FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is pushing the Biden administration to classify fentanyl as a biological and chemical weapon, and to sanction China for its role in fueling the U.S. drug crisis. “The Chinese Communist Party is the largest police state in the world. If they wanted to stop the flow of fentanyl from inside their border to …
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New York police and other first responders saved an 11-month-old baby from a fentanyl overdose on bodycam video — and while detectives were investigating his father for the exposure, an unrelated woman died from the same batch of drugs, prosecutors say. The boy survived, his father is facing child abuse and other charges, and the father’s dealer has been charged …
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Austin, Texas, saw an “unusually deadly” surge of more than 60 opioid overdoses between Monday and Wednesday, resulting in nine people dying and several others being rescued with Narcan, according to officials. At about 9 a.m. on Monday, Austin-Travis County EMS personnel began responding to a sudden surge in opioid-related overdose calls. Dispatchers received a series of calls in the …
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A Massachusetts ice cream stand owner is grateful her family’s business wasn’t open yet for the season after an out-of-control driver drove his truck through their parking lot, smashing signs and narrowly missing a woman and her baby in a parked car nearby. Wild surveillance video shows the truck barreling through the area at a high rate of speed before …
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One of the mothers of three Kansas City Chiefs fans found frozen in their friend’s snowy Missouri backyard after a January NFL watch party said “some charges” are warranted in her son’s death, though police have stated they do not suspect foul play. “There’s no information being released, even though the police are still working from my understanding on the …
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A Florida man has been charged withpossession with intent to distribute methamphetamine after approximately 150 pounds of the drug was seized by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents earlier this month, according to theMiddle District of Florida State Attorney’s Office on Friday. Along with the meth, the agents also found two kilograms of cocaine, one kilogram of fentanyl, more than 100,000 …
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The head of Mexico’s detective service acknowledged Tuesday that the country is “the champion” of fentanyl production, something that appears to run counter to past statements by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador has hotly denied in the past that any fentanyl is produced in Mexico, saying Mexican cartels only press it into pills or add finishing touches. But …
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DENVER, Colo. – Colorado is experiencing record seizures of fentanyl, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, who attributed some of the rise to cartels spreading into new regions and distributing larger volumes of the drug. DEA spokesman Dave Olesky, who is also the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Rocky Mountain Field Division, said his investigators conduct drug busts …
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After three years of legalized hard drugs and rampant overdose deaths in Portland, Oregon, lawmakers this month rightly said enough is enough. There is a better option: strong progressive economic policies and ending untethered drug use promises to help repair the Portland image, attract new businesses and retain others downtown. This new more pragmatic progressivism we see shows a major …
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A recent report outlining China’s direct involvement in fueling the fentanyl crisis in the United States has rightfully sent shockwaves through Congress and communities already reeling from the devastating impact of opioid addiction. The Select Committee on China’s findings uncovered China’s subsidization of the production of illicit fentanyl precursors for export, shedding light on the complicity – and in some …
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