September 18, 2009

“Bored to Death,” a new series, and the returning “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which each begin new seasons on Sunday on HBO, are equally funny in mirror-opposite ways.

Four investment firms agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle an investigation by New York’s attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, into the state’s pension fund, Mr. Cuomo said Thursday.

Farm waste, the biggest polluter of American rivers, is largely unregulated by many of the laws designed to prevent pollution and protect drinking water.

“American Idiot,” a story of reckless youth set to music, takes the stage with considerable buzz, not far from where the band began.

A recording of a radio broadcast of a battlefield Sabbath service in Germany in 1944 has become an unlikely YouTube hit.