It’s a question protagonist Monkey D. Luffy asks in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the immensely popular manga One Piece, and it’s at the heart of recent reconceptions of pirates in popular ...

Pirates may not be as prevalent as they once were, but they can still be a nuisance on a cruise ship. This is how ships use modern tech to combat pirates.

They may not fly skull-and-crossbones flags, but pirates are still out there. Modern piracy is alive and dangerous, targeting cargo ships, tankers, and crews in hotspots like Somalia, the Gulf of ...

Though swashbuckling bandits have not roamed the high seas in centuries, a culture-wide fascination with pirates and their exciting feats still pervades. Bolstered by the success of recent franchises ...

If we think of "pirates" at all these days, we may visualize fictional brigands with bandanas or three-pointed black hats on their heads, wearing black eye-patches and wielding cutlasses, with a ...

Maritime piracy conjures up scenes from Robert Louis Stevenson novels and Errol Flynn movies, a 17th-century phenomenon that went out with ships under sail. But if you believe that piracy is an ...

Had Rupert Holmes’s career ended in the early ’80s, he would be most widely remembered for “(Escape) The Piña Colada Song,” a lovably hokey pop single that was his biggest hit as a singer/songwriter.

Modern day piracy is alive and well on the open seas. A recent Navy seizure notice shed light on the litany of illegal goods being trafficked. "As long as ships go to sea, there's gonna be piracy," a ...

A federal appeals court panel says a group of anti-whaling protesters based out of Friday Harbor are “modern-day pirates” and ordered them to halt their aggressive and high-profile attacks of Japanese ...

The rise of stablecoins isn’t just a fintech story. It’s also about an upgrade to national security. Cash is untraceable. That makes it ideal not only for everyday transactions, but also for criminal ...