The global battle over drug company patents for COVID-19 vaccines is the latest skirmish in the irrepressible conflict between property rights and human rights. It’s no surprise that Bill Gates, the monopolist billionaire, has taken the side of patents.

A gaming insider says an internal company document proves video game giant Electronic Arts is trying to drive players into a type of game play that encourages them to spend more money and which has come under fire for possible links to gambling.

The Louisville police came under fire after officers raided the home of a Black medical worker named Breonna Taylor last March and shot her to death.

The reality TV ordeal of a Russian who joined a Chinese boy band show by accident - and made it to the final despite urging fans to vote him off - has finally ended after nearly three months. Mr Vladislav Ivanov, a 27-year-old from Vladivostok, was kicked out of Produce Camp 2021 last Saturday (April 24). Viewers had ignored his pleas to leave and backed him all the way to the final.

Elizabeth City, North Carolina, has declared a state of emergency ahead of the release of body camera footage of the law enforcement killing of Andrew Brown Jr. last week. Brown's family is expected to view the footage Monday.

For at least a decade now, police all around North Carolina have been tracking people’s cellphone locations without getting a warrant first. The courts have let them do it, ruling in recent years that law enforcement can ask phone companies for someone’s historical location data even if they don’t have the probable cause needed for a warrant. And on Wednesday a committee at the General Assembly advanced a new bill that, if passed into law, would give police the ability to track someone’s real-time movements without a warrant — not just where they’ve been in the past, but where they are at any given moment. Critics say they have concerns about people’s constitutional rights being violated, as well as what might happen if a criminal was able to take advantage of the looser rules to impersonate a police officer and stalk a victim.

Strained by pandemic-era budget cuts, stress and a lack of revenue, at least 10 ambulance companies in Wyoming are in danger of shuttering — some imminently.

Colorado police Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali arrested Karen Garner, a 73-year-old with dementia and fractured her arm, after she apparently forgot to pay for her Walmart groceries.

As he attempted to evade police, a partygoer was apprehended by a spear-shaped steel rod in the gates of a Brazilian country house.

Health advocates blast Microsoft billionaire for saying patent protections on life-saving vaccines must remain

A week ago Friday, Elizabeth Bloom was suddenly inspired to post this statement on her personal Facebook page: "Soiled Doves will be closed to police officers as it is against our religion to sell to murderers." Soiled Doves is the antiques and collectibles store Bloom runs on Main Street in the Town of Rosendale. And just like that, Bloom found herself in the middle of one of the hottest debates raging across America.

Even the most lionhearted employers made mistakes.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was caught denying his trip to visit Adolf Hitler’s vacation home in Germany during a trip in 2017.

To date, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reported over 12,000 virus cases. Our investigation found that the impact of infection extended beyond U.S. detention centers.

When Angermayer went on a trip to the Caribbean with some close friends in 2015, he gave shrooms a try. The experience, the billionaire said, “was the single most meaningful thing I’ve done in my whole life.” In the ego death of his hallucinations, Angermayer “finally understood Bitcoin.”

The chilling spectacle of watching the political class redeem a criminal, again.

The billionaire chief of Tesla and SpaceX will host the sketch-comedy show on May 8, NBC announced. Reaction on social media has been mixed.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, a historic declaration that infuriated Turkey and further strained frayed ties between the two NATO allies.

For instance, the guards have given several of the dogs nicknames. According to Turnbull, there's Alpha, whose name refers to a type of radiation, and Tarzan, a dog well-known to Chernobyl tourists, who can do tricks on command and who lives near the famous Duga radar installation built by the Soviets. Then there is Sausage – a short, fat dog that likes to warm herself in the winter by lying on heating pipes. These pipes serve one of the buildings used by workers in the Exclusion Zone who are part of ongoing efforts to decommission and decontaminate the ruined power plant.

It’s been two weeks since DMX died, a period of time that’s seen outpourings of tribute to the rap legend from all walks of the musical world. Said honoring culminated, at least in its most immediate form, today, with a public memorial to the Ruff Ryders rapper ending its route at New York’s Barclays Center, an event that briefly blocked streets in between the Center and DMX’s home neighborhood of Yonkers. As the funeral procession wound its way through New York, one feature was obvious and irresistible, though—both because it felt like a perfect encapsulation of the DMX vibe, and also just because it was the biggest damn thing on the road: A monster truck, emblazoned with “Long Live DMX,” and carrying a bright red casket that was reportedly that of the rapper himself through the city’s streets.