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Authorities arrested a Maine woman Tuesday morning nearly one year after her one-year-old daughter died because she rubbed a fatal dose of heroin on the infant’s gums.

An illegal alien, who had been previously deported from the United States, is accused of running a Mexico-to-Ohio drug trafficking operation from his prison cell in Youngstown, Ohio.

An illegal alien has been sentenced to a little more than six years in prison for planning to distribute enough fentanyl to kill half a million Americans, federal officials confirm.

Fully integrating Afghanistan into China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will require the construction of rail lines through the southern part of the South Asian country, home to the Taliban’s primary stronghold and the nation’s top opium-producing region.

Federal authorities seized enough fentanyl to kill more than 14 million people following an investigation that covered Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia. The busts resulted in the arrests of 35 people and the seizure of distribution quantities of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base. Investigators also found weapons and cash during a three-day operation.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won a Nobel Peace Prize for giving terrorists unelected seats in Congress, disregarding the rejection of the Colombian people.

Police are investigating the discovery of a dead newborn baby found in a trash bag after a father reported “concerns about his unborn child.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in the Rio Grande Valley Sector seized more than 200 pounds of drugs during two smuggling attempts occurring on consecutive days at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.

Beijing on Monday denied U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl killing thousands of Americans each year.

Drought in Afghanistan last year decimated the cultivation and production of opium, but the deadly drug remains a threat to peace and security, the United Nations says in a report released Tuesday.

Five African migrants have been arrested in Rome this week after turning a local church into a headquarters for trafficking and hiding large amounts of heroin.

A court in Colombo, Sri Lanka, this week ordered the continued detention of nine Iranians caught with 107 kg of heroin this year, the local news outlet Ada Derana reported.

The drug trafficking from Mexico into the U.S. brings in more money than Walmart in a year, Perdue said during a Senate hearing.

Democrat presidential primary candidate Joe Biden once supported President Trump’s “America First” immigration agenda that builds a wall along the United States-Mexico border and bans employers from hiring illegal aliens over American citizens. 

Ohio police have dubbed an eight-year-old boy a “hero” for pulling his big sister from a moving car as it was being stolen.

The United States government has decided to either classify or do away with “almost every” metric for success or failure in Afghanistan, John Sopko, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), revealed this week.

Drug Czar Jim Carroll told Breitbart News that “93 percent of heroin” in the country “comes from Mexico” ahead of National Takeback Day.

“We’re doing everything to empower ourselves so that we can keep this poison out of communities and away from our children,” he said.

Residents in the opium-rich Taliban stronghold Helmand, Afghanistan’s largest province, reportedly expressed outrage at the arrest of two female al-Qaeda jihadis by local authorities and demanded their immediate release, Khaama Press (KP) reported Tuesday.

The United States must tackle the Taliban’s top source of funding in Afghanistan – deadly opium and its heroin derivative – whether there is a peace agreement or not, U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko told Breitbart News on Thursday.

The nation’s opioid crisis is killing young white American men more than any other demographic group, new research from the federal government reveals.

In an appearance on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Monday, Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL), the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, discussed Democrat efforts to prevent President Donald Trump’s construction of a border wall through the use of the

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, amid ongoing peace negotiations with the Afghan Taliban, quietly ended an airstrike campaign against Taliban opium and heroin drug labs after failing to curtail the terrorist organization’s multi-million dollar trade, the Pentagon’s inspector general (IG) revealed this week.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) stressed to Breitbart News this week that commensurate with U.S. seizures, a small amount of heroin entering the United States from Afghanistan, the world’s top producer of the drug, is having a “limited impact” on the nation’s opioid crisis.

U.S. law enforcement, intelligence, and military officials have determined that China is the primary source of the illegal use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl fueling the deadly drug overdose epidemic gripping the United States, but Beijing claimed this week that China has nothing to do with the crisis.

First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday awarded youth and met with administration officials tackling the deadly opioid epidemic plaguing the United States.

It has been confirmed through autopsy that Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the now-defunct video sharing platform Vine, died of an accidental drug overdose in December. Kroll reportedly has a mixture of drugs in his system including cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.

More than a quarter of the opium poppies grown in Afghanistan last year came from districts controlled or influenced by the Afghan government, the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a watchdog agency, reported Thursday.

San Francisco has more intravenous drug users than high school students, according to a San Francisco news outlet. “Injection drug users” outweigh high schoolers by more than 50 percent according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Department of State (DOS) indicated to Breitbart News on Monday that the U.S. supports a “balanced counternarcotics strategy” in Afghanistan where the Taliban appears to remain among the world’s most prolific opium producers.