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The historic conviction marks the fall of one of the world’s last original drug lords, leaving the powerful Sinaloa Cartel facing a massive internal succession battle.

A Mexican cartel leader who helped shape the modern illegal drug trade and has agreed to one of the largest criminal forfeitures in US legal history is set to be sentenced to life in prison on Monday.

The DEA fears criminal gangs are targeting football fans visiting the United States with counterfeit pills containing the powerful synthetic opioids.

"Brother Wang was very important. He was number one," says Enrique, chuckling knowingly.

The United States is this week upping the multimillion-dollar rewards it has on the heads of the remaining leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Chapitos faction, just as prosecutors are targeting the Mexican politicians who allegedly enabled the group.

The district has been dominated by sprawling tent encampments and brazen open-air drug dealing - with desperate addicts openly injecting and taking drugs in broad daylight.

In high school, Ashley Delgado dreamed of becoming a doctor and one day buying her father a Rolls-Royce. “She wanted to heal people,” said her father, James Taylor.

Five people have been arrested and accused of supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that resulted in the fatal overdose of Robert De Niro’s grandson in 2023.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the Los Mayos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, including the leader of its armed wing, Juan Jose Ponce Felix, known as “El Ruso.”

Cocaine use is now more popular than ever in the U.S., with a major resurgence in recent years, allowing the Mexican drug lord largely responsible for the boom to profit.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will take effect March 4 along with an extra 10% duty on Chinese imports because deadly drugs are still pouring into the U.S. from those countries.

Trump has promised an all out attack on the drug trade.

When Mario heard the news in mid-May 2023, he immediately suspended his operations

On September 21, 2021, Javier Algredo Vázquez was on his way to a US law enforcement office to reclaim chemical substances authorities had seized from him days earlier. In some respects, his trip that day was a remarkable act of hubris.

In the wake of the state of emergency being declared Portland’s first responders have sprung into action, but is it enough to stem the tide of addiction and death sweeping their city?

A group of hospital workers were left horrified when they caught one of their colleagues on CCTV robbing opioids and injecting herself with fentanyl while on the clock

A man has died in Boulder, Colorado, after taking a new drug that is said to be 10 times stronger than fentanyl. The drug, called N-Desethyl etonitazene, was discovered during an autopsy

Professor Chris Pudney, from the University of Bath, says that benzodiazepines - a class of drugs used for the treatment of anxiety in medical settings - are being sold on the black market and used by opioid addicts, creating a deadly drug cocktail that can easily kill

Researchers from Nemours Children’s Hospital in Delaware, who authored the study, believe fentanyl may be causing disruptions to cholesterol metabolism during pregnancy

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco - as Chinese businesses are reported to be fuelling the fentanyl crisis ravaging American cities

The deadly synthetic opioid, which is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, is being mixed into food and formula by parents and caregivers who are unaware of the consequences

A three month-old was poisoned by a fentanyl overdose after her self-confessed drug addict dad – who had eight previous drug convictions – was given sole custody

Grace Rose Baez began her career as a police officer more than 10 years ago, but has now been charged with distributing drugs after arranging to sell fentanyl and heroin to a police informant whilst she was on duty

The father of the one-year-old child who died at a Bronx daycare says that he feels 'betrayed' by the daycare owner and says that he 'trusted her' to take care of his child