Western media outlets are breathlessly circulating unverified claims that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping suffered a stroke at a BRICS summit in India — while American families grapple with inflation and an open border that the same press corps can't be bothered to cover.

The frenzy says more about our media's priorities than about Xi's health. A Chinese exile activist's social media posts became instant headline fodder across the West, even though the central piece of visual evidence — a viral clip of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pausing to ask Xi