U.S. Shoots Down Chinese Balloon

“The United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon on Saturday that had spent the last week traversing the country, American officials said, an explosive end to a drama that put a diplomatic crisis between the world’s two great powers onto television screens in real time,” the New York Times reports.

“The balloon, which spent five days traveling in a diagonal southeast route from Idaho to the Carolinas, had moved off the coast by midday Saturday and was over the Atlantic Ocean.”

President Biden had hinted at the move earlier on Saturday: “We’re going to take care of it.”