Crime & Violence

The White House's murderous campaign against "drug boats" continues, a dangerous new contaminant is making its way into the nation's illicit opioid markets, and more.

And ICE/FBI effort to smear an immigrant ICE agents killed as a meth user has flopped, the Russian Federation has added the International Drug Policy Consortium to its list of "undesirable organizations," and more.

Pot use is at near or record highs, Hegseth warns of ICC interest in US boat strike killings, and more.

There is a new FDA application for MDMA to treat PTSD, CBS News and the Marshall Project release a joint investigation on drug testing pregnant women, and Colombia's new rightist president vows to get tough on drugs.

The serial killers are still on the loose.

Obeying an order to kill unarmed civilians on the high seas could get American GIs in trouble.

For at least the sixth time in as many weeks, the US has blown an alleged boat carrying drugs out of the water in the Caribbean, a Colombian family says the strikes killed one of their members, and more.

Secretary of Defense Hegseth announces a new counternarcotics task force in the Caribbean, Singapore again resorts to the death penalty for a drug offender, and more.

The State Department adds Barrio 18 to its list of foreign "narco-terrorist" organizations, Singapore prepares to hang a Malaysian over less than two ounces of heroin, and more.

The Washington Office on Latin America releases a detailed statement on issues around the lethal US attack on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat, and more.