Fentanyl

White House border czar Tom Homan speaks to reporters at the White House.

Immigration

Tom Homan tells Vatican to ‘stay out of politics’

April 15, 2026 1:13 pm

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), left, joins FBI Director Kash Patel at a public roundtable in Allentown, Pennsylvania, addressing fentanyl use, April 1, 2026. (Justin Merriman / for the Washington Examiner)

Crime

Kash Patel and Sen. David McCormick team up to fight fentanyl in Pennsylvania

Salena Zito -

April 10, 2026 5:41 am

President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo speaks during the daily morning briefing at Palacio Nacional on February 23, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico. The Secretariat of National Defense of Mexico confirmed that during a security operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as 'El Mencho', leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed. Mexican authorities confirmed the deaths of over 25 members of the armed forces in different attacks by the Cartel after the operation that killed Oseguera. (Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

El Mencho falls, Sheinbaum needs to act

Steven Taff -

February 26, 2026 10:07 am

President Donald Trump looks across as Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum holds up the team name of Mexico during the draw for the 2026 soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Dec. 5, 2025. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Magazine

Trump administration military strikes against drug cartels in Mexico would carry risks

John Scott Lewinski -

January 30, 2026 5:30 am

Containers of fentanyl pills at a Drug Enforcement Administration research laboratory.

Foreign Policy

Reduced fentanyl supply likely contributed to drop in US overdoses: Study

Mike Brest -

January 13, 2026 3:33 pm

Declassified and released by President Donald Trump, the video from which these frames were taken shows a Sept. 2, 2025, attack by U.S. forces in the Caribbean on ‘a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela,’ according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. At left, the vessel travels at a high speed; at center, it is struck; and at right, it burns as it sinks. Trump said the 11 people aboard who were killed died in ‘international waters.’

Daily on Defense

Mixed messaging: Is Trump’s Venezuela strategy about drugs or oil?

Jamie McIntyre -

December 19, 2025 7:47 am

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to the press.

Defense

Trump administration rolls out new designations in effort to curb drug trade

Mike Brest -

December 16, 2025 3:56 pm

President Donald Trump signs a proclamation.

White House

Trump signs executive order designating fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction

Mabinty Quarshie -

December 15, 2025 5:05 pm

Mark Kelly speaks during the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth

In Focus

Anti-Trump Democrats appear to take the side of narco-terrorists

Joe Concha -

December 6, 2025 2:00 pm

Two homeless addicts share a small piece of fentanyl in an alley in Los Angeles.

National Security

National Guard seizes over a million fentanyl pills in California

Pedro Rodriguez -

December 4, 2025 2:08 pm

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