The United States is the only country in the world that has been battling a grave opioid epidemic, and it is bent on blaming China. The abuse of opioids, particularly fentanyl, has overtaken gun violence and car accidents in recent years to become the leading cause of accidental deaths across...
comes across the U.S.-Mexico border in passenger vehicles, according to Troy Miller, the senior official performing the duties of the commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Almost all the fentanyl coming into the U.S. is smuggled through legal ports of entry, like San Ysidro,...
San Francisco is the epicenter of the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. (Photo: CFP) China and the United States have reached a tariff agreement in Geneva, but tensions remain. Under the new deal reached on May 12, Washington continues to impose an additional 20% tariff on Chinese exports, alo...
On March 4, 2022,Kouri Richinssays she found her husband,Eric Richins, unresponsive in their bed. First responders tried to save him, but it was too late for the father of three. Weeks later, police said Richins' death was caused by an overdose of fentanyl. The grieving widow fr...
The tariffs’ ostensible purpose is to punish American allies for failing to do more to crack down on undocumented migration and fentanyl reaching the United States. Many Trump supporters see the president’s love for “beautiful” tariffs as leverage to force concessions from other countries and ...
Sarah Inama, a 35-year-old 6th-grade teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, wasordered by her school district to take down two postersfrom her classroom. One poster read “Everyone Is Welcome Here,” with images of children’s hands in various skin tones. The other...
Of course, the first raft of tariffs President Trump announced addressed none of these things: The tools were used as negotiating tools in a debate over immigration and fentanyl supply into the U.S. Columbia professor Brett House argues there’s another motive to Trump’s action, exemplified ...
It’s not unusual for the Chinese government to subsidize industries, and the precursor chemicals are also used to make legal painkillers. But some of the production finds it way to Mexican drug cartels who make fentanyl and send it to the United States. ...
"China is the number one problem when it comes to illegal fentanyl coming into the United States," said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. China is one of the world's largest producers of the precursor chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. It also leads...
NEW YORK - The United States is the only country in the world that has been battling a grave opioid epidemic, and it is bent on blaming China. The abuse of opioids, particularly fentanyl, has overtaken gun violence and car accidents in recent years to become the leading cause of accidental...