"We don't need or want a secret police station in our great city," said Breon Peace, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Monday -- expressing the likely feeling of many Americans at the news that the FBI has arrested two alleged agents for the Chinese government accused of working to harass and silence its critics in the US.
In a bit of irony, "Love is Blind," the popular Netflix dating show, has inadvertently made streaming's growing pains crystal clear, while reinforcing some of the advantages that linear and traditional TV networks still enjoy.
The defamation clash between Fox News and a small election services firm, due to go to trial this week, represents the most significant moment yet in which those who disseminated former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen must answer for conduct that is still poisoning American democracy.
When Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen defied warnings from China to meet with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California earlier this month, Beijing's aggressive military response reverberated around the world.