* A new synthetic opioid, cychlorphine, has been linked to 16 deaths in East Tennessee since late October (3 months), according to officials with the Knox County Regional Forensic Center. Cychlorphine (10 times more potent than fentanyl) has been found in eight East Tennessee counties including Knox, Roane, Union, Claiborne, Sevier, Anderson, Campbell and McMinn.

* On the morning of Nov. 30, 2019, a convoy of pickup trucks carrying men armed with a heavy machine gun and powerful .50-caliber rifles entered the Mexican town of Villa Unión and opened fire.

In the end, four police officers, two civilians and 19 cartel members were killed. Afterward, as investigators collected evidence from the scene, they gathered at least 45 .50-caliber casings stamped with the initials “L.C.”, meaning the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Kansas.

...the data makes clear that the U.S. Army plant (in Kansas) has been a major source of the destructive ammunition (.50-caliber ammunition) being used to wage military-style battles with Mexican authorities.

* Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted on Wednesday, while traveling in Tennessee, that the keto diet could cure schizophrenia — an unfounded claim that experts say vastly overstates preliminary research...