At midnight on November 3 2026, Czech Television’s news chief Michal Kubal went on air to say that an unprecedented day in the history of Czech public service media had begun. Staff at Czech Television and Czech Radio then stopped work for 24 hours. The walkout was aimed squarely at a government bill. The bill comes from Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s coalition. It would scrap the licence fee that households and businesses pay for the two broadcasters and fund them straight from the state budget instead.

A federal judge in Delaware dismissed Raymond Epps’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News on May 8, marking the second time U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Hall has thrown out the case. The ruling ends Epps’ second attempt to hold the network accountable for broadcasts that portrayed him as a government agent who helped stage-manage the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot on behalf of federal authorities. Epps, a former Marine and onetime Trump supporter, brought the lawsuit after Fox — most prominently through Tucker Carlson’s prime-time program — repeatedly promoted the theory that Epps was an undercover FBI operative or government plant deployed to instigate the insurrection and redirect blame away from Trump supporters.

The Justice Department’s sustained effort to criminally prosecute former FBI Director James Comey has now produced a measurable institutional cost: more than a half-dozen prosecutors have been demoted or pushed out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, others are weighing departures, and at least one major case has been disrupted. The campaign against Comey, spanning two separate indictments across nine months, has accomplished less legally than it has damaged the office pursuing it.