MEDICAL INDUSTRY & VACCINESValerie Anne Smith: "This isn’t medicine. It’s a business model. Statins generate over $22 billion every year."

WAR & PEACEThe Church of Sweden is intensifying contingency planning so that at least 500,000 people could be buried if a Swedish-Russian war were to break out.

CULTUREActress Hayden Panettiere, best known for her roles as Claire Bennet on NBC’s Heroes and Juliette Barnes on Nashville, has died at age 36.

TECHNOLOGYImagine a spaceship with an engine powered by propellantless thrust. No giant fuel tanks. Just pure electric power turning into a steady push through the emptiness of space.

ECONOMYPutin has issued a stark warning to Western countries over their seizures of commercial vessels linked to Russian trade, branding the Western piracy actions as robbery.

OPINIONThe life and leadership of the martyred Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei have become the subject of research both within the Islamic Republic of Iran and