Kim Jong-un is once again playing host to Dennis Rodman. The United States basketball player, though on a private sojourn to the Stalinist state, has stirred the media over his possible role as an emissary to build bridges between Pyongyang and Washington.

The National Football League has begun play in earnest, and across the nation millions of Americans will welcome another season of this thrilling, but violent sport.

The settlement of the bitter contract negotiations between Time Warner Cable and CBS cost cable subscribers in Los Angeles, New York and Dallas a month of darkness on CBS-owned channels, including Showtime. Viewers were denied “Under the Dome,” “Ray Donovan” and, in L.A., nine Dodgers games.