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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Can anyone make a citizen’s arrest, even me? – Henry, age 12, Winter Hill, Massachusetts What does Spider-Man do when he sees someone commit a crime and there are no police officers around to help? He swings in, wraps the wrongdoer in his web and leaves them hanging from a telephone pole until the cops take over. But is he allowed to do that? Are you? Seizing criminals Until about 200 years ago, uniformed police officers and police departments as we know them today didn’t exist in the United States. It was up to the citizens to arrest criminals. In 1285, England introduced what we now know as “citizen’s arrests” in a law called the Statute of Winchester. It allowed any person to arrest – in other words, capture – lawbreaker...

Elon Musk's X Corp, facing its own legal claims over unpaid rent, has sued a financial services company to recoup more than $713,500 in allegedly past due rent and other fees stemming from a sublease agreement for San Francisco office space. X, formerly known as Twitter, sued Atlas Exploration in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday in a complaint alleging breach of contract. Atlas, formerly Point Up Inc, markets itself as "an invite-only charge card" that gives members access to exclusive dining and Travel . Atlas and X entered a sublease agreement for space at 650 California Street in San Francisco's financial district in April 2021, the lawsuit said. The complaint said Atlas sought last year to terminate the sublease early. X said Atlas owes it more than $340,263 for September to November rent from last year. X also accused Atlas of failing to pay any of its early-termination fee. An attorney who has represented Atlas in the dispute, Kevin Hill, ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan's government has opened a probe into Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok on suspicion of illegal ly operating a subsidiary on the island, though the company's owner denied the accusation. TikTok, which is not widely used in Taiwan, has come under pressure mostly in the United States on concerns about China getting access to users' personal data, which the company denies. In a statement late on Sunday, Taiwan's China-policy making Mainland Affairs Council said that on Dec. 9 a working group under the Cabinet had discovered that TikTok was suspected of "illegal commercial operations" in Taiwan. Taiwan's Liberty Times newspaper reported that TikTok's owner, ByteDance, had set up a subsidiary on the island to tout for business, contravening Taiwanese law that Chinese social media platforms are not allowed commercial operations on the island. The Mainland Affairs Council, responding to that report, said the Cabinet'...