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Schedule is out and free agency is still rolling. All about that and more in Pens Points.

Paramount has been ridding itself of subsidiaries' websites, including MTV News, Country Music Channel and now Comedy Central. At MTV decades of quality music journalism went dark, and at Comedy Central a trove of classic episodes are gone.

Liv of the “Lord of the Rings” films: five letters.

What with all the flowers, you’ve now got a bee problem. How do you handle this?

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “A Protactile Version of ‘Tintern Abbey,’ ” and his own poem “Signs, Music.”

“It’s so nice to get out of the city! So much space—and yet it still feels like we’re being watched? Like a horror movie? Or that true-crime podcast we listened to on the drive up? When are we leaving again?”

Alan Todd May passed himself off as an oil magnate, insinuated himself into West Palm Beach high society, and conned people out of millions.

Via the New York Times: 

Hotshot Wall Street lawyers are now so in demand that bidding wars between firms for their services can resemble the frenzy among teams to sign star athletes.

Eight-figure pay packages — rare a decade ago — are increasingly common for corporate lawyers at the top of their game, and many of these new heavy hitters have one thing in common: private equity...

...Lawyers have earned multimillion-dollar pay packages for more than a decade. When Scott A. Barshay... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court will hear a case on gender-affirming care in the next term after a flurry of legislation. Lower courts have come to conflicting conclusions when these bans were challenged.

Docs in Proton Drive is a basic document editor with end-to-end encryption.

Nyobolt’s new EV battery charges in roughly twice the time it takes to fill up a gas-fueled vehicle.

There are some common themes that explain why successful people behave recklessly once they have it all.

Carol Vorderman, the maths genius and political activist who was on Countdown for 26 years, will deliver this year’s Alternative MacTaggart at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Vorderman’s speech will precede the publication of her first book, Now What? On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain, and she has become a voice in the political landscape […]

“Pride goes before ruin; arrogance, before failure.”

I leave with doubts and foreboding that I would not have anticipated when I completed my formal education in 1982.

A poem for Wednesday

Biden’s debate disaster has opened up the notion of a new nominee picked at the convention. That would depend on individual electors.

EASTENDERS fans have hit out at Priya Nandra-Hart after she indulged in a steamy sex session with her son’s grandfather as her child laid unconscious on the floor.

The iPhone Live Photo appeared to capture Karen Read being embraced by lawyer Alan Jackson, outside a Boston steakhouse.

President Biden is fighting for his political life amid rising Democratic panic that he will lose to former President Trump in November. Biden took several fresh hits on Tuesday, adding fuel to the fiery discussions about whether he should step aside as the Democratic nominee. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) became the first sitting Democratic lawmaker...

New gas export projects will likely remain in limbo for many months despite a judge halting the Biden administration's pause on approving such projects on Monday. The administration still has discretion in its review of new projects, and experts don't expect it to approve any ahead of the November election, in which President Biden looks to face...

John Murray is now CEO of Monument Advocacy. Founder and CEO C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. has transitioned to full-time business development, long-term strategic planning and client engagement, the firm said, and Murray and Verdery will both lead Monument’s new seven-person senior leadership team. “After 18 years, it is appropriate to allow a new CEO to...

Democrats are wrestling over the question of whether Vice President Harris would be a stronger candidate than President Biden to head the Democratic ticket after last week’s race-altering debate. Harris has made it clear in recent days that she fully supports Biden’s continued bid for a second term and is not angling to replace him....

The breadth of Monday’s Supreme Court decision is one that largely shields former President Trump from criminal prosecution, while raising questions about the extent future presidents can take actions that would go unchecked by the courts. The ruling doesn’t just limit how Trump can be prosecuted for his actions leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. It further undercuts special...

Republicans are divided over how far to go in pressing for Vice President Harris or another Cabinet member to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Biden from office. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is among those publicly raising the highly unlikely prospect, as Republicans seek to turn the table on Democrats who for talked about...