US law gives the government the power to issue compulsory patent licenses for a product (including a medicine) if government funds paid for part of its development, unless the patent holder makes it available "in reasonable terms."

Republican senators used their "questioning" of Judge Jackson as an opportunity to spread bullshit and racism to their supporters.

*[A] new paper shows that the climate and biodiversity crises "need to be tackled in a joined-up way by central banks and supervisors to build a nature-positive financial system."*

Bureaucratic conditions added to the proposed vaccines-only temporary patent waiver would make it very difficult to use the deal.

*Mariupol theatre bombing killed 300, Ukrainian officials say.*