Chinese money brokers are teaming up with Mexican cartels, greasing the wheels of the fentanyl trade, U.S. officials say.

Chinese fentanyl is partially responsible for 80,000 US deaths a year. Its exported poison doesn't stop there. A state-owned nicotine monopoly is pushing unsafe vapes on American buyers.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao has expressed strong dissatisfaction with U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods in a letter addressed to the newly confirmed U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the ministry said on Wednesday.

China and the Mexican cartels are not trying to create drug addicts — they [are] trying and succeeding at killing off our people — primarily young men. If we were in a traditional war with over

China “has provided tremendous support to the US to address this issue, to respond to this issue”, Liu Pengyu, the spokesperson, said during a briefing for reporters. The idea of using tariffs to address the fentanyl crisis “cannot hold”, he said.

Dudzinski “Zink” Poole and 16 co-conspirators were sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from six years, up to life, in a multi-state drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, the US Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Fentanyl presents us with a terrible dilemma. More than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 after taking fentanyl or other drugs with it mixed in. There is no proven blueprint for stopping the scourge. We’v

Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada, aimed at curbing fentanyl flow, may worsen the crisis by spiking overdoses, a harm reduction advocate warns.