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The Red Sox are likely to start the regular season without Trevor Story. The team announced Tuesday that their starting shortstop successfully underwent a “bracing procedure” of his UCL — elbow ligament — in his right arm. The surgery was performed by Dr. Keith Meister in Arlington, Texas. ESPN’s Jeff Passan tweeted that players “generally” miss four-to-six months after undergoing this surgery. That would place Story’s return to the Red Sox as being somewhere between May and July. Last offseason, the Red Sox signed Story to a six-year deal worth $140 million. Story hit .238 with 16 home runs, 66…

CNN  —  As House Republicans officially take over Congress and clamor to investigate the Biden administration, a new line of attack fell squarely into their laps: classified documents recovered from one of President Joe Biden’s private offices when he served as vice president. House Oversight Chairman James Comer, a key lawmaker in leading investigations in the 118th Congress, vowed to send letters to the White House and the National Archives, which his panel has jurisdiction over. “President Biden has been very critical of President Trump mistakenly taking classified documents to the residence or wherever and now it seems he may…

New York City’s beloved comedy institution Carolines on Broadway is going from serving up laughs to serving up paddles — with the recently shuttered venue set to become a table tennis bar. The comedy club closed its curtains for good on New Year’s Eve after a legendary four-decade run, as it now transforms into Spin NYC Times Square — the ping-pong joint co-founded by actress Susan Sarandon. Spin NYC, which bills itself as the “iconic” ping-pong social club, already boasts a 14,000-square foot space in Flatiron, which charges upwards of $59 per hour per table. The retro franchise also has…

CNN  —  On the fifth anniversary of her father’s arrest, the daughter of a man wrongfully detained in Iran is calling on the governments of the United States and United Kingdom to do whatever they can to bring him home. Tara Tahbaz described her father, Morad Tahbaz, as “one of the most amazing people I’ve ever met – one of the kindest, most generous people.” “We really, really miss him. We’re trying to do everything possible to get him home to us,” she said Tuesday, telling CNN that the anniversary of his arrest is “definitely a very difficult day.” Morad…

Bills safety Damar Hamlin remains hospitalized more than a week after collapsing on the field from cardiac arrest but is back in Buffalo and is in “good spirits,” the team said in its latest update Tuesday. Doctors with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said Hamlin returned to Buffalo on a flight Monday morning after meeting “key milestones” in his recovery, which included being taken off a ventilator and walking around his hospital unit Friday.  “He has been up with physical therapy and occupational therapy, walking the unit, tolerating a regular diet, meeting with his family and many members of the…

Each tiny plastic package was barely the size of a fingernail and weighed all of 0.2 grams. Still, the bags of white powder police seized in a Brussels cellar were yet another indication that a surge in cocaine and crack supply is hitting Europe hard.And, with it, comes unprecedented drug violence in Belgium and the Netherlands, whose ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam have proven the main gateway for Latin American cocaine cartels into the continent.In Belgium, the justice minister is forced to live in a safehouse, out of reach of drug gangs. In the Netherlands, killings hit ever more prominent…

Editor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline to connect with a trained counselor or visit the Lifeline site. In September 2020, fans and friends of Susan Meachen received devastating news. The romance writer’s Facebook account posted a message saying she had died. A later post claimed she had taken her own life and suggested her actions were the results of online bullying by others in her thriving, close-knit online writing group. Over the next two years, her fellow writers and…

A 37-year-old woman riding a Citi Bike e-bike was killed in a smash-up with a box truck in Brooklyn early Tuesday, authorities said.  The woman was pedaling east on Ninth Street near Second Avenue in Gowanus around 7:20 a.m. when she collided with a box truck heading in the same direction, cops said.  The cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.  Her name was not released, pending family notification.  The box truck driver, a 39-year-old man, stayed at the scene and no arrests have been made.  Advocacy group Transportation Alternatives said the crash occurred at a known trouble spot. “At…

Lindsay Bull and her family, from Sheffield, were on holiday in Cornwall when they took a trip to Fistral beach in Newquay, having to drive for some time before finding a space and parkingA beachgoer was fined for taking too long to buy a ticket in a gridlocked car park on a summer’s day. Lindsay Bull was shocked after being slapped with the £100 fine from a day out with her family at Fistral beach during their holiday in in Cornwall. It took the family about 20 minutes from the moment they entered the packed car park to the moment…

A former Louisiana sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Tuesday to several sex crimes involving children and was sentenced to 100 years in prison as part of a plea deal.Dennis Perkins, a former high-ranking deputy with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, faced 150 counts of sex crimes when he was arrested in 2019. At Tuesday’s hearing, Perkins entered the plea to one count of second-degree rape, two counts of sexual battery of a child, one count of video voyeurism, two counts of production of child porn involving children under age 13 and one count of mingling of harmful substances, news outlets reported.All…