormick for investing in a Chinese company that manufactures fentanyl, while Casey did the same.

A California mother has been charged with her 20-month-old daughter’s murder after the toddler died from a suspected fentanyl overdose in late July.

An Arizona mother-son duo were arrested after allegedly attempting to smuggle thousands of fentanyl pills through an Illinois suburb.

The situation has reached a boiling point for neighbors of a homeless camp in Southeast Portland, Oregon.

A California mother is facing charges after her 18-month-old baby died of suspected fentanyl poisoning, the Los Angeles Times reported.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the Lukeville, Arizona, recently made what the agency is calling its largest seizure of fentanyl to date. Officers at the port of entry discovered approximately four million blue fentanyl pills weighing more than 1,000 pounds.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) has filed articles of impeachment against Kamala Harris for refusing “to uphold Federal immigration laws.”

Overdose deaths increased in the Portland, Oregon, area during a 90-day state of emergency declared to combat the fentanyl problem.

Police in western Colorado came away from a high-speed chase on Friday with 48 pounds — about 220,000 pills — of fentanyl, officials said.

A mother in Scottsdale, Arizona, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after her toddler died of a fentanyl overdose in 2022.

A mother and father in North Carolina are facing murder charges after their 16-month-old baby died from fentanyl poisoning.

The U.N. warned that the Taliban could cause overdose deaths from synthetic alternatives by shutting down opium production in Afghanistan.

A mother and aunt in Columbia County, Georgia, are facing charges of murder in the second degree after an infant died of fentanyl poisoning.

On Friday’s broadcast of WBUR’s “Here and Now,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reacted to reports raising the possibility that the Chinese Communist Party directly subsidizes the makers of precursor chemicals for fentanyl — a claim backed by a report by

Approximately 30.3 tons of fentanyl have crossed the nation’s southern border since President Joe Biden (D) took office, the Republican National Committee (RNC) said Friday.

A California woman has been arrested in relation to the fentanyl death of her 1-year-old child in 2023, police said.

Parents of Paige Gibbons, a college freshman at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York in 2022, reveal that the 19-year-old died that year after ingesting what she thought was Percocet but turned out to be fentanyl.

The husband of a New York City day care owner pleaded guilty to the fentanyl poisonings of four children, including a one-year-old who died.

An illegal alien with a long criminal history who was deported in 2016 is now accused of murder after selling fentanyl pills to a man who then died of an overdose.

Craigslist has become a hotspot for Southern Californians to score fentanyl, with dealers selling it under inconspicuous code names.

A Tennessee woman is accused of aggravated child neglect after a one-month-old baby in her care overdosed on fentanyl on Saturday, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.

Fentanyl has “largely fueled” a staggering increase in youth overdose deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.