More than 75% of new drug patents for new drugs aren't new. They are old patents that the FDA allows drug makers to take over.
Once they get that monopoly, that's when economists say the lower-cost generics disappear and the price we pay at the pharmacy goes up.
The CES gadget show this year is all-in on surveillance technology — from the face scanner that will check in some attendees to the cameras-everywhere array of digital gadgets.
Civil rights groups and lawmakers want answers after reports that dozens of Iranian-Americans were questioned at the border as they returned to the U.S.
(CNN) — Robinhood brought free trading to the masses. Betterment and Wealthfront automated financial advice for millions. Now, Round is seeking to level the investing playing field even further, by admitting Millennials to the exclusive club of elite money managers. Everyday investors have limited access to actively managed funds run by top-tier Wall Street firms. […]
In a letter to Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will introduce and vote this week on a war powers resolution to limit Trump’s military actions regarding Iran. On Sunday, Trump reiterated his controversial view that cultural sites in Iran can be targeted if Iran carries out its threat to retaliate for the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
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For Iranians, Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a popular figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure. For the U.S. and Israel, he was a shadowy figure in command of Iran's proxy forces, responsible for fighters in Syria backing President Bashar Assad and for the deaths of American troops in Iraq. Soleimani was killed in a U.S. airstrike on Friday morning, he was 62 years old.
The United States killed Iran's top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad's international airport early on Friday,
There's nothing deceptive or dishonest about soda makers using the word "diet" to describe the reduced calorie alternatives to their traditional sugary soft drinks, a federal appellate court has ruled.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forces, but U.S.-Iran tensions remain high and could spill over into further violence. The withdrawal followed calls from the government and senior militia leaders. It ended a two-day crisis marked by the […]
Stocks are closing out their best year since 2013 led by huge gains in technology stocks. The benchmark S&P 500 index soared 28.9% for the year. Major indexes ended slightly higher Tuesday after spending most of the day wavering between small gains and losses. Technology and health care stocks led the gainers. The S&P 500 […]
(CNN) — NASA has spent nearly a decade without a US-made spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts to space. SpaceX wants to make it clear that’s about to change. Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO and chief engineer, tweeted a new simulation video on Monday demonstrating how the first crewed flight of the company’s Dragon capsule will play […]
A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot to death by congregants who fired back, police said.
Gymnast Simone Biles is the 2019 AP Female Athlete of the Year. The reigning world and Olympic champion edged U.S. women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe for the honor in a vote among AP member sports editors and AP beat writers. The 22-year-old is the first gymnast to win the award twice and the first to do it in a non-Olympic year.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Joe Ingles was hot early and Donovan Mitchell had it going in the second half. But it took three big plays in the final three minutes by Rudy Gobert for the Utah Jazz to turn back the Portland Trail Blazers. Mitchell scored 28 of his 35 points in the second […]
