During Wednesday’s installment of his VIEWS podcast, Dobrik, 25, revealed that he ordered the item from China a year-and-a-half ago, but does not have it as the person whose home it was mistakenly delivered to is allegedly keeping it. “They are refusing to give it to us,” Dobrik said during the episode. “They’re basically holding it hostage.” Dobrik went on to state that he wanted the statue to serve as a major component in his Los Angeles mansion, explaining: “This statue that I’ve ordered isn’t just a statue....

“I’m mad at this guy, the pitcher who came out talking about it,” Ortiz said Thursday at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla. “And let me tell you why. Oh, after you make your money, after you get your (World Series) ring, you decide to talk about it. Why don’t you talk about it during the season when it was going on? Why didn’t you say, ‘I don’t want to be no part of it?...

Very early. The Czech forward has been known to bring a strong suit game to the rink. (See this custom-made one for the 2020 All-Star Game.) For Game 1 of this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs second round, he strutted into TD Garden in a suit he called “boring” but was anything but. Off-white with what looked like hummingbirds and blue foliage down the outside of the jacket and pants, the suit showed Pastrnak had brought his A-game on all levels....

Perdue made the remarks while speaking on Fox News during Sean Hannity’s prime time show on Tuesday night. Former Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy was filing in for Hannity, whose show is the most-watched in cable news and a useful place for Perdue to appeal to likely conservative voters. Perdue is facing Democrat Jon Ossoff in the January 5 election, while Loeffler is running against Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock. The outcome of the runoffs will determine control of the Senate for the next two years....

Although these days former Perth Glory defender Matthew Davies plies his trade in Malaysia, captaining Pahang in the Malaysia Super League and representing Malaysia at the international level, he came from the background of Football Federation Australia (FFA) Centre of Excellence as a teenager. The centralised program gathers the country’s most promising young footballers from ages 15 to 17 every year, housing and training them at the Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra....

While early polls of the gubernatorial race have indicated that current Governor Kathy Hochul is a favorite among Democratic voters, James’s departure as the most formidable opponent has opened up the slot for a second-place choice. Although de Blasio has yet to announce his candidacy for governor, the mayor’s second term will end this year and some suspect his desire to remain in public life may fall to statewide office, especially now that former Governor Andrew Cuomo has been ousted and won’t seek re-election....

The former Ajax and Inter coach was hired to replace Sam Allardyce in June, but lasted just 77 days in the job after losing his first four Premier League games of the season without scoring. Eagles 1/2 for the drop De Boer had been appointed with the intention of moving Palace away from the direct football employed under Allardyce to a continental style of play. However, the club quickly abandoned this new approach by replacing De Boer with the more conservative Roy Hodgson....

“International and domestic criminal drug networks are mass-producing fake pills, falsely marketing them as legitimate prescription pills, and killing unsuspecting Americans. These counterfeit pills are easy to purchase, widely available, and often contain deadly doses of fentanyl,” the DEA said in the public safety alert issued on Monday. “Pills purchased outside of a licensed pharmacy are illegal, dangerous, and potentially lethal.” The DEA said over the past year, it has already seized 9....

Wellington joined the list of more than 6,000 Brazilians under 18 who, according to police statistics, have been murdered in the past four years. More than half are being killed by the country’s increasingly powerful drug gangs. The rest are victims of death squads hired by local merchants wanting to “clean” the streets of criminals and Artful Dodgers like Wellington. Investigators have identified 180 such squads in Rio de Janeiro state alone....

The cetacean, a female Cuvier’s beaked whale measuring a little over 5 meters in length, washed up on a beach in Messanges in south-west France, which is on the Atlantic coast. The whale’s partially decomposed corpse was discovered by passers by on Saturday, May 8, and an autopsy carried out by environmental conservation groups Pelagis Observatory and Itsas Arima concluded that its ingestion of an enormous quantity of plastic products led to its death....

Jordan’s reasoning for choosing the Mavericks over the Clippers — agreeing to a four-year, $80 million contract, according to Yahoo Sports — is not the important part now. The decision has been made, and the papers will be signed soon after the free agency moratorium lifts July 9. MORE: 12 affordable free agents who can really help | NBA free agency tracker Now we must focus on who DeAndre Jordan is as a player....

In an interview with WBTV in Charlotte, Williams said defensive end Greg Hardy was the only member of the organization to attend his mother’s funeral after she died from breast cancer in May 2014. MORE: Thomas Davis receives key to the city | Byron Bell cut | Early power rankings The funeral was held May 24 in Arkansas, just 11 days after Hardy was arrested on domestic violence charges....

When you saw Carney as Norton, it was hard to believe you were watching an actor at work, exposed to the pitiless eye of a single camera trained on a single cheesy set. He was Norton, the Fool to Jackie Gleason’s low-rent Lear, Ralph Kramden. As Kramden redlined between rage and self-pity, Norton cruised in a private world defined by his innocent appetites–that refrigerator at the right of the stage exerted a gravitational pull on him–and an absurd dignity (he called himself an “underground sanitation expert”) masking a radical humility....

The quid-pro-quo between Midland County State District Judge John Hyde and then-Prosecutor Weldon Petty was in violation of Clinton Young’s right to a fair trial, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled. Young was sentenced to death in the shooting of a man during a 2001 drug crime spree that hit Texas. The judge died in 2012, but Midland County prosecutors uncovered the paid agreement between Hyde and Petty, who was also working for another district judge....

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Democrats in voting Haaland out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, setting up her final confirmation vote in the upper chamber. “I have decided to support this nomination today, to support the first Native American to hold this position,” Murkowski said, adding: “I am going to place my trust in Representative Haaland and her team despite some very real misgivings.”...

Abbey Karnes took to TikTok to showcase how helpful her service dog can be in times of need. Karnes, who is diabetic, explained in the video that her blood sugar got a little low so she asked Darby to retrieve a juice. Being the pro she is, Darby quickly did as requested — just as she’d been trained. Once Darby brought Karnes a juice, the high of achievement must’ve kicked in because she then returned to the kitchen to grab another juice....

The star receiver scrubbed the 49ers from his social media and unfollowed the team’s account, an increasingly common move among players looking to raise the urgency of teams during negotiations or be cryptic for the sake of it. NFL DRAFT 2022: Updated big board of top 150 players, rankings by position The ominous-looking tweet comes just days after Stefon Diggs signed a four-year, $104 million contract ($70 million guaranteed) with the Bills....

In an inspection report from May 18, the USDA cited three separate incidents where macaque monkeys were found not to be receiving proper care. Macaques are sometimes used by scientists to study medical conditions and diseases. However, labs must comply with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. On March 22, veterinary staff found a macaque at Berkeley with “sunken eyes, and dry crumbling stool.” There was also no urine in the enclosure....