The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

A battle over whether the public has the right to know how much Austria’s public hospitals pay for the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda is heading to the Constitutional Court. Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co.’s Austrian subsidiary is challenging journalists’ efforts to obtain that information in a case likely to test the limits of the country’s freedom of information law, which was enacted in Sept. 2025.

As law enforcement officials around the country grapple with a flood of victims falling prey to scammers using cryptocurrency, authorities in two states say that the crypto giant Circle has snubbed court orders directing the firm to recover stolen funds. Circle pitches its USDC token, a so-called stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, as the new face of finance.

A unit of Taiwan’s Investigation Bureau has charged two executives of a company that allegedly helped China’s cyber spies target Taiwanese officials and scholars, impersonating reporters affiliated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

A U.S. senator is pressing pharmaceutical giant Merck over its patenting and pricing practices for the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda, escalating congressional scrutiny of industry strategies that can delay lower-cost rivals from reaching the market. Sen.

A businessman accused of ordering the murder of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has gone on trial in the Maltese capital, Valletta. Yorgen Fenech, the heir to a property empire, was arrested in 2019 by Malta’s armed forces on a yacht in connection with the car-bomb murder. After years of delays due to legal challenges, he faces complicity and criminal association charges and is the last of seven men to face trial over the assassination that rocked the country.

Law enforcement associations, anti-corruption advocates and a major banking group are warning that a new bill aimed at regulating the United States’ cryptocurrency industry could leave big gaps in safeguards against dirty money in digital currencies that have already become a financial vehicle for organized crime. Known as the Clarity Act, the bill seeks to bring cryptocurrency under a single legal framework on the national level, ending years of the industry operating in gray areas.

Cyprus’ anti-corruption authority has found “potential acts of corruption” and “abuse of power” by former President Nicos Anastasiades during his 10 years in office, referring possible criminal charges to prosecutors for further scrutiny.

New studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual conference suggest that reducing the dosage of anti-cancer medicines — including Keytruda, the world’s bestselling drug — could drastically cut global health costs by billions of dollars a year and improve access for patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the initial dosage of Keytruda in 2014 based on a patient’s body weight, at 2 milligrams per kilogram.

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a Trump administration adviser on intelligence issues who recently stepped down from two senior national security positions, previously helped her father secure at least $12 million from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin, leaked documents show. Kennedy, a former CIA officer, was involved in the deal in 2009 and 2010 as head of an offshore corporation owned by her father. She was employed as a spy during those years, according to media reporting.

The U.S. and its key intelligence partners say that China’s military intelligence services are using online job platforms and networking sites to lure foreigners who have access to sensitive information.