After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump praised China for considering imposing the death penalty on illicit producers of fentanyl – an opioid up to 100 times more potent than morphine with a lethal dose of just two milligrams in most people.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On December 11, 2008, financier Bernard Madoff is arrested in his New York apartment after being charged with running a giant Ponzi scheme worth an estimated $65 billion. Madoff lured victims by consistently showing them high and fraudulent returns on investments. When the economy crashed in 2008, Madoff’s pyramid scheme began to fall apart. In March of 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 felonies, including securities fraud, money laundering and perjury. He was later sentenced to 150 years in prison.

China is stepping up the pressure on Canada as a bail hearing for tech executive Meng Wanzhou continues Tuesday in Vancouver. At a hearing on Monday, the defense for Huawei’s chief financial officer argued that Meng be released on bail while she waits for extradition to the United States, a process that could take months, perhaps years .

VIDEO: Editorial cartoons — also known as political cartoons — have been around as long as there has been political discourse and dissent. In the U.S. they’re a vibrant part of American culture and history, and no matter how controversial, are protected as free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .

When a U.S. district judge last month ruled a federal ban on female genital mutilation unconstitutional, he undercut the federal government and alarmed anti-FGM activists, who hope to eradicate the practice.

The sixth annual Global Terrorism Index , published by the Sydney, Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace, said terrorism deaths decreased globally by 27 percent in 2017, which is the third consecutive year of declining death tolls .