“This critical incident briefing details the investigation up until now concerning today’s active shooter call at Smile Direct Club’s manufacturing facility on Antioch Pk and the subsequent shooting by police of the suspect,” the department wrote in a tweet with the video. As the video begins, several 911 calls the police department received are heard, with witnesses reporting an active shooter at the Smile Direct Club manufacturing warehouse on Antioch Pike....

The two men, identified as Miguel Solis and Alexander Rivas, were found guilty by a court in the Costa Rican tourist town of Puntarenas. A third guard, Manuel Valverde, was acquitted. From The Agence France-Presse: "Yuri Cortez, a Salvadoran who works for AFP, and Costa Rican colleague Carlos Aviles had been trying to take pictures of the wedding. The bodyguards confronted them and demanded in vain that the photographers hand over their cameras' memory cards....

But no, this was not a night out in a seedy London club. It was a panel discussion at last year’s Clerkenwell Literary Festival deconstructing the popularity of self-help books. (The stripper was writer and panelist Arthur Smith.) Dubbed by The Observer as “the book world’s hippest annual gathering,” Clerkenwell opened its fifth-anniversary festivities on July 16 with a relatively tame yet still eclectic offering on lust and obsession at a lunchtime reading with writers Jemima Hunt and Patrick Neate....

Bracketology, on the other hand, is destined for the long haul. It is the clever conceit of two writers, Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir, who embraced the form of the NCAA basketball tournament to address all the pressing issues of life. What is the best-ever candy bar? Bob Dylan cover song? Hairstyle? (Fyi, their answers are: Neilson’s Crispy Crunch bar; Roger McGuinn’s “Up to Me” and “The Hillary.” Their book, “The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything,” is nothing less—and nothing more—than a quantum improvement over that old desert-island question (10 albums, 10 books, 10 movies) or the more abbreviated version: what’s your favorite album/book/movie?...

In theory, the Gulag was a system of forced labor rather than a death machine. But of the 18 million people sent there between 1929 and 1953, Applebaum points to a death count of almost 3 million, which is far from a complete tabulation. Drawing on a flood of new memoirs and documents from archives, Applebaum paints a mesmerizing picture of starvation, torture, sadism and, sometimes, incredible resistance and heroism....

Actually, they do—at least for this former fan. The series updates are pretty minor (Liz writes a gossip blog on top of her duties at the school paper; the girls ditch their Fiat for a Jeep), but the characters I once loved now remind me more of the ice queens from “Gossip Girl” than figures from my own childhood. “Double Love,” the first of the updated series, begins with Jessica whining about how fat and disgusting her “perfect size 4” body is....

Sporting News caught up with Boone as part of the Allstate "Good Hands in the Stands" campaign. He shared his thoughts on who he's looking forward to seeing in Omaha, as well as his thoughts on his own college experience. SN: You’re new in the booth this year. What are you expecting the experience to be like? When ESPN came to me back in the spring and said do you want to take a two-week break from MLB during the summer to take part in this it was something I jumped at....

Going back to his days as governor of Arkansas, Clinton was an ardent free trader. As president, his embrace of trade co-opted a Republican policy preserve and retooled the Democrats as a centrist party. It was Clinton who pushed the North American Free Trade Agreement, despite opposition from organized labor. Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin emerged as a kind of metabureaucrat, wooing Wall Street wizards and Washington liberals alike with the gospel of the invisible hand guiding a beneficent free market....

Now 537-square-miles, the Bootleg Fire, the fourth-largest in state history, is burning 300 miles southeast of Portland in and around the Fremont-Winema National Forest. Evacuations and property loss has been minimal compared to smaller fires in densely population areas of California. But the Bootleg Fire, gaining power from extreme weather, continues to grow miles a day. Officials with the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in southwest Oregon are requesting more help containing potential surges in the activity there....

As a result, he and Chancellor Rishi Sunak may not be able to enjoy the so-called Freedom Day but he did release a video from his isolation to implore U.K. residents to be cautious as things begin to reopen. He said in a video on his Twitter account: “We’re doing a big opening up and that’s quite rightly. If we don’t do it now, then we will be opening up in the autumn, the winter months when the virus has the advantage of the cold weather....

Supporters at a recent Premier League football match and the audience watching the World Darts Championship expressed their frustration with the prime minister through chants that quickly garnered widespread attention on social media. Those chants are reminiscent of the recent phenomenon of “Let’s Go Brandon” chants directed at President Joe Biden and widely understood to mean “F*** Joe Biden” following an incident at a NASCAR race. Johnson’s government is currently embroiled in allegations that staff at 10 Downing Street and the Department for Education held social events, including Christmas parties, that were in violation of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020....

During his speech in Dudley, in the West Midlands of England, the prime minister said: “We cannot continue to be prisoners of this crisis. “I think it is absolutely vital for us to set out the plan ahead.” Johnson set out plans to spend £1.5bn for hospital maintenance, eradicating mental health dormitories, enabling hospital building and improving A&E capacity. He also pledged £100m for 29 road network projects including bridge repairs in Sandwell and improving the A15 in the Humber region and said there would be £83m for maintenance of prisons and youth offender facilities and £60m for temporary prison places....

TANAKA: He says he wants to wipe out the disgrace of a defeat three years ago. Is politics some kind of a sporting rematch? That’s his own problem. We are talking about the job of prime minister, someone who has to be responsible for more than 100 million people. Having him in the race is like putting the hands of a clock backward. He is a rather unusual character in Japanese political circles....

The defense seeks several items from prosecutors, including any evidence linking Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the gruesome slayings in Waltham, Mass., where the bodies of three men were found with their throats slit and sprinkled with marijuana. MORE: Runner carries emotional scars | Tsarnaev’s chilling note | Aftermath The information was disclosed in the filing by the defense late Friday. “Simply put, information and evidence tending to show that Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a triple homicide in 2011, and information depicting the brutality of those murders, is critical to the defense case in mitigation,” lawyers said in their filing....

The historic race is the world’s oldest annual marathon. The first race was held back in 1897, which saw John J. McDermott of New York win the 24.5-mile event in two hours, 55 minutes and 10 seconds (2:55:10), according to the Boston Athletics Association (BAA). In 1924, the length of the course was extended to 26 miles, 385 yards to meet the Olympic standard and the starting line was moved west from Ashland to Hopkinton....

MORE: Boston radio show hosts say Roy Halladay ‘deserved’ to die Felger apologized to Halladay’s family and to his co-workers at NBC Sports. Felger, along with his 98.5 SportsHub broadcast partner, Tony Massarotti, made plane crash noises and said Halladay was a “moron,” an “idiot” and a “jackass” who “got what he deserved."

Titled “Embrace,” the 20-foot high statue was unveiled in Boston on Saturday, January 14, in the U.S.’ oldest city park, Boston Common. Weighing 309 pounds, the statue sits on the site where the civil rights leader gave a speech on April 23, 1965. It depicts the moment he hugged his wife after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas designed the sculpture, which shows the arms and shoulders of the historic couple....

Get more on the cover here from SI. BOSTON MARATHON: One year later, runner returns for 2014 race | Then & Now photos

It’s no secret that COVID-19 hit Hollywood hard. The theatrical revenue in the U.S. fell from $42.3 billion in 2019 to just $12 billion in 2020. The pandemic also encouraged the streaming boom. It also encouraged shorter release windows, simultaneous streaming debuts and a general erosion of theater viewing. Hollywood was already very risk averse, avoiding mid-budget films made for grownups, and opting instead to go with big-budget would-be mega-blockbusters....