A provision in the Inflation Reduction Act that allows Medicare to negotiate prices on the costliest prescription drugs each year will likely save the U.S. billions of dollars — as long as the drug industry doesn't interfere, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Health Forum. Beginning in 2026, Medicare will begin negotiating the price of 10 drugs that cost the federal government the most money, followed by 15 more drugs in 2027, another 15 drugs in 2028, and another 20 drugs in each subsequent year.

A U.S. No Fly list with over 1.5 million records of banned flyers and upwards of 250,000 'selectees' has been shared publicly on a hacking forum. BleepingComputer has confirmed the list is the same TSA No Fly list that was discovered recently on an unsecured CommuteAir server.

Biodiversity defenders have sounded the alarm about the United Kingdom government's Monday decision to provide another so-called "emergency" exception for the use of an outlawed neonicotinoid pesticide lethal to bees.

Valditara wants to remove welfare benefit from young people who have not completed schooling. Italy's new right-wing government is set to ban phones in class during lessons to prevent students from getting distracted, education minister Giuseppe Valditara told state broadcaster RAI on Thursday.

Brazil mourns the loss of key parts of its artistic collection damaged by rioters.

I started compiling a list of sexual assailants who got no prison time almost by accident. Twitter makes it easy: You stumble across a case where a man in Anchorage, Alaska, spent no time behind bars for strangling to unconsciousness a woman he masturbated on. You tweet it. Then you read about the Texas doctor who went free after assaulting a patient while she was sedated.

And many ... people are highlighting how hypocritical the statements and decisions made by Musk are. But most people readily recognize that he has every right to make dumb and hypocritical decisions.

Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee to a federal court in Texas, spent much of his career trying to interfere with other people’s sexuality. A former lawyer at a religious conservative litigation shop, Kacsmaryk denounced, in a 2015 article, a so-called “Sexual Revolution” that began in the 1960s and 1970s, and which “sought public affirmation of the lie that the human person is an autonomous blob of Silly Putty unconstrained by nature or biology...

Influence and espionage. Social media apps are regularly scrutinized for their influence over Americans — witness the brouhahas over Facebook's role in the 2016 election and Twitter's role in blocking a story about Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential campaign. TikTok comes with a twist: It's owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance. "It isn't an arm of the Chinese Communist Party," Vox reports, "but Chinese laws say it can be forced to assist the Chinese government."

The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.

The British government has abandoned a plan to force tech firms to remove internet content that is harmful but legal, after the proposal drew strong criticism from lawmakers and civil liberties groups.

The Government™ has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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The best western journalists are overwhelmingly despised while the worst are acclaimed millionaires. Western civilization is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don’t seek widespread approval. It’s worthless.

The world is facing a huge rise in civil unrest. The impact is evident across the globe, with popular discontent over rising living costs emerging.

The revelations about offshore firms brought to light by the source behind the Panama Papers toppled government leaders and spawned thousands of investigations. Here, for the first time, "John Doe" speaks about their fears for their life and their disappointment with the German government.

California will start producing insulin and selling it at a cheaper rate as Insulin is held prisoner by a health care system in the United States that is persistently resistant to improvements, allowing firms to dominate the market and maximize profits.

There’s nothing wrong with having a society that’s run by smart, hard-working, educated people. The problem arises when that class is unable to see itself.

Maybe these companies shouldn’t have worked so hard to protect the information and communications of criminals while providing the same protections to the 99.5% of non-criminals that make up their user bases.

An entire golf resort, four-star hotel and nearly 200 houses must be destroyed after being built in a protected natural area, Spain's highest court has ruled, following a 14-year legal battle. The luxury Marina Isla de Valdecañas development, which features 185 villas, a four-star hotel and an artificial beach, should be demolished, according to a supreme court decision published Tuesday.