Day: July 22, 2026

Indian police briefly detained the country’s top opposition leader and his sister during a protest on Tuesday, as a fresh wave of public outrage puts pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Rahul Gandhi was criticizing the authorities’ use of tear gas and batons on Monday against thousands of protesters ...

The US will scrutinize top Chinese AI models for signs they ripped off American competitors — as Beijing eyes restrictions on overseas access to those same systems. Washington has accused Chinese tech firms of what it calls intellectual property theft through a process called distillation, in which one AI is ...

Biotech is commanding attention from dealmakers and investors. Pharma companies have acquired 37 biotech firms worth at least $1 billion this year, more than all of 2025, as they race to bolster pipelines before several blockbuster drugs lose their patent protections in the coming years. The Trump administration’s light-touch regulatory ...

The News President Donald Trump is toying with a return to tariff maximalism, deploying a legally dubious negotiating tactic against Canada that promises to again spike Republican lawmakers’ blood pressure. Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed Tuesday “to intensify negotiations,” Carney told reporters, before the president imposes 50% ...

Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk sued Eli Lilly on Tuesday, accusing the US drug giant of misleading advertising practices. The lawsuit reflects the companies’ intensifying rivalry in the US weight-loss drug market. Novo argued that Lilly’s ads used outdated comparisons for how much weight users lost using the drugs. The legal ...