Brazen fentanyl sales continue online as China vows crackdown

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President Trump left dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping confident thousands of American lives could be saved: the president announced Xi would introduce the death penalty for illegally dealing fentanyl, a synthetic and deadly opioid.

“What he will be doing to fentanyl could be a game changer for the United States,” Trump said on Air Force One as he returned from the G-20 summit in Argentina.

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