fentanyl crisis

A Texas father has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his toddler’s fentanyl death.

President Donald Trump is working to “save American lives,” the latest ad from the Make America Fentanyl Free ad campaign showcases.

Two people have been arrested in relation to the fentanyl death of a toddler earlier this year in Leavenworth, Kansas. 

A man in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is facing charges related to the fentanyl death of his 14-month-old son. 

A suspected drug dealer is facing murder charges in connection with the fentanyl deaths of two babies in May and August of 2023 in San Jose, California, Santa Clara County prosecutors said.

The Arizona arrest of a Canadian mobster with ties to Irish, Indian, and Middle Eastern crime syndicates uncovered just one of the networks used by the Sinaloa Cartel to move narcotics from Mexico and the U.S. into Canada and then into multiple other countries.

Federal prosecutors filed narco-terrorism charges against leading members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The move is the first of its kind following the February designation by the U.S. State Department of six Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa Cartel, as foreign terrorist organizations.

President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget request for the Justice Department will work to depoliticize the FBI and focus on fighting crime and combatting illegal immigration, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The Trump administration has seized “over 22 million fentanyl laced pills” in its first 100 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this week.

The Trump administration announced that various electronic devices, such as smartphones and computers, will be exempt from the tariffs that have been imposed on China.

Rick Harrison of the reality show “Pawn Stars” has praised the Trump administration for cracking down on the border following his son’s death from a fentanyl overdose last year.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly blamed Americans struggling with addiction as the cause of her country facing a new set of tariffs from the Trump administration. She chose to blame victims of cartel drug trafficking rather than ruthless drug lords who enjoy the protection of Mexico’s government.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not ruling out military strikes on fentanyl labs in Mexico, he said in a recent interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has caved to President Donald Trump’s demands to crack down on fentanyl trafficking and to reinforce the Canada-U.S. border after threatening retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump’s.

President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a 10 percent tariff on all Chinese imports was criticized Sunday by Beijing, with the move branded a “serious violation” of international trade rules.

Six people are facing charges of murder and endangering the welfare of a child after an infant died from exposure to meth and fentanyl in Lincoln County, Missouri, according to law enforcement.

A woman from Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested on Tuesday in relation to the fentanyl poisoning death of a 1-year-old child.

Arkansas parents are facing child endangerment charges after their three-year-old with special needs was found wandering a parking lot before testing positive for fentanyl, according to authorities.

A drug dealer in South Florida has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after distributing fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a baby in 2022.

A coalition of families of people who have died from fentanyl are demanding that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) investigate China’s role in the American opioid crisis, and requesting that tariffs be enacted on the country to combat it.

The father of a baby girl named Saij Bonner, who ingested a deadly amount of fentanyl in 2021 while she was in his care, has been sentenced.

A Memphis, Tennessee, woman is now raising five of her grandchildren after losing her two daughters to fentanyl just months apart.

According to a source within the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has all but abandoned its offices in Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Texas. Only one special agent is working in one border office, and a local police task force officer is working in the other. The situation, according to the source, leaves just one DEA agent working a few days per week along the Texas border between El Paso and Laredo.

A Portland, Oregon, toddler has died of a suspected fentanyl overdose, authorities said.

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.

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.

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

Anne Funder, whose 15-year-old son was poisoned by fentanyl, told the Republican National Convention (RNC) that she holds President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris responsible for her son’s death — blaming the administration’s open border policies. 

As the six-year presidential term of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) comes to an end, his legacy will be the highest number of homicides recorded under any presidential term since the Mexican Revolution. The record 191,600 murders during his term highlight the devastating effects of his “Abrazos, no blazes” or “Hugs, not bullets” policy approach to dealing with the violent drug cartels operating throughout the county.

A Las Vegas mother was arrested on June 26 after her toddler son died from fentanyl poisoning, according to authorities.

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

Drug overdoses are surging in New York, with seven deaths being reported within five hours in just one western county.

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.

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.