Because China is an important market for cinema, China is imposing censorship on global cinema (and first of all US cinema) by censoring release of movies in China.

The report suggests that if a company works on an obscure film that China objects to, it will punish big hit films that the company is involved with.

Moderna is developing a vaccine against Covid-19, with the US government paying the full cost. If it works, it will charge record prices for doses of the vaccine.

Missouri voters passed an initiative to take advantage of Obama's medical insurance law to extend Medicaid to more people.

Why is the state legislature is controlled by Republicans when most of the people in the state want things like Medicaid extension? Why do a majority of the state's voters vote for those Republican state legislators?

Perhaps they don't. Perhaps Republicans maintain control be gerrymandering. They do that in many states.

The Cambridge thug department said it had no military weapons. City councilors demanded a full inventory, and discovered it had 64 military assault weapons.

The M4 assault rifle is not merely "military-style." It is a smaller, newer variant of the M16, and the US Army is moving to it.

As for the armored vehicle, indeed it is not a "tank". A tank, by definition, has a cannon. Nonetheless, it may mount other weapons. I doubt that Cambridge has ever had an event for which it needed an armed and armored vehicle, and if it ever did, surely Cambridge could ask for help from Boston. The bridges to Boston are just a few hundred meters long.

Every city should force its thug department to furnish an inventory. Don't be distracted by the question of "What weapons do you get?" The main question is, "What weapons do you have?"

(satire) *… critics slammed the National Weather Service Wednesday after new evidence showed they failed to stop a recent hurricane despite having advanced warning.*