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A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 18, 2023. Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law. A measure lawmakers sent to the governor, Friday, March 1, 2024, would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) ** FILE **

GOP says Biden is passing the buck on fighting fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden arrives to board Air Force One, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Hagerstown, Md. The President is traveling to Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sleepy Joe Biden is in trouble

By Scott Walker

LaFonda D, Sutton-Burke, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations poses for a portrait at the agency's overseas mail inspection facility at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Feb. 23, 2024, in Chicago. The explosive growth of cross-border e-commerce involving major China-backed players such as Shein and Temu has caught the attention of the U.S. lawmakers amid a bitter U.S.-China trade war and cast a spotlight on a tax rule that critics say has allowed hundreds of millions of China-originated packages to enter the U.S. market each year without duty and without reliable information for lawfulness. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

How Chinese retailers can offer Americans steep bargains on clothes and why that could change

By Didi Tang - Associated Press

Battle against fentanyl and illegal drugs and law enforcement arrests illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

In the battle against fentanyl, closing U.S. trade loophole bolsters law enforcement efforts

By Bill Johnson

Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023. Senators are racing to release a highly-anticipated bill that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, as part of a long-shot effort to push the package through heavy skepticism from Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) **FILE**

Whistleblowers reveal stark lapses in Border Patrol’s medical handling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Smoking has surpassed injecting as the most common way of taking drugs in U.S. overdose deaths, according to a study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File)

More people die after smoking drugs than injecting them, U.S. study finds

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference, June 8, 2021, in Austin, Texas. On Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, an order blocking enforcement of a Texas law, which Abbott signed into law in 2023, requiring vendors to evaluate and rate the sexual content of books they sell, or have sold, to schools has been upheld by a federal appeals court. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas is defending U.S. against a southern border invasion

By Scott Walker

EBay to pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold online as U.S. undergoes overdose epidemic

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Several elected leaders in Oregon declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, for downtown Portland over the public health and public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File)

Oregon governor, Portland leaders declare emergency to combat fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Jen Daskal, left, shakes hands with Chinese Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong before a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Daskal is leading an interagency U.S. delegation to Beijing to launch the U.S.-China Counternarcotics Working Group. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

U.S. and China launch talks on fentanyl trafficking in a sign of cooperation amid differences

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

BART Police Officer Eric Hofstein displays the fentanyl he confiscated while patrolling the Civic Center Station BART platform in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (Jessica Christian /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

U.S. and Chinese officials meet to begin implementing fentanyl-chemical deal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Jelly Roll performs "Need A Favor" at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Country star Jelly Roll calls for new anti-fentanyl legislation

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Chinese drug companies poison America illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Chinese drug companies, not rogues, poison America

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A person smokes fentanyl on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in downtown Portland, Ore. The fight against fentanyl is increasingly being waged in schools, jails and on city streets in the Pacific Northwest, where state officials in Oregon and Washington have named it a top issue in upcoming legislative sessions amid a sharp increase in overdose deaths. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) **FILE**

Senators push for broader fentanyl screenings in ERs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks at the IRS about the upcoming tax filing season Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, at IRS headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Treasury creates new strike force as U.S. and China pursue crackdown on illicit fentanyl trafficking

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

A person holds drug paraphernalia near the Washington Center building on SW Washington St. in downtown Portland, Ore. on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Three years ago, nearly two-thirds of Oregon voters approved a ballot measure decriminalizing illicit drugs, backing the idea that addiction treatment is more effective than jail. But now, public drug use in cities such as Portland and a surge in fentanyl overdose deaths have created a backlash against the first-in-the-nation law. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP)

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law faces growing pushback amid fentanyl crisis

By Claire Rush - Associated Press

A package of Narcan is pictured at a first aid station at King County Elections headquarters, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Renton, Wash. The office began stocking the overdose-reversal nasal spray after receiving a letter laced with fentanyl in the summer and was evacuated the day after Election Day after receiving a similar envelope. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Officials stock up on overdose antidote naloxone after fentanyl-laced letters disrupt vote counting

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Chinese President Xi Jinping sits next to other world leaders during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ** FILE **

Biden removes Chinese institute from sanctions list in exchange for fentanyl cooperation

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - President Joe Biden greets China's President President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Nov, 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. China has agreed to curtail shipments of the chemicals used to make fentanyl, the drug at the heart of the U.S. overdose epidemic. Experts say it's an essential step, but it's not the only thing needed to be done to stem the crisis. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

China’s agreement expected to slow flow of fentanyl into U.S., but not solve overdose epidemic

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

The U.S. Border Patrol says a drug-sniffing dog helped capture a suspect accused of smuggling 250 pounds of fentanyl worth more than $3 million early Monday, July 18, 2022. (Image: Courtesy of the U.S. Border Patrol) ** FILE **

Biden claims major victory on rooting out fentanyl flow; Beijing already makes good on Xi’s promises

By Stephen Dinan and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times